The initial acts for this year’s CMKY festival have been announced. The fifth annual edition of the festival is slated to kick off with a performance by Laurie Anderson on Wednesday, April 25, at the Boulder Theater, and will run through Sunday, April 29, at various venues across Boulder, which…
Next Friday, January 20, Oak Tavern is launching All Access Fridays, a new weekly live music series in which bands will be filmed for PBS/Free Speech TV’s show 303 All Access. The show will focus on up-and-coming rock, reggae, hip-hop, alt-rock and acoustic acts, who will each be interviewed and…
By early June, Denver will long be in the rearview for the Black Keys dudes, who’ll play here on Monday, April 30. Too bad. It would’ve been sweet-ass sweet to witness a good old-fashioned battle royale for ultimate supremacy between them and the Nickelback dudes to settle this whole “rock…
Well, this should be nothing short of amazing: If you haven’t heard, on Saturday, March 24, Wovenhand, led by the masterful David Eugene Edwards, is sharing a bill with Michael Gira at the Oriental Theater. Every time the former 16 Horsepower frontman plays, it’s a completely noteworthy occasion, but with…
While earlier rumors of DJ Z-Trip being in town at the end of January proved to be just that, it turns out that he will be in town this month after all — just not at Red Rocks. Instead, he’ll be performing at City Hall for the final night of…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from Van Halen, the Black Keys and Snow Patrol were announced; ManCub, Fingers of the Sun, Places and J.Carey got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys and Young Jeezy…
Music Bar, a Denver landmark of sorts that opened in 1937, has closed. Jeffery Laws, of Universal Lending Corporation, says the owner of the bar for the past nine years didn’t renew the lease. Renowned for its karaoke nights, which earned a Best of Denver nod last year, Music Bar…
We’ve just received word that the Black Keys, on the heels of their highly enjoyable new record, El Camino (we seriously can’t pry it from our playlist), are coming to the 1STBANK Center on Monday, April 30, with the Arctic Monkeys. Tickets ($55.00-$59.50, plus service fees) for the show, which…
It’s that time again: time to start making your festival plans for the coming year. Specifically, Burning Man, as tickets for the largest desert gathering since Moses led people to the Promised Land go on sale in about an hour (11 a.m. local time, to be exact). The festival, which…
Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It’s really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It’s confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear…
Oh, man! Maybe the Mayans are right after all, and we really are doomed. Here we are, a mere four days into the New Year, and already we have the first sign of the pending apocalypse: We’ve just learned that on Saturday, May 19, Creed is coming to the Paramount…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from the Ting Tings and Wale were announced; Dressy Bessy, Oh Starling and John Common got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys, Young Jeezy and Sunn 0))) were among…
Long in development, the Miles Davis feature film that Don Cheadle plans to star in and direct has a studio offer, the actor said in interview with the Wall Street Journal that was published today. Cheadle, who graduated from East High School, says in the interview that “the movie isn’t…
Denver’s all vocal hip-hop group Urban Method, who made it to the final three on NBC’s The Sing-Off, and Boulder-based all vocal rock band FACE, who was on the show in 2009, team up for a night of a cappella at the Paramount on Saturday, February 25. Tickets ($15/$25) are…
Last July, Austin-based singer-songwriter Darden Smith gathered a team of other professional musicians to lead a songwriting retreat for nine servicemen and women. Songs written during the retreat were performed at the Faces of Freedom concert on September 11 at the World Arena in Colorado Springs. As a follow-up to…
A few years ago, Slim Cessna made CDs of old cassette recordings and sold them to help make ends meet. Now he’s offering those two volumes of rare recordings again, but as download only. Some of the cuts date back to the ’80s, some include his brother Whiff, some were…
Over the last decade, the space that was once Regas Christou’s Deadbeat Club at 4040 East Evans Avenue has changed names and concepts a number of times. The same folks who owned the club as it changed its name from Skin to Posh Ultra Lounge and then to Club Next,…
Although James Cooley, who releases albums under the Mesita moniker, doesn’t really play shows, he’s written a few hundred songs, some of which ended up on his latest effort, the outstanding Here’s to Nowhere. Cooley is currently working a new album, The Coyote, which he says “will have a lot…
Memphis-based alt-country act Lucero is hitting the road in February in support of Women & Work, the band’s forthcoming album, slated for release next spring on ATO, and will stop at the Bluebird Theater for a two-night stand on Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31. Tickets ($25) go on…
After 35 years with Warner Bros., Van Halen signed a deal with Interscope last month, and rumors spread that the band — with David Lee Roth back on board — had a new album nearly in the can and a tour in the works. Now one of those rumors can…
The Westword office is closed until Tuesday, December 27, and the blogs will be taking a break until then (although we’ll post some party/concert slide shows over the weekend). If you’re looking for fun over the holidays, our online calendar lists hundreds of entertaining options around town. And if you’re…
Going strong for nearly four decades, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival just announced that Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio, Punch Brothers, Peter Rowan and the Del McCoury Band are among the preliminary…
