Depending where you fall on the John Denver love/hate continuum, this will either enrage or endear you. If you’re a John Denver purist, whose heart was absolutely brimming with glee this past spring when the singer, formerly known as Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., became the first inductee in the Colorado…
Always nice to go out on a high note, isn’t it? Safe to say after lending an ear to Brittle Bones, the outfit’s swan song, The Still City (playing its final show this Saturday, August 13 at the hi-dive with Serious Moonlight and All Capitals), can legitimately stake claim to…
Update: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. We’ve picked the winners. Congrats to Jeremy Coss, Dave Shuck and Francine Profitt, who will be seeing the show on us, courtesy of our friends at Soda Jerk. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @Westword_Music and Facebook to get the…
Here’s something to help you over your humpday: Snag Films is screening the outstanding documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?) for free for the next couple weeks. If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing it yet, take a long lunch or knock off…
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: After, ahem, cough, cough, blowing folks away at Summit Music Hall this past spring on his Jet Life Tour, Curren$y is coming back to the Mile High City, with Method Man, on the Smokers Club Tour, with Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, Fiend, The Pricks,…
While it would probably be best to dispense with any sort of wintery metaphors or similes in describing this EP, as they’d be both hackneyed and obvious, they’d also be incredibly apropos. Winter, the fourth and final installment of Houses’ series of seasonally themed releases, is the darkest of the…
Since launching in 1994, much has changed about the Warped Tour. For everything that’s different about the annual traveling punk-rock caravan now, some things such as the hairdos have, for the most part, stayed refreshingly the same — surprising, considering that the majority of attendees this year were babies when…
Correction: DMX performs on September 10 at the Gothic. An earlier version of this post had the incorrect date. Fresh out of the clink, DMX is making his way to the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, September 10. After serving most of a year-long parole violation sentence in Yuma, Arizona, the…
A PERFECT CIRCLE at RED ROCKS | 8/2/11It seems more than a bit paradoxical that A Perfect Circle’s frontman prefers to perform in background. With Tool, his primary band, and with A Perfect Circle, Maynard James Keenan is an enormous presence. His voice is the driving force of both acts…
So Pitchfork is reporting this morning that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s highly anticipated Watch the Throne tour, which we told you was coming to Denver on Monday, October 10, is no longer coming to town on that date. The tour has apparently being rerouted due to “overwhelming demand,” says Billboard,…
Thirty years ago today, music as we know it changed forever. Rather than the television overlords taking their cues from the kids, who in turn took their cues from the radio, MTV programmers skipped the middle man entirely and appointed itself as the arbiters of cool, the pied pipers of…
Doom metal is alive and well in Denver. And what better time to bask in the realm of doom as we enter into the thick of holiday season than to have an entire evening devoted to downtuned guitars? Precisely. Needless to say, our little hearts were brimming with inextinguishable glee…
Wire Faces (due tomorrow night at the Gothic Theater with Take to the Oars, Calling Out West, Filthy T and the Fairgrounds) has unveiled a brand new video for the song “Tame You,” directed by Darren Mahuron of Summit Studios. While those outside of Fort Collins may not immediately register…
After a respectable seven year run, a Melodic Daydream has called it a day. But rather than just quietly striding off into the sunset, the Fort Collins-based duo of Lnz Kayd and Chris Newton has opted to go out on a high note, quite literally. The pair has left behind…
Paper Diamond’s stock just rose significantly. The Boulder-based act led by Alex B. (aka Alex Botwin) of Pnuma Trio and Elm and Oak, has been added to the Outside Lands festival happening a few weekends from now in San Francisco. Have you seen the lineup? He’ll be in some pretty…
It’s hard to believe that Suburban Home Records has been around nearly two decades now. Seriously. Where does the time go? The label — home to heralded bands like the Gamits and Drag the River over the years — has weathered a lot of storms and this coming September, it…
At the beginning year, the Brass Tree Collective glorious sprung up unexpectedly from the frozen Front Range tundra, and for the past six months, the collective has bloomed into an exciting part of the Denver scene, from hosting last minute, word-of-mouth house shows featuring acts like Jens Lenkman and Ume…
Okay, if you weren’t already amped enough for the release of Sin Eater, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s eagerly anticipated new album from the newly formed Greater Than Collective, this ought to do the trick. Behold the excellent new video for “Break the Same,” the first single from the record and…
Leave it to the often brilliant, overstimulated, complicated mind of Yonnas Abraham to come up with something completely creative on the fly that nobody else would even remotely have thought of — much less be able to facilitate — to turn what might otherwise be just another show for any…
Update (7/28/11): We just received word from LiveNation that due to an overwhelming demand, additional dates are being added to the Watch the Throne tour, featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West. The tour is slated to hit Denver on Monday, October 10. The additional dates are due be announced on August…
Move over, tryptophan: Thanksgiving has found a much better bedfellow, one that will put you in a trance but won’t necessarily leave you listless, laying on the couch. Behold Otis Taylor’s Trance Blues Jam Festival, featuring Otis Taylor, of course, along with “Steady Rollin” Bob Margolin, Tony Trischka, Don Vappie…
Have you started thinking about New Year’s yet? What? Too soon? Well, yes, now that you mention it, it is only July. Nonetheless, if you’re a fan of Ween, we have a feeling you’re going to want to be at the Fillmore around then to ring in the New Year…
