Planet Bluegrass, the Lyons-based outfit that brings you the enormously popular Telluride Bluegrass and RockyGrass, which has already sold out, and Rocky Mtn Folks Festival, which is on its way to selling out, have announced plans to host Yonder Mountain String Band this coming August. The two-day Kinfolk Celebration is…
While Red Rocks and Comfort Dental Amphitheatre are both great spots for outdoor concerts during the summer, the Mishawaka Amphitheatre, which is about ten miles northwest of Ft. Collins in Poudre Canyon, also offers a great environment for seeing shows outside. While there’s still more shows to come, the Mish…
Umphrey’s McGee at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, September 14. Hot on the heels of its show at the Fillmore a few weeks ago, we’ve received word that the band will be returning to Colorado this fall for a pair of dates, the first a two-set show at Red Rocks…
Tenacious D at Red Rocks on Thursday, July 26. This is not opinion. This is fact. The dudes are back and touring in support of Rize of the Fenix, their new album and purportedly the greatest album of all time. This, apparently, is not opinion, either, but rather fact. The…
Just announced: Pretty Lights at Red Rocks for back-to-back shows on Friday, August 17, and Saturday, August 18. Hold on to your flat-bills, dance-music aficionados: Colorado will catch the final stops on an international trek that will take Pretty Lights (born Derek Vincent Smith) all over the globe, from Santiago,…
Starting off with The Guess Who on Sunday, June 3, and closing with Super Diamond on Sunday, August 26, the Hudson Gardens summer classic rock-centric concert series includes more than a dozen acts such as Mr. “Proud to Be An American,” Lee Greenwood, on July 3 and 4, Heart on…
Crosby, Stills and Nash returns to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 21. After wrapping up dates down under and in South America, the classic rock trio will be returning to Red Rocks this summer as part of its upcoming nationwide tour, which kicks off on June 7 in Philadelphia…
After touring South America and Japan, Aerosmith brings its Global Warming Tour to the States, starting in Minneapolis in June and stopping at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, August 1, with Cheap Trick opening the show. While tickets go on sale on to the public on Friday, March 31, pre-sale…
Canadian rapper Drake is hitting the road with J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana as part of his 27-city Club Paradise Tour, which stops at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Sunday, May 13. Drake’s latest effort, Take Care, released last November on Cash Money, has…
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…
