Concerts

Courtney Barnett was set to appear at Project Pabst last May but she had to cancel her gig after getting an offer to appear on Saturday Night Live. Anyone bummed that she didn’t make the festival can see her headline at the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, November 8. Sabrina Carpenter is at the Bluebird Theater tonight, Monday, November 7, and the Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi brings his band CRX to the Larimer tonight. Napalm Death and the Black Dahlia Murder are at the Summit Music Hall tomorrow. See our full list of picks below.

The creative young Boulder trio Grass is indicative of the music being pushed over the last year by ambitious local cassette label First Base Tapes: gritty and experimental but catchy, clever and (while ear-bleedin’ loud) deceptively pleasant.

Rae Sremmurd brought the Sremmlife II tour through Denver last night and turned the Ogden into a Tumblr-age hit factory, playing banger after banger. Perhaps more than the songs played, the sold-out show featured many ridiculous onstage antics. For those of you who didn’t get a ticket to the show or didn’t get any Snapchats from your friends who were there, Westword compiled a list of all of the wild moments that you missed.

This summer, the Colorado Department of Transportation launched its driver-safety campaign titled “A Few Can Still be Dangerous.” This message for the general public came from results of a CDOT survey last year which revealed that 70 percent of young men ages 21-35 in the state of Colorado believe that they are safe to drive after consuming two or three drinks.

The best concerts around Denver for November 4-6, 2016, including Safe in Sound, Marc Anthony, Sturgill Simpson and more.

Colorado is home to more than its fair share of great music. Perhaps no one knows this better than the musicians themselves. With that in mind, we asked one of our favorite Colorado artists which other local artists we should be checking out, and thus began the “One Band Leads to Another” musical scavenger hunt. It works like this: A band recommends a band, then that band recommends a band, and so forth. Follow the thread to discover new Colorado voices, enrich your local listening experience and find out where you can catch these bands performing live this month.

As a member of Dualistics, Science Partner and more recently the Gin Doctors, singer, guitarist and songwriter Tyler Despres was a fixture in the Denver music community for more than a decade. He died on Tuesday, November 1 the age of 34, of an aortic aneurysm.

List of concerts announced this week for Denver and Colorado.

Concert review of Young the Giant at the Ogden Theatre in Denver.

Interview with organizers about Levitt Pavilion Denver.

Interview with the Lemon Twigs.

Interview with country-folk singer-songwriter Amanda Shires.

Jason Vaughn, 12, of Denver, was shouted out by Drake at a show on October 1. Vaughn responds to his musical hero here.

A profile of the Boulder ‘vocal rock’ a cappella group Face.

Concert review of Mac Miller headlining Halloween on the Rocks. Openers included Vince Staples, Big K.R.I.T. and more.

While New York, Los Angeles and Nashville have long been home bases to the world’s most talented guitarists, but around Denver there are plenty of top-notch musicians who haven’t fled for more coastal climes. To select our city’s greatest players, we polled our music writers and considered technical proficiency, style, originality and more. We’ve rounded up ten of the best guitarists in Denver, appearing here in alphabetical order. Let us know who we missed.

It’s been eight months since New York indie rockers Ra Ra Riot released Need Your Light, the band’s fourth full-length studio album, and since then, 2016 has been a constant stream of touring, press responsibilities and more touring. Ten years into its existence, Ra Ra Riot has got the recording/touring…

Mac Miller headlines Halloween on the Rocks tonight with a bevy of openers including Vince Staples, BIG K.R.I.T., Pouya and more. The Naked and Famous, Car Seat Headrest, Chelsea Grin and Itchy-O are also playing Halloween night. Young the Giant takes over the Ogden Theatre for two nights, A$AP Ferg is at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tomorrow, Hiss Golden Messenger is at the Bluebird Theater on Wednesday and Bettye LaVette is at the Oriental Theater on Thursday. See our full list of picks below.

While it may not be historic, it felt significant that two pioneers of the disco/dub beat-driven post-punk, one from the original wave, Gang of Four, and one from its 1990s revival, the Faint, shared the stage at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday night.

Budweiser Fear Fest is about as close to a pop-up haunted house as you’ll find in these parts. Located in an old Budweiser bottling plant at 4375 Brighton Boulevard, the late-night music event features zombies from the 13th Floor Haunted House.

Band-Aids were worn in solidarity with the rapper, songs were sung word-for-word and thoughts of encouragement were shouted from the audience.

Tonight it was easy to forget that Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Stevie Nicks are both senior citizens and that their greatest impact on popular culture happened in the first half of the 1980s when both ruled the airwaves. Go ahead, try to tell them that. Because last night, both stars rocked like the old days.