Concerts

Widely recognized as one of the originators of techno and a giant in the evolution of electronic-music culture, Kevin Saunderson (along with childhood friends Derrick May and Juan Atkins) began creating and performing his own unique style of kinetic, heavily percussive, sample-based dance music in Detroit nightclubs during the mid-1980s…

In response to the overwhelming success of Denver’s Titwrench Festival — the award-winning female-centric, three-day rock and noise fest — local riot-grrrl icon Sara Century has been tapped to bring a version of the event to Fort Collins. Dubbed Ladybug 2012, the freshly minted festival is slated to take place…

Your eyes do not deceive you. If you’ve been seeing Yerkish popping up in your Facebook feed, rest easy: It’s not some glitch in the space time continuum. Yerkish has indeed returned, and Lexigram has Lexigone the way of the dodo. According to our pal Tim Kaminski, the whole thing…

Chris Sauthoff has a new lease on life these days. “I’m able to ride my bike and play my music!” he reports. “I love my wife and dogs and students!” Last November, you might recall, the U.S. Pipe/Lord of Word & Disciples of Bass/P-Funk guitarist — better known around here…

Guitars, you say? Oh, we’ve got guitars, friend. Big ones, loud ones, twangy ones, whatever your flavor, and all being played by people pushing their amps into overdrive with passion. If you feel like indulging your inner rocker this week, let’s just say you will have no problem finding places…

It’s rare to have to walk through an Arby’s parking lot to get to your nighttime destination, but such is the path to Mixtape at Milk Bar. “I hope you’re enjoying our lovely scenery,” says a bemused bouncer at the door, an entertained expression on his face. Once inside, Milk’s…

LOTUS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 9/8/12 As its just over two-hour set came to a close, Lotus’s encore proved there is a special place in the band’s heart for Red Rocks. Following the close of “Colorado,” the second track in a three-song encore, Lotus opened into “Spiritualize,” which is…

TWIN SHADOW @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/7/12 Before ending the set, after a show full of enthusiastic responses from his audience, George Lewis Jr. said, “Denver, you’re amazing. Who was here last time we came?” A few people claimed to have been. He complimented the crowd on being honest because…

SAVOY @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 9/7/12Behind a cloud of smoke and haze, the members of Savoy took to their raised podiums in front of a frenzied Red Rocks last night behind a glowing panel of pulsing lights that simply read “SAVOY.” This build-up to the first drop was crucial,…

Got plans this weekend? Cancel them and go support live music instead. We’re here to help with our freshly updated calendar of Denver concerts. The listings are sortable by artist, venue and even price, if you like to choose bands based on cost per riff. There’s also a big list…

Feel like getting down with your bad self this weekend? Good. As always, you’ve come to exactly the right place. We’ve got the drop on the, ahem, drop. Eclectic sounds of all genres of EDM take over the airwaves this weekend. Whether you feel like getting your groove on at…

Welcome to the weekend! We know, it’s here already? Indeed. Hooray for short weeks! As always in our beloved Mile High City, the options are ripe for the picking and plentiful. We have them all listed in our massive concert calendar. If you’re feeling industrious and have some time to…

Elm and Oak, the boutique clothing/art shop and music imprint that has absolutely blown up since opening its doors just off the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado in 2009, has started what may be the best thing to happen to the University of Colorado since being named the ‘Top…

WHY? @ GOTHIC THEATRE | 9/05/12 After a great set from Why?, no one seemed to be in a hurry to leave the Gothic last night, so the band came back on stage for an encore. The rapid xylophone figure meant the band was going to play “A Sky For…

Are the Astronauts Colorado’s first great jam band? G. Brown thinks so. Although the often pejorative term has been associated more with the genre-bending improv scene, Brown, director and curator of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, thinks it fits. In an era when bands would go out, play their…

Chris McGarry grew up near the banks of the upper Mississippi; it was in this environment that his parents first exposed him to classic country and gospel music. But like many people who grew up in the ’90s in middle America, he got into Nirvana and then dabbled in jam…

Five Iron Frenzy was like an eight-year-long supernova that came, burned brightly for a few years and was then extinguished, with one final hurrah at the Fillmore in 2003. While its members splintered off into various factions, with bands that were compelling in their own right (Yellow Second, Nathan &…

George Lewis Jr. grew up in Florida but moved to Boston before forming his punk-funk cabaret outfit Mad Man Films. That band split after releasing two albums, and Lewis moved to Brooklyn, where he started writing songs on his own under the name Twin Shadow. The project’s debut album, 2010’s…

If corporate rock of the ’70s and ’80s has a modern contemporary, it’s Rascal Flatts. While, granted, there’s far more twang accompanying this Nashville outfit’s ballads, the group trades in the kind of earnest, rubber-stamped sentimentality that once propelled bands like Toto and Journey on songs like “Without Your Love”…

One of the most influential bands of the past thirty years, the Melvins are well known for their sludgy punk-rock sound, which formed the arc of records like Houdini and Stoner Witch in the ’90s. With nineteen full-length albums, numerous collaborations — including a record with Lustmord — and a…

The members of the aptly named Nightbringer are from Colorado, a place where the sun allegedly shines 300 days a year. You would never know it, though, from listening to Hierophany of the Open Grave, the act’s excellent third album. Playing an absolutely ferocious brand of black metal that’s every…