Denver has been home to many music venues that have had major impact on the local scene and, to some extent, the national music scene. A list of those noteworthy concert venues that are now gone could easily be five times as long. Below are ten clubs, studios and spaces…
Not so many years ago, Jamie Hince, guitarist and electronics-and-production wizard for the Kills, might have had to give up playing guitar completely. After complications from cortisone injections into his knuckles to treat the strain of playing guitar so much, Hince had to have multiple surgeries and a tendon removed…
Desiree Albee has hosted her music-and-fetish night, Repent, for nearly two years, but she’s always known that the event represented only one flavor of Denver’s goth scene. In a flash of inspiration, she conceived of an event that would bring together the city’s various goth-themed nights and include as many…
When the duo GO DARK released its first EP on Halloween 2014, it was speculated that one member was prolific rapper and beat producer Doseone. Eventually it was revealed to be true that the pioneer of alternative hip-hop had teamed up with newcomer Ash, who had never before been part…
“I think we search for spaces that aren’t really meant to be recorded in and have tons of character and charm,” says My Morning Jacket drummer Patrick Hallahan. From the beginning, MMJ has recorded largely in unconventional spaces and situations. The band recorded its first three albums on the family…
On April 1, Chelsea Wolfe released a seven-inch single for “Hypnos,” the song invokes the name of the Greek personification of sleep. It was written as a kind of ode, a love song, that Wolfe says is set in a dark dream. This is Wolfe’s creative method to come to…
According to a 2014 analysis conducted by data scientist Matt Daniels for Polygraph, the largest vocabulary in hip-hop belongs to Ian Bavitz aka Aesop Rock who had used 7,392 unique words in his song catalog up to that point, more than a thousand more than the next highest artist in…
The Coathangers have been touring Europe for the past couple of weeks in support of their new album, Nosebleed Weekend. The punk/garage rock band with experimental leanings will end its European tour with a flight from Berlin straight to Denver to play the Project Pabst festival this Saturday, May 21…
When Titus Andronicus released its conceptually ambitious triple album The Most Lamentable Tragedy on July 28, 2015, it became a landmark of modern punk. It also marked singer Patrick Stickles’ thirtieth birthday and came out the day of the end of a five-night run of sold-out shows at New York…
Iwakura is definitely a hardcore band, but it’s changing the face of the genre, exemplifying an individual vision of what it’s like today. What sets Iwakura apart on first impression is that the act’s performances lack the tough-guy persona that many hardcore bands adopt, even for the purpose of mocking…
The sold-out tribute to Prince at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Thursday, May 12 will start at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:15 p.m.). The event, in addition to the screening of Purple Rain, will feature a poetry performance, ten bands performing one or two Prince songs each, plus a finale including Heavy…
New York City-based White Hills are sharing several dates with Vancouver-based Black Mountain. Though from opposite coasts of the continent, both bands are considered exemplars of modern psychedelic rock while never setting out to fit into a genre, much less be torchbearers for a movement. Perhaps it’s something of a…
AndersonPonty Band is the musical partnership of two giants of progressive rock: Jon Anderson the former singer for Yes and Jean-Luc Ponty, the legendary violinist who played with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Frank Zappa. The two men met more than thirty years ago and discussed working together for years, but it…
Denver’s Braden Smith, aka Ancient Mith, put together a project called YAWL in late 2014 with German producer Dot. The duo’s debut album, A Pile to Keep, A Pile to Burn comes out on May 5 on Anette Records, the imprint that issued Smith’s previous full-length, 2013’s synth-infused And the…
Seattle doom band Hissing opened last night’s Sunn O))) show at the Gothic Theatre, and the band did its level best to create a menacing, atmospheric set. Montreal-based noise-rock band Big Brave reconciled Robin Wattie’s Björk-like warble with eruptive rhythms and slashing double guitars. And both acts were not short…
Amalie Bruun began Mykur as a solo black metal project in her hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark. For her 2014 debut EP, she did all the vocals and played all the guitar and bass with a friend playing drums. When that self-titled EP came out, there was some mystery surrounding its…
The annual Underground Music Showcase (aka The UMS) takes place July 28-31, 2016. Featuring a wide variety of musical artists, The UMS dominates Broadway between Sixth and Alameda avenues and offers shows from hundreds of bands. The majority of the festival’s featured acts are based in Denver, but the UMS’s…
Renowned Chicago house style artist Traxx brings his internationally respected DJ skills to a Deep Club event at 1010 Workshop this Saturday, April 30. Born Melvin Oliphant III, Traxx came up in the Chicago electronic music world listening to WBMX and was impacted by the creative vision of Ron Hardy,…
If you were to envision a triple bill where all the artists have international audiences and cult followings and exemplify certain rock subgenres, you could hardly do better than to feature Melt Banana, Melvins and Napalm Death on that tour. Though either Melvins or Napalm Death could have held down the…
This Friday, April 29, Auraria Campus will host The Immediate Music Festival at the Kenneth King Academic and Performing Arts Center. Open and free to the public, the event celebrates collaborative improvisation and it invites attendees to participate in various workshops and demonstrations. Workshops and presentations run from 9 a.m…
Considering he seemed to have no trouble navigating the stage in his usual dramatic fashion, it was difficult to tell whether or not the cane Bradford Cox wielded on stage was an unusual prop or a necessary aid to his movement. Perhaps it was partly a cheeky reference to the injury…
It’s appropriate that Beach Slang is from Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, because that’s how it conducts itself with the people that come to the band’s shows. Whether it’s before, during or after the show or down the line. Frontman James Alex is known for answering letters and messages…
