When you’re near the top of the grassy slope at Fiddler’s Green, the massive stage below dominates the foreground. It has hosted Bob Dylan, John Denver, Lollapalooza (back when it was still a touring event), Wiz Khalifa and plenty more, but in 1982 that stage was just an asphalt thumbprint…
While trumpeter Joshua Trinidad is a deft jazz player and performs with his own quintet and quartet, he also plays with Wheelchair Sports Camp and Poets Row. As evidenced with some of his previous efforts, Trinidad, who sometimes runs his trumpet through guitar effects, is well versed in electronic and…
At just 21 years old, Porter Robinson already has to close to a decade of music production experience under his belt. After touring with EDM heavies like Skrillex and Tiësto, Robinson has been picking working his way up the ranks. In support of his forthcoming debut, Worlds, due in August,…
After 28 years at 7699 West 88th Avenue, Hoffbrau Colorado moved to a new 15,000 square-foot space at 9110 Wadsworth Parkway. It’s about twice as big as the old location and features an expanded stage and more ambitious concert calendar. The grand opening is tonight, May 15 with live music…
The last time the Black Keys played these parts, it was a two-night stint at the 1STBANK Center two years ago. They’ll be playing much bigger digs on their Thursday, November 13, stop at the Pepsi Center in support of their brand-new album, Turn Blue, which hits stores today. Pre-sale…
The folks behind Illegal Pete’s just signed the lease on the former Mama’s Cafe space at 2001 East Colfax Avenue, which was an IHOP before that (and a radioactive one, since it was built on old radium tailings that have since been cleaned up). But that’s just one of the…
Guitar wiz Nels Cline says he used to envy people who could stick to one genre, like musicians who’d say, “All I do is play swing, or all I do is play bluegrass, or all I do is play prepared guitar.” But for Cline, due tonight at Dazzle, focusing on…
Over the last six months, Cervantes’ has been at work on a new patio and outdoor stage by the Other Side portion of the venue. Woodworker Tommy Lyle of Wood of a Kind built the outdoor stage, seating and bar using wood from trees that fell during the floods last…
The Blasters, due at the Lion’s Lair tonight, May 6, and tomorrow, May 7, were founded in 35 years ago in Downey, California, by brothers Phil and Dave Alvin along with drummer Bill Bateman and bassist John Bazz. Steeped in American music traditions, the band easily traverses through blues, rockabilly,…
It’s been a hell of a long time since Beck played these parts. Now touring in support of his new album, Morning Phase, which he’s called a companion piece to 2002’s Sea Change, Beck headlines Red Rocks on Friday, August 15. General admission and reserved tickets ($49.95-$57.50) go on sale…
A year ago the owners of Stoney’s Bar & Grill at 1111 Lincoln Street took on the space at 1434 Blake Street that has been many, many things over the years — starting with City Spirit and, most recently, Full Steam Tavern — and named it Stoney’s Full Steam Tavern…
Editor’s note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver asks a Colorado band or musician four questions and then draws their conversation. Sometimes he does other stuff. We call the resulting comic “4 Questions: Comic Strip Interview” either way, for some reason. You can see more of Van Sciver’s work and…
Almost two years after they purchased the building at 2036 Broadway that had most recently housed the Rockaway Tavern and Triangle Denver before that, the owners of Wurstküche, a Los Angeles-based concept that combines exotic sausages with a beer hall, are slated to open their Denver location in July –…
Between 2006 and 2011, jazz guitarist Matt Fuller endured the loss of his grandfather, his father, his grandmother and his mother. During that period, Fuller wrote a number of songs that helped him through the healing process. Those songs appear on his debut album, Waiting for Violet, which he will…
Arctic Monkeys, touring in support of their latest effort, AM, will headline Red Rocks for the first time on Thursday, September 4. General-admission and reserved tickets ($39.95-$46.50) go on sale on Friday, May 2, at 10 a.m. Waka Flock Flame returns to the area with a stop at the Gothic…
Doyle Robinson, co-founder and executive director of Sox Place, knew it was inevitable that he’d have to move his drop-in center for Denver’s street youth out of the building at 2017 Larimer Street where’s it’s been for the last four years. And he recently got word that the non-profit will…
Wayne Shorter, who headlines the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival on Friday, April 25, doesn’t have typical days. The 80-year-old saxophone legend, who was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, says it’s all an adventure. The day we speak with him, Shorter tells us he is…
Lola, the frontwoman for Lola Black, has been carrying brass knuckles since she was a teenager. So far, she hasn’t had to use them. “Sometimes coming out of a bar, I’ll put them in my back pocket, just in case,” she says. “You never know…” Since the band’s 2008 inception,…
Pretty Lights returns to Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Friday, August 8 and Saturday, August 9 but the this time around local producer Derek Vincent Smith will have a full band on board as well as thirteen members of the Colorado Symphony. Tickets ($44.50 advance, $50 day of…
A year ago, local music icon and ColfaxAvenue.com webmaster Jonny Barber released the first volume of his Colfax-themed compilation that included acts like Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Five Iron Frenzy and Andy Palmer. Now Barber is set to release the second installment of the Colfax Compilation on Tuesday, April 22,…
STS9 returns to Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Friday, September 5 and Saturday, September 6 and general admission tickets ($39.75/$45) go on sale on Friday, April 18 at 10 a.m.. A limited number of two-day passes ($50) go on sale on Wednesday, April 16 at 10 a.m. through…
It’s evident from the start on Euforquestra’s fourteen-track LP, Fire, that the cats in this sextet are serious about the funk. The Fort Collins-by-way-of-Iowa City act kicks into gear on the up-tempo, groove-heavy opening cut, “The Price Is Right,” and follows up with the sticky funk of the title track…
