Tonight at City O’ City, beloved local songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff will be playing a handful of songs as part of KGNU’s annual fall fund drive. The event begins at 10 p.m. and will be broadcast live on KGNU (88.5 FM & 1390 AM). Rateliff will be performing a handful of…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, December shows by Beats Antique and Pretty Lights were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Veronica, Vices I Admire, INCA and Hazel Miller all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores, new and…
While we know you’re still busy trying to nail down what you’re doing for Halloween and you probably haven’t even really given much thought to where you’ll be celebrating New Year’s yet, we’ve just received word that Pretty Lights is setting up shop at 1STBANK Center for a pair of…
Belly dancing, heavy drums, performance artists and live music create the environment surrounding Beats Antique, who we’ve just learned will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, December 3. Talk about making moves: Around this time last year, the act was opening for the Glitch Mob on Halloween, but this…
While the Grizzly Rose has been bringing in country acts since the 1989, the venue has had a lot of success bringing in ’80s-centric rock bands like Dokken and Brett Michaels. So it makes sense that the same folks behind the Grizzly Rose plan to open their own rock club…
If we know you (and let’s face it — we know you well, probably better than your mom), your plans for Halloween have already begun to take shape. Yes? Well, before you move that entry from pencil to ink on your calendar, there are a few more enticing options to…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, a show at the Paramount Theatre featuring Puscifer was announced, along with a Kulwicki Twins Foundation benefit at the Bluebird Theater in January being headlined by Mudhoney and The Fluid. On local radio specialty shows,…
Bring Me the Horizon’s show this weekend, originally scheduled for the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, October 2, has been moved to the Summit Music Hall. Tickets for the all-ages show, which also features Parkway Drive, Architects (UK), Deez Nuts and On Broken Wings, are still available ($25) and tix for…
Tomorrow night was supposed to mark the release the CD release party of Author Unknown, the new outfit featuring Mark Sundermeier, at the Toad Tavern. The show has now turned into a benefit for Sundermeier, who was involved in a major car accident a few weeks ago. The former Trampolines…
Good news for those of you who miss Indie 101.5: John “Whip” Wilbur, the station’s morning show host and music director, and Lipgloss co-founder Tyler Jacobson have announced plans to launch a new Internet-based indie radio station in Denver, Post 303…
Guns N’ Roses, who announced last week that it would be coming to Denver (but no venue or date has been confirmed yet), is among the fifteen acts nominated, along with the Cure, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Freddie King, Donovan, Erik B & Rakim and Red Hot Chili Peppers, for…
Since the Oriental Theater had to close this week for repairs after a chunk of its ceiling fell on the stage last Friday, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose latest ensemble melds jazz, electronic and Indian music, will be playing at Quixote’s True Blue instead on Friday, September 30. The show still…
Each time Cut Copy has come through town over the last few years, the Australian indie electronic group has played a bigger venue as its popularity grew, moving up from the Larimer Lounge in 2008 to the Bluebird in 2009 to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, October 4. After the…
Last June, Colorado Public Radio announced plans to convert 1340 AM, an all-news station, to a new music station, and now CPR plans to roll out a new station, Open Air, on Monday, October 31. “Open Air is a natural extension of CPR’s mission to offer an in-depth exploration of…
Rapper Game hits the the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 2 and the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 3 as part of R.E.D. Tour in support of his fourth album,The R.E.D. Album, which came out in August on Interscope/DGC after almost two years of delays. Game was a recent cover-story…
Every week, in an effort to pay tribute to those dedicated to the time tested way of promoting shows by hanging up posters, we make our way around the Mile High City to take a gander at all the eye candy affixed to light posts and such. Here are the…
After a long run throughout the mid-’80s and ’90s, Jux County called it quits in 2001, but over the last decade the band has gone on to do a few reunion shows, including last year’s Farmfest, which benefits Urban Farm, an urban garden that promotes sustainable communities. Jux County is…
In 2006, Diego Ramos started shooting a web-based documentary on the Colorado music scene, but he says it was a little ahead of its time. So last summer, Ramos, who’s worked as director of photography on the Discovery Channel’s Disappeared, started filming other local acts for another project titled Music…
DeVotchKa’s music has been used in films like Little Miss Sunshine, and frontman Nick Urata has also been involved in scoring a number of films, including 2009’s I Love You Phillip Morris. The band’s cinematic and sprawling music lends itself quite well to visuals so it’s not surprising Volkswagen used…
The folks at Moe’s Original BBQ just announced that San Diego-based surf rock act Wavves, who’s on the road in support of its latest effort, Life Sux, will be at the venue on Thursday, October 6…
Although Soul Asylum was originally slated perform at the finish line of the Sports Authority Rock ‘n Roll Denver Marathon on Sunday, October 9, the band won’t be able to make it due to scheduling conflicts. Smash Mouth is stepping in to fill the headlining slot for the marathon, which…
Next month, Guns N’ Roses will kick off its first U.S. tour in five years, but there are still more than a dozen cities on the band’s tour itinerary, which the band released yesterday, that have yet to have dates or venues set, including Denver. While the tour, which starts…
