If Axl Rose had worked a civil servant job all these years, he could be retiring early. And if he’d kept pushing the boundaries of his music into the future, he might still be performing songs, in his mid-fifties, that are as pivotal to today’s culture as the old songs were to kids growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Denver Arts & Venues and the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs have announced the recipients of the 2017 IMAGINE 2020 fund, a city grant that gives up to $5,000 for new cultural programs.
Slayer guitarist and co-founder Kerry King doesn’t listen to much new music. He sticks to the classic metal outfits that inspired him around when he, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman and Tom Araya started playing together in 1981. The only guilty pleasure to speak of on King’s iPod is a compilation of South Park Christmas carols. Otherwise, he sticks to the old stuff: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
The Sie FilmCenter is hosting a twenty-film retrospective of Pedro Almodóvar, the brazenly independent filmmaker who has defined Spanish cinema in the post-Franco era and managed to keep his hands unsullied by the Hollywood machine.
Was Kendrick Lamar making eye contact with me? I’m sure I wasn’t the only person asking that Saturday, July 29, as he played Denver’s Pepsi Center.
City Council voted on Monday, July 31, to approve a contract with Denver Festivals LLC that would allow the music promotions giant Superfly to run a three-day for-profit music festival at the public Overland Golf Course.
It’s hard to make a compelling case for why people should check out their first opera – especially when it involves an hour drive and stiff seats. Yet if Central City Opera wants to survive, the company has to do just that.
Earlier this week, we reported that musicians had accused Stella’s on 16th of double-booking bands and then failing to tell them their gigs had been cancelled.
Marilyn Barela is having a party, and she expects City Council members to be there. The occasion: She wants them to hear just how loud Levitt Pavilion concerts are and to persuade them to vote against a proposed massive Superfly music festival at the Overland Golf Course.
The Denver County Cultural Council, which dishes out nearly $2 million a year to small arts and culture groups in the city (which happens to also be the entire county) has a vacancy, and Denver City Council is taking applications until Monday, August 14, to fill the position. The money…
The first time Austin-based filmmaker Joe Nicolosi saw the avant-garde marching band Itchy-O was at a Stanley Film Festival in Estes Park.
Brian Cohen, the owner of Stella’s on 16th, has come under fire from Denver musicians who say their bands were hired to play the venue’s summer music festival but were replaced by other acts without notice.
Lucinda Williams can’t stop talking about death. And it’s not just talking about it. She can’t quit writing songs about mortality, either — even though she wants to.
City Council pushed back voting on a massive music festival that would be held at Overland Golf Course, an event that could attract as many as 80,000 people to the quiet Overland Park neighborhood surrounding one of Denver’s oldest public parks.
Kevin Smith, the brains behind Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and many other indie classics, is coming to Colorado with Ralph Garman, of Family Guy and Ted fame, to take a stab at the Hollywood industry that pays their bills.
Denver has seen too many cancellations as of late, from Kanye West to Bon Jovi. Now, Biebettes have a reason to join in the moping. Justin Bieber sent out a statement sure to break your heart.
Whether you love Rob Lowe because of his work on West Wing or Parks and Recreation, you’re bound to be excited to know that the star will be bringing his personal stories to Denver’s Ellie Caulkins Opera House on October 1.
Confession: Me and my kid fled the downpour Thursday, on opening night of Denver’s newest outdoor venue Levitt Pavilion, long before the headliner, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club played. We were viscerally underprepared: no umbrellas, no raincoats, not even a cotton hoodie – just t-shirts and jeans.
In the DIY world, nobody expects venues to stick around that long. Backspace, an outlet that has been quietly booking loud shows for the past year and a half, is no exception.
Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae superstar, has gone through some drastic changes in recent years.
Queen still rocks, even if the legendary band’s concerts feel feel like an uptempo funeral. And why shouldn’t they?
Lorin Ashton, the electronic music producer and DJ who plays under the name Bassnectar, grew up throwing death metal concerts at his town library.
