Snoop Dogg and Future headline the third annual Merry Jane Wellness Retreat on 4/20 at Fiddler’s Green with Kevin Gates, Tory Lanez and Raven Felix opening the show. Tickets ($55-$85) go on sale on Friday, February 19 at 10 a.m. Ryan Adams headlines Red Rocks Wednesday, August 17 with Kurt…
Diane Coffee is the creation of Shaun Fleming, the drummer of Foxygen, and the band brews an appealing blend of American roots music, blending soul, rock and roll, gospel, R&B and the blues. Fleming combines this survey sound with a strong stage presence reminiscent of Motown and David Bowie, perfecting…
I hope, in years to come, to be proved wrong about Emily Haines and her band, but last night Metric’s disjointed live show at the Fillmore Auditorium left me disappointed. Looking at Metric’s discography, perhaps the live show’s lack of coherence is understandable. The band’s early music landed right between the…
Rock and roll has never experienced a shortage of polarizing characters, those individuals whose music we might adore but, when you hear them talk, they just sound like assholes. Maybe they deliberately pull an Axl Rose and delay going on stage for two hours, leaving the fans waiting around like cattle. Or maybe…
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…
Across the gulf of 46 years since its first eponymous album was released on February 13, 1970, it might be difficult to imagine how Black Sabbath’s music could have seemed evil and dark. But last night, when it was actually happening — those familiar bells, sounds of rain and Tony…
Mike Peters co-founded the Denver-headquartered cancer charity Love Hope Strength in 2007, but the Welsh musician’s ties to the city date all the way back to 1983, when his new-wave rock band the Alarm came to the U.S. for the first time, with U2. The Alarm was scheduled to play…
Pale Sun’s debut full-length, Darkmoonwhiteout, is the product of a handful of years of development, refinement, reinvention of a sound that primary songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Suthers has perfected across numerous projects since the ’90s. It is also his first vinyl release. Suthers’ band history: The abstract space rock…
In the words of Erykah Badu, the concept of a “double bind” is “two conflicting ideas…[which can result in] transcendence, an existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.” Though this phrase is usually applied to irreconcilable differences, in Badu’s hands it becomes an opportunity for transcendence, words that…
By the time Dr. Dog finished touring in support of its 2008 breakthrough Fate, the quirky Philadelphia indie-rock quintet had become what the Band was to musicians in the late ’60s and early ’70s: the group everyone would give a limb to be in. It was the authenticity, the seemingly…
Chic, which headlines the Paramount Theatre on February 19, has been nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ten times (a record), but has not yet been enshrined — a fact that leaves group leader Nile Rodgers perplexed, to say the least. But in many ways, that doesn’t…
Black Sabbath’s (perhaps) final tour stops at the Pepsi Center tonight while Metric is at the Fillmore Auditorium tomorrow night, Hoodie Allen is at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday and Mike Peters of the Alarm playing a solo acoustic set at the Soiled Dove on Thursday. See the full list of…
As if it hadn’t been four years, and a whole lot of drama, since the last time Ween performed, Aaron Freeman—who had shocked his bandmates in 2012 by announcing, in a Rolling Stone interview, that Ween was over and he’d no longer go by Gene Ween—smiled and told a sold-out,…
Sarah Slaton doesn’t like hospitals, but that doesn’t stop her and the band Edison from regularly playing music in one. She and her bandmates in Denver’s popular folk trio Edison regularly volunteer for Amp the Cause’s Sunday Sounds at Children’s Hospital Colorado, which turns the hospital’s foyer into a makeshift…
Rival Sons from Long Beach, California is the opening act on the current, and purportedly last, Black Sabbath tour including the date this Monday, February 15, at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Since 2009 the four-piece hard rock band has been honing its sound and making a name for itself,…
Ween, who last played in Denver four years ago, reunite for three shows this weekend at 1STBANK Center while the New Mastersounds play two night at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, the Flaming Lips are the Belly Up Aspen and Erykah Badu is at the Ogden Theatre on Valentine’s Day. See the…
Anthony Russo Band performed at the September edition of the Open Music Sessions, the free monthly concert and party hosted by Denver’s Open Media Foundation. Fresh off a tour behind Curtis Hawkins’ LP South Clarkson Street, the local trio — which includes Hawkins himself on bass — brought its blend of…
Emi Night of Strawberry Runners moved to Denver from the Midwest in 2011 for the same reasons as many transplants — friends and the sunshine. Night has been immersed in the music scene since her arrival, playing in Mega Gem and now performing as vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and all-around leader…
Originally formed in Athens, Georgia in 2008, the band is now based out of Nashville. Considering its eclectic sound drawing from country rock and modern psychedelia, Futurebirds sounds very much like the product of a city that, along with Denver, co-birthed ’90s indie pop with Athens and a city where…
Dead & Company, which features Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, as well as John Mayer and others, will headline Folsom Field on Saturday, July 2 and Sunday July 3. They’ll be the first shows at University of Colorado’s 50,000-capacity stadium since Dave Matthews Band’s show there in…
Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, which was started in 1999 in Las Vegas by brothers Shawn and Mark Stern (owners of BYO Records), is coming to Denver for the first time at Summit Music Hall Thursday, June 2 through Saturday, June 4. The initial lineup includes Buzzcocks, Millencollin, FLAG…
Last week we interviewed Frances Quinlan of Hop Along, a genre-straddling indie rock band that’s made music critics (including this one) gush. (That Voice tho!) Our conversation ranged from Chris Brown and Taco Bell to Denver’s “amazing free clinic,” which hopefully Quinlan won’t need to visit again when the band…
