So tonight, Kenny Chesney is kicking off his three-night stand at Red Rocks — all three dates of which, BTW, are sold out. Impressive to be sure, but certainly not without precedent (Dispatch sold out a trio of dates last month, as did Widespread Panic). Regardless, even accounting for potential…
Have you seen the new DeVotchKa video yet? Talk about the ideal artistic pairing. Directed by Vincent Comparetto, the clip perfectly captures the vibe of the song. I mean he just nailed it. It’s like Comparetto climbed into my head and pulled out the exact type of imagery I picture…
Welcome to Hot Topic, our latest feature, which is precisely what it sounds like. We present you with a topic that is, well, hot, and then we ask you to weigh in with your opinion. Today our inquiring minds want to know: When you part with your hard-earned loot to…
So on Friday and Saturday night, there’s this show happening at the hi-dive that’s dubbed, appropriately, the Hi-Dive Hullabaloo. Not sure if you’ve seen the lineup for this thing yet, but it’s absolutely bonkers, daddy-o! Night one features Zebroids, Glass Hits, Warhawk, Night of Joy, School Knights and The Down…
Got big show plans this weekend? Betting you do. If, however, you’re perpetually broke like us and just can’t afford to hit the town this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Kill Paradise is playing a show at the Marquis Theater on Saturday night with Mary Magdalan And Then There Were…
Behold the latest entry in the annals of political theft of music. Earlier this week, presidential hopeful Michelle Bachman got slapped with a cease and desist notice from Tom Petty, pleading with the congresswoman to, you know, please stop playing his song, “American Girl,” at her campaign stops, lest anyone,…
Did you hear about the stabbing last night in Colorado Springs at the Tech N9NE show? Two people were stabbed at the Black Sheep; one person was reportedly hospitalized and released. If you haven’t heard about it yet, we’d be surprised. When a rap show goes off without incident –…
If you were around last summer, you probably remember how big Denver hip-hop heads represented at the Mighty 4 Denver b-boy summit. Cats got down like no other. If you haven’t heard, Mighty 4 is taking a break this year, but in its place there’s another gathering taking place the…
With the glut of shows this time of year, it’s easy to unwittingly gloss past noteworthy concert announcements — and by noteworthy, we mean the kind of shows that aren’t necessarily the highest profile, and so for whatever reason they escape your notice, but then as soon as you hear…
Oooh, baby, baby, baby, baby! Get up on this! Salt-n-Pepa’s here… Erm, they’re going to be rather, on Saturday, December 17 at the Gothic Theatre for Jammin’ 101.5’s T’was the Jam Before Christmas. Tickets for the holiday soiree go on sale this Friday, November 4 at 10 a.m. and range…
You can’t really talk about guitar building in this town without mentioning Scott Baxendale. About a year and a half ago, one of the area’s most respected luthiers picked up stakes and moved to Athens, Georgia — home of the Drive-By Truckers, an act that holds him in such high…
Maybe you’ve noticed this, maybe you haven’t. We did, and it’s sort of been stuck in our craw ever since. The other day, we were listening to one of the new country stations in town (hey, don’t judge us — it’s a perfect palate cleanser!) when a song from Montgomery…
Update: A visitation for Phil is scheduled for Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Olinger Hampden (8600 East Hampden), followed by a memorial service on Thursday, June 30, at 10 a.m. at Amazing Grace Chapel in Englewood (3325 South Federal Boulevard). Also, a show flier created by Phil…
Looks like Peter Black, the progressive mind behind Analog Space, is trying his hand at curating a music festival. Dubbed Denver Afterdark, Black’s inaugural soiree is slated to take place at the Meadowlark, the Larimer Lounge and Flobot.Org’s community space on Friday, August 26, with performances by Pictureplane, CacheFlowe, Force…
If you haven’t made plans yet tonight, and you’re looking to get your groove on, tonight at Hai Bar at Sushi Hai (32nd and Lowell), DJ Low Key is celebrating another year on planet with the Solution’s fifth annual Lessondary Birthday Extravaganza hosted by Von Pea of Tanya Morgan. The…
Well, it’s a wrap. The seventeenth annual Westword Music Showcase Awards are now officially in the books. Although there weren’t as many winners on hand to collect their awards as we would’ve liked, the Bluebird was packed. The most noteworthy award of the night went to The Pirate Signal, which…
Just a quick reminder in case you missed it in the paper or on the blog earlier this week: Tonight, the seventeenth annual Westword Music Showcase Awards are taking place at the Bluebird Theater. After months of voting and a stellar Showcase this past weekend, we reveal the winners in…
All right, now that the festival portion of the Westword Music Showcase is on the books, it’s time to hand out the awards. As far as that goes, we’re tallying the votes right now, and the winners in each individual category will be announced at a special ceremony this Thursday,…
Man, what a day we had yesterday at the seventeenth annual Westword Music Showcase! The music was exceptional, the weather was beyond agreeable and everywhere you looked in every direction it was a sea of smiling faces. With over 13,000 people in attendance this year, this was certainly the biggest…
All right Showcase is finally here. You excited? We are. If you’re on your way or just getting here, there’s a couple of programming changes we wanted to make you aware of that are different from the printed pocket guides and the downloadable PDFs. Most notably, over at City Hall,…
Just in time for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, Spoke In Wordz (due at La Rumba from 5:30 – 6 p.m.) has finally given us a gander at his brand new video. Directed by Eric Heights and shot on location in SoCal — we presume, unless the Mile High City…
Who are you excited about seeing at this year’s Westword Music Showcase? Kind of a loaded question, isn’t it? Depends on what time you ask, right? The lineup is pretty insane from top to bottom, even if we do say so ourselves. In addition to hosting the hottest acts in…
