Update 1/25/13: Congratulations to Allison Satterfield and Emily Polster. Each of you and a guest will be our guests at Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks next week. Please check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for all the great entries. Check back…
Like a gnarled old cottonwood that you remember as a kid that now is all shaggy and stately, Pinback has aged well. From early efforts like 2001’s Blue Screen Life — an understated masterpiece that fell somewhere between early Police and stonerfied math rock — on through the albums that…
THE WALKMEN @ THE OGDEN THEATRE | 01/21/13 Like a punk band scoring a gothic Western, the Walkmen delivered a set at the Ogden last night that came off as a unique chemistry of contrasts. Blending all the feverish energy of rockabilly inside a tightly controlled package of casual style,…
Ready for another solid week of shows? Good. There’s plenty to look forward to this week, a diverse batch of offerings from the jammier side of things with the Disco Biscuits, who are setting up shop in Colorado for three nights, to the long- and eagerly awaited Denver appearance of…
What are your favorite places, services and events in the metro area? Give them the spotlight they deserve: The Westword Best of Denver 2013 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we want your input. Where is the city’s best jukebox? Who’s your favorite new Denver band? What’s the best club…
The Walkmen were one of the most successful bands that came out of the so-called post-punk revival of the turn of the century. With catchy melodies more bright than the dark and brooding variety favored by many of its contemporaries, this New York-based act also endured changes in tastes a…
This past weekend, So What! The Club celebrated its twentieth anniversary, and as always, Denver’s longest-running club night attracted a diverse and sophisticated crowd. Our roving nightlife photographer, Brandon Marshall, was on hand to capture the scene, and he brought us back a bunch of photos. Keep reading for a…
This past weekend, Glo took over the Fillmore Auditorium. The massive dance extravaganza attracted a throng of excited EDM fans from all over the Front Range who all danced the night away. Photographer Jim Wills was on hand to capture the scene and brought us back a ton of photos…
CALEXICO @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 1/19/13 Since Calexico and DeVotchKa share a few musical sensibilities and they’ve both worked with producer Craig Schumacher at his Tuscon-based WaveLab Studio, it’s not surprising DeVotchKa’s singer Nick Urata and drummer Shawn King joined Calexico for a few songs during the band’s sprawling hour…
RAILROAD EARTH @ OGDEN THEATRE | 1/18/13 It started with a slow, purposeful beat from drummer Carey Harmon, followed by a careful fiddle line from Tim Carbone and a rapid round of banjo picking by Andy Goessling. And then mandolinist John Skehan had his turn in the solo spotlight, and…
DEAD PREZ @ THE ORIENTAL THEATER |1/18/13 There was a salient theme throughout the night, across the sets of most of the acts, and that was a message of being healthy, both physically and mentally. “Healthy is the new gangsta,” said stic.man of dead prez near the middle part of…
Tomorrow night at Beauty Bar, So What! The Club celebrates its twentieth year of keeping Denver funky. Earlier this week, we shared some of the fliers from the early days when the night first got going at City Spirit on through its move to various other locales, including 9th Avenue…
Evidently, Zac Brown isn’t the only one who likes his chicken fried, along with a cold beer on a Friday night and a pair of jeans that fit just right — at least judging from the fact that the country crooner’s upcoming date at Red Rocks on Wednesday, May 8,…
Welcome to the weekend, amigos! We made it, and we’ve got another fine weekend of tunes to look forward to. From hip-hop and bluegrass to indie rock and southern rock, there’s a variety of options, both local and national, to choose from. We’ve got all of the shows happening on…
DIRTY FEW @ 3 KINGS TAVERN |1/17/13 Earlier in the night, you wouldn’t have guessed that so many people would have shown up so enthusiastic for a local band, many of them knowing the words to all the songs. But Dirty Few from the beginning hyped people up with antics…
Are you ready for this weekend? Are you sure? Because there’s a lot on this weekend’s Dance Card, from tech-house darlings Pan-Pot to the illustrious and always brilliant Prefuse 73 to the persistent house stylings of Bad Boy Bill. Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe, meanwhile, will be drumming up a…
Ironically enough, singer and fiddler Katie Glassman was living overseas when she heard the early recordings of one of America’s most famous singers in history for the first time. Although Elvis Presley is mostly remembered for the controversy surrounding the last years of his life, he is an important part…
Fresh off sharing a bill with Of Monsters and Men and fun. at KTCL’s annual Not So Silent Night at 1STBANK Center just before the holidays last month, Churchill sent word this morning that it had to postpone its show at the Ogden Theatre, originally slated for Saturday, February 9,…
Update 1/17/13: Full interview with Yonnas Abraham added below. Always check your spam filter. If there’s one thing we can learn from BLKHRTS — who, as you’ve undoubtedly deduced by now if you’ve been monitoring your Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates this morning, have signed a deal with ORG…
After successive runs at Rock Bar, where it was founded in 2008, Shag, Paris Wine Bar and the Meadowlark, where it eventually set up shop in 2010, the Mile High Soul Club is on the move again, this time to Beauty Bar on 13th Avenue. According to Tyler Jacobson, who…
A-Co Recordz founder Albeez 4 Sheez has been in the scene for over a decade. The Aurora resident has a mysterious persona and doesn’t stick to the typical gangster rap style of many of his contemporaries. His style is wild, fast paced and witty, drawing fans of all different types…
A number of new shows have been announced this week since our weekly Mile Highlights post dropped on Tuesday, and they all go on sale this weekend, so we thought you should know about them. Among the new dates, we’ve got shows at the Gothic (Billy Bragg, Cold War Kids,…
