Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Will Devastate Denver This Spring

Cleveland’s hip-hop sensation Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will perform at the Fillmore Auditorium in April. The group, which has sold over 50 million records, has a storied history collaborating with both Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G, bridging the East Cost and West Coast divide that haunted ’90s hip-hop. Below is the group’s…

John Mayer Will Play in Denver This Summer

John Mayer has announced his Search for Everything World Tour will continue into the summer, and he and his band will be playing Denver on July 19. Mayer’s concert will include a solo set, as well as performances with his full band and the John Mayer Trio. Here is his…

Brian Ballesque Burlesque Fundraiser for City, O’ City Employee on February 24

Brian Ball, a father and a server at the vegetarian-chic City, O’ City since 2011, has no paid sick days and no paid time off. When he had a hernia-like abdominal problem on a plane trip from Las Vegas, he wound up in the emergency room for surgery. He was out of work for two weeks as bills pilled up. So his girlfriend and ex-wife teamed up on a burlesque fundraiser.

Rapper Mykki Blanco on Why He Won’t Just Say “Fuck the Administration”

Hip-hop artist Mykki Blanco raps and sings about everything from the ups and downs of drugs and addiction to his shifting gender identity. He has been an icon for hip-hop loving queer youth, as he has lived as a trans woman and a genderqueer person while producing some of the most lyrically devastating, smart and inspiring underground hip-hop songs of the past decade.

Molina Speaks Cultivates Creative Power and Hustles for Denver’s Soul

Molina Speaks is not demure. His new podcast, about different perspectives on art, healing and activism, which he’s co-producing with his partner and fellow artist and poet Sheree “Lovemestiza” Brown, is called Brown Genius. Molina, who used the tag “Chicano Picasso” on works he’s created in the past year, made…

Colorado Ballet Invites Recent Refugees to See Ballet MasterWorks

The Colorado Ballet has donated tickets to a Thursday, February 16, matinee performance of Ballet MasterWorks to roughly fifty recently arrived refugees from countries including Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and the Republic of Congo. The refugees will attend the performance alongside more than 1,000 students and teachers. The ballet connected with…

Blind Photographer Ted Tahquechi Shoots Bodies Like Landscapes

Photographer Ted Tahquechi lost most of his vision in a car accident in 1999. Up until the car wreck, he had shot photos since attending college in the 1980s. After the crash, “I didn’t pick up the camera. I didn’t do anything at all,” he says. “I was feeling sorry for myself and feeling disappointed with where I was in my life.”

Future and Migos Are Coming to Denver in June

Three time Billboard-chart-topping rapper Future announced that he will drop his new, self-titled album Future, on Friday, February 17 and going on the Nobody Safe world tour that will bring him to Denver’s Pepsi Center June 13. He will be joined by Migos, Tory Lanez and Kodak Black. Tickets go…

Grammy Winner Chance the Rapper Is Coming to Red Rocks

Chance the Rapper, the independent hip-hop artist who won Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Album at the Grammys for an album released entirely online and without a major lable, just announced he’s coming to Red Rocks in May.