Mile High Music Festival

Dave Matthews Band due at Dick's Sporting Goods Park this summer at the end of August

If you're fond of the Dave Matthews Band, you'll want to bust out your Sharpie and circle Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24 on your calendar. That's when Mr. Matthews and company are slated to make their return to Colorado, or more specifically to Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival not happening

​In case you've noticed that the Mile High Music Festival hasn't announced its lineup yet for this year and you've wondered why -- first of all, congratulations on being astute, but secondly, the lineup hasn't been revealed because, well, there is no lineup this year. There is no festival. Aft ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival: Matt Morris performing "Money" in Toyota Free Yr Radio Tent

Another Mile High Music Festival is in the books. Weather was ideal, parking was a breeze and there were plenty of memorable moments at this year's fest, from Rivers Cuomo wandering through the crowd during Weezer's set to Z-Trip throwing down a Colorado-centric version of "California Love" to Cyp ... More >>

Broncos cheerleaders partying tops our weekend slideshows

They're pro-Tim Tebow.​Westword is on top of cheerleading, so to speak. Not only do we bring you a sneak preview of the 2011 Broncos cheerleaders calendar, but we've got lots of candid launch party photos by Coleen Whitfield. Also new: the best Mile High Music Festival performers, plus a show ... More >>

Photos: Joe Purdy, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, The Epilogues, Sure Shot at Mile High Music Festival, day two

We're live here at Mile High Music Festival at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on day two of the third-annual music festival. Photographer Brian Landis Folkins brings back these photos from the early sets of the day. So if you got here late, check out what you missed. Sure Shot opens the day at Beta Bea ... More >>

Smoothed out: Mile High Music Festival eases into its first day with the Motet, Houses

Brian Landis FolkinsThe Motet​The Motet, noon on the Wolf Stage Two years of experience can make a difference. The organizers of the Mile High Music Festival seem to have learned from the mistakes of years' past for the 2010 version of the mega fest. Arriving at the massive soccer complex at ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival, Day One: Manufactured Superstars, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Andrew Wickes, One Eskimo

A go-go dancer for Manufactured Superstars​Arriving at 1 p.m., I headed for Beta Beach after orienting myself. The Manufactured Superstars were throwing down their trademark dirty disco funk, and the misting tunnels and inflatable sculpture and furniture were keeping everyone as cool as possib ... More >>

Phoenix packs 'em into the Bison Tent at Mile High Music Festival

Aaron ThackerayPhoenix in the Bison Tent on Saturday at Mile High Music Festival.​The crowd didn't seem to mind Phoenix's simple and straight-ahead approach during its 6:45 p.m. set in the Bison Tent at Mile High Music Festival. The Paris-based band have built a loyal commercial following in ... More >>

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Win tickets to this weekend's Mile High Music Festival!

​Update: We have a winner. Congratulations to Melissa Taylor! She and a guest will be our guests at Mile High Music Festival this weekend. Check the blog later today. While we don't have any more tickets to the fest itself, we will have plenty of tickets up for grabs to the preparty on Friday ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival: Ozomatli on activism and working under the Bush administration

​ This is distinctly American music. Working with a lineup that's fluctuated between six and ten and has included members of Jurassic 5, Ozomatli has for some fifteen years been blending Latin rhythms and hip-hop influences for a sound that's as big as it is varied and multicultural. The U.S. ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival: Come for the music, stay for the attractions/ammenities

​All right, so if for some reason, you're crabby about the line-up for this year's Mile High Music Festival -- which, you know what, say what you will about DMB and Jack Johnson; love 'em or loathe 'em, you can't deny there's some serious gems on the undercard (um, hello, Weezer? Phoenix? My M ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Schedule Announced

​Less than a month left until this year's Mile High Music Festival. Figured out your itinerary yet? We have. Well, sorta. My Morning Jacket, Weezer, Phoenix, Drive-By Truckers, Ozomatli, Damian Marley & Nas are on our shortlist so far. The full schedule was just released a few moments ago, and ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival single day tickets on sale today

​Got your tickets to Mile High Music Festival yet? No? It's a month away -- what are you waiting for? Ah, you have to work on Sunday, and you can't afford a two-day pass? Good thing you waited. Starting today at 10 a.m., you can purchase single day advance tickets for $99.50 (or pick up sing ... More >>

Epilogues earn slot to perform at this year's Mile High Music Festival

Andy Mellen​Great news for The Epilogues: Not only did they win a Westword Music Showcase award last night, but we've tallied the votes and they've also earned a slot at this year's Mile High Music Festival. The outfit is slated to play on Sunday, August 15. Congrats, gentlemen!

Single-day tickets available for the Mile High Music Festival for a limited time

So we just received word that single-day tickets to the Mile High Music Festival will be available for purchase this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and will be on sale through Monday, May 31 at 6 p.m. There's only one way to get your hands on them, however, and that's by becoming a KBCO interactive m ... More >>

This Just In: Vans Warped Tour, Rihanna, Broken Bells shows announced

Pennywise is one of the many bands at this year's Vans Warped Tour​While the Mile High Music Festival was announced yesterday, the Vans Warped Tour is also coming to town. Alkaline Trio, Andrew W.K., Bring Me the Horizon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Reel Big Fish, Anti-Flag, Face ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival 2010 lineup to be announced on Monday morning

With no Rothbury this year and the 1st Bank Center renovations behind them, looks like Chuck Morris and his AEG live crew have more time to devote their full attention towards the Mile High Music Festival. Given the noticeable improvements in terms of amenities from the inaugural fest in 2008 -- ... More >>

The 10 most popular concert reviews of 2009

​It's about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we're taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most popular concert reviews from the Backbeat blog.

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of August 3, 2009

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 al ... More >>

3OH!3 on America's Top 40 with Seacrest

 When 3OH!3 formed, we'll bet that that they never imagined they'd a) have the number one song in the country, and b) that they'd be leaving Ryan Seacrest a voice mail that he would then play across this great land on his weekly Americas Top 40 show. But that's exactly where the dudes find the ... More >>

Top Five Mile High Music Fest Artists I Kinda Want to Lick

Aaron Thackeray3OH!3's Sean Foreman won't trust a ho, but that doesn't mean they can't lust after him. The author is a Denver-based music junkie and quasi-music writer of the female variety, and not she's afraid to admit that she sometimes wants to make out with the bands she writes about. This ye ... More >>

The very sexy dance of a very sexy performer

Brian Landis Folkins The highlight of the Mile High Music Fest -- at least for the guy who was stuck in the media tent uploading photos and reviews -- had to be the moment when photographer Brian Landis Folkins returned to the tent armed with photos from the early-Sunday performance of honeyhoney, ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Mile High Music Fest

Aaron Thackeray For us, and for thousands who joined us, the weekend was dominated by the Mile High Music Fest -- two days of sun-drenched music, booze, vibing and dancing, of friendships struck with both the music and fellow fan, of shit-kicking drummers and dreamy frontmen and women. Experience ... More >>

Relive the Mile High Music Fest on YouTube

Joe Tone If you missed the Mile High Music Fest -- and I did too, thanks to a wedding that was occurring simultaneously -- or if you were there, but were just so trashed your memories are hazy, you can relive it in glorious lo-fi, shaky-cam glory on YouTube. A quick search for "Mile High Music Fes ... More >>

Mile High Music Fest Day One: The fans

Aaron Thackeray See photos of the fans who woo-hooed their way around Day One of the Mile High Music Fest at westword.com/slideshow.

Mile High Music Fest: Our coverage will be tornado-like, and this is your warning

As you've likely surmised, the Mile High Music Festival is this weekend. We'll be there, sweating and shooting and watching and writing, and posting it all to this little blog and this little twitter feed. So check in for the latest news, reviews, photos, whatever, and check back Monday for more ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: Jet

Jet is eager to get back onto the road. More than two years after the release of the Aussie rock outfit's last album, Shine On, the band will be stopping for a slot at the Mile High Music Festival before continuing on a world tour to promote the August release of their new full-length, Shaka Rock. J ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: Davy Knowles

In an industry littered with tween pop stars and Disney Channel minions, it's refreshing to come across an artist whose work isn't a medley of foot-tapping drivel swathed with AutoTune. Equipped with awe-inducing guitar skills and a hauntingly intense wail, 22-year-old Davy Knowles is quickly making ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: Incubus

Incubus was three-fifths of the way formed back in high school in California twenty years ago. Safe to say the band had no idea how popular its music would be - the group has three platinum albums in the US, and two of those went platinum twice. Born in the alternative boom of the early '90s, Inc ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: The Duke Spirit

Steve GullickForming in London in 2003, the Duke Spirit has evolved a sound that brings together elements of garage rock, soul, the blues and swirly, noisy atmospheric rock. Rather than sounding like's trying to do too many things at once, act's music sounds rich with textures and emotional landscap ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: Pepper

Averaging 200 shows every year for the past eight years, the members of Pepper have earned a reputation for being as dedicated as they are hedonistic.  With five full-length albums under their belt and the development of their own record label, the Hawaiian-bred members have demonstrated an int ... More >>

Mile High Music Fest: Who to watch and what to watch out for

Spin weighs in with must-hear acts at the Mile High Music Festival

The Duke Spirit made Spin's top five must-hear listLooks like we're not the only ones psyched for this weekend's Mile High Music Festival. This afternoon, the folks at Spin.com weighed in with their top five must-hear bands. As it turns out, their picks mirrored  ours: Tool (natch), Duke Spirit ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 14 edition

Photo by David BarberJohn Baxter and Matty Clark play skins and skins. In the flesh. Today in Backbeat Online: • Westword Music Showcase Awards Wrap Up. • Q&A with Asher Roth. • Deejay Diabolic competing to spin at Lollapalooza. • Fake Problems cancels Larimer Lounge date. • Tickle Me Pi ... More >>

Mile High Music Fest unveils map and schedule

Soren McCartyYesterday, Mile High Music Festival officials released schedule for this year's two-day concert event on the grounds of Dick's Sporting Goods Park. From the looks of it, there's been some substantial changes from last year, the most notable being the addition of another main stage on th ... More >>

Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3

3OH!3 has officially achieved ubiquity. The duo performed live yesterday on MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung. The guys are featured among people.com's hottest bachelors. Oh, and in actual music news, "Don't Trust Me" has reached the number five spot on Billboard's top 40 chart. As the B ... More >>

Westword exclusive: The Fray's not-so-secret dress rehearsals -- in pictures

Rod BlackhurstBy now you may have heard about the Fray's "dress rehearsal," as it's being called, this weekend. The band has been running through its live show all week at Broomfield Events Center in preparation for its summer tour, which kicks off next Friday in Atlanta. The week's worth of rehears ... More >>

From Mile High to Monolith, breaking down Denver's summer music fests

The Mile High Music Fest returns to Dick's with Tool, Widespread Panic and the Fray. With so many music festivals to fill up your summer and drain your pocketbook, we put together a handy rundown of Denver's fests, in order of their appearance on your calendar. Which are you looking most forward to ... More >>

The Fray to perform at Mile High Music Festival

Those on the Fray's mailing list may have noticed that Denver was conspicuously missing from the act's exhaustive list of upcoming tour dates this summer. Rumor had it this was due to the fact that the band was going to be performing at the Mile High Music Fest. Well, that rumor has now been confir ... More >>

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