There’s nothing worse for a pot-smoking music fan than to find your concert joints crumbled into a broken mess at the bottom of your favorite hiding spot. All that work rolling them beforehand, stashing them in your hat and making it through security is gone, and you’ve got to spend…
You can get your chance to be a go-go dancer for Global Dance Festival at the end of June — or, you know, just watch a lot of sexy go-go dancers wile their wares. The Church has Go-Go Auditions tonight, featuring the sounds of Kostas, Trajikk, and Jontron alongside the…
So, the Westword Music Showcase is finally going down tomorrow, and, of course, we’re excited. Along with laundry list of amazing local acts like Kingdom of Magic, Diamond Boiz and Vices I Admire, we’ve got Chromeo, UME and Del the Funky Homosapien rolling through…
The rumors were true: Jens Lekman was in actually in Denver last night. In fact, the Swedish crooner had been in the state for a good 24 hours (and had by all accounts never played here before, as his last show a few years ago was canceled due to inclimate…
There are a lot of things to love about the ’90s: Power Rangers, Cindy Crawford, Titanic, Beanie Babies, Win Ben Stein’s Money, Mr. Bean, Friends or that notorious low-speed chase involving a white van and a retired professional football player. The music, however, was the best part of the decade…
Once upon a time, long before Fez Garcia was the drummer for half the bands in Denver (or, at the moment, just Fingers of the Sun, Bury My Bones and Night of Joy), he was a goofy kid with glasses. When we put the call out earlier this week for…
The lineup for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase is pretty extensive. In fact, if you’re unprepared it can be overwhelming. With this notion in mind, we put ourselves through a practice run for Showcase and hit every show we could last night. From Funky Buddha, where the work-out started, to…
Sk8Bit was supposed to take place this weekend in Ft. Collins, but the event has been cancelled due to a series of unfortunate and mostly unrelated events. Event promoter Marty Kraham notes that he’s working to reschedule a date in August at Rollerland with the bulk of the local bands…
Trolling the web, we recently came across a series of videos featuring a juggalo named MrTmzfan. We can’t quite place the face, but it looks slightly familiar, like another mister so and so we know. Maybe it’s just the face paint. Anyhow, judging from the comments made by said juggalo…
It’s safe to say that we’ve got you covered on live music for the weekend, but in case you are looking to start the party early, we’ve got you there, too. The Westword Music Showcase is days — pfft…mere hours — away, and what better way to kick start the…
Apparently Hunter Dragon is the gift that keeps on giving. Hot off the heels of issuing How the Crow Flows Pt. 1, he’s dropped the second part of a planned three-EP series, aptly titled How the Crow Flows Pt. 2. You can stream or download the six songs now on…
As Gabriel & Dresden (throwing down tonight at Beta Nightclub with Kostas and Marshall Monica), Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden form the powerful union of DJ and producer. Creating trance and house-oriented remixes for big names like New Order, the Killers, Britney Spears and Madonna, the duo also finds the…
MUMFORD & SONS at the FILLMORE | 06.15.11″Mumford and his mates certainly did their best to show the crowd one of the greatest shows they have seen in recent memory.”…
YELLOWCARD at SUMMIT | 06.15.11″Key talked with the audience quite a bit between songs, like he was catching up old friends on the band’s life over the last few lost years.”…
Today is 2Pac’s birthday. Had the young MC lived to see this day, he would have been forty years old. It would take days of paragraphs to capture the impact ‘Pac had on society and music in general, particularly hip-hop. A poet, actor, ‘hood scholar and the mightiest thug, the…
Long Island pop-punk band Taking Back Sunday headlined a nearly sold out show last night at Summit, boasting its original line-up. Also on the bill were Thursday and Colour Revolt. All photos by Aaron Thackeray for Westword…
Although the ascension of Mumford & Sons (playing the first of two shows at the Fillmore Auditorium tonight with Nathaniel Rateliff & Fairchildren and Matthew and the Atlas) may seem rather fast, the English dudes have been making gorgeous folk rock together for almost five years. The act’s first and…
Yesterday, we wrangled up totally adorable photos (look at those fat cheeks! eeek!) of an assortment of musicians performing at Saturday’s Westword Music Showcase. We’ve got three pairs of tickets that we’re giving away to anyone who can correctly match the photos to the musicians — at least one of…
Just in time for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, Spoke In Wordz (due at La Rumba from 5:30 – 6 p.m.) has finally given us a gander at his brand new video. Directed by Eric Heights and shot on location in SoCal — we presume, unless the Mile High City…
Cannons will be joined by Glass Hits and Sleeping with In Gethesemene at Illegal Pete’s this Thursday, June 16 for a free show, and to celebrate the occasion, Cause Medic Ink dropped a lovely silkscreened flier off. The flier comes in a variety of colors to boot, which makes it…
Kreayshawn this. Snow Tha Product that. These two white girl rappers are the talk of the hip-hop town right now. Both women are challenging society-driven stereotypes. Kreayshawn, of course, is the hard-core, smoked-out princess with swag “oozing out her ovaries,” who was just signed by Columbia Records, and Snow Tha…
PETER GABRIEL at RED ROCKS | 06/13/11 The scope of Peter Gabriel’s set Monday night seemed entirely appropriate for the size and majesty of Red Rocks. Gabriel showed up in Morrison with a full orchestra and an elaborate set of visual effects, forgoing his usual art-rock approach for a sound…
