The Siren Project is about to release its first proper album, Dénouement. The album serves as a showcase for the type of songwriting the band has excelled at throughout its two decades of existence. Although most often associated with the Denver goth scene, the Siren Project reached beyond that genre…

Sometimes costumes, makeup and theatrics come off as a gimmick that overshadows the music, an ill-advised affectation. But when Deb Demure of Drab Majesty took the stage of the Larimer Lounge Sunday — looking like a combination of the most androgynous era of David Bowie and a vampire or Celtic…

The long-running dance night Grave Ravers brought in legendary experimental electronic artist Kid606 for a 2 a.m. set at Rhinoceropolis this weekend — though Kid606, born Miguel de Pedro, might scoff at the idea of being called “legendary,” because that word implies perhaps wealth and a level of regard from…

John Grant will make an appearance at the Fox Theatre this Saturday, October 24, in support of his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. Some may know Grant from his time in Denver-based dream pop legends the Czars, where his strikingly powerful and richly evocative voice greatly enhanced the atmospheric…

Scotland’s Chvrches will be performing at the Fillmore Auditorium on Thursday, October 22. The pop group got off the ground in 2011, when Iain Cook and Martin Doherty decided to go in the studio and see what would come about. At that time, Cook had been producing an EP by…

The Zombies, both versions of the band, are hardly new to the music world but there was still a freshness and purity about how they approached playing the music and the self-effacing graciousness with which they conducted themselves on stage. Like they still had something to prove but in a…

The rumor going around was that Autechre would play in total darkness. This proved to be mostly true as the room and stage lights went down at the beginning of the band’s roughly hour-long set with only the running lights on the stairs, the bright green exit signs on either…

A Boulder-based concert promotion powerhouse just got a little bigger. The Colorado Chautauqua Association has just announced that Z2 Entertainment will become the exclusive promoter of the long-running Chautauqua Summer Concert Series. The South Boulder music venue is over a hundred years old and is a National Historic Landmark. Z2…

The Zombies were one of the most popular bands of the British Invasion in the mid-1960s. Their vocal harmonies and simple but sophisticated songwriting on hits like “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season” struck a chord with audiences. In 1967, the Zombies recorded the classic album Odessey and…

If you hadn’t been told or didn’t know, you would have thought FFS was a band that had played live together for years. The ease with which the members played off of and with each other was definitely part of the charm. But, as it turns out, Russell and Ron…

The long-running weekly dance night Lipgloss will be relocating to Bar Standard starting on Friday, October 30, with guest DJ TR/ST. Following a three-year run at Beauty Bar, Lipgloss had been held at Syntax Physic Opera since May of this year. Lipgloss founder Michael Trundle says that the first month…

Neil Feather will be returning to perform his first Denver show in twenty-five years tonight, October 6, at the Mercury Café. Opening will be local avant-garde improv act Animal / object. This time around, Feather will be performing with Roso Langabeer in their duo, Two To Tutu Too. Feather became…

The seventh edition of the Titwrench festival worked well in its new single day, single venue format. In fact, one of Denver’s most thoughtful festivals set a strong logistical example in many ways. The entrance at Dryer Plug Studios made it easier for people coming in and out and for…