“Everyone always thinks I’m the one that did this, but I’m not,” Steve “Faceman” says about his latest mastermind, “Faceman’s 100 Year Storm,” a two-day festival taking place this weekend at the Oriental Theatre during which 100 bands will perform twenty-minute sets. “Everyone can come up with an idea, but if other people don’t put their hearts in it as well, nothing comes of it. I’m always fearful that it’s a selfish endeavor.”

Few bands can point to one event or festival as a catalyst and jumping-off point for its success. For Massachusetts’s Darlingside, however, much of the group’s recent success can be traced back to the Westin Hotel in Kansas City, where last year’s Folk Alliance Festival was held.

Charleston, South Carolina duo Shovels & Rope, which plays the Ogden Theatre on Friday, November 18, and Saturday, November 19, know that some seeds are worth watering, allowing them to grow and bloom — while others are best left in the cold, dark ground.

Chuck Coffey has more Denver music pedigree on his own than a lot of bands combined. Starting Not Bad Records in 1997, Coffey helped numerous Denver bands put out albums and gain much needed exposure, all while playing in notable Denver bands like Eyes and Ears, Big Timber, Contender and countless others. These days, Coffey continues to help out bands from all over the world on his Snappy Little Numbers imprint and is set to put out his first full-length with his current band SPELLS.

Interview with country-folk singer-songwriter Amanda Shires.

When you hear Dan Andriano’s impeccable tone and original vocal quality, you feel like he’s been groomed to be a lead singer from the start. Yet Andriano, who released his second solo record, Party Adjacent, under the name Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room, started with Alkaline Trio as more of a musical…

When people ask me what clubs I usually play in Denver, chances are I mention at least one spot on South Broadway. I first played the hi-dive in my early twenties with a broken foot and on crutches, the result of a drunken walk home on an icy night. I…

Ned Garthe Explosion’s highly experimental music, and the artistic concepts surrounding it, began with a realization that the cops weren’t paying attention, which allowed the bandmembers to get away with whatever they wanted. “Stuart [Confer] and I used to live in this house by Fort Logan mental hospital,” guitarist and…

Denver residents have been lucky to witness firsthand the power and energy of a rising “new soul” band in the form of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Across the country, acts like Leon Bridges, JD McPherson, and St. Paul and the Broken Bones are bringing the storied style of…

To hear him tell it, Jason Isbell’s recent musical success after years of relative obscurity is not the result of shifting industry trends or timing, but of his finally learning to be patient and content, and discovering how to treat himself and those around him. “When I was younger, I…

Despite a ticket that boasted “rain or shine,” Tuesday night’s Korn and Rob Zombie co-headlining show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater was delayed considerably due to inclement weather. Just as opening band,  In This Moment, were set to take the stage, the amphitheater was evacuated and concert-goers were told to take…

Although Denver is often cited as a center for Gothic Americana, EDM and jam bands, it has also long been a hub for another rich and diverse tradition: Chicano music. Through his work with the Chicano Music Festival and the Chicano Music Hall of Fame, Su Teatro executive artistic director…

If you put together all of the contributing members of Denver’s newest bar, you would have a pretty amazing band. Matty Clark and Josh Terry, owners of the hi-dive, as well as talent buyer Curtis Wallach are collaborating with fellow musicians Nathaniel Rateliff, Pat Meese and Luke Mossman of Nathaniel…

Pop-punk — though a divisive term, depending on who you talk to — is as precious a part of musical history as classical music or folk. The genre dates to the early 1990s, made popular by bands like Screeching Weasel, ZOiNKS! and the Queers. Again, this all depends on who you…

When a singer decides to go “go solo,” one can’t help but wonder about the circumstances surrounding the decision. Was there bad blood with the performer’s former bandmates? Were there financial problems? Or was it simply a decision to branch out musically, allowing them to stretch their musical capabilities? Monday…

Twelve years, in the life cycle of band, is practically an eternity. This summer, the Epilogues’ celebration of their twelfth year as a band will be a bittersweet one, as singer/guitarist Chris Heckman, recently announced on his facebook page, that he will be leaving the group to attend Berklee College of…

At last year’s Honky Tonk Hodgepodge at Cold Beer New Mexico (aka Colfax Tavern), outside of Cimmaron, New Mexico, a local woman took offense to Bib Tucker and the Liars Club’s attire. That day, the band, which includes singer/guitarist Justin Horrigan, bassist Eric Johnston (of the Outfit), guitarist/pedal steel Tyler…

As Langhorne Slim, who performs Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at the Bluebird Theater, walks around California’s Napa Valley before his set at Bottlerock Festival, he is thinking of a different time in his life.  “I used to live out here years ago, a lifetime ago,” he says…