Concerts

Indie/roots band Dispatch might have its origins in Vermont and it might be based in Boston now, but singer, guitarist and percussionist Brad Corrigan is from right here in Denver.

Denver synth-pop darling Retrofette, which will be playing the Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 24, will be releasing a music video for its dancey track “Skeletons,” June 9, at Fort Greene.

It’s a big week for music with Metallica at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull at Pepsi Center, John Mellencamp at Fiddler’s Green, Modest Mouse at the Fillmore Auditorium, Bush at the Paramount Theatre and Phoenix at Red Rocks.

The Roger Waters concert at Denver’s Pepsi Center was a politically incorrect jab at Donald Trump, whom the Pink Floyd singer likened to Nazis and Klansmen. The message of the show was simple: “Resist.”

It doesn’t take Jamie Madrox, who paints his face like a wicked clown and raps about killing people, to compare his horrorcore duo Twiztid to Christ.

We may be weeks away from summer, but concert season is in full swing, the clubs are getting hotter and Denver’s EDM scene is exploding. Here’s your guide.

Punk Rock Bowling, which has a long history in Las Vegas but debuted in Denver, returns this year at the Summit Music Hall and Marquis Theater with a lineup that features a ton of bands like the Vandals, Lawrence Arms, Teenage Bottlerock and more.

To help you plan your calendar, we’ve selected ten of our favorite summer music festivals in Colorado, which run the gamut from jazz and blues to punk and hard rock, with some EDM and classical mixed in.

In the summer of 2011, Erinn Peet-Lukes posted to Craiglist that she was looking for someone to busk with at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Unbeknownst to her, she had planted the seed for what would become one of Colorado’s finest bluegrass acts.

Galactic and Pepper team up for a co-headline show at Red Rocks on Sunday, September 24 with Tribal Seeds and Fortunate Youth opening. Tickets ($30/$38.75) go on sale on Friday, June 2, at 10 a.m.

The story of the band Boston is one of the strangest in rock, especially when it concerns a group that is, on the surface, so inoffensive. This is a band that formed in 1976, 41 years ago, and yet to-date has only released six studio albums. Much of that sluggishness with new material can be put down to some circumstances that vary between the cliched and the downright tragic.

Kayla Marque had been waiting for a text message all day. Just before midnight on March 18, it arrived: “Uploaded.”

For her first tattoo, then-nineteen-year-old Jessica Hernandez inked a line of verse from Cuban poet José Martí onto her skin. It reads, “Y antes de morirme yo quiero/Echar mis versos del alma,” which translates to, “And before I die I want/to share the verses of my soul.”

The Denver-based Americana band Treehouse Sanctum releases a new music video.

It’s a big week at Red Rocks with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ fortieth anniversary hitting the venue tonight and tomorrow, Trey Anastasio Band taking the stage on Wednesday, and Chromeo and Rufus du Sol playing there on Thursday.

Denver has incredible venues. Some have seats; others don’t. Head to the Fillmore, Gothic, Ogden or Bluebird, and you’ll find yourself on your feet throughout shows. This makes sense for moshing, dancing and mixing-and-mingling, but sometimes you just want to take a load off – especially as you get older.

Drugs and music are a timeless combination, like peanut butter and jelly.

Seattle-based electronic duo ODESZA take over Red Rocks on Saturday and Sunday, while Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson teams up with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks tonight.

The Disco Biscuits might travel to Colorado from Philadelphia, but the east coasters may as well be a Denver band at this point.

Midnight Oil has not toured for more than a decade. The time has come; a fact’s a fact, as the group’s hit song “Beds Are Burning” goes.

Belgian industrial/dance band Lords of Acid headline the Gothic Theatre with Christian Death, Combichrist and ITSOKTOCRY opening. General admission tickets ($34.50-$40) and a limited number of early bird tickets ($24) go on sale on Friday, May 26, at 10 a.m.