Francois Safieddine’s upscale Suite Two Hundred (1427 Larimer Street) has been doing extremely well since it opened just over six months ago, according to Paulina Szafranski, vice president of marketing for Lotus Concepts. But to stay ahead of the game, this weekend the club will unveil its new VIP lounge:…
There was a ton of action with concert announcements this week, especially some great shows at Red Rocks including Ween (Sunday, September 6), Wilco (Friday, July 3), the Killers (Wednesday, September 9), Lyle Lovett (Sunday, July 26) and Slightly Stoopid (Wednesday, July 15). Fiddler’s Green roped in a pair of…
For the second week in a row, Jadakiss topped the Independent Records best seller list for the week ending April 19. UGK and the Dream still sat in the top five for the second week in a row while Gorilla Zoe and Flo Rida stay in the top ten. See…
The brand new Silversun Pickups album, Swoon, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout for the week ending April 19. Since the store was pretty busy on Record Store Day (April 18), it’s not surprising that special releases for that day by Iron & Wine, My Morning Jacket and…
Ween, who brought a ton of shenanigans to town during its two-night run at Fillmore last July, will return these parts again Sunday, September 6 when the band plays Red Rocks. Tickets, which are $44.95, go on sale Saturday, April 25 at 10 a.m. If you can’t wait that long…
My Morning Jacket’s Celebración De La Ciudad Natal, a live EP recorded in Louisville and released especially for Record Store Day, was the top seller at Wax Trax for the week ending April 19. Death’s 1974 demo, For the Whole World to See, which Drag City released in February, grabbed…
Tonight’s Pennywise and Pepper show at the Fillmore Auditorium, which was part of Jagermeister’s Music Tour, has been postponed due to severe weather conditions west of Denver. The bands plan to reschedule the show and Live Nation will announce a new date as soon as the show is confirmed…
On keyboardist Wayne Horvitz’s 2006 Gravitas Quartet album, there’s a song called “One Morton” – the address of the rehearsal studio that Horvitz and his wife, singer Robin Holcomb, rented when they first moved to New York. For several years at the end of the ’70s, some of downtown’s avant-garde…
For two decades, Neil Haverstick has explored microtonal guitar, using a nineteen-tone system of tuning rather than the standard twelve-tone one. Having performed previously with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, for this record the guitarist joined forces with the Colorado Chamber Orchestra to create a enthralling four-song suite titled “Spider.” Starting…
The dudes in the Black Lips get naked on stage sometimes. But a few months ago, some folks in India weren’t too stoked when guitarist Cole Alexander stripped and jumped into the crowd. Let’s just say a little chaos ensued and the rest of band’s tour got canceled. And last…
I’ve been into Western shirts for a few years and wear one pretty much every day of the week — usually solid black or some sort of plaid, untucked, with snaps. But that’s as close as I come to being a cowboy. I don’t have cowboy boots or a hat…
Sunday, August 9 is going to be a busy day for music in the Mile High, when Kings of Leon stops by Red Rocks, and the skater-centric Vans Warped Tour, pulls into Invesco with more than fifty bands in tow, including 3OH!3, Bad Religion, NOFX, Less Than Jake and Flogging…
Jadakiss’s Last Kiss, released last week, topped Independent Records best seller list for the week ending April 12. Local act Single File, who had an in-store performance April 7, grabbed the second spot while UGK, Hurt and Dream were also in the top five. See the full breakdown after the…
Neil Young’s brand new album, Fork in the Road, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout last week, followed by Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone, which has been a strong performer since it was released March 3. New releases from Doves, Grateful Dead and Yeah Yeah Yeahs rounded out the…
Lily AllenThursday, April 9, 2009Ogden TheatreSome lyricists bury a song’s meaning in metaphors or subtleties, which sometimes leaves a lot more room for interpretation. Lily Allen, on the other hand, shoots from the hip. She’s blunt and she’ll tell you what’s what in plain English, whether it be about bad…
This year marks drummer Bill Goodwin’s fiftieth as a professional musician. During the past 35 years, he’s performed with, recorded with and produced albums for legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods in addition to working with Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett. Goodwin also played on Tom Waits’s…
This year marks drummer Bill Goodwin’s fiftieth as a professional musician. During the past 35 years, he’s performed with, recorded with and produced albums for legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods in addition to working with Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett. Goodwin also played on Tom Waits’s…
It might have taken Bonnie Lowdermilk a little more than a decade to release the followup to her previous album with the Fred Hersch Trio, but Up to Now was well worth the wait. With help from some of the area’s finest players, including Mark Simon, Ken Walker and Greg…
Remember that scene in Animal House when Otter, Flounder, Pinto and Boon pick up those girls from Emily Dickinson College and then drive by the Dexter Lake Club, where they spy an Otis Day and the Knights banner hanging outside? Since the band had played one of their frat parties,…
Three more shows were added to this upcoming season’s quickly expanding line-up at Red Rocks, including a date featuring the Allman Brothers with the Drive-By Truckers on Saturday, September 5, a show with Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal on Sunday, August 30, and Yonder Mountain String Band’s Friday, August 28…
Mono’s fifth studio album, Hymn From the Immortal Wind, moved up from the third spot to the top of Wax Trax’s best seller list for the week ending April 6. Dan Auberbach, Kylesa and MF Doom were also in the top five while local acts the Omens, Eyes & Ears…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ brand new album, It’s Blitz, topped the best seller charts Twist & Shout for the week ending April 6 while new albums by Diana Krall, PJ Harvey & John Parish, Leonard Cohen and the Decemberists also grabbed slots in the top five. See the full breakdown after…
