The third annual 5280 Urban Music Awards went down last night at the Paramount Theatre, and while it took a second to get there, the vibe of the event was upbeat and enthusiastic. The place was crammed wall-to-wall with rappers, singers and people out to see and be seen. Kingdom…
GUNS N’ ROSES at 1STBANK CENTER | 12/11/11 Some bands wait until the end of the set or an encore to pull out its most beloved material. Not Guns N’ Roses. Two songs into the set, the instantly familiar guitar riff was teased two, maybe three times before Axl Rose…
Fresh off their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (along with Guns N’ Roses, the Beastie Boys and the Small Faces, among others), the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be making their way to the Pepsi Center on Sunday, March 4. Tickets for this show, which is…
Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks 2012: Okay, so scratch Z-Trip and Yelawolf from the bill (turns out, that was just a rumor), but keep Atmosphere and Grieves and add Common, Budo and Get Cryphy to the first ever wintertime concert at Red Rocks, which is slated for January 27, 2012…
Guns N’ Roses (due Sunday, December 11 at 1STBANK Center) is a household name at this point and hardly needs an introduction. During the late 1980s, Guns proved that you could come out of L.A. and not have songs that were just thinly disguised paeans to sexual conquest. Guns didn’t…
The holiday party swagger is in full effect this weekend. It’s rounded out by everything from a Natty and Nice reggae party to GirlGrabbers’ Mistletoe and Mistresses party going down at Theory and Practice Gallery. GirlGrabbers (Gypdahip, Qknox and Brikabrak) are bringing out the holiday cheer with the Plush Brothers…
CONVERGE at the MARQUIS THEATER | 12/8/11 When Converge played the opening strains of “Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast” last night, the place erupted, with almost everybody taking part in a massive sing-a-long, singing like the lyrics were part of their DNA, while others climbed onto the stage and launched…
When Greg Baumhauer, Ben Kronberg and former Westword scribe Adam Cayton-Holland, otherwise known as Wrist Deep Productions, started their open-mike comedy night on Tuesdays at the Squire Lounge (1800 East Colfax Avenue) in 2004, Baumhauer thought it would last three months. Instead, it lasted for seven and a half years…
Although the Facebook page for Rockaway Tavern (2036 Broadway) says the venue’s last show was at the end of November, owner Kris Sieger insists that the venue isn’t closed (he says his former soundman had administrative control over the Facebook page). Sieger, who opened the bar in July 2010 with…
Word on the street is the suits over at 30 Rock will now be censoring Questlove of the almighty Roots over that whole lyin’ ass bitch incident with Michelle Bachmann, in which Questo subversively played the intro of Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” as the Republican presidential candidate made her entrance…
Bassheads, tonight’s your night: Dubstep king 12th Planet will test Beta’s world-class sound system with his wobbly basslines and whompy beats. In the Beatport Lounge, you can catch Berlin’s Cassy (with an after-hours party running well into the early hours of the morning); and other locales are hosting Ministry of…
More props are due to Duncan, the Denver-based artist, who recently joined the roster at A&M/Octone Records. He’s already getting some prime national placement. If you haven’t seen it yet, his first single, “Light Up the Sky,” is prominently featured in the trailer for New Year’s Eve, the new movie…
Have you seen the new Tennis video yet? It premiered a few days ago on RollingStone.com, and the lyrics (and accompanying video) are reportedly inspired by a Shirley Jackson novel titled We Have Always Lived in a Castle. You familiar? Neither were we. Luckily, our trusty friend, Wikipedia, has the…
Speaking strictly anecdotally, from Bob Marley and Cypress Hill to Sublime and Wiz Khalifa to an endless parade of musical stoners, it’s always been something of a foregone conclusion that music and mary jane go together swimmingly, like ham and burger, beach and sand. Now, thanks to some enterprising smoketologist…
Here’s a nice little Christmas present. Remember Shag (the club night, not the bar)? It’s returning for one night (two, if you count shhh-ag — more on that in a minute) at Beauty Bar on Friday, December 23. In the mid ’90s before Lipgloss, there was Quid, one of the…
Converge (due tonight at the Marquis Theater with Git Some and Glass Hits) is one of the most influential of the what some might call post-hardcore or metalcore acts still going. Formed in the early ’90s in Salem, Massachusetts, Converge fused a musical precision with the articulation of a cathartic…
OHGR AT THE BLUEBIRD | 12/07/11″Don’t do coke,” Ogre urged the audience at the Bluebird last night. “Because I sure fuckin’ did, and it nearly killed me.” This unvarnished pronouncement from ohGr’s frontman came at the end of a particularly strong and sharp performance of “Timebomb,” one of the best…
Remember last month when we introduced you to Bop Skizzum’s new singer, Julie Almeria? She made her live debut last month at Cervantes’ when Skizzum warmed up for Fishbone. Shortly after that gig, the band was slated to head up to the Blasting Room to record some of the new…
Fresh off a stint entertaining the President and First Lady at the White House for the annual National Tree Lighting ceremony with Ellie Goulding and Kermit the Frog, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder is back in the Mile High City and ready to ring in the holidays with us. And the dude…
Kalyn Heffernan is 24 years old, weighs 53 pounds, and measures three feet, six inches tall. She’s light enough to carry, compact enough to hide under a winter coat, and is sometimes mistaken for a child. But Kalyn, who has the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta, is hardly innocent, precious, or…
One of the most refreshing things about living in Denver: Despite how incredibly shitty, mindlessly selfish and inexplicably cruel folks we can sometimes be to one another in this town (watch the news for about five minutes), when one of us is in need, you can almost always depend on…
Update (12/14/11): Contest is over. Congratulations to Paul Arterburn and Bailee Jensen, who will each (with a guest) be our guests at the show next summer! Thanks for the entries! Pre-sale tickets for the Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw’s Brothers In the Sun Tour stop at Sports Authority Field at…
