Wow! We’d be lying if we said we saw this coming. While we were sleeping, evidently, the Foo Fighters have officially been elevated to bona fide arena rock status, presumably owing to the success of the new album, Wasting Light…
Remember a few weeks ago when we mentioned that Nathaniel Rateliff was getting ready to release a 10-inch live album culled from performances captured during Daytrotter’s Barnstormer Tour and a gig at Notting Hill Arts Club in London this past February? Well, we’ve just learned that Rateliff will be issuing…
Rose Hill Drive fans bemoaning the fact that the band has been mostly dormant for the past few years, rejoice! The indefinite, self-imposed hiatus has come to an end, and your heroes have returned — with new music. The former power trio (now a quartet, with the addition of bassist…
We just received word on the lineup and dates for this year’s FMQB Triple A Conference taking place this fall. This year’s summit is slated to kick off on Wednesday, August 10 and culiminate on Friday, August 12, with performances at the Fox Theatre by Brett Dennen, Matt Nathanson, DeVotchka,…
No, we don’t have our guitar plugged into our Smokey Amp again. Why do you ask? Oh that. Yeah, no, we’re just screwing around with our Google Doodle in honor of Les Paul, who would’ve been 96 today. Easy, tiger. It only sounds dirty — uh, the Google Doodle, that…
Update: We just received word that tickets for Devo’s performance on July 30 at the first annual Denver County Fair go on sale this morning at 10 a.m. So that’s what Barry Fey was working on. In news that’s sure to inspire the nerdiest of our pals to spontaneously bust…
SLEIGH BELLS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 6.14.11 As a mid-level band headlining a place the size of the Ogden and charging 25 bucks a head, how do you justify playing a set that’s barely as long as your opener (we’re talking thirty minutes and some change here — it will…
Count yourself lucky if you had a chance to catch Adele’s breathtaking performance last weekend. We just heard that she canceled all of the remaining dates on her current tour due to the problems she was having with her voice, problems she mentioned at the onset of her set at…
Update: Whoa! Stop the presses. So we were just getting ready to send word via Twitter that tomorrow night’s show had been canceled (see original post below), and we stopped by John Grant’s Twitter page, which led us to his Facebook page and that’s where learned the actual reason his…
We just glimpsed the lineup for the sixth annual Yonder Mountain String Band’s sixth annual Harvest Music Festival — taking place Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16, at Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas (site of this weekend’s Wakarusa Festival) — and let’s just say it may make you want to,…
Hooray for Gauntlet Hair and congrats to Dead Oceans for having the good sense to add the Lafayette-based duo to its roster. The outfit attracted the attention of the “instantly spellbound” label with a pair of 7-inch releases, one on Mexican Summer and the other on Gorilla Vs Bear’s Forest…
Welp, looks like it’s the end of an era. If you haven’t heard, everyone’s favorite gay zombie, Maris the Great, is about to become food for worms — uh, actually, “retiring” is how he put it. Semantics aside, after a fruitful killing spree that lasted more than a decade (eleven…
Due an unspecified family emergency in the Bright Eyes camp, the Fillmore show originally slated for Friday has been moved to Sunday. Bummer news if you have to work that night or otherwise can’t make it, but at least the show wasn’t canceled. We just received official word from our…
Congrats to Lance Meyers and Jessica Harris, winners of the VIP upgrade. And so the countdown begins. We’re just a little more than two weeks away from this year’s Westword Music Showcase. You excited? We sure are. If you haven’t got your tickets yet, have at it — and then…
Surely you’ve heard the expression: “That’s a heart attack waiting to happen”? While we’re not inquiring enough to Google its origin, from the sounds of it, that phrase could very well have been coined to describe the Fool’s Gold Loaf from the Colorado Mine Company that Elvis once flew to…
Besides blessing us with one of the most gorgeous listening experiences of the past year with Queen of Denmark, former Czars frontman and Denverite John Grant subjected us to some of the most unflinchingly honest and poignant lyrics in recent memory on songs like “Jesus Hates Faggots,” whose scathing title…
If you happened to miss the Disco Biscuits shows at the Ogden this past week or didn’t get up to Red Rocks last night for Bisco Inferno — or if you just can’t get enough of those crazy Biscuits: The Disco Biscuits have been added to the lineup for the…
Update: Congratulations to Colin Nintendo-Mouth Sumption, Stephanie Simmons (hit us up for word on how to claim your tix: we don’t have your email address!) and Jeremy Yazinski. You have all won tickets to the Mayer Hawthorne after party this Sunday. After Mayer Hawthorne warms up the stage for Janelle…
You know how we like our metal bands? That’s right: Shirtless, bearded, with ten feet of hair that they whip in a helicopter-like fashion, looking something fierce overall, playing flying V’s in fields of fire with random explosions happening all around them. That’s how we like our metal bands!…
So if you picked up the paper this week, you’ve noticed that we added a line to the Westword Music Showcase ballot. It’s a biggie. This year, one lucky local artist will be chosen to be awarded an EP recording package from Rocky Mountain Recorders, the renowned local studio that…
All right, fire up the Camaro, boys. Judas Priest is coming to town — in an arena. Normally when the dudes come to town, they’re playing a shed down south. Not this time around. On Saturday, November 5, the Priest is gonna be at 1STBANK Center with Black Label Society…
This Friday, an all-star cast of local rappers are coming together at Casselman’s to benefit American Trash Republic’s Concept Oner, who recently encountered some legal difficulties. Besides being a good opportunity for the hip-hop community to pitch in and help out one of its own, the show itself pretty much…
