Just over a year after opening The 1UP arcade and bar in LoDo, owner Jourdan Adler has taken over the space formerly occupied by Pete’s Monkey Bar (717 East Colfax Avenue), which made its last pour on Monday night, and plans to open the 2UP next month. Adler says the…
See also: Welcome to the new Deadbeat Club. Since the original Deadbeat Club closed in early 2000, the space at 4040 East Evans Avenue has gone through a number of incarnations, especially over the last five years, when it’s operated under various names, including Posh Ultra Lounge, Skin and Club…
Jon Boland did a fine job fronting alt-country act Rosalie, whether he was singing a souped-up rocker about a Chevy Nova or delivering a heartfelt ballad. Boland delves more into the latter on his solo outing, favoring an acoustic guitar instead of the electric he used in Rosalie. Lightning in…
It’s a bit ironic that Shooter Jennings, 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. Shortly after moving to New York from Los Angeles, Jennings started writing songs in…
See Also: Dulcinea’s to re-open as Pete’s Monkey Bar After a two-and-half year run, Pete Penzastadler is closing Pete’s Monkey Bar with one last blowout. Penzastadler, who says it was “a fucking awesome run,” is closing the spot because he just needed to move on. In October 2009, Penzastadler, who…
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See Also: Best of Denver 2008 – Best Club Comeback After a five-year run as Sutra, the space at 1109 Lincoln Street, once known as the Donkey Den, is closed for remodeling. If you’ve driven by, you’ve probably noticed that the place has received a fresh new coat of black…
Nick Apollo Forte, who’ll perform in Denver for the first time in two decades on Sunday, April 22, at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, is best known for playing the lounge singer Lou Canova in Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose. But Forte is much more than a singer: He started off as…
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After hearing Nick Apollo Forte’s “Scungilli Song” on the jukebox of a Bronx bar, Woody Allen considered him for a part in his film Broadway Danny Rose. Forte later got a call from someone at Allen’s studio asking if he could send a resume, and he says he took out…
At the end of 2011, the legendary Music Bar went dark, after a 28 percent rent hike forced the place to close its doors. But last month the spot at 4586 Tennyson Street was taken over by Niya Diehl, who’d been the manager of Mead Street Station for five years;…
Josh Moore is a damn fine jazz drummer who lends his talents to acts like the Aakash Mittal Quartet, but Past Presents is a far cry from any of the jazz work he’s done. With this solo project, he delves into indie and chamber rock, and he’s equally adept at…
When Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge owner Donald Rossa started Dazzle Recordings in 2007 with Tyler Gilmore, the club’s music director at the time, it was a kind of pet project centered on music that Rossa liked to listen to. At first, he says, they were just having a little bit…
The metro area gained so many liquid assets in 2011, we had to do a lot of drinking before we could choose the winner of our Best New Bar award for the Best of Denver 2012. And even then, the awards kept spilling out for other new spots, including Best…
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Given her background in Western swing, gypsy and vintage jazz and bluegrass, it’s not surprising that all of those styles surface on Katie Glassman’s sixteen-track long-player, Snapshot. While Glassman is clearly an able singer, her fiddle playing is exceptional — which also makes sense, considering that she started playing when…
Last year, Cake celebrated its twentieth anniversary and released its six full-length, Showroom of Compassion, on its own Upbeat Records imprint. Touring in support of the album, Cake stops at Red Rocks Amphiteatre on Saturday, July 28. Denver’s the Lumineers, who released their self-titled debut last week on Dualtone, will…
If there’s any jazz trumpeter out there who fully embraces Dizzy Gillespie’s legacy, it’s Jon Faddis. Gillespie was mentor and friend to Faddis, who closely emulated his idol through his sheer command of the trumpet and his ability to soar in the upper register. In 1987, Faddis played a primary…
