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Herman’s Hideaway, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and thirty years of live music this year, is debuting a new patio tonight at the Railbenders show. Mike Roth, the venue’s co-owner, says they’re still putting the finishing touches on the open-air patio, but it will be completely functional starting this…
As part of the Who’s first tour in four years, the band is taking its 1973 album Quadrophenia on a 36-city North American tour that stops at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, February 12. In addition to performing the album live, the touring band, which also includes Pete Townshend’s younger…
See Also: – Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys at Red Rocks, 7/18/12 – The Rebirth of Emmylou Harris – The Fray Scars & Stories: A track-by-track breakdown from Isaac Slade and Joe King Since first performing with Gram Parsons in Boulder in the early ’70s (and getting fired),…
Audio-visual performance covers a lot of territory, according to David Fodel, who’s co-curating the inaugural MediaLive 2012 this week-end. “It goes anywhere from people who are doing light shows at a rave to super-high-end academic conservatory music that’s really abstract and difficult to penetrate,” he explains. MediaLive, a three-day symposium…
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Now that we’re moving into the thick of summer concert season, the fall schedule is starting to take shape with new dates from Peaches, Kottonmouth Kings, Why?, Warrant, Cinderella and Skid Row on the books. Page down for the full rundown on this week’s new show announcements, as well as…
While Squeeze (due at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July 4) has had a few hiatuses in its almost forty year history, singer and guitarist Glenn Tilbrook says the band sounds more energized these days — so energized, in fact, that the group has even started work on…
To give you an idea of what you’re in for on Steve Son, Denver fixture Jinx Jones writes on the liner notes, “This CD is not a collection of songs that sound alike, but a continuing story that spans forty years of experience.” Steve Son once fronted the rockabilly act…
Overcasters’ lastest effort, Curses/Prayers, which was recorded by Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Von Bondies), is a breakthrough album that includes some of the band’s finest and most memorable songwriting to date. It also marks their strongest performances yet. For the album’s new video, “Eye Shine,” the band teamed…
Last March, Matthew Lusk was killed in a car accident, and the funeral was paid for by a loan from his grandmother’s health-care savings until a victim’s compensation fund would repay the costs. But the insurance company has denied the claim for expenses associated with the death of Lusk, who…
After a decade at 255 S. Broadway, Barker Lounge is moving to 475 Santa Fe Drive, once home to the Continental Club, One Eyed Jacks and most recently the NV Lounge…
After a decade at 255 S. Broadway, Barker Lounge is moving to 475 Santa Fe Drive, once home to the Continental Club, One Eyed Jacks and most recently the NV Lounge. Barker manager Preston Carter says the bar just shut its old location last Sunday after losing its lease and…
Last summer, DJ and hip-hop producer Peanut Butter Wolf was at City Hall celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Stones Throw Records, the label he founded…
Over the last year, John Baxter of ZetaKaye House has released three volumes of the This Ain’t No Cowtown series which features Colorado-based artists. The first volume, available for free through Bandcamp, included 22 bands and 10 comedians and poets, while the second and third volumes each included more than…
While things are slowing down a bit somewhat with summer concert announcements, the fall show season is beginning to shape up nicely with new shows from (updated) Mumford & Sons, a trio of dates with Brother Ali in October, as well as the Melvins Lite and Henry Rollins in September…
What makes a championship team?” asks trumpeter David Weiss. “It’s not the best player in the world playing his own game. It’s not everybody trying to get 35 points a night. Weiss says a similar concept applies to the Cookers, a group of jazz all-stars he put together five years…
After an eight-year run at La Rumba, Lipgloss, one of the city’s longest running dance nights, just moved to to Beauty Bar. But before Lipgloss moved into La Rumba, the spot was home to Oxygen, which was awarded the Best Gay Bar for Gay Men in 2003 in Westword’s Best…
Last week, we reported that the Rockstar Lounge had closed after a year-and-a-half run. Starting tonight, the folks behind Pristeen Events, who have been hosting dance parties over the last year, are starting temporary teen nights dubbed Club Hollywood in the space that was once home to Zen Ultra Lounge…
With the release of In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew more than four decades ago, Miles Davis paved the way for jazz-rock fusion. And while trumpeter John Lake’s project SHIRLEY borrows from those albums, the forward-thinking quintet takes things in a slightly different direction, incorporating electronic music, funk, computers…
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When half-brothers Patrick Wilson and Nicholas Blake were looking for a concept for their new club, they found inspiration in Nickelback’s “Rockstar” video. When we spoke with them back in November 2010 when the club first opened, the brothers told us they were opening the Rockstar Lounge with the idea…
