SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL @ WINTER PARK | FRI-SUN, 3/8-3/10 If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains…
Update, 5 p.m. March 3: Some sad news to share if you haven’t heard yet, Roy Waines passed away on Friday night. Tonight’s Royz House benefit will still be taking place as originally planned tonight at the Church in support to Roy’s family, and it will also now serve as…
PASSION PIT @ 1STBANK CENTER | 3/1/13Passion Pit’s show at 1STBANK Center was more about feel than flash, more about mood than pageantry. The globes started to glow pink right before Passion Pit broke into the slow tempo of “Constant Conversations” and singer Michael Angelakos busted out some fine falsetto…
If we didn’t know any better, we’d swear that Macklemore, who we literally just wrote about hours ago, is trying to establish residency in Colorado. To wit: He played our Showcase in June, followed by a show at the Ogden in December, a show at Red Rocks in February, he’s…
If you’re a jam fan, you must be positively overwhelmed with glee right now with the way the concert season is starting to shape up this year. Last night came word of a Disco Biscuits date at Red Rocks in April, and now comes word that Widespread Panic is pulling…
If you’ve heard the considerably poignant “Same Love,” then you know exactly what Macklemore’s stance on same sex relationships is. But just in case there was even the slightest bit of ambiguity, the Seattle rapper (aka Ben Haggerty), who’s slated to make his debut on Saturday Night Live this weekend,…
Josh Mayer and Marty Folb are some of the freshest producers on the grind right now. In addition to driving their own projects, Glitch Mob and MartyParty, the two hip-hop heads co-pilot PANTyRAiD together. Following the success of their first two releases, The Sauce and Superior, PANTyRAiD (due at the…
More than being one of the best selling albums of all time, more than having the most recognizable album cover the world over, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was a cross-cultural, trans-generational album that connected with audiences on issues of death, greed, life-purpose and the horrors and triumphs…
The hip-hop, as you know, doesn’t stop. It’s a new month, which means there’s another fresh batch of dope shows for you. And trust: March has plenty of freshness on tap, from revered elder statesmen like De La Soul, Naughty By Nature and GZA to newer cats like Tech N9ne,…
By Bob McMahon From the perspective of a casual observer, it would be all too easy to label the members of Menomena as miserablists. The group’s mixture of reverb-laden piano, woodwinds, crashing drums and pretty much every keyboard voice and stringed instrument in existence has always cohered into a solemn,…
PASSION PIT @ 1STBANK CENTER | FRI, 3/1/13 Passion Pit began in as a solo project of lead singer and keyboard player Michael Angelakos in 2007. The project quickly fleshed out into a full band that combined a keen sense for upbeat pop melodies with lyrics that didn’t exactly try…
GRIZ @ OGDEN THEATRE | FRI, 3/1/13 Grant Kwiecinski grew up in Detroit, the American breeding ground for finer electronic music, and home to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Having been mentored through classes with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Kwiecinski found his sound in the alto saxophone and has managed…
Earlier today on Facebook, Nathaniel Rateliff casually mentioned that Born in the Flood, the band he fronted before he became all chummy with the boys in Mumford & Sons, that reunited at the Gothic back in December, is playing tomorrow night at Lost Lake. If you’ve ever been to Lost…
See also: – Disco Biscuits at the Ogden Theatre, 1/25/13 – Disco Biscuits’ Aron Magner on making every Bisco show special – Disco Biscuits’ Jon Gutwillig on Red Rocks, the pop-up store and Bisco Inferno…
On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction, we’ll be running the stories that didn’t make his memoir all this week. Today, Tony Funches on first meeting Barry…
This seemed all but inevitable the more folks saw Searching for Sugar Man, the outstanding documentary focusing on the awe-inspiring story of Sixto Rodriguez, aka Sugar Man — and that was even before the Oscar win this past weekend: Rodriguez, whom we picked at the top of our 25 best…
This past weekend at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, Kanye West went on a rant about selling out. Apparently, he now hates the Grammys, corporations and possibly the new Justin Timberlake song. Ironically, the self proclaimed “Louis Vuitton Don” saw absolutely no conflict of interest in calling out artists who court corporate…
Alright, we’ve got another fresh batch of local hip-hop for you. Hope you’re ready. We’ve got a Slam 1 collab with Tech N9ne from the Last Dragon mixtape, Trev Rich, the rapper formerly known as Rockie, reaches for new heights on a cut called “Top of the World,” TC Crook…
As a teenager in the late’80s, tenor saxophonist Chris Potter performed with the great Red Rodney. He later went on to collaborate with luminaries like Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Paul Motian, Dave Holland, and, more recently, he was a member of the Pat Metheny Unity Band. While he’s played as…
5. IMPROVISED ROOTS #4 @ DAZZLE | FRI & SAT, 3/15-3/16 While Greg Garrison plays bass for local bluegrass act Leftover Salmon, he also knows his way around jazz changes. With his Improvised Roots Series, he brings the two worlds together with roots music. The previous two shows in his…
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword’s Best of Denver, we’ve split the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the leading vote-getters and then vote again for your favorite entertainment and entertainers in metro Denver. And the results…
Talking to the founding members of the Fox Street All Stars about the genesis of the band is tough. It takes patience. “Everything in this band has been a very gradual process of trickling down into the next thing,” explains drummer Eric Low. “It’s kind of gone from zero original…
