Update 10/28/11: Contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations goes out to Jess Dealme. You and a guest will be our guests this weekend. Please send an email for info on how to claim your tickets. Psst… Hey, there. How are you? Snow putting a damper on…
Update 10/28/11: Contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations goes out to Christopher Weston. You and a guest will be our guests at the DeVotchKa show tonight. Send an email for info on how to claim your tickets and wrist bands for the after show meet-and-greet. This…
Just in time for the annual National Western Stock Show, which will be wrapping up around then, Brad Paisley is slated to return to the Mile High City with the Band Perry and freshly minted American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Tickets for this stop of the Camobunga Tour (don’t ask…
If you think Occupy Denver and Tim Tebow are the most polarizing topics in Denver these days, well, you’re absolutely right. In local music, however, at least judging from the heated exchange in our comments section, few things are as provocative it seems as the 5280 Hip-Hop Awards. While the…
Update (12/6/11): KTCL Hometown for the Holidays 2011 finalists revealed. Is it that time of year already? Yep. Afraid so. Only 58 days until Christmas, which means that KTCL’s annual Hometown for the Holidays promotion is just around the corner. The station has officially begun accepting submissions to see which…
Update 10/27/11: Suite contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries and for sharing your stories! Congratulations to Erik Johnson, Michelle Beth Cavanaugh and Juliette Jones. You and a guest will be our guests tonight at the Portishead show at 1STBANK Center. A pair of suite tickets and a…
Ten months after the release of his debut EP, Victory in Defeat, comes the premiere of Caleb Slade’s first video for the song “Always On My Mind.” Like Slade’s music, the video, directed by the Duckduck Collective, has an inherent, romanticized, cinematic quality to it that’s both poignant and elegant…
Update (10/27/11): If you haven’t seen it yet, a Facebook event page has been established with details of Bryon Woodard’s Celebration of Life service. On Saturday, November 5, a celebration of Bryon Woodard’s life is planned from 1-4 p.m. in the Vogt Center Auditorium at Mile High Church in Lakewood…
Over the course of your life, there’s a handful of bands that have a certain transcendent quality about them, where they somehow manage to go from just being just a band that you the like, to one whose music embeds itself into the fabric of your life. The magnetism of…
Last night in the Mile High City as the snow and cold arrived right on schedule, Opeth, one of Stockholm’s most fascinatingly complex metal exports, brought plenty of heat up enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Ogden Theatre. Our resident metal maniac, Brandon Marshall, was on hand, and he brought back…
In an open letter to fans on gunsnroses.com from 2008, Axl Rose took questions by those criticizing him for soldiering on with GNR without Slash and the other dudes head on: “Why keep the name? I’m literally the last man standing. Not bragging, not proud. It’s been a fucking nightmare…
Almost a month ago exactly, big slabs of the ceiling over the stage at the Oriental Theater came raining down during a show featuring Doug Kershaw. Thankfully, nobody was hurt during the incident, but it caused the historic theater at 44th and Tennyson to be closed for the better part…
Tonight it’s going to be on and poppin’ in the Mile High City as the Check Yo Ponytail 2 Tour pulls into the Summit Music Hall. If you haven’t seen it, the bill is absolutely stacked with Spank Rock, Big Freedia, Franki Chan, the Death Set and Denver’s own Pictureplane…
Over the weekend, the Denver music scene lost another one of its own, and the whole town is reeling from the loss. Bryon Woodard was a dearly regarded member of our scene. As one reader asserted yesterday, he was as iconic as the Cricket on the Hill, the beloved Capitol…
Finally! A little over a month after we posted word letting you know that Guns N’ Roses was headed to Colorado for its first tour in five years, we have a date. Mark your calendars: GNR (or at least whatever incarnation of the group Axl’s fronting these days) is coming…
On Friday, we posted an item about the proposed $16 million settlement in the class action lawsuit involving Ticketmaster. If approved, every ticket buyer who was redirected to the reseller TicketsNow.com would be entitled to $10 or a rebate on a future purchases made through TicketsNow.com. Evidently, the mere mention…
Update 10/21/11: More troubling news today out of the Springs. There’s been several reports filtering in last night and this afternoon that Aliester Wild guitarist Terry Span has passed away. We’ll post more details as they become available. Original item (10/12/11): There’s some troubling news coming out of the Springs…
Nothing is as polarizing these days in the Mile High City these days it seems as the Occupy Denver movement. In an effort to get some insight into the soul of Occupy Denver, we spoke with MC Sole, a musician who’s fully immersed in the movement, to get his perspective…
We imagine this has been a pretty bittersweet week for the members of Gauntlet Hair. After being stranded in Montreal for a few days due to a busted van, the dudes have finally made it to New York just in time for CMJ. Though the repairs to the van left…
Last week when we started talking about the first album that we bought with our own money, everybody had a story. Some were laudable (Ready to Die) and some were laughable (Savage Garden), but everybody had a story. And as we suspected, we weren’t alone. When we asked you to…
Eric Shiveley has steadily progressed as a filmmaker over the years. Since first making his cinematic debut almost four years ago with Everyone but You, the documentary he shot, directed, edited and produced all by his lonesome, Shiveley has gotten a handle on this whole moving-pictures thing. As with his…
There’s a reason that metal, particularly the kind produced by bands like Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel, endures year after year: The bands are made up of guys like Scott Ian, real, down-to-earth dudes who make music they love completely unaffected by the trends or popular opinions of the mainstream…
