If you’ve been to one of the three previous Pitch a Tent parties — the Treehouse Collective’s annual adieu to summer — then you already know what to expect, which is bangin’, sultry house beats amid beautiful mountain backdrops. And for this fourth anniversary of Pitch a Tent love, the…
Attention, Juggalos: You might want to position yourself a safe distance from your monitor, for what we’re about to tell you might make you spray Faygo all over that shit, and we can’t be responsible. Dig it: Fresh on the heels of the Gathering, we’ve received word that Insane Clown…
Archiving Denver’s considerable rock and roll history isn’t an easy task. We’ve seen countless bands come and go over the years. And when they go, limited run CDs, records and cassettes sometimes tend to disappear with them into oblivion. These records are obviously an important part of Denver’s music history,…
Rising to pop prominence in the early ’80s in a whirlwind of other radio-friendly heavy metal acts, Def Leppard (due at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre tonight with Heart) pushed through the decade’s big hair trends and has been making records and touring ever since. This year’s release, Mirrorball: Live and More…
Besides Chris Brown’s mad hops and lip-synching skills and Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future giving props to Earl Sweatshirt in his best new artist speech, MTV’s Video Music Awards show last night was one for the ladies. Even when Lil Wayne closed the show, shirtless and all, he was…
CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE at LARIMER | 8.28.11Christie Front Drive, the band that embodied the best of what emo was about and could be, last played a show on September 1, 2007 at the Marquis after a ten year hiatus. Fortunately it was only about a four year gap for this…
THE CHRISTINES at HI-DIVE | 8.27.11The last time the Christines played, it was December 6, 2008 at the hi-dive, around the release of its most recent offering, Here It Comes Again. This time around, it was a real treat to see James Paul, who played guitar with the band when…
STONES THROW PARTY at CITY HALL | 08.26.11Stones Throw Anniversary party! Anniversary celebrations are typically fancy and more merry than Christmas. The good folks from Stones Throw Records who came out to Denver to rock with the crowd — Mayer Hawthorne (as DJ Haircut), Peter Butter Wolf, Strong Arm Steady,…
DENVER AFTERDARK on LARIMER | 08.26.11While there were many memorable performances at the Denver Afterdark festival — presented by Analog Space, curated by Peter Black and spread out between several venues on the 2700 block of Larimer last night — the most unusual and, subsequently, memorable set of the evening…
Kickstarter may very well be the best invention aiding music makers everywhere since the advent of amplification and, uh, electricity. While the notion of appealing directly to fans to help underwrite recording efforts strikes some as distasteful or even shamelessly opportunistic, these sorts of endeavors have, for the most part,…
This year, MTV has mercifully decided to scrap the host for their infamous Video Music Awards show, and honestly, we couldn’t be happier. Look, we tune in mostly just to find out who Britney’s going to play tonsil hockey this year and to see what new and varied ways Kanye…
The last time Return to Forever (due at the Parmount Theatre tomorrow night) played in the Mile High City in 2008, we overhead one guy marveling at how the show was on how par with a spiritual experience for him. It was certainly one of the more electrifying jazz fusion…
A lot of School Knights early output was distinguished by walls of reverb, sounding more like an underwater recording of whales playing guitars than actual rock music. But on its newest record, the Boulder-based act has managed to blend the wall-pinged vocals with straight up guitar riffs to deliver a…
Tonight begins a non-stop weekend of shows and dance parties, effectively making sure Denver goes hard into the tail-end of the month, starting with the Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Party at City Hall. Stones’ head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf will be putting it down with a live video performance, along…
The 2700 block of Larimer Street will be ground zero for Denver Afterdark tonight; the lineup includes the Whomp Truck, DJ Narky Stares, Iuengliss and Cacheflow, among many, many more local names. Don’t miss this party — we’d get there before, you know, after dark. (7 p.m., $12). And while…
Can’t believe somebody didn’t think of doing this sooner. Oh wait, they did, back in 2009, and we just missed it somehow? Figures. Our bad. My Favorite Bands Festival is more or less what it sounds like: Your favorite bands all playing at the same bill. Well, except it’s not…
BIG FREEDIA at LARIMER LOUNGE | 8.24.11So from the looks of it, there really was “azz everywhere” last night at the Larimer Lounge when Big Freedia brought her sissy bounce movement to the Mile High City. Our resident shutterbug, Brandon Marshall was on hand to capture the festivities, which also…
After almost two decades together, Carbon Leaf (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Chamberlin) has effectively created its own brand of accessible bluegrass. But the Virginia natives can’t be pinned to a single genre — the band has an ostensible pop side, one that best translates live through Carbon…
Mister Heavenly (due tonight at the hi-dive with WATERS and ManCub) came together when Ryan Kattner approached his friends Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse and Nick Thorburn of Islands with some songs he’d been working on in a kind of doo wop style and asked if they’d like to help…
With the new Muppet movie making a new cinematic rainbow connection in November, we started reflecting on all of the amazing musicians that graced the stage of the long running series. Not that we don’t fully embrace this reboot of the Muppets franchise, but we can help but marvel at…
Total Ghost is hard not to love, and that’s partially thanks to the stellar video work of the Nix Brothers, who directed the bands first video, “Tour Life,” and who also took the helm for Total Ghost’s newest clip, “Space Station.” It’s safe to say the Nix Bros are quickly…
The Climax Lounge (2217 Welton Street), which got its start four decades ago as an after-hours joint, has a colorful past. In the ’90s, as the Raven, it hosted punk-rock acts; the Fray and M. Ward have played there. But over the past few years, the Climax hasn’t seen a…
