Jess Parsons and Steve Varney connected instantly before a songwriting class at the University of Colorado Denver. The initial draw was the fact that aside from being musicians, they were both songwriters, too. Over the course of a week they had off from school during the 2008 Democratic National Convention,…
Aside from fronting the Autumn Film, Latifah Phillips is also a member of a hymn project, Page CXVI, with her husband, Reid, and Dann Stockton. About a year ago, Phillips met Nashville-based singer-songwriter Derek Webb, who wanted to remix some of Page CXVI’s tracks for the album re:hymns, which hits…
Local jazz and blues vocalist James Van Buren passed away yesterday from cancer. He was 77. Mark Diamond, Paul Romaine, Doug Roche, Mark Klagstad — who all played with Van Buren — and Freddy Rodriguez Sr. and others were scheduled to perform tonight at a benefit show tonight at Cervantes’…
Things might be slowing down a bit with the bigger concert announcements, but there was still a fair amount of activity during the last week, including Jane’s Addiction at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, Swans and Xiu Xiu at the Gothic Theatre, and Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween)…
Update (6/1/12): We’ve received word that services for Jerry Krantz will be held next week on Thursday, June 7 at 10 a.m. at St Catherine of Siena Catholic Church at 4200 Federal Boulevard, followed by an interment at Ft. Logan National Cemetery at 12:30 p.m. in area “B.” Jerry Krantz’s…
JANE’S ADDICTION @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 5/29/12 Before closing out an hour-and-a-half long set last night, Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell told a packed Fillmore Auditorium: “I read a review of this tour. It was not good. It said, and I say verbatim, ‘Jane’s Addiction has no reason for existing…
Since first emerging in the mid-’80s, the Cult (due tomorrow night at the Ogden Theatre) has gone through some lineup changes and been on a few breaks. Through it all, the band’s core members, frontman Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, have continued to churn out some heavy records, including…
It’s a bit unnerving when Perry Farrell wants to start your interview with him by asking you a question. You’ve got about thirty questions you want to ask the Jane’s Addiction frontman and about ten minutes to do so, when all of the sudden he asks you if you’d pick…
With the release of Mosey West’s five-song debut EP, Vaca Money, the Fort Collins-based trio established itself as one of the better alt-country acts to come out of the area in the past few years. But while Vaca Money was a strong effort, the band’s seven-song follow-up EP, Merica, outdoes…
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VAN HALEN @ PEPSI CENTER | 5/24/12 Evidently, 1982 was a very good year for David Lee Roth. “You’re taking pictures here tonight, hot stuff?” the Van Halen frontman asked a woman in the front row in the middle of “Panama.” “What? Oh, you want to make a sex tape…
When the Roadhouse Rebels come to the Oriental Theater this Sunday night, the act, which features Robby Krieger of the Doors and Particle keyboardist Steve Molitz, they’ll be joined by an all-star cast of players, including Oingo Boingo/Mutaytor bassist John Avila, the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and drummer Joe Magistro…
This Thursday, May 24, Kool & the Gang is due at the Pepsi Center with Van Halen. While this might seem like an unlikely pairing, the legendary funk/R&B act opening for the equally iconic rock band, Robert “Kool” Bell, Kool & the Gang’s founding member, tells us it’s working out…
Since 4H Royalty’s Zach Boddicker spent time playing in Drag the River, it wasn’t surprising to find a few similarities to the latter’s sound on 4H’s debut, 2010’s Colossalalia. And while there are still hints of the same to be found on the act’s followup, Where UFOs Go to Die…
In 1985, Love was the Cult’s breakthrough album, helped along by the single “She Sells Sanctuary” — but the band switched gears, stripped things down and started rocking out a few years later on the Rick Rubin-produced Electric. Since then, the Cult has been through a few lineup changes and…
The space at 1630 Federal Boulevard, just behind Sports Authority Field, has changed hands a few times since its former life once upon a time as an outpost for the Fraternal Order of Eagles, including stints as the Endzone and Angel’s Sports Bar. While the property has been vacant for…
After many years in Chicago, saxophonist Josh Quinlan moved to Colorado to work on his doctorate of music arts in jazz studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While here, in addition to teaching at Denver School of the Arts, he’s also taken over the helm of Dazzle Recordings…
Denver is rapidly losing its classic dive bars, and now you can add one more to the list — at least temporarily. The Filling Station has locked its doors at 3507 Brighton Boulevard…
After a more than three-decade run as BJ’s Carousel, Denver’s longest-running gay bar closed last July. Jason Tietjen, who’d worked at the Candlelight Tavern for the last decade, took over the spot and gutted the place from top to bottom. Now, after many months of work, the Dive Inn is…
“One of my favorite things to do is look at the line of the people going into the show. It’s totally diverse. And even back in the day, in the early days, I didn’t want to play just for punk rockers. I felt that we had something more to offer. Maybe we didn’t have quite the global message that the Clash had, but the Clash wanted to reach the world. And that’s what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to just play…that would be as narrow-minded as the people who said that punks suck.”
It’s a bit ironic that Shooter Jennings (due at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill on Friday, May 4), the son of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, would make what he calls his “most country record to date” in New York. But that’s essentially what happened…
Just over a year after opening the 1UP, the hot arcade/bar in LoDo, owner Jourdan Adler has taken over the former home of Pete’s Monkey Bar, which closed on Monday, and will be putting a second bar, the 2UP, in that spot. According to Adler, the 2UP will have arcade…
