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2011 Stories by Jon Solomon

• Review: Slim Cessna's Auto Club at the Bluebird Theater, 12/30/11

  published Dec 31, 2011

  Slim Cessna's Auto Club @ Bluebird Theater | 12/30/11 For the past decade, Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been playing the Bluebird on New Year's Eve and the night before. As Slim himself says, it jus... More >>

• Don Cheadle has studio offer for Miles Davis film

  published Dec 30, 2011

  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. Ch... More >>

• Red Rocks tribute shows announced: John Denver, ABBA, The Beatles and Pink Floyd

  published Dec 30, 2011

  While there have been a few Red Rocks show announced for next summer, including Foster the People (July 3) and Big Head Todd & the Monsters (June 7), a few tribute shows have also been added to the su... More >>

• Ticketfly launches app to buy tickets within Facebook

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Since Ticketfly straddles both the ticketing and social marketing worlds, it makes perfect since for the company to introduce its Facebook Purchase App, which allows people to purchase tickets within ... More >>

• Slim Cessna on the Auto Club's annual New Year's Bluebird shows and its 20th anniversary

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Together for nearly two decades, Slim Cessna's Auto Club has played the Bluebird Theater on New Year's Eve for almost half the time the band has been together. The New Year's shows have turned into so... More >>

• Swallow Hill Music expands its Core Programs

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Swallow Hill's Julie Davis School of Music, which starts 2012 classes on January 3, is expanding its Core Programs, something that was previously only used in the Core Guitar Program. The teaching sty... More >>

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  Chit Chat reunion at hi-dive tonight

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Voted best club night by Westword in 2007, Chit Chat's weekly soul night at Old Curtis St. was essentially the city's best house party. Headed up Jason Heller and Big Al, the two took turns spinning '... More >>

• Urban Method and FACE coming to the Paramount Theatre

  published Dec 29, 2011

  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 ... More >>

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  New Year's Eve in Denver: live music tip sheet

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Correction: Bop Skizzum performs at Moe's BBQ & Bowling on New Year's Eve. An earlier version of this story included an incorrect venue. While there's plenty of action in the clubs over New Year's we... More >>

• Songwriting Camp for Veterans in Colorado Springs next month

  published Dec 28, 2011

  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 wer... More >>

• Slim Cessna's rare recordings now available to download

  published Dec 28, 2011

  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 c... More >>

• Club Coyote moves into Deadbeat Club space

  published Dec 28, 2011

  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... More >>

• Mesita working on new album, due next spring

  published Dec 28, 2011

  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... More >>

• Lucero playing two nights at the Bluebird

  published Dec 27, 2011

  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 Thea... More >>

• Chain Gang of 1974 on World Cafe

  published Dec 27, 2011

  While Kamtin Mohager started performing under the moniker of Chain Gang of 1974 in Denver about five years ago, he's been living in Los Angeles for close to a year now. As he tells David Dye in a rece... More >>

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  Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from T-Pain and David Grisman Bluegrass Experience at the Ogden Theatre were announced; Bop Skizzum, Overcast... More >>

• Van Halen announces tour with David Lee Roth

  published Dec 27, 2011

  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 to... More >>

• Bar Back looks at the year in club scouting

  published December 29, 2011

  A number of new venues opened in 2011, while others changed hands. Here's a look back through a year's worth of club scouting: After a... More >>

• Telluride Bluegrass Festival announces preliminary line-up

  published Dec 22, 2011

  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 ... More >>

• Lenny Kravitz at the Buell Theatre February 10

  published Dec 22, 2011

  After selling out stadiums and arenas in South America and Europe over the past few months, Lenny Kravitz will kick off his first American tour in five years in January. That tour includes a stop at t... More >>

• T-Pain coming to the Ogden Theatre

  published Dec 22, 2011

  An extensive user of Auto-Tune, T-Pain helped bring the pitch correction software to the masses with his iPhone app, I Am T-Pain. He doesn't skimp on the Auto-Tone on his latest effort, Revolver, whic... More >>

• Oh, Starling releases holiday EP

  published Dec 22, 2011

  As a follow-up to last year's Joy EP, Oh, Starling, the husband-and-wife duo of singer-songwriters Jessica Sonner and Dan Craig, released another five-song holiday EP, Noel. The duo takes holiday stan... More >>

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  Eight great Denver bars that opened in 2011

  published December 22, 2011

  Even though the economy continued to bump along this past year, people are still drinking more than ever — maybe because of the lousy... More >>

• Cherry dance parlor now open in Cherry Creek

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Michael Olsen, who also owns Wicked Garden (1403 Larimer Street), opened Cherry (231 Milwaukee Street) to the public last weekend in the former space that was once home to Bar Luxe, the Milwaukee Gril... More >>

• The Flaming Lips returning to Aspen, collaborate with Yoko Ono

  published Dec 15, 2011

  While it's cool seeing in the Flaming Lips in larger venues like Red Rocks that hold around 9,500 people, it's whole other experience seeing them at an intimate spot like the Belly Up Aspen, which hol... More >>