Marty Jones says he’s comfortable fronting bands, something he’s been doing for three decades — but he’s scared to death of playing by himself. Jones, who’s led the roots and rockabilly groups the Great Unknowns and the Pork Boilin’ Poor Boys, respectively, says there’s nobody to hide behind when playing…
Alejandro Escovedo was just beginning a fall 2014 tour when he started having what he calls “a kind of brain seizure.” “They happened a few times, and one of them happened just before a gig in Portland,” Escovedo says. “The place was sold out and we were about to play,…
Stewart Copeland, drummer and co-founder of the Police, wants people to know that if they see him and the Colorado Symphony perform Tyrant’s Crush, his concerto for trap set and orchestra, this weekend, that “they can make as much noise as they want. This ain’t Mahler.” Tyrant’s Crush, Copeland’s first concerto,…
For a moment, Theo Bleckmann didn’t know if he was alive or dead. Five years ago, the New York-based vocalist and composer, who has been a fixture in the avant-garde and jazz scenes for 25 years, was in a car accident that severely damaged his eyes.
Last week, we reported that Pearl’s recently brought in two new co-owners to head up the music venue inside the Capitol Hill space that was previously the Beauty Bar, and the Snake Pit before that. Thing was, the owners didn’t unveil the name of the venue until last Friday. So what’s it called? Your Mom’s House.
After being open for about a year, the Capitol Hill-based neighborhood bar and venue, Pearl’s was in jeopardy of closing. The spot at 603 East 13th Avenue, which had previously been home to Beauty Bar and the Snake Pit before that, even launched an Indiegogo campaign to try to stay afloat. But now, with two new owners on board, as well as a new sound and light systems, with lasers to boot, the venue-side of the bar will focus on live music. The owners will unveil its new name tonight, January 27, at the venue’s grand opening.
Four years ago, local guitarist Dave Devine was set to play his first set of music from Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti Western soundtracks in Dazzle jazz club. The Good, the Bad and the Dazzle show was something that he and Kevin Lee, a fellow guitarist who was the venue’s music manager…
On previous visits to Denver, renowned exploratory guitarist Fred Frith performed with John Zorn and Mike Patton, and with guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei and local guitarist Janet Feder, whom Frith has also recorded with. Those gigs displayed Frith’s adventurous approach to the guitar, which he’s been honing for more than five decades.
After months of waiting, Monkey Barrel finally got the OK for its cabaret license.
From new recordings by Melissa Aldana to Jakob Bro, here are the ten best jazz albums of 2016.
The Flaming Lips are coming to Aspen to play from their new album, which was created, in party, while recording with Miley Cyrus.
Wondering which venues opened and closed in 2016? Here’s a roundup.
When Eck’s Saloon closed two years ago, Lakewood lost a legendary music venue with a history that spanned more than three decades and saw steady stream of local and national hard rock and ’80s hair-rock bands like Warrant, Skid Row and Quiet Riot. But since Dumitru Sajin took over the building last February, he’s been busy giving the spot a much-needed update, and now he is opening the space as the Silver Spur Saloon the first weekend in December.
Quixote’s True Blue might have changed locations a few times over the last two decades, but the music venue and bar has always been a haven for fans of the Grateful Dead. Although owner Jay Bianchi closed the last Quixote’s incarnation at 314 East 13th Avenue (where it had been for the last four years) at the end of October, he didn’t waste any time opening another spot in a similar vein. Bianchi has taken over the former Denver Wrangler space at 1700 Logan Street and will open Be On Key Psychedelic Ripple there in December.
The masterful jazz guitarist Joshua Breakstone thinks the ultimate thing in jazz isn’t how fast you play or how great a guitar player you are. Rather, it’s how well know your instrument.
As a member of Dualistics, Science Partner and more recently the Gin Doctors, singer, guitarist and songwriter Tyler Despres was a fixture in the Denver music community for more than a decade. He died on Tuesday, November 1 the age of 34, of an aortic aneurysm.
Over the course of her 55-year-long storied music career, folksinger and activist Joan Baez has been fearless in standing up for what she believes in, both on stage and off. She marched with Martin Luther King Jr. on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, got arrested…
Starting at the age of fourteen, pianist Larry Wegner would sometimes play Glenn Miller hits with the Bob Murphy band at dances at American Legion and VFW halls in Yuma, near the eastern border or Colorado. He’d get home around 5 a.m., get some sleep and then play organ at…
When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, the Bodysnatchers and the Selecter. The Selecter’s vocalist, Pauline Black, says the whole idea of…
Legendary British ska band The Specials eased into Wednesday night’s set at the Ogden Theatre with “Ghost Town” and “Do Nothing” but gradually built up the energy throughout the hour-and-a-half long set. “It’s time to start skanking!” said original guitarist Lynval Golding just before “Rat Race.” Golding, along with other original members, including…
The Specials, the renowned ska band that formed in Coventry, England nearly four decades ago, finally got together again to record demos last November, after years of gathering material and ideas. According to founding member and guitarist Lynval Golding, it was drummer John “Brad” Bradbury’s idea to do a new tour…
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, a Denver native who has been a longtime Bay Area resident, has worked in the avant-garde world heavies like John Zorn, Nels Cline and Myra Melford. He also formed the New Klezmer Trio in 1992, was part of the acoustic chamber group Tin Hat and has led…
