The Flaming Lips is rehearsing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and they’re having trouble getting in sync. It takes a few attempts to realize the problem: The violin section is missing three measures from its sheet music. “Don’t worry! We will reprint it before tomorrow,” conductor André de Ridder assures the…
Not so many years ago, Jamie Hince, guitarist and electronics-and-production wizard for the Kills, might have had to give up playing guitar completely. After complications from cortisone injections into his knuckles to treat the strain of playing guitar so much, Hince had to have multiple surgeries and a tendon removed…
When this scribe was a blossoming wee headbanger in the late 1980s and early ’90s, air guitar was what we did instead of dance when we went to clubs underage. It was the tribal ritual for the terminally uncool — those of us without any sense of rhythm and next-to-no…
Drake and Future will be at the Pepsi Center for two nights on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2., and tickets ($49.50-$149.50) go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 26, at 10 a.m. Dinosaur Jr., who’s set to release Give a Glimpse Of What Yer Not in…
Desiree Albee has hosted her music-and-fetish night, Repent, for nearly two years, but she’s always known that the event represented only one flavor of Denver’s goth scene. In a flash of inspiration, she conceived of an event that would bring together the city’s various goth-themed nights and include as many…
Last night, soul singer Leon Bridges somehow upped his cool factor another thousand percent when he showed up unannounced to Goosetown Tavern’s Turn It Up Tuesdays open-mike night. The 26-year-old artist, known for his stripped-down take on retro soul, performs at the Paramount Theater tonight, Wednesday, May 25, but he…
Three years after forming, the Denver-based Latin ska band Roka Hueka will release its self-produced debut album Red at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox on Saturday, May 28, with fellow local Latin-Caribbean fusion acts Quilombo and ArteCura opening. Mixing influences and transcending borders is a recurring theme for Roka Hueka, in both…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work…
“I think we search for spaces that aren’t really meant to be recorded in and have tons of character and charm,” says My Morning Jacket drummer Patrick Hallahan. From the beginning, MMJ has recorded largely in unconventional spaces and situations. The band recorded its first three albums on the family…
On April 1, Chelsea Wolfe released a seven-inch single for “Hypnos,” the song invokes the name of the Greek personification of sleep. It was written as a kind of ode, a love song, that Wolfe says is set in a dark dream. This is Wolfe’s creative method to come to…
This summer, the Denver Botanic Gardens will host Guster, the long-popular indie band which now performs as a four-piece. Newest member Luke Reynolds is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who has previously performed with the band and collaborated with the group on recent album Evermotion. With elements of Beach-Boys harmony, trombones reminiscent of tooting…
According to a 2014 analysis conducted by data scientist Matt Daniels for Polygraph, the largest vocabulary in hip-hop belongs to Ian Bavitz aka Aesop Rock who had used 7,392 unique words in his song catalog up to that point, more than a thousand more than the next highest artist in…
It’s a stellar lineup of shows this week with the Flaming Lips and the Colorado Symphony performing The Soft Bulletin in its entirety at Red Rocks, Tom Petty and Mudcrutch at the Ogden Theatre, Florence + the Machine at the Pepsi Center, Leon Bridges at the Paramount Theatre and Brett Dennen…
As I watched Paul Simon perform at Bellco Theater on Friday, I kept wondering: “Does he still enjoy doing this?” Which isn’t to say that the 74-year-old singer/songwriter wasn’t trying to put on a good show (or one worthy of Bellco’s minimum ticket price of $64.50). If anything, Simon seemed…
Three months ago, nobody in Denver knew who LANY was. When the three-piece alt-pop electronic band opened for Troye Sivan back in February at the Ogden, they played to a crowd of people who only just learned their name and hadn’t yet had a chance to learn their music. Despite…
The Violent Femmes put out a new studio album in March, their first since 2000’s Freak Magnet. That’s been a massive gap for a band that previously averaged an album about every three years. But band members have come and gone, and the group took a break between 2009 and…
With the rescheduled Denver 4/20 Rally (with performances from Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne), Project Pabst and the Five Points Jazz Festival all happening on Saturday, May 21, things will be a bit crazy around downtown, RiNo and Five Points. Also this weekend there’s Paul Simon at Bellco tonight, the…
The Coathangers have been touring Europe for the past couple of weeks in support of their new album, Nosebleed Weekend. The punk/garage rock band with experimental leanings will end its European tour with a flight from Berlin straight to Denver to play the Project Pabst festival this Saturday, May 21…
Elephant Revival’s first headlining show at Red Rocks promises to be a celebration of community made at home and on the road. This Sunday, the Nederland five-piece will have its turn at headlining Denver’s favorite stage, and are joined by Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band, Rising Appalachia and…
“We went to a flea market today, and there was a sign that said ‘Tasers on Special’ next to a sign that said ‘Real Cool Knives’ or something. This place has, like, the worst humans,” says Alex Edgeworth with a laugh. Her phone is half-functioning, so she’s blasting this speakerphone…
High Elevation Rock Festival debuts at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Saturday, September 10 with a lineup includes Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat, Chevelle, Pierce The Veil, Ministry, Killswitch Engage, Animals As Leaders, Sevendust, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Amity Affliction, Neck Deep, Shaman’s Harvest, Twelve Foot Ninja and Lola Black. Tickets ($59.50-$79.50) are on…
Following the announcement that the original Misfits lineup would perform together for the first time in thirty years at Riot Fest & Rodeo in September, the traditionally alternative festival has announced its full current slate of bands for the Denver and Chicago editions, featuring many big names and rare appearances…
