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The five best concerts in Colorado this week

There's some stellar music on tap this week to look forward to no matter your flavor. The week kicks off with an absolute bang this afternoon at the Summit Music Hall with Cannibal Corpse, which headlines the Summer Slaughter tour with Between the Buried & Me, Job for a Cowboy, Exhumed, Goatwhore an ... More >>

Morrissey, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube, Dinosaur Jr., Jackson Browne lead this week's shows

Denver's summer concert season is proving to be every bit as hot as anticipated, and the fall is shaping up to be just as heated with new dates from Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and E-40, who are due back in town at the end of August, followed by Rascal Flatts in September, Dinosaur Jr. in October and Morri ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, Shinedown, Godsmack, Steve Vai and Kimbra lead this week's shows

A fresh batch of new shows announced this week, including Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller at Red Rocks, the Head and the Heart and Blitzen Trapper at the Boulder Theater, Kimbra at the Ogden Theatre, Shinedown and Godsmack at Comfort Dental and Steve Vai at the Ogden. Page down for a full rundown plus lo ... More >>

Jane's Addiction, Swans, Aaron Freeman lead this week's shows

Things might be slowing down a bit with the bigger concert announcements, but there was still a fair amount of activity over the last week, including Jane's Addiction at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, Swans and Xiu Xiu at the Gothic Theatre, and Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) at both the ... More >>

Gotye, Silversun Pickups, 3OH!3, Matisyahu and Justin Bieber lead this week's shows

While the concert announcements have started tapering off a bit, there's still some big shows that have been announced, including Gotye's Red Rocks show in August, Channel 93.3's Big Gig in September featuring Silversun Pickups, 3OH!3, the Hives, the Wombats and others at Red Rocks. Also, Matisyahu ... More >>

Weekend's best live music bets: Fun., Gotye, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, SP Double and more

Welcome to the end of the work week! Unsurprisingly, your musical options are plentiful this weekend: Gotye packs the Ogden tonight for a sold-out show with Kimbra, Fun. is at the Fox Theatre, John Scofield returns to Colorado after the successful three night stand with Phil Lesh not too long ago, B ... More >>

The best national music releases of 2011

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

​Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, Mute Math is coming to the Gothic in January and Kid Rock's at the Fillmore in December. On local radio specialty shows, Crimson Red, ManCub, the Foot. and DeVotchKa all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our loca ... More >>

Review: Umphrey's McGee at Red Rocks, 7/3/11

UMPHREY'S MCGEE with Easy Star All-Stars and New Mastersounds​UMPHREY'S MCGEE at RED ROCKS | 7/3/11Fans began lining up for this show on the lower north staircase at 10 a.m. to prepare for the tarp run, a race to get the best spot and claim your place for the entirety of the concert. It was ma ... More >>

Michael Sempert of Birds & Batteries on Panorama and San Francisco

Su-Yin MahBirds & Batteries​ San Francisco's Birds & Batteries may be essentially a pop band, but the lushness of the act's songwriting and the ability to evoke and articulate complex emotions with poetry and intensity is a rare talent these days. The group's latest album, 2010's Panorama, li ... More >>

Soundgarden cheats its way to a Platinum release: Here are five more bands that could use the boost

​ Soundgarden was just certified Platinum for sales of its best-of album, Telephantasm (which, incidentally, has the worst cover art of the year, beating out Hurley by a long shot) generated in one day. On the surface, this sounds like one hell of an accomplishment, until you read the fine pr ... More >>

Vampire Weekend at Red Rocks Amphitheatre - 09.03.10

Aaron Thackeray​ Vampire Weekend Dum Dum Girls • Beach House 09.03.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre view full slide show Dum Dum Girls opened the show with a notable display of confidence and music reminiscent of Elastica with more of a '60s girl group vibe. The combination of chiming textures ... More >>

Justify My Love: Submitting to a Vampire Weekend obsession

Catch Vampire Weekend tonight at Red Rocks with Beach House and the Dum Dum Girls​Okay we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig -- be it music, movies or television shows -- that we'd just as soon that nobody else knew about. Guilty pleasures is what most people term these sort of ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival: Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki on the act's first big tour in Colorado

Duane Rieder​ When Rusted Root formed in Pittsburgh in 1990, it made a world-beat influenced splash with a series of releases throughout the decade. During this creative period, the band released its most commercially successful song, "Send Me On My Way." The tune, which has been used on soun ... More >>

Pirates, Trekkies and meat: Judging the Colorado Rogues' annual chili cook-off

Chris ConnerA sexy Trekkie walks by the judges' table at the fourth annual chili cookoff of The Colorado Rogues -- a local pirate reenactment group -- at EZ Pickins' on Saturday.​The first e-mail -- from Melissa Cournoyer a.k.a. Daphne TartNSweet, First Mate of The Nautilus, Colorado Rogues -- ... More >>

Q&A with Annie Clark of St. Vincent

​Performing as St. Vincent, Annie Clark is a writer of lush, adventurous pop music. As a teenager she was the tour manager for her uncle's band, Tuck & Patti, where she learned not only a great deal about the music business but also a bit about musicianship and effective performance. In her ... More >>

Last Night: Tori Amos at the Paramount

Aaron ThackerayTori Amos and eskimOTuesday, July 21, 2009Paramount TheatreBetter Than: The last time I saw Tori Amos at Red Rocks in 1998.London-based One eskimO opened the show, and at first, I was concerned it might be one of those bands favored by modern rock stations that border on the adult con ... More >>

Ours, Plane Jane Automobile and Yerkish at Toad Tavern

Photo: Jon SolomonOurs, Plane Jane Automobile and YerkishFriday, November 28, 2008 Toad TavernI was floored the first time I saw Ours at the Walnut Room nearly two years ago. I was fully drawn into the band's performance and awestruck by singer's Jimmy Gnecco's vocal delivery, especially his soaring ... More >>

Rodrigo y Gabriela Prove Their Metal

Weaned on Metallica, this duo makes acoustic guitars sound heavy.

Beyond Playlist: The Pinker Tones and More

Yeasayer

End of days? Why not dance the night away?

Vampire Weekend

Most bands would kill for the buzz surrounding this NYC quartet.

(Almost) Last Night's Show: KTCL's Big Gig @ Coors Amphitheatre

Sgt. Pepper on Trial

DIY Guy

Joseph Arthur wants to write his own legend.

Easy Rider

Two guys, a girl and a La-Z-Boy make a refreshingly honest road movie.

Sound and Vision

When TV on the Radio is broadcasting, don't touch that dial.

For the Record

For national releases, 2003 wonked as much as it rocked.

The Young Girl and the Sea

In Whale Rider, a Maori confronts her heritage and destiny.

Pet Shop Boys

Disco 3 (Sanctuary)
Erasure
Other People’s Songs (Mute)

Twin Peeks

Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski get into the sister act.

You Must Remember This

Holy smokes! Only those with burning ambition will survive the 2002 Year in Review quiz.

Perfect Truth

Cee-Lo breaks from the Mob in a solo quest to save hip-hop.

Exploring the Future

Veteran jazz player Herbie Hancock searches for new frontiers.

Spanish Magic

Mexico's most popular rock-en-español band, Jaguares, couldn't care less about livin' la vida loca.

Bumpa Crop

From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

Self-Portrait

As Badly Drawn Boy, Damon Gough colors outside the lines.

Perpetual Movement

Not content to simply milk his invention, trance-music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound.

Critic's Choice

Jacques Higelin

Sweet Dreams

Love and loss haunt Waking the Dead.

Judgment Day

Backbeat contributors offer up their favorite recordings of 1999.

Letters

The Final Frontier

Denver's Space Team Electra takes its music to new places.

Playlist

Feedback

The Rebirth of Emmylou Harris

The vocalist reinvents herself on a new album.

KC (& THE SUNSHINE BAND) AT THE BAT

THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING AT COORS FIELD.

THE VH1-ING OF AMERICAN MUSIC

HOW THE CABLE CHANNEL IS RETURNING US TO THE BORING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR.

PLAYLIST

CRIMSON TIDE

THIS YEAR'S MODEL OF KING CRIMSON IS A BLAST FROM THE PAST--AND THE FUTURE.