The Northwest Denver Folk Festival kicks off its fourth year this Saturday, October 3, at The Oriental Theater. The annual festival has previously been held in the spring, and this year’s installment has been streamlined to one day. Breaking with a traditional definition of “folk” for the festival, organizers Dustin…

Walking into the Larimer Block Party felt a little bit like walking into an unusual combination of an elementary school field day and an urban beach party without the sand and without the ocean. Maybe it was the warm weather of early Fall. Maybe it was because a lot of…

Utilizing the modern methods of 3D video seen to great effect in recent movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Kraftwerk turned what were already interesting visuals perfectly suited to each song into something almost interactive and unlike anything any other popular band is doing…

The Larimer Block Party debuts this Saturday, September 26, at the 2700 block of Larimer Street (both outside and in several venues). Running from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m., the event will feature musical acts on five stages at Cold Crush, Larimer Lounge, Meadowlark Bar, Meadowlark Kitchen and an outdoor…

Covenhoven’s new album, The Wild and Free, is songwriter Joel Van Horne’s most fully realized effort to date. Van Horne recorded all of the vocals for the album and played all of the instruments except violin and cello, creating a set of songs that reflect his love of the wilderness…

There were so many fine performances during both days of Goldrush Music Festival at the Savoy Events Center, it would be difficult to pick a towering standout. Despite the wide array of genres represented, the festival managed to feel like one, big cohesive experience. The accompanying ‘zine and cassette compilation…

Going back to the days of early raves in the ’80s or even as far back as “happenings” in San Francisco, strong and creative visuals have been an important component of the concert experience. Every EDM show worth attending has rich, unusual and creative light shows and projections. So it…

Skylab 2015 will take place September 18 and Saturday September 19 at the 1STBANK Center. One of the longest, continuously running electronic dance music festivals in the country, Skylab has reflected the current state of the scene since its 1994 debut. In past years, legendary artists such as Rabbit In…

Yoni Wolf will headline the Impose Stage at Goldrush Music Festival this Saturday, September 19, at Savoy. Wolf has been a leading figure of alternative/avant-garde hip-hop over the last fifteen years, and he is one of the founders of the respected Anticon imprint. Wolf grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and…

Cloak & Dagger Music Festival is set to take place on four stages between Vinyl and City Hall on Saturday, September 19th. The set times for the festival can be found below and you can buy tickets here. While a sizeable, electronic dance music festival, Cloak & Dagger is not…

Driving into Longmont from Denver on Highway 119, you will see a vast, seemingly abandoned factory complex that looks like it hasn’t been used in decades. This sight wasn’t so uncommon in Denver at the turn of the century, but now, it’s largely unheard of. The city is changing, and…

In another era, let’s say twenty years ago, an artist like Colleen Green would have been a mainstream star, at least in the alternative rock world. In fact, her music is a little reminiscent Veruca Salt. Even today, in a time when the music industry is in flux, Green still…

Concert promoter and DJ Joshywa Schrader was one of the mainstays of the Denver and Boulder goth scene in the 1990s and 2000s, though he hasn’t organized any shows for the past four years. But when Schrader was given the opportunity recently to book a show with Australian band Angelspit…

Los Angeles-based songwriter Colleen Green performs at Dryer Plug Studios this Sunday, September 6, with Future Single Mom, Safe Boating is No Accident and Male Blonding. An East Coast native, Green moved to Oakland in 2008 and became part of the garage punk world in the Bay Area as a…