While living in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bretton Scott rented out his apartment for a week via Airbnb to a French woman who designed restaurants. She told him should design a restaurant like his living room. That’s essentially what he’ll be doing with his new restaurant and bar,…
Master jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith (who’s due tonight, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31 at Dazzle) and says the Hammond B-3 is a part of him, that it’s an extension of himself. He’s been eating and breathing the organ for the last five decades since starting to play it…
Jay Bianchi, owner of the Grateful Dead-centric bars Quixote’s True Blue and Sancho’s Broken Arrow, is resurrecting the Owsley’s Golden Road name in Boulder, seven years after opening a venue of the same in Denver. While Bianchi is currently booking shows at the Goose Bar (1301 Broadway) in Boulder as…
Once home to O.P. Baur Confectionery Company in the late 1800s, Baur’s Ristorante and most recently, Le Grand Bistro, which closed last year, the building at 1512 Curtis Street has a long history. Now the Baur’s name is getting a reboot with Baur’s, Est. 1872 restaurant and its music venue,…
Since opening five years ago in Capitol Hill, the Denver Beauty Bar location been home various weekly dance nights, like Liplgoss and Motown Thursdays, and hosted some high profile talent like Prince Paul, Victor Duplaix, DJ Nu-Mark, the Smiths’ Andy Rourke and Love and Rockets/Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash . But…
After a fifteen-year run with the Jello Biafra-founded label Alternative Tentacles, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club has launched its new label, SCACUNINC, which will also release material for Auto Club projects DBUK, and Munly & the Lupercalians. “We just kind of wanted to take control,” Cessna says. “We just wanted to…
After selling out its June 6 Pepsi Center show earlier this week, U2 added a second show on Sunday, June 7 as part of its iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015. Tickets ($65-$275) go on sale on Monday, March 30 at 10 a.m. Swallow Hill announced its Summer Stage Concert Series at the…
David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller, the husband-and-wife team who make up the core of the Lyons-based group Taarka, lost their house when the St. Vrain River flooded in 2013. “Whether it was bad or good wasn’t really the perspective; it was more just, ‘Wow!,’” Tiller says. “Definitely through the process…
When Zac Brown Band performs Coors Field on Friday, July 3 it will be the first major concert at the stadium since it opened two decades ago. Brown will be touring in support of his forthcoming album, Jekyll + Hyde, which hit stores on April 28. Tickets ($29.50-$105) go on sale…
In 1969, Miles Davis started recording sessions for his landmark jazz-rock fusion album Bitches Brew, using close to twenty musicians over six months. Pianists Herbie Hancock, who spent five years in Davis’s second great quintet, and Chick Corea were both on that album, as well as Davis’s In a Silent…
Widespread Panic returns to Red Rocks for three nights (Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28) and will also perform at the two-day Ride Festival (Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12) in Telluride that also includes Gov’t Mule, Jonny Lang, Trigger Hippy, North Mississippi Allstars, The Temperance Movement and more…
Over the last six months Scott Mattson and his wife Nicole have been transforming the building at 1330 27th Street from a warehouse-type space into Nocturne, a modern take on the 1940s jazz supper club, which opens to the public on Monday, March 9. Mattson, who graduated from Metro State…
When keyboardist and singer Mark Shusterman, bassist and singer Rhett Rogers, guitarist Alex Eschen and drummer Scott Beck first formed the Blue Rider four years ago, the band was doing a lot of covers of soul and R&B songs from the late ’50s and early ’60s, with some psychedelic stuff…
Damien Rice and Iron & Wine team will be at Red Rocks on Monday, August 10, and tickets ($45-$65) go on sale on Friday, March 6 at 10 a.m. Country start Dierks Bentley headlines the Sounds of Summer Tour at Fiddler’s Green on Thursday, August 13, with Kip Moore, Maddie &…
Long before Bart Dahl landed a gig as a manager at Madison House (and later moved to New York when the Boulder-based booking and management company opened an office there) he played in a few bands in the mid ‘90s while getting his “first peek behind the curtain, so to…
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, who will reunite for the tour in seven years, will be at Red Rocks on Tuesday, September 15. Tickets ($45-$55) go on sale on Friday, February 27 at 10 a.m. Four-time Grammy winner Sam Smith, who headlined 1STBANK Center last month, will play at…
Some people tend to gravitate toward dick and fart jokes. But Greater Than Collective’s Virgil Dickerson has always had a passion for poop stories. The one he says he’s told more than any other in his life was about how an employee at Suburban Home Records (which Dickerson founded) once…
Def Leppard stops at the Pepsi Center on Saturday, September 26 with Styx and Tesla as part of the band’s extensive North American tour that hits nearly fifty cities. Tickets ($29.50-$125) for the general public go on sale on Friday, February 20 at 10 a.m. but Citi cardmembers will have…
In addition to fronting DeVotchKa, singer and guitarist Nick Urata has composed music for close to two dozen films over the past decade. But he’s never worked on a project as big as Paddington.He spent nearly three months in London composing music for the film, which stars Nicole Kidman and…
The Replacements will be at the Fillmore Auditorium as part of their Back By Unpopular Demand Tour, their first full U.S. tour since 1991. Original members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson team up with drummer Josh Freese and guitarist David Minehan, who played with the band at three Riot Fest…
While some of the more recent output from Lloyd Cole, known for his work in the ’80s with his group the Commotions, has been acoustically driven, he realized early on in the writing songs for his most recent effort, Standards, that he wanted to steer the album in more of…
The bar and restaurant at 3014 East Colfax Avenue had been previously going under three monikers: 3014, Odelay and the Beetle Bar. But when new owners Dave Cleland, John Elliott and Toby Waters took over the space last summer, they also wanted to consolidate the name and image of the…
