Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, who reunited last year for the first time since 2005 to start work on a new album, just announced a sixteen-date North American tour that stops at the Temple Buell Theatre on Sunday, August 19 and then wraps up on September 7…
Update 3/21/12: Cookie Monsta’s Ogden Theatre show has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 12. Zomboy is also on the bill. Another Ogden Theatre show change to alert you to: Cookie Monsta, originally slated to perform at the Ogden on Saturday, March 24, with J Rabbit, Dodger and Dirt Monkey has…
Norah Jones, who debuted songs from her forthcoming album at SXSW last week, kicks off her North American summer tour in June in Indianaplolis and wraps it up at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 23. Her Danger Mouse-produced album, Little Broken Hearts, hits stores on May 1 via Blue Note…
Kiss and Mötley Crüe. Wednesday, August 8, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, together on the same bill. Holy crap! The twelve-year-old me would no doubt being stroking out right now upon hearing this news. As it stands, the grown up version of me is pretty excited, too, truth be told. Tickets, which…
Update 3/20/12: Great news if you missed out on getting tickets to Bassnectar’s sold out show at Red Rocks on Saturday, June 2. Another date has been added on Friday, June 1! Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 23, at 10 a.m. Bassnectar at Red Rocks: Confirmed! At SnowBall…
Tyga, best known for his joint, “Rack City,” was supposed to rock the Ogden Theatre tonight, but we’ve just received word that the show has been postponed for a later date. No reason was given for the postponement, but earlier today, Vibe and a number of other news outlets reported…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Cypress Hill, the Fray, Kaskade and Mojo Nixon were announced; Lola Black, Fresh Breath Committee and the Autumn Film got spins on local radio; and recent albums from Bruce Springsteen, Andrew Bird,…
The impending arrival of spring signals the welcome return of festival season. One of the lineups we’ve waiting for has been revealed. Sonic Bloom founders have announced a handful of acts for the annual fest, slated to take place just outside of Georgetown from Thursday, June 21, through Sunday, June…
The Fray just confirmed another show at Red Rocks. Quincy Magoo probably could’ve seen that coming, eh? Even less surprising: The date of the second show is Saturday, May 12, the night after the first Red Rocks date — that is, assuming that Sir Isaac Slade isn’t mixing it up…
Def Leppard and Poison, who toured together in 2009, are back it again for a massive tour this summer that hits the Pepsi Center on Monday, June 25. Lita Ford will open the show. Reserved tickets ($29.50-$95) go on sale on Friday, March 16 at 10 a.m. through TicketHorse, at…
Kottonmouth Kings and Twiztid are teaming up for the Kaos & Kronik Tour, which starts next month in Kansas City and makes its way to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, May 15. Special guests Blaze and Big B open the show. Kottonmouth Kings are slated to drop their thirteenth studio…
Tyler Gilmore helped launch Dazzle Recordings while he was Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge’s music director, and since releasing the debut of his seventeen-piece jazz ensemble, Ninth & Lincoln, in late 2007, the label has gone on to put out a number of albums by local jazz artists. Gilmore is now…
Over the last year, three dueling-piano bars have closed, including Chez Cirque in Greenwood Village, Wild Ivories and, most recently, SingSing, which went dark at the end of last year. Howl at the Moon, which has more than a dozen locations across the country, will fill that dueling-piano void when…
Although no acts have been announced yet for the Vail Soul Music Fest, which runs Friday, August 17, through Sunday, August 19, at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, pre-sale tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. through TicketHorse. In the meantime, there’s more information at the festival’s website. Check…
Well, how about that? Another act fresh off its appearance at this year’s SnowBall Music Festival and another Westword Music Showcase alumni, is coming back to the Centennial State. We’ve just received word that BoomBox, an act that’s built up a sizable following in these parts, is slated to make…
While Butch Vig is probably best known for his work as a Grammy-winning producer who’s worked with the likes of Nirvana or, more recently, the Foo Fighters, he’s also a member of Garbage, an alt-rock act (and a rather decent one at that) that formed in the mid ’90s and…
Hope you have your dancing shoes. You’re going to need them for this pair of back-to-back shows at Red Rocks this summer. Fresh off their stint at this year’s edition of the SnowBall Music Festival, former Westword Music Showcase headliner, Ghostland Observatory and MiM0Sa are coming to Red Rocks Amphitheatre…
Although Jane’s Addiction has played New Year’s stints at Belly Up in Aspen over the last few years, it’s been close to three years since the band was in Denver (with Nine Inch Nails). Live Nation just announced that Jane’s will hit the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday, May 29, in…
The legendary B.B. King teams up with the Tedeschi Trucks Band for a night of blues at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 30. The 86-year-old King averages 125 concerts a year and has logged in more than 15,000 gigs over his six-decade long career. Meanwhile, the Tedeschi Trucks Band just…
Hold on to your hats: We’ve just received word that Jeff Mangum, the iconic mastermind of Neutral Milk Hotel, is coming to the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, April 26. Couple important things to note about this show, which we imagine sell out rather quickly: All tickets will be will-call only…
On the heels of her recent half-time spectacle at the Super Bowl comes word that nearly four years after her pair of back-to-back shows at the Pepsi Center in 2008, Madonna is returning to the Mile High City for another show on Thursday, October 18, at the Pepsi Center. Tickets…
On the heels of its Winter Carnival at 1STBANK Center this time last year, String Cheese Incident will be returning to Red Rocks this summer for a three night stand that kicks off on Thursday, July 5 and runs through Sunday, July 7. Presale tickets are on-sale through the band’s…
