Concerts

Jyemo Club is making world music out of Colorado.

“We’re going to write what we like, and if people call it bluegrass, that’s great,” says mandolinist Peter Sharpe of genre-fluid acoustic quintet the Railsplitters. “But if they want to call it something else, that’s fine too.”

Students at CU Denver are organizing a concert to benefit Zappos for Vegas, a program that helps the families of victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

Thanksgiving Eve has long been one of the biggest bar nights of the year. Here’s your guide to making the most of it.

Tommy Stinson has been busy over the last decade or so: He has played reunion shows with the Replacements, toured and recorded with Guns ‘N Roses and Soul Asylum, and released both a solo album and a new Bash & Pop disc.

Cold Specks’ Ladan Hussein has no idea whether anybody in Denver remembers who she is. She played the city once, back in 2013, opening for rocker Jim James at the Ogden Theatre and hasn’t been back – until tonight, November 11, headlining at Lost Lake Lounge.

Cannibal Corpse has managed to make a career out of royally pissing people off.

Chris Cone, who bought the Buffalo Rose last year, is shutting down the bar on November 19 for a year-long renovation. He plans to reopen in fall of 2018.

Looking to enjoy live music this weekend? These are our picks for the best concerts in Denver.

The SneekEazy is the newest late-night hot spot to join the Golden Triangle neighborhood. The bar’s next door neighbor, Temple Nightclub, opened the last weekend of October.

“We come from a background of faith and hope,” Denver alt-pop act This Broken Beat’s frontman Julio Perez says. “It might be subliminal, but every show has a happy atmosphere.”

Planning your concert calendar? Check out these new shows announced this week.

After more than five decades, Denver’s oldest blues bar Ziggies closed on October 31, when its ten-year lease expired.

After nearly twenty-five years at 1485 South Colorado Boulevard, Second Spin will close at the end of January.

It’s no surprise that with a voice like soft suede and a gift for story-telling that hoists listeners up and allows them to float along with her every syllable, country-folk-Americana singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammys and sold over twelve-million albums worldwide.

Travis McNamara is packaging Kickstarter rewards for his band’s most recent CD drive. It’s been a slow burn for Trout Steak Revival, which began in 2009, but since 2014, the Denver-based bluegrass act has caught fire.

Twenty-five students from Project VOYCE attended Jay-Z’s concert at the Pespi Center on Sunday night, November 5 – part of the rapper’s 4:44 tour in support of his new album.

When future-bass artist Illenium headlines the 1STBANK Center on November 10, it will be easy to forget that the ascending DJ got his start as Nick Miller, just another kid making beats in his bedroom.

The story of how Dave Tonguefingers of Little Fyodor and Babushka got kicked off the Mercury Cafe stage at his first open mic night.

Is Jay-Z becoming a wannabe Tony Robbins?

As Fall Out Boy songs like “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and “Dance, Dance” made waves on the radio back in 2005, the Chicago band became synonymous with cutesy, chirpy pop-punk — too sweet to truly be punk. And yet that reputation is not entirely fair.