Safe Boating Is No Accident’s latest video for “Post-American Blues” rolls through some of these very American pockets of neighborhood commerce, with the band paying special attention to a dying breed of storefront: the mom and pop pet shop, specifically of the reptile variety.
Comedian Heather Snow passed away on December 31, 2016 after a battle with leukemia.
Ryan McRyhew decided to drop “Thug” from his moniker, “Thug Entrancer.” Here’s why.
I showed up to sell merch at a Big Head Todd and the Monsters show and left inspired about local music.
Here are fifteen of the best music videos from Colorado.
Cash Kiser III, a 29-year-old music promoter who took his own life Saturday, December 17, built the Grand Junction music scene.
In order for artists to live in Denver, we need the city to be affordable, and we need to be able to create, practice, perform and gather in our spaces without fear of raids.
A lot of art is a joke. Or it starts out as a joke, anyway. For Safe Boating Is No Accident, exploring humor together is often the first step the band takes before collaborating artistically. “Most of the creative process in the beginning is centered around us telling each other…
Seman works with Denver Arts & Venues and Colorado Creative Industries, the state’s art council, and the community at large to connect and foster the local creative economy. A veteran of the national DIY music and art scene, Seman has spent decades playing house shows and warehouse venues with acts like his long-running band, Shiny Around the Edges.
The fire in Oakland not only took 36 lives, it ripped open and exposed our global DIY community, a network of people who exist everywhere but operate mostly under the radar.
Denver’s soaring real-estate prices haven’t just affected renters and home buyers. For musicians and artists, affordable spaces to hone their craft are quickly disappearing.
Contrary to all the social media squeals of joy from out-of-touch former punks proclaiming that thanks to this election, “punk will get good again, ” music has never stopped being a radical force. Art and activism have always been intertwined and Denver’s own Tim Holland aka Sole — a musician, tape label head and activist himself — continues to keep the conversation about present-day political issues going with his music. Earlier this week he released “Three Way Fight,” a collaboration with musician and vocalist Decomposure. Westword spoke with Sole about the song and what it means to protest in 2016.
I was recently having brunch with my family. It was a normal meal, like thousands of meals I’d had in public before. The server came to the table to take our drink order, and the exchange with this man in an apron went something like this: Server: And what can I…
Music wasn’t supposed to be Kayla Marque’s life. “My dad wanted me to be an athlete, so that’s what I grew up doing,” says the Denver-born-and-raised singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. “I started playing basketball at five. In high school, I quit basketball because I found volleyball. I thought it was the best thing ever.” Marque had always considered herself an athlete, feeling what she describes as a “hunger, drive and competitiveness” for sports that she didn’t have for other things. But underneath the team uniform, a musician was hiding.
Maybe you’re feeling a little paralyzed by the results of this election — I hear you. I am, too. I’m here to tell you that you are not alone, you are needed in the world, and you are important. And the good news is, you’re time, energy, talent (and money, if you have the means) are sorely needed
When a group of local artisans found themselves priced out of the holiday-market scene, they went their own way. The result was the Witch Collective, a group of artists and artisans committed to creating an affordable place where people can sell affordable handmade goods. From noon to 4 p.m. this…
Denver DJ Erin Stereo likes to see the club packed with booty-shakers willing to strut their stuff and dance like no one is watching. On Saturday, November 12, she’ll unfurl the first edition of the Everybody’s Free dance party, hitting the floor at 9 p.m. at Grandma’s House on South…
The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District has been part of my life for almost all of it. I was born in Colorado in 1980; voters in the six-country metro area approved the SCFD tax — one penny on every ten dollars — in 1988. Denver is a better city for…
Even if Denver’s sunny-then-freezing weather can’t decide if it’s fall yet, we’re ready for Halloween and Día de los Muertos (and, hey, Flossy McGrews is back, everyone!). Fortunately, October’s calendar is full of special, spooky shindigs in the Mile High City. Here’s our list of fifteen favorites — some for…
The definition of “pop music” is a constantly evolving — as a genre, it’s easily impressionable and malleable while also being a great fortune-teller of what and how the rest of popular culture will present itself in the moment. That’s also what makes pop music so wonderful — it is…
The fact that Ja Rule and Ashanti survived the early 2000s is a feat in itself. It was a strange time to be in music — the Internet really took off as a place for socializing and finding and sharing music, but it also it left many artists and record…
I love my city, I really do. Even if it is frustrating at times, with our traffic problems, the flood of ugly development, the constant “reimagining” of already-established neighborhoods, an embarrassing dog-poop epidemic and the inhumane treatment of our most vulnerable population, Denver is still a pretty great place to live. I’ve…
