It’s an epic week for music in metro Denver, with shows featuring Glen Hansard, Chance the Rapper, Young the Giant, Chris Young, Minus Bear and Skinny Puppy, among others. See our top fifteen picks below. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Chance the Rapper $39.50/$45. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium Glen Hansard $35/$38.50, 7:30…
An upended, dismembered piano sits in the middle of the floor at the ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio, deep below the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Kneeling before it, a slight, older man is wiring the piano pieces to an array of electromechanical devices. He is the mononominate sound artist…
Sub.mission is taking over the Walnut Room tomorrow for a special, one-off show featuring two of the premier artists from renowned dubstep label Innamind Recordings. In advance of the show, we caught up with Innamind DJ and label boss Kursk, aka Jeremy Pattison, to talk about the visiting DJs, his…
When an elderly man walked into his familiar barbershop in Lakewood last week, he found Cannibal Corpse blaring and a giant Ouija board instead of a quiet waiting room. His normal barber had been replaced with technicolor-haired and tattooed stylists, who informed him that Seven Sins Salon had taken over…
This weekend’s live music calendar includes some great shows, including Trey Anastasio Band at the Fillmore and the Motet at the Ogden, and both groups play two-night stands. The Roots move into the Ogden on Sunday, Low is at the Larimer Lounge, and JD McPherson is at the Fox on…
The Cure’s first major North American tour since 2008 stops at Fiddler’s Green on Sunday, June 5, with the Twilight Sad opening. The tour will include nearly four decades of Cure material, including hits, rarities and as-yet unreleased tracks in a brand-new stage production. Reserved tickets ($35-$75) and lawn seats…
Lulu and John Demitro got off to an early start in music. Growing up in Boulder, the siblings began playing classical piano before they were five. Through high school John played in bands, including the hard-rock band Bassline; Lulu, who is a year younger than John, played keyboards in that…
On January 12, 2010 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit sixteen miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, devastating the already impoverished nation and killing tens of thousands of people. In the wake of that disaster Haiti has undergone a slow recovery and displaced 1.5 million people who were…
The last time I heard music at the History Colorado Center, it was at an October program on state symbols: Denver Gay Men’s Chorus program director James Knapp sang “Where the Columbines Grow,” Colorado’s first official state song, which just marked its hundredth birthday. Knapp has a spectacular voice, but…
Here at the edge of the desert, a small miracle is taking place. Thirteen miles from the Utah border, an abandoned Rio Grande water tank sits on a small hill two blocks north of the main drag of Rangely. main drag. Made of welded, half-inch-thick steel plates, the tank is…
Hot off the heels of a music video showing at the Denver Film Festival, which runs through the end of this week, Wheelchair Sports Camp is back at work filming a video for “Hard Out Here For A Gimp.” The song is from WheelGrabbers, a collaboration between the local hip-hop…
There’s a stellar line-up of music in town this week, including Peaches, Yo La Tengo, Broncho and Lucero. The full list of our picks follows: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Rob Thomas $45-$99.50, 7 p.m., Paramount Theatre City and Colour $35.75, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Peaches $20, 8 p.m., Summit Music Hall …
Every First Friday, Open Media Foundation throws quite a party with Open Media Sessions, complete with a concert. Last month, PrettyMouth dominated the sessions stage. The moody Denver band says “Sinisterly” was perhaps the first PrettyMouth song ever recorded, and at the October 2 show viewers were treated to an…
Snow is falling, but don’t forget to take your chances on Rockygrass and Telluride Bluegrass lotteries before you lose your mind — and your batteries — stuck in I-70 ski season traffic. Although tickets for the festivals don’t go on sale until December, the 2016 lotteries for Telluride camping spaces…
The members of Yo La Tengo knew that the 25th anniversary of Fakebook, an acoustic-driven album largely made up cover songs, was approaching — and they also knew they didn’t want to wait as long as they usually do between albums. So they decided to follow up 2013’s Fade with Stuff…
This weekend’s concerts include shows by Bruce Cockburn, Don Byron, Juan Gabriel and AWOLNATION. Read on for the full list of our picks. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Bruce Cockburn$29.50-$39.50, 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater Sturgill Simpson $29.50/$35, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Don Byron Quartet $15, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m., Dazzle Pat Green …
As a cold rain fell in Boulder last night, I walked into eTown Hall for the first time since eTown relocated from the Boulder Theater in 2012. Shame on me for previously only passing by the show’s incredible new setting, inside a renovated church that originally opened in 1922. eTown…
Globe Hall, a Texas-style smokehouse and dive bar in Globeville, started serving barbecue and pouring drinks yesterday, and will kick off its music programming in the attached music hall this weekend with free shows featuring Gasoline Lollipops and Casey James Prestwood & The Burning Angels on Friday, as well as Jen…
Philadelphia’s Beach Slang has spent the last few years writing songs that are so emotionally charged, raw, sincere and thoughtful that they transcend mere rock and roll. The name of the group’s latest record, The Things We Do to Find the People Who Feel Like Us, may be long —…
The members of The Milk Blossoms take turns when they talk – as the conversation circles the table, each musician makes space for the next one to speak. Five minutes into this exchange, it’s clear that Michelle Rocqet, Harmony Rose and Brent Larson are not only bandmates, they’re friends. Good…
Carrie Underwood will kick off The Storyteller Tour-Stories in the Round, her first tour “in the round,” in January; it will stop at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, March 29, and at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, March 30. Tickets for both shows go on sale…
It couldn’t be done, they said. It’ll be a blizzard, and kids will be sliding down the ramp, they warned. Well, surprise, surprise — it has yet to snow in the metro area and the first ever Red Rocks show on October 31 was held in beautiful, mid-50s degree weather…
