Typically when a band records and releases a covers album, it’s a sign of creative fatigue. This is not the case with the Congress, who picked up an old Tascam 388 reel-to-reel recorder and decided to record a bunch of covers, for an EP titled The Loft Tapes, which they’ll…
The nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase is coming up fast. If you’ve already snagged your tickets, good on you! Obviously you know what’s cracking, which is why we just know you’re going to jump on this like a fat guy on free pizza. Tomorrow through Sunday, you can get GA…
The nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase is coming up fast. If you’ve already snagged your tickets, good on you! Obviously you know what’s cracking, which is why we just know you’re going to jump on this like a fat guy on free pizza. Tomorrow through Sunday, you can get GA…
Phish is at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Labor Day weekend for the third consecutive year. Tickets ($49.75-$60) for the shows go on sale March 30 at 10 a.m. via TicketHorse, or in person at TicketHorse kiosks at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores and the box offices at the Pepsi Center…
In an ongoing testament to the generous spirit of the people that make up our local music scene, the number of benefit shows devoted to Mike Marchant, one of our town’s prized songwriters, who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and is in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy, continues to grow…
Update, 10:37 p.m.: Charles Trowbridge spoke with the 22-year-old manager at Jimmy John’s, who declined to give his name. According to the manager, he was indeed trying to clear people away from the front of the store when someone from the crowd began yelling at him. The manager says he…
Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson at Red Rocks. Sweet Jesus! How has this totally obvious and sure-to-be-awesome pairing not happened before now is anybody’s guess. The music world’s O.G. shock rocker and his direct artistic descendent are slated to share a bill at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday, June 3…
Well, another edition of the SnowBall Music Festival is on the books. If you went, hopefully you raged all weekend. If you didn’t go, well, you’re probably wishing you did. Either way, relive the best moments from the festival through the lens of Brandon Marshall, who braved the elements and…
The Ogden. 3/1 (Denver) This is for the guy with the long hair at the Griz show near the bar. I don’t know who you are but the odor that was emitting from your hair was horrendous. I can’t not even begin to explain how bad you smell. This wasn’t…
If you’ve never seen the Alabama Shakes live, add that to your bucket list immediately. Fuck jumping out of a plane. You’ve just got to see Brittany Howard live before you’re pushing daisies. She’s simply the most magnetic performer I’ve seen in a long time. Unlike other singers who resort…
Update: Congratulations to trenken0103! You’ve won two tickets to SnowBall this weekend. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: So by now you’re all packed and you’ve had a chance to peruse our Survival Guide for this weekend’s SnowBall Music Festival and absorb all of…
If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains for the aptly named SnowBall Music Festival in Winter…
Tonight at the Seawell Ballroom, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction, we’ve been posting the stories that didn’t make his memoir, Backstage Past. Today, Daniela Stolfi, Barry’s assistant, recounts one…
Got tickets to see the Alabama Shakes this weekend at the Ogden Theatre? If you don’t, it’s too late now; it’s sold out. Not to worry, though: The show is scheduled to be broadcast live on AXS TV starting at 10 p.m. (Comcast channel 664, DirecTV channel 340, Dish Network…
John Rumley has posted the second Late Night Denver episode. Have you seen it yet? No? You taking a lunch today? Eat at your desk and watch this. So worth it. Besides the fact that Rumley, who plays guitar in Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, is an absolute genius, a total…
Going to South By Southwest in a few weeks? Lucky duck! Jealous. Stop by Kerbey Lane and eat some migas for me, will ya? Mmm…migas… Where was I? Oh yeah, SXSW. If you’re going and want to keep connect with our all your hometown homies and support your favorite local…
Incredibly, the Harlem Shake is still a thing. I know, right? It’s so played out at this point that “Gangnam Style” seems fresh. Be that as it may, the beloved Nuggets have posted a version of the meme that’s worth noting if simply because it stars JaVale McGee in a…
So a couple of weeks ago, we laid out what we thought was the complete compendium of the biggest concert buzzkills. Turns out, though, we left a number of entries out, and so with your direct input (Whiskey Bulldozer and Surf’s Up), we went back to the drawing board, literally,…
If we didn’t know any better, we’d swear that Macklemore, who we literally just wrote about hours ago, is trying to establish residency in Colorado. To wit: He played our Showcase in June, followed by a show at the Ogden in December, a show at Red Rocks in February, he’s…
If you’re a jam fan, you must be positively overwhelmed with glee right now with the way the concert season is starting to shape up this year. Last night came word of a Disco Biscuits date at Red Rocks in April, and now comes word that Widespread Panic is pulling…
If you’ve heard the considerably poignant “Same Love,” then you know exactly what Macklemore’s stance on same sex relationships is. But just in case there was even the slightest bit of ambiguity, the Seattle rapper (aka Ben Haggerty), who’s slated to make his debut on Saturday Night Live this weekend,…
Earlier today on Facebook, Nathaniel Rateliff casually mentioned that Born in the Flood, the band he fronted before he became all chummy with the boys in Mumford & Sons, that reunited at the Gothic back in December, is playing tomorrow night at Lost Lake. If you’ve ever been to Lost…
