Concerts

Last year, we listed a bunch of reunions we’d like to see, and on that list was the Dismemberment Plan. Not that we had anything to do with this, but it looks like the band is back together and planning a few shows and a re-release of their fantastic LP…

Did you find your soulmate this past weekend at Red Rocks? A few people might have, had that special person not scampered away before phone numbers or texts were exchanged. Sigh. If you didn’t find the face of your vanishing love in our slide show, you might have hit up…

PARAMORE Tegan and Sara • New Found Glory • Kadawatha 09.13.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison view full slide show While this year’s installment of the Honda Civic Tour felt more like an obscene barrage of advertisements (complete with a pamphlet about credit-building that targeted a very young audience), the…

A big shout-out goes to Gamits bassist Scott Weigel for unwittingly creating one of the more rock-and-roll moments we’ve witnessed in recent memory. Toward the end of the Gamits’ set this past weekend at night two of Suburban Home Records’ fifteenth-anniversary party at 3 Kings Tavern, Weigel — who had…

Since its grand opening two years ago at its original LoDo location at 19th and Wazee, Family Affair has helped hold down the Denver streetwear scene. Co-owners Jason Ngo and Donovan Kahler have created an innovative storefront that gives cats the opportunity to get a fresh fade, pick up some…

Tennis • Flashlights • Gauntlet Hair • Vitamins 09.10.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver If its last three albums are any indication, Vitamins seem to reinvent their sound every year or so. The band’s latest material has the foursome stretching out quite a bit. While Vitamins has always been an experimental…

Ah, Scumbag Sundays, just how your mother imagined you spending the Lord’s Day. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the Shag Lounge (830 15th Street) on Sunday night, September 12, 2010: View full slideshow…

You might have already read our review of STS9’s Friday night show at Red Rocks, and now you can check out photos from the second night of their stay at Red Rocks. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these pictures from the concert. See a full slideshow here: Sound Tribe Sector…

Nothing like this sort of news to completely take your legs out from under you, a staggering dose of reality to remind us all how precious and painfully short life truly is. It’s with the utmost sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we bring you news of the passing…

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 With guests Thievery Corporation and Alex B 09.10.10|Red Rocks Amphitheatre The Red Rocks lots were understandably mobbed before Friday night’s sold-out STS9 show; the atmospheric improvisational group is always a huge draw in Denver, and the act proved why it continues to sell out shows on…

Earlier this week, there was some fear and uncertainty as to whether local singer-songwriter Rebecca Folsom’s home was one of the ones lost to the devastating and still burning Fourmile Canyon Fire. Folsom was reportedly told initially that her house was one of the ones that was seen burning, news…

PAVEMENT With guests Jenny and Johnny 09.09.10 | Ogden Theatre, Denver Jenny and Johnny opened this show and received a mixed reception from the crowd at first. But appreciative cheers for the group, which features Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, increased with every song. The band’s sometimes bluesy, jangly guitar…

I’m convinced that there’s a special place in hell reserved for bottom feeders who steal other people’s stuff, particularly musical equipment. If there’s any sort of justice in this often times god forsaken universe, it’s in a grimy, rat-infested, shit smeared place shared by those who rip off the elderly,…

So the organizers of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Denver Marathon evidently take the name of the event very seriously. So much so that they’ve convinced the members of Semisonic — you know, the dudes who did that song “Closing Time” — to get the old band back together, man, just…

If you’ve missed the off-the-wall art and music of Patrick Porter, rejoice — the prodigal weirdo returns! After a year on the East Coast, Porter is returning to Denver to pick up his musical explorations and record two already-written albums. Word is he’ll be working with members of the Vitamins,…

The Denver Cruisers have been getting a lot of press lately for its topically themed rides, but last night, riders took on one of the trendiest themes of the past few years: The undead. The club held its “Vampires and Zombies” bike ride, and from the looks of these photos,…

Although ZetaKaye House, the name of John and Kim Baxter’s new booking and management company, might sound like sorority house, it’s actually a deliberate fusion of the names of two individuals: Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was part of the Brown Power movement in the ’60s and Hunter S. Thompson’s attorney,…

For years, I’ve really fought to dissuade people as categorizing me or thinking of me in singer-songwriter terms,” Joshua Novak says. “Not that it’s bad. I felt like those people in the ’70s who were singer-songwriters, they all had bands. But something happened in the ’90s, when the coffee-shop singer-songwriter…

Bill Ward learned a hard lesson in Larimer Square, where he owned Below Bar and Slim 7: At most clubs, you only have a small window — say, from 10 p.m. until closing — when you can make money. But now that he’s out of Larimer Square altogether, Ward’s planning…

Despite having been together for only a short time and not playing many local shows, Tennis (due on Friday, September 10, at the Larimer Lounge) has stirred some buzz outside of Denver through write-ups on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear and, most recently, the New York Times blog. Inspired in part…

Owen Ashworth started Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in 1997 as an electro-pop one-man band. But over the years, the act has made its sound more organic, especially as Ashworth started playing with various collaborators. The seemingly confessional lyrics are really snapshots of American life, and the kinds of portraits…