Def Leppard and Poison, who toured together in 2009, are back it again for a massive tour this summer that hits the Pepsi Center on Monday, June 25. Lita Ford will open the show. Reserved tickets ($29.50-$95) go on sale on Friday, March 16 at 10 a.m. through TicketHorse, at…
Kottonmouth Kings and Twiztid are teaming up for the Kaos & Kronik Tour, which starts next month in Kansas City and makes its way to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, May 15. Special guests Blaze and Big B open the show. Kottonmouth Kings are slated to drop their thirteenth studio…
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 03.09.12 The last time the Drive-By Truckers came through town they wrapped up a leg of a tour with a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre a year ago. This time around, the guys kicked off a West Coast run at the same venue…
Tyler Gilmore helped launch Dazzle Recordings while he was Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge’s music director, and since releasing the debut of his seventeen-piece jazz ensemble, Ninth & Lincoln, in late 2007, the label has gone on to put out a number of albums by local jazz artists. Gilmore is now…
Over the last year, three dueling-piano bars have closed, including Chez Cirque in Greenwood Village, Wild Ivories and, most recently, SingSing, which went dark at the end of last year. Howl at the Moon, which has more than a dozen locations across the country, will fill that dueling-piano void when…
Although no acts have been announced yet for the Vail Soul Music Fest, which runs Friday, August 17, through Sunday, August 19, at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, pre-sale tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. through TicketHorse. In the meantime, there’s more information at the festival’s website. Check…
While Raincheck pianist Ben Markley says much of the band’s inspiration is taken from classic 1960s Blue Note recordings, the quartet puts a bit of an updated spin on that era with eight original tunes and a reworking of George Gershwin’s “Love Walked In.” Tracks like “Boogalues,” meanwhile, recall the…
You can listen to Gogol Bordello’s albums, watch videos, see photos or read about the gypsy punks, but none of it can really compare to the act’s vigorous, highly charged shows. Fronted by wiry frontman Eugene Hutz, who’s a whirring ball of energy on stage, the band usually blasts through…
The Drive-By Truckers recorded their last two releases — The Big To-Do and Go-Go Boots — during the same sessions in 2009, yet the albums sound quite different. The former is raucous, raw and rocks something fierce, while the latter, for the most part, is a more toned-down affair, a…
Although Jane’s Addiction has played New Year’s stints at Belly Up in Aspen over the last few years, it’s been close to three years since the band was in Denver (with Nine Inch Nails). Live Nation just announced that Jane’s will hit the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday, May 29, in…
The legendary B.B. King teams up with the Tedeschi Trucks Band for a night of blues at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 30. The 86-year-old King averages 125 concerts a year and has logged in more than 15,000 gigs over his six-decade long career. Meanwhile, the Tedeschi Trucks Band just…
While the Denver Botanic Gardens summer concert series schedule hasn’t been released yet, the folks at Swallow Hill, who help present the shows, have announced that the B-52s, who are celebrating their 35th anniversary this year, and Squeeze will be at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July…
While some guitarists lower their E strings down to D for a chunkier sound, Miner guitarists Jeff Sollohub and Tim Beattie take things a bit further south to get a super-thick and beefy tone on most of the cuts on the band’s six-song EP, Building a Rocket. These guys share…
Singer-songwriter Coles Whalen originally planned to release her third full-length, I Wrote This for You, last November, but while the CDs were in production, she listened to a copy of the master and realized that there were four up-tempo rocking country songs that she didn’t want on the album. “I…
Harry Tuft, who was just inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, may be best known for having run the Denver Folklore Center for the better part of its fifty-year existence, but he’s also a fine musician and singer in his own right. Joined by a number of local…
Bonnie Raitt is set to release Slipstream, her first album in seven years, on April 10 on her new Redwing Records imprint. Afterward, the singer/guitarist is slated to hit the road in support of the record, a tour that includes a stop at Red Rocks on Sunday, August 26. Reserved…
Over the last two years, Soulive has set up shop at Brooklyn Bowl for the band’s annual Bowlive residencies, which have also featured guest appearances from heavies like by Maceo Parker, John Scofield and Ivan Neville. With this weekend’s Snowlive, Soulive will be at the Fox Theatre for a three-night…
For the past three decades, the space at 2265 West 84th Avenue has held various incarnations of Babe’s: Babe’s on the Hill, Babe’s Country, House of Babes and, most recently, Babe’s Restaurant and Lounge. But the Babe’s brand was finally put to rest on February 1, when longtime manager Glen…
Earth, Wind & Fire singer Philip Bailey, who was born at Denver Health in 1951 and an East High School graduate, returns to his hometown with the band for Denver Health Foundation’s NightShine Gala on Saturday, April 28 at the National Western Events Center. Tickets and table sales to the…
The folks behind Beauty Bar and Derbyville roller-skate shop have teamed up for Down & Derby Roller Disco: Hair Metal Edition at Exdo Event Center (1399 35th Street). The skating party that brings back the glory days of ’70s roller disco is held on the third Friday of every month;…
For the past three decades, the space at 2265 West 84th Avenue has held various incarnations of Babe’s: Babe’s on the Hill, Babe’s Country, House of Babes and, most recently, Babe’s Restaurant and Lounge. But the Babe’s brand — which drew a sometimes dicey clientele — was finally put to…
Harry Tuft, slated to be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame this Sunday, February 12, opened the Denver Folklore Center in 1962 and started promoting concerts a few years later, bringing in Joan Baez to Denver for the first time in 1964 and later bringing her to Red…
