Shawn Colvin joins Hot Rize and Leo Kottke at the RootsFest. Not too much shaking this week with concert announcements, but there's good news for acoustic and bluegrass fans: tickets for Swallow Hill's RootsFest (known as the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival for the past two years) concert on March 28, 2009 at the Ellie Caulkins go on sale Monday, December 1.Tickets run $55-$125 plus tax. Here's a rundown of the other shows going on sale this weekend, or recently announced. For ticke
Photo: Lucia De Giovanni
Last night, I had the honor and privilege of guest deejaying at Matt
Fecher's New Music Mondays at the Larimer Lounge, playing music from my
collection next to the incandescent DJ Ginger and firestarter DJ Hot to
Death. Ginger played a couple of body-rocking sets, including
some frightening mash-ups, and Fecher, aka Hot to Death, unveiled some new remixes that
blew the roof off. While I only rocked the iTunes (and a few pre-mixed
sets that I put together ahead of time),
Photo: Claudia LopezI deejayed a Valentine's Day party at the Horseshoe Lounge on Saturday. The bar had a great vibe, as always, and the ample crowd was in the mood for a good party. It was the first time I ever had to play music for four and a half straight hours, and I was initially worried that I would: a) run out of songs I wanted to play, or b) not have the right music to keep the party going. I underestimated both the strength of my music collection and the self-sustaining power of a party
The Jonas Brothers will stop at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, June 24 as part of the trio's 44-city North American leg of its world tour. The Offspring, Alkaline Trio, the Vandals, Street Dogs and Frontside Five, meanwhile, hit Red Rocks on Thursday, May 28 as part of Punk Rocks 2009, while 311 and Ziggy Marley visit the Rocks on Friday, June 12. As reported last week, Phish announced a four dates at Red Rocks, which go on sale this Thursday, March 26 at noon. Tech N9ne's Boulder Theater show s
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.
Welcome to our latest feature: Hey, DJ! Every Friday starting today, we'll be spotlighting the hottest, ahem, cats (see what we did there) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them half cocked and ask them to play that new song by such and such -- you know, the one that goes... This week's subject: DJ
Billy Joel and Elton John, both legendary pop singers and pianists, have been on their Face 2 Face tour since March will visit the Pepsi Center Sunday, November 22. After opening the show with a series of duets, each playing pianos and trading vocals, Joel and John will play sets with their own bands and then perform together again with their supporting musicians for a grand finale. Reserved tickets, which are $55 to $181, go on sale Saturday, October 24 at 10 a.m. and are available at all Ti
