Remember that scene in the classic ’80s bio-pic La Bamba when Ritchie Valens, played by Lou Diamond Phillips, is blowing the roof off a late-’50s party in Los Angeles with both Latinos and whites dancing their asses off to Mexican-American rock and roll? That feeling of joy, abandon and possibility—just…
Winter on the Rocks is upon us. The annual winter show at Red Rocks is bringing another drool-worthy lineup featuring Adventure Club and Big Grams, which is the new collaboration between Big Boi and Phantogram. But because the concert is in January instead of July, there are some weather-related concerns.To…
This weekend’s line-up includes Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks (featuring Big Grams and Adventure Club) at Red Rocks, Leftover Salmon at the Aggie Theatre, Interpol’s Sam Fogarino’s DJ set at Bar Standard and Talib Kweli at the Ogden Theatre. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Icelantic’s…
When Straight White Teeth performed at Open Media Foundation’s monthly Open Music Session in June 2015, the locals pulled out their most-loved pieces including “Hot Blood Shaking in a Cage,” “Hurricane” and more. While indie guru Patrick McGuire was the frontman for the Denver band Flashbulb Fires for the past five years,…
You thought singing the national anthem at a Broncos game or making a Rolling Stone year-end list were career highlights for Nathaniel Rateliff? Well, my friends, we may have just now reached peak Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. No, the peak is not them headlining Red Rocks. The Night Sweats…
by Stephanie Grey First and foremost, Max Frost is an accomplished beat maker. While melodies come easily, it’s with drums and synthesized beats that Frost first builds the infrastructure of a song. Through later combining everyday ephemera and chords, he relays an easy sense of intimacy. Something almost thematic in…
Nine years of your life doesn’t sound a lot when you’re into your thirties, but a lot of living and growing goes on between the ages of sixteen and 25. Now imagine doing it in the public eye. We cringe at the idea of our late teens being recorded for posterity…
In Pull My Daisy, the 1959 short film based on a poem written by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, a French horn player named David Amram appears, alongside appearances by poets Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso. Amram also wrote the jazz score for the movie, but who is…
Sting and Peter Gabriel team up for their Rock Paper Scissors tour, which stops at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, July 12. “Having first toured together in the eighties for Amnesty International,” a press release states, “Rock Paper Scissors will find Peter Gabriel and Sting performing both separately and together,…
Sam Fogarino will be the guest DJ at Lipgloss at Bar Standard this Friday, January 29. Fogarino is perhaps best known for being the drummer of Interpol, arguably the most popular of the bands out of the “post-punk revival” of the late ’90s and early 2000s. The band’s debut full-length, Turn…
There is a certain moment in a band’s trajectory when you can actually observe the music evolving. Denver four-piece Tyto Alba is experiencing just such a moment: a young band spreading its wings in sound and spirit before an audience’s eyes. Perhaps movement as a way of being comes naturally…
After opening three-and-a-half years ago at 1515 Madison Street (the former home of the Normandy, PS 1515 and the Pink Elephant), it didn’t take long for Park House (and more recently dubbed Park House / Peacemaker’s Cajun Kitchen) to become a hot spot for music that brought in a steady stream…
Although Casselman’s Bar & Venue, which closes this weekend after a six-year run, it will leave a hole in the live music scene in RiNo, but there are still other spots to see live music in the area, some of which have around way before the area was even dubbed…
ESPN’s Winter X Games return to the Buttermilk ski area in Aspen January 28 through 31. The festival, which started in 1995, showcases the world’s top athletes in extreme iterations of winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling. The culture surrounding the event and the sports themselves encompasses certain…
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame announced this morning that it will honor six musicians with induction — including one who is still actively performing. Dubbed “20th Century Pioneers,” the list of new inductees includes famed big band leader Glenn Miller; Paul Whiteman, the “King of Jazz” in the 1920s and…
For the past two years Sofar Sounds Denver has hosted shows at secret locations throughout the metropolitan area. Whether a house, a back yard or an automotive garage (all past locations for Denver shows), Sofar has organized and internationalized the DIY-show format and its intimacy by providing an infrastructure and…
Sofar Sounds recently appointed Plume Varia guitarist and keyboard player Shon Cobbs as the City Leader for the Denver branch of the international concert series. Founded in London in 2009 by Rafe Offer, Rocky Start and Dave Alexander, Sofar started as a house show alternative to standard commercial venue shows…
This week’s best shows include Trivium tonight at the Black Sheep, Los Lobos at the Boulder Theater, Nas at the Belly Up and JEFF the Brotherhood at the Summit Music Hall. See the full list of our picks below. MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Trivium $18-$20, 7 p.m. The Black Sheep Mountain…
Nearly seven years ago, I ran down the stairs of a Chicago subway station, laughing with my friend Jordan as we barely made it onto the train before the doors closed. Looking around, we saw the train car filled with a handful of other people who were, like us, riding…
Some of the most worthwhile events in Denver happen when the music community comes together and rallies around a social cause. What cause is more pressing right now than homelessness in Denver? Over the past year individuals experiencing homelessness had their tiny houses torn down in Sustainability Park, had possessions…
Jack’s Mannequin celebrates the tenth anniversary of Everything In Transit tonight while X’s John Doe returns to the Lions Lair for a two-night stand, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is at the Fillmore tonight and T.I. is at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22…
While Casselman’s Bar & Venue, which is closing this weekend after a six-year run, brought in a wide variety of local acts, it also booked a number of stellar national acts, including Raekwon, Stryper, Das Racist and Too $hort. Here’s a rundown of ten great moments at the venue. 10…
