See Also: R.I.P. Dick Clark, 11/30/29 – 4/18/12 Firefall is one of a handful of Colorado acts (Richie Furay and Phillip Bailey were among the others) who performed on American Bandstand over the course of the show’s four-decade run, a span that encompasses nearly 3,000 episodes. The band appeared on…
Okay, can we all just agree here that everything sounds better with an orchestra? And we mean everything. Pretty sure you’d get no argument from those who caught Trey Anastasio at Boettcher recently, or those who saw Death Cab for Cutie at Ellie Caulkins last week. Air Dubai, who already…
Have some time to kill today in the old cube farm? Here’s something to keep you busy all afternoon. Sounds on 29th, the local-centric CPT-12 music series, which premiered last fall and is brought to us by the folks behind the Brass Tree Sessions and Out of Order, has posted…
Oh, man, our West Coast counterparts at the LA Weekly and OC Weekly were on the ground reporting from Coachella all weekend, and they brought back some really great stuff, giving a chance for land-locked music lovers like us who watched the stream on YouTube to live vicariously: • “What…
By now you’ve seen Tupac’s performance with Snoop Dogg last night at Coachella. The legendary rapper was brought back to life by Dr. Dre’s production company, in collaboration with Digital Domain, James Cameron’s digital production company, and AV Concepts, a company based in Tempe, Arizona, using a Musion Eyeyliner projection…
Update: Read about how Tupac was brought back to life last night at Coachella and check out our Q&A with Nick Smith, co-founder of AV Concepts, the company that helped consult on the technology for the project. Tupac at Coachella. While there were plenty of memorable performances and an equal…
It’s the off-season. Do you know where your Broncos are — uh, we mean, the ones who aren’t huddled around fawning over their fearless new leader? We know where one of them is, or was, rather, earlier this week. Broncos running back Willis McGahee was in Miami, his old stomping…
Update: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congrats to Michael Garcia. You and a guest will be our guests at tonight’s show. Drop us a line for details on how to claim your tix. Got plans tonight? You do now. There’s a killer show tonight at the Fillmore:…
One Direction is at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, July 24…2013! You read that right — next summer. Wow! Talk about getting a jump on things. Hot on the heels of its mind-changing performance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, the U.K.-based neo-boy band (the hottest thing to cross…
Update 4/12/12: Congrats to Ian O’Dougherty and Kaila Schleu. Both of you and a guest will be our guests at the show tonight. Drop us a line for details on how to claim your tickets. Holy moly! The Summit Music Hall has one helluva show tonight. The Revival Tour is…
Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Commerce City, three days, confirmed! The band just announced the second leg of its summer tour, and Colorado is on the docket for three shows: Friday, August, 31, Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2. A limited number of tickets are available through Phish’s…
Tom Petty is an iconic American songwriter whose songs are easily on par with fellow legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Petty’s guitar-driven anthems are instantly relatable monuments to Americana that exude a certain timelessness that belies their obvious vintage. Tunes like “American Girl,” “Breakdown,” “Here Comes My Girl,”…
Fiona Apple’s coming to the Paramount Theatre on Friday, July 20: With a newly revitalized career thanks to a stint wowing audiences at this year’s SXSW and fresh off releasing a brand new album with a notably pithy title (in comparison to When the Pawn…, her 1999 album — The…
Dance music has always been a major draw in Denver — the birthplace of Beatport and the home to Beta and the Church, each considered among the best clubs in the world at one time or another — but right now, it’s just exploding in the mainstream across the country…
Holy Jesus! The bizarro-but-awesome Big Head Todd and Bill Murray saga just took an interesting turn. Last week, as you might remember, we posted a short item about Big Bad Bill being spotted all over Austin recently at SXSW rocking Big Head Todd T-shirts. The actor and La Cabeza Grande…
The Lumineers, another promising Denver-based act, made its televised debut earlier this week on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Years from now, when the members looks back on this watershed moment in their career, they’ll probably get a chuckle of their first introduction to America, how Ferguson fumbled…
“Run for Your Life” is the Fray’s the follow-up to “Heartbeat,” the debut single from the act’s third record, Scars & Stories. The video is directed by Declan Whitebloom, who’s worked on videos with Taylor Swift and Sugarland, among others. Although the imagery strikes the right emotional chords, there’s no…
It’s official: Flobots are no longer without a label. After parting ways with Universal Records in December 2010 — the label that issued the band’s last full-length, Survival Story — the band has officially been picked up by Shanachie Entertainment, a prominent independent label founded in the mid ’70s by…
Update 4/5/12: “Swear I’m Innocent” video posted below. Earlier today, the Photo Atlas premiered its brand-new video for “Swear I’m Innocent” on Spinner.com. According to Alan Andrews, the band’s frontman, the high-energy, performance-based video was shot at the Inca house by the folks at Love Drunk, whom the band met…
Oh, now, this is rich: In an effort to thwart the efforts of any would-be paparazzi on her upcoming tour, which hits the Pepsi Center on Thursday, October 18, Madonna has reportedly contracted a cluster of Madonna-bes to impersonator her in various cities. If indeed true (for what it’s worth,…
Over the weekend, American Trash Republic’s Concept One premiered his new video for the track “Smile Now, Cry Later,” from his new album, Beautiful Disaster. Directed by Jeremy “Konsequence” Pape, the clip perfectly encapsulates the duality of the Greek tragedy/comedy masks that informs the Chicano iconography that ultimately inspired the…
The date for this year’s Westword Music Showcase is coming up fast, and while we’re still putting together the all-star local lineup (seriously, this is shaping up to be the best one yet), we have another headliner to announce: Baywood, the funtastical duo featuring former Single File bassist, Joe Ginsberg,…
