Music

Jesu Berkeley, aka Deej Karbon, worried his daughter’s Denver elementary school had no music program, so he asked the principal if he could start teaching deejaying classes. The response: Sure, if you can find a way to fund it. Now, he’s running a Kickstarter campaign and hosting a March 4…

LVL UP put out one of the better indie rock records of 2016 with Return to Love. It is a disarmingly moving album, imbued with warmth and introspection. Though based in New York City, the four-piece band was founded at SUNY Purchase in 2011. The group started as a recording…

Depeche Mode plays at the Pepsi Center, on Friday, August 25, on its world tour in support of the band’s fourteenth studio album, Spirit, which will be released on March 17. While tickets ($39.50-$129.50) go on sale to the public on Friday, March 10, at 10 a.m., fans can register for…

Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie will headline Velorama, a three day music, shopping and food festival held in the River North Art District, August 11-13. Also on the bill: Saint Motel, La Santa Cecila and the New Pornographers. The event will take place as part of the Colorado Classic bicycle race, the…

Things are about to get wild for the Canadian rock group, Japandroids. After nearly five years between recordings, they’ve released a new album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, scheduled some touring and have found themselves more confident than ever in their singing and songwriting. The duo has not only found a renewed energy for…

Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, the husband-and-wife duo behind Denver band Tennis, have just finished writing and producing their fifth album, Yours Conditionally, under their brand-new label, Mutually Detrimental. A booker for Coachella heard a single from the new record and asked Tennis to play the giant music festival in April.

Casey James Prestwood, veteran of Colorado country-rock band Drag the River and acclaimed Alabama emo group Hot Rod Circuit, is a country-music encyclopedia. Get him talking about legendary session musicians and he’ll spin a yarn the size of Texas. Discussing the earnest, emotional and sometimes downright depressing lyrics he sings over his backing band, the Burning Angels, however, doesn’t come so easily.

Is that a cloud of weed headed toward Colorado? Nope. It’s Snoop Dogg and his caravan of hip-hop greats bringing the annual Wellness Retreat back to the state, this time to Red Rocks. He will be sharing the stage with burning-hot rapper Wiz Khalifa, the hip-hop legends in Cypress…

In the wake of the Ghost Ship tragedy in December 2016, the network of informal, unconventional and otherwise underground music and art venues took a major hit nationwide, as many were shut down or put on indefinite hiatus in the name of safety. But in Denver, a pair of shows at the Five Points vegan hole-in-the-wall, the Handy Diner, proved DIY is thriving.

Technology evolves quickly, and in the world of electronic music and the many sub-genres that branch off of it, the flavor of today can be stale by tomorrow. That said, there are many artists in the region who have learned to grow with the technology. This year will be a…

Cleveland’s hip-hop sensation Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will perform at the Fillmore Auditorium in April. The group, which has sold over 50 million records, has a storied history collaborating with both Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G, bridging the East Cost and West Coast divide that haunted ’90s hip-hop. Below is the group’s…

Pop singer JoJo fell ill, so she’s cancelled her March 1 show at the Gothic Theatre. Refunds are available wherever tickets were purchased.

Country singer Miranda Lambert is headed to Red Rocks Amphitheatre this August with Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen in tow.

Since 1989, Cleveland’s Ringworm has been blurring the jagged lines between hardcore punk and thrash/death metal, an almighty mashup of rock’s more extreme subgenres. And while Ringworm is hardly the first band to make that blend, in 2017 it remains one of the more interesting. Still, 28 years is a…

From underground rapper Mykki Blanco on his developing fan base to the artist who gave Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike a homemade Bernie Sanders/Martin Luther King Jr poster, this week has had been a rich one for music in Denver. In case you missed them, here is a recap of…

John Mayer has announced his Search for Everything World Tour will continue into the summer, and he and his band will be playing Denver on July 19. Mayer’s concert will include a solo set, as well as performances with his full band and the John Mayer Trio. Here is his…