Oh, now, this is going to be just awesome! Girl Wreck is presenting two nights with Flipper. Although a legendary punk band in its own right, many remember the Bay-area outfit best for being immortalized by Kurt Cobain on an episode of MTV’s Unplugged, when the late Nirvana frontman wore…
Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray’s new album. On the eve of releasing their third full-length album, Scars and Stories and almost exactly a year after playing at Invesco with U2, the Fray has announced plans to return to…
Update 1/26/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to our winners, Travis Brewer, Jon Partain and Erin Greenberg. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for the entries! God bless SIA. We’ve got more tickets up for grabs for yet another killer show tonight…
A quiet Sunday afternoon in the Baker neighborhood. Nathaniel Rateliff and Joe Sampson, two of the city’s finest songwriters, seated next to each other on a worn couch with a fading pattern. Just one guitar and two voices between them, as they sing a lovely little ditty, an uplifting ode…
Attention bands: If you’re hoping to perform at the 41st annual Capitol Hill People’s Fair, you better get on the stick. The deadline to apply is this Friday, January 27, at 5 p.m. (Download the application on the CHUN website.) As always, auditions will then be held at the annual…
If you missed American Idol tonight, well, let’s just say you missed a hell of a lot. We’ll have a full recap in the morning, but for now, we just had to give massive props to the one and only Magic Cyclops, the Mile High City’s most prized export, who…
Before Snoop Dogg heads for the hills for his Saturday evening headlining set at Snowball 2012 on Saturday, March 3, he’ll be making a stop in the Mile High City for a show at the Fillmore Auditorium the night before on Friday, March 2. Tickets for the concert are $37.50…
Update 1/27/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to our winner, Drew Rotman. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for the entries! To paraphrase Styx, Friday night’s the night that we make history, honey, you and I. Assuming since the concert is sold…
Holy hip-hop nirvana! Why can’t it be SIA week all year around? This week is straight bananas. So get this, as if there weren’t already too many crazy good shows to choose from, here’s one more: Tomorrow night at Casselman’s, we’re hearing that the one and only Raekwon is set…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All has announced its upcoming North American tour dates. The act is returning to the scene of the crime, as it were, on Sunday, March 11, to the Fox Theatre in Boulder, which as you might remember, was the first place the act played…
Is it just us, or does November seem like a lifetime ago? Okay, maybe it’s just us. Anyhow, remember way back in November when we told you how the Overcasters had wrapped up the new album, Curses//Prayers, and set a release date for the second annual Gathering of the Clouds?…
Gotye. Name ring a bell? Surely you’ve heard the tune “Somebody I Used to Know,” or at least seen the video. The clip is all sorts of artsy, with the Aussie-by-way-of-Belgium singer and Kimbra, his collaborator, chilling in their birthday suits and then painted in time-lapse to blend in seamlessly…
Update 1/25/12: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congrats to Dean Keim! He and guest will be our guests at tomorrow night’s show. Dean check your email for details. We’ve always contended that Thursday is the new Friday, and now we have even more evidence to support our…
Update 1/25/12: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congrats to Audrey Spencer! She and a guest will be our guests at tomorrow night’s show. Audrey check your email for details. The bill is pretty stacked this Thursday night at City Hall for this year’s Snowdown . The lineup…
You read that right. You can see Blackalicious at the Fillmore this Friday, January 27, for just $10 (well, plus the applicable service fees). Tickets are on-sale right now at LiveNation.com or you can pick them up directly at the Fillmore box office. Oh, we should also let you know…
Update 3/21/12: See also: Brad Paisley tweets at Tim Tebow, lobbies for Titans: “Nashville’s really a great place to live” BRAD PAISLEY @ THE PEPSI CENTER | 1/21/12 It’s about three-quarters of the way through “Waiting on a Woman” during Brad Paisley’s blues-inflected lead that you arrive at a startling…
Do you know what you’re doing yet on Friday, March 2? Have plans? If so, you might consider canceling them. That night, Spell and ’57 Lesbian, a couple of iconic Denver bands are getting together at the Bluebird Theater for Pure Sunshine II to pay tribute to their fallen bandmate,…
Update 3/21/12: See also: Brad Paisley tweets at Tim Tebow, lobbies for Titans: “Nashville’s really a great place to live” Um, so, yeah, you’ll be happy to know that the whole Tebow mania thing hasn’t died down in the Mile High City. Not in the slightest. Apparently, being utterly eviscerated…
Bad news: Familiar with that expression, “You snooze, you lose”? Yes? Well, it applies here. If you slept on getting your tickets to see the Black Keys at 1STBANK Center on April 30, you blew it. Show’s sold out. D’oh! Luckily for you, though, you’ll have another chance to see…
Just in case this whole presidency thing doesn’t work out this year for President Obama, it’s good to know that our current Commander In Chief has something to fall back on. Maybe he and Clinton can put a band together or something. They can call it Presidents of the United…
Don’t take it personally if the King Mob dudes don’t answer when you call their name. Nothing against you. That’s just not their name anymore. Let it be known: From this moment on, the outfit previously known as King Mob has been rechristened as the Young Pharaohs. To commemorate the…
Grab your party shoes, kids. Andrew W.K. is coming back to Denver. In honor of the ten year anniversary of I Get Wet (hands up if you can believe it’s already been a decade since dude first hit the scene), Mr. Party Hard is bringing his party to the Bluebird…
