Former Punch Brothers and current Leftover Salmon bassist Greg Garrison is starting a new residency at the Armoury on 20th and Larimer next month that sounds pretty cool. Billed as Greg Garrison Trio +1, “You Pick ‘Em,” the night will feature Garrison and his bandmates, guitarist Dave Devine and drummer…
Somehow we missed getting this out to you yesterday. Our bad. Mark your calendar — nay, clear your calendar — on Tuesday, August 6. Sebadoh is coming to the Larimer Lounge, and whether you’re new school or old school, you don’t want to miss a chance to see Lou Barlow…
Update, 6/7/13: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations to Sabrina Palmer. You and a guest will be our guests at the show. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for all the entries! This Friday night, Umphrey’s McGee will…
Tonight at the Oriental Theater, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes is sitting in again with the Dirty Femmes, the tribute act devoted to Gano’s band and led by Jen Korte. That, in itself, is reason enough to make your way to the Oriental Theater, but here’s another compelling reason:…
Just after the first of the year in the midst of his cancer treatment, Mike Marchant recorded a bunch of songs. According to Mike, he wasn’t in the best shape, physically or mentally, but since making music is what he does, he naturally turned to the tunes to help him…
After a successful tour with How to Destroy Angels, which made a stop at the Paramount Theatre this past April, Trent Reznor has put the paddles to Nine Inch Nails, and is preparing to hit the road. Yesterday, “Came Back Haunted,” a track from NIN’s forthcoming album, Hesitation Marks, due…
If you haven’t heard yet, Riot Fest, the incredibly popular festival founded in Chicago in 2005, is expanding to Colorado. There’s no word yet on the lineup, but if the roster of acts (Motörhead, Public Enemy, Bad Brains, Guided by Voices, the Dismemberment Plan, Dinosaur Jr. and Surfer Blood, among…
So the Westword Music Showcase is less than a month away, and we’re all the way hyped about this year’s lineup. You can get a sneak peek of what we have in store for you tonight at our pre-party at Stoney’s Bar & Grill featuring SHEL, Go Star, Foxfield Four,…
While you’ve already got well over a hundred compelling reasons to pick up your tickets for the nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase, here’s one more: Last night, in the basement of Boettcher Concert Hall, I got a sneak peek at the highly anticipated and ground-breaking collaboration between the Colorado Symphony…
Update 5/24/13: Contest is over. Winners have been chosen. HaloEleven, russ.christiansen, candy.I.angel, ej8085 and ajgutierrez77, check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for all the entries. See also: – The ten best concerts to see in Denver this week – Review: The…
Feel like partying in the park this holiday weekend? Here’s your soundtrack, courtesy of Jay Bianchi’s Summer of Serendipity series. The two days of free music this weekend at Civic Center Park features The Space Lab: Kraftwerk ReAmped, a supergroup of sorts comprising Jesse Miller from Lotus, Steve Molitz from…
The Great American Techno Festival has revealed part of the lineup for the third annual edition of the burgeoning techno extravaganza. Following up last year’s banner lineup of Kevin Saunderson and John Tejada, this year’s Great American Techno Fest, which is slated to take place Friday, September 13, through Sunday,…
Okay, so you know how fan-shot videos by all accounts generally suck? Beside the shaky, migraine-inducing footage, the audio is generally awful and sounds like it was literally recorded from the inside of the speaker cone. I think we can all agree that they’re a monumental waste of time for…
Assuming you still have some gas left in the tank after seeing Widespread Panic at the Rocks, Cervantes’ is hosting the Rocky Mountain Power Jam. The post-show hootenanny features an all-star cast of players, including Colonel Bruce Hampton of Aquarium Rescue Unit, George Porter Jr. of the Meters, Eric McFadden…
So last week, as all of the gear was being broken down and loaded out after his unprecedented two-day, four-show run, Prince had a super-duper, triple secret after party at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. It was so secret, in fact, that Becky Toma, who handles promotions and marketing at the club,…
These days, South Broadway is a thriving nightlife district that has undergone a cavalcade of changes in the past few years. As much of a makeover as the strip has had, though, not everybody’s stoked with the changes. If you’ve logged on to Facebook, you’ve no doubt seen posts from…
Dig your bluegrass? Banjos and mandolins make your heart swell? Great. You’re gonna love this shindig: two days of banjo goodness up in the hills. Clear Creek Rapidgrass is slated to go down on the first weekend of July at the Shelly/ Quinn Baseball Fields in Idaho Springs on Friday,…
When you hear steel guitar in a song, it’s usually used as supplemental instrumentation, adding texture to the tunes. You generally don’t expect to see the men and women of steel in the forefront, and yet that’s the entire impetus for the Denver Steel Guitar Show, the second annual edition…
At this stage of his career, particularly in Denver, Nathaniel Rateliff is a man who requires absolutely no preamble — his reputation precedes him. Nonetheless, this limited-edition two-song seven-inch (produced in honor of Record Store Day) feels like a fresh and glorious reintroduction to a songwriter we all thought we…
Havok, on tour in Europe right now with Cephalic Carnage, Suffocation and Fallujah, is preparing to release its new album, Unnatural Selection, on Tuesday, June 25. The ten-track album, the band’s fourth release overall and the followup to 2011’s Time Is Up, was produced by Havok frontman David Sanchez, mixed…
While everybody in the music world is seemingly fixated on the eagerly awaited musical output of a pair of prodigious punks in customized motorcycle helmets, the Lockerpartners have created a piece on a laudable batch of local masked minstrels, the fantastical 36-member beast known collectively as Itchy-O, the “big, broken…
If you’re not a streaming devotee and you’re the type that simply has to own all of your music, here’s a quick tip: For the next week, Beatport is having a summer sale in which you can pick up select EDM titles and hot new releases like Overgrown, James Blake’s…
