With Choice of Weapon, The Cult’s first studio album in five years, slated to hit stores on May 22, the band kicks off the first leg of its North American tour in San Diego on May 25 and hits the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, May 30. The Cult’s current line-up…
While legendary Chicago-based punk band Screeching Weasel has broken up and re-formed a number of times since being founded in 1986, frontman Ben “Weasel” Foster, the only constant member, is hitting the road with a new line-up as part of the band’s Heard You Were Dead tour, which stops at…
Jason Mraz is coming to Red Rocks on Monday, September 24, as part of his tour in support of his forthcoming album, Love is a Four Letter Word, due out Tuesday, April 17. Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter and Atlantic label mate Christina Perri opens the show. Tickets ($39.50-$59.50) go on sale to…
Skream & Benga’s show at the Ogden Theatre, originally slated for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4, has been moved to the Bluebird Theater. All tickets for the Ogden show will be honored, and tickets ($26.50) are still available through AXS. Hijak, Plastician, Sgt Pokes and Jackmaster are set to open the…
Jimmy Cliff at the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, June 19. Tickets ($34.95 plus fees) to see the reggae legend, whose career spans five decades, go on sale this Saturday, April 7, at 10 a.m. via Axs.com. On his most recent effort, the Sacred Fire EP, released last November, Cliff collaborated…
Over the last decade, 311 has brought its Unity Tour on the road during the summer with acts like Snoop Dogg, the Offspring, Sublime with Rome, Matisyahu, the Wailers and the Roots. This time around, 311 is teaming up with Slightly Stoopid again for another round of the tour, which…
After a stellar show at Fillmore in January in support of its latest release, The Whole Love, Wilco returns to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday, June 22 (with Punch Brothers) and Saturday, June 23 (with Dr. Dog). On Record Store Day (April 21), Wilco…
While Red Rocks and Comfort Dental Amphitheatre are both great spots for outdoor concerts during the summer, the Mishawaka Amphitheatre, which is about ten miles northwest of Ft. Collins in Poudre Canyon, also offers a great environment for seeing shows outside. While there’s still more shows to come, the Mish…
Since having her son, Kase Townes Murray, last summer, Jewel might have taken time off the road, but she’s still busy at home with a number of things, including working on a new Christmas album. Her free solo acoustic show this Saturday night at the Colorado Convention Center as part…
Starting off with The Guess Who on Sunday, June 3, and closing with Super Diamond on Sunday, August 26, the Hudson Gardens summer classic rock-centric concert series includes more than a dozen acts such as Mr. “Proud to Be An American,” Lee Greenwood, on July 3 and 4, Heart on…
After touring South America and Japan, Aerosmith brings its Global Warming Tour to the States, starting in Minneapolis in June and stopping at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, August 1, with Cheap Trick opening the show. While tickets go on sale on to the public on Friday, March 31, pre-sale…
WOVENHAND @ ORIENTAL THEATER | 3/24/12 One song into Saturday night’s set at the Oriental Theater and Michael Gira told the crowd, “Okay, shut up. Shut the fuck up. Time to shut up.” He’d opened with brooding and droning “Jim” from Swans’ latest effort, 2010’s My Father Will Guide Me…
While Dustin Wong (who will be at Moe’s on Saturday, March 24) played in the duo Ecstatic Sunshine and the Baltimore-based art rock group Ponytail, who broke up last year, the guitarist does some enthralling stuff on his own. On his second solo album, Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads,…
In this week’s feature on Dale Bruning, the Longmont-based jazz guitarist talks about his five years of teaching Bill Frisell, who has since gone on to be one of the world’s finest guitarists, both in the jazz realm and beyond. We caught up with Frisell, who is performing with Bruning…
When Sudhir Kuva and his business partners took over the Orange Cat Studios underground-arts space at 2625 Larimer Street last year and transformed it into the Matchbox, Kuva was concerned about how a non-music bar would do in an area with three live-music venues within a block. But now he…
Canadian rapper Drake is hitting the road with J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana as part of his 27-city Club Paradise Tour, which stops at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Sunday, May 13. Drake’s latest effort, Take Care, released last November on Cash Money, has…
Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, who reunited last year for the first time since 2005 to start work on a new album, just announced a sixteen-date North American tour that stops at the Temple Buell Theatre on Sunday, August 19 and then wraps up on September 7…
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The space at 2301 Blake Street has gone through a number of incarnations over the last few decades, including a run as Polly Esther’s. In June 2010, the Blake Street Tavern moved into the space after its seven-year run at its former location a block north, and in February last…
Norah Jones, who debuted songs from her forthcoming album at SXSW last week, kicks off her North American summer tour in June in Indianaplolis and wraps it up at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 23. Her Danger Mouse-produced album, Little Broken Hearts, hits stores on May 1 via Blue Note…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Cypress Hill, the Fray, Kaskade and Mojo Nixon were announced; Lola Black, Fresh Breath Committee and the Autumn Film got spins on local radio; and recent albums from Bruce Springsteen, Andrew Bird,…
Before moving to Colorado in 1964, jazz guitarist Dale Bruning spent about four and a half years studying with the legendary Dennis Sandole, who was John Coltrane’s teacher and mentor early in his career. After a few years of studying with Sandole, Bruning landed a gig as leader of the…
