Before I interrupted them with my call, the guys from All Chiefs were in the midst of a rehearsal, probably perfecting their well-crafted, genre-defying indie-rock songs for their upcoming performance at the Westword Music Showcase, this Saturday, June 24. They’ll be opening up the festival from the Coors Light Stage and treating Showcase-goers to dance-heavy tunes with memorable, sing-along choruses.
Westword Music Showcase returns to the Golden Triangle Neighborhood on Saturday for its twenty-second year with headliners including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy and seventy of the best local bands.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown bands will play the Westword Music Showcase along with national acts Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, on Saturday, June 24. We reached out to the local outfits to learn more about their music and their relationship to Denver.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown bands will play the Westword Music Showcase along with national acts Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, on Saturday, June 24. We reached out to the local outfits to learn more about their music and their relationship to Denver.
As compilation albums go, the new Black in Bluhm studio-curated record Farm to Turntable is a bit of an anomaly. Where most comps start with a concept and gather corresponding music to fit the mold, the impetus for Farm to Turntable was a single tune without a home.
Brooding electronic-dance-music duo Church Fire, which will play the main stage at the Westword Music Showcase, isn’t widely known outside of Denver’s underground music circles — at least not yet.
From a hotel in Boise, Dan Whitford, the mastermind behind Australia’s electropop outfit Cut Copy, recounts one of the band’s earliest experiences in Denver.
LCD Soundsystem, which headlined Red Rocks last year, will be at 1STBANK Center on Saturday, November 11, in support of the band’s forthcoming album, American Dream, slated for a September 1 release.
Listening to Roka Hueka’s danceable Latin ska, it’s easy to forget that the band’s lyrics take on hard issues like immigration and racism. The music’s fun. It keeps you moving. It sounds like the stuff a corporation would love to slap on an advertisement to woo potential customers in the Latino community and beyond.
June is proving to be a musical month, and the Westword Music Showcase, Saturday, June 24, is obviously the crown jewel of it all. If you’ve been procrastinating, you can still get your tickets here. But the music doesn’t have to begin and end with Showcase. Consider going to these three must-attend concerts as well.
There’s some virtuoso playing by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quartet on his new double album, A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard. But Akinmusire says he doesn’t remember a lot about playing during his stint at New York’s legendary jazz venue last year.
In the renovated hall of an actual church founded in 1889, the Denver club known as the Church specializes in a more experimental style of nightlife, with genres ranging from EDM and trance to drone, goth and industrial.
A soon-to-open club with “a fresh vybe,” #Vybe, the brainchild of local promoter Joe Miranda, will make its debut during the Westword Music Showcase, in the space that was once home to Broadway’s.
Specializing in authentic Mexican dishes, 100% de Agave Mexican Grill and Cantina boasts an inventory of over 100 tequilas to augment your meal. And on June 24, that tequila will go well with something special on the menu: the Westword Music Showcase.
This is a big week for Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin-based Americana musician who performs his honest, bluesy folk tunes under the stage name Shakey Graves.
If you want to dance the Westword Music Showcase away, head to Vinyl, a four-story club that’s a mainstay in the Golden Triangle.
