When Teri Gender Bender – the charismatic front-person and guitarist for the Mexican band with a semi-French name, Le Butcherettes – was born in Denver in 1989, the city still had a small-town vibe.
Alice Cooper, who performed in Denver, on Monday, June 12, 2017, may still be the most prominent pioneer of shock rock, but the horror of his imagery has long been surpassed by others.
In any city with a vibrant music scene, there is a cornucopia of monthly events catering to various tastes. Denver is no different, and while many more monthly events could have been included in this list, these are thirteen of the best going down each and every month in 2017.
Road-trip tips from touring musicians, J. Hamilton Isaacs and Kevin Greenspon.
Kyle McQueen, a gifted multi-instrumentalist and bass player for Denver psychedelic-rock band Ancient Elk, died May 6, 2017, a day after his 22nd birthday. His accidental death signaled an abrupt end to a promising music career. Friends and peers say he was a gentle soul who pushed people to do…
To record the six songs that comprise Sliver’s new EP, singer Chris Mercer overcame a lifetime of obstacles.
Live music pops up in the strangest places, often venues that weren’t originally intended to host concerts, or spaces that are just plain odd in their design. Sometimes it’s a coffee shop, a public space, an art museum or even amid stacks of pallets. Here are some of our favorite unconventional music venues around Denver.
Lost Walks vocalist Dameon Merkl sits in the back room of Carbon Cafe & Bar. The experience is surreal for him. The now-upscale joint was once home to Paris on the Platte — a hot spot for Denver’s counterculture for nearly thirty years.
Randall Frazier has been running sound at concerts and engineering records in and around Denver for two decades. As a sound engineer and talent buyer at Walnut Room for nearly ten years, Frazier left his mark on Denver’s underground scene.
Colorado is lucky to boast many music venues run independently of corporate giants. Some of these spaces are big, others small. All keep this city’s scene original and vibrant. Here are twelve of Denver’s best independent music venues running today.
Porter Ray, the 29-year-old rapper, is no stranger to loss.
The new Com Truise album Iteration, due out June 16, marks the conclusion of a loosely science-fiction themed trilogy that began with the project’s 2011 debut Galactic Melt. Without lyrics, the themes may not be as obvious, but song titles like “Ether Drift,” “Dreambender” and “Ephemeron” conjure visions of a retro-futurist aesthetic embodied by films like Blade Runner and the more recent Beyond the Black Rainbow.
Simon Green, the brains behind Bonobo, grew up in Brighton, England, playing piano. He picked up guitar in his teens, but soon ditched it for electronic music, preferring the portability of electronics and how they allowed him to create on his own schedule without having to rely on a full band.
Ethan McCarthy sits on the front steps of Flatline Audio, a recording studio in Arvada. His band Primitive Man has been preparing for a short tour and has just laid down tracks for a soon-to-be-released album.
Colorado has a bevy of great synthesizer artists, and not all of them are producing electronic dance music. We searched far and wide to create a list of synth masters, with a particular focus on people working on the fringes of club culture and pioneering new ways of using their instruments to craft music.
Acid Mothers Temple has performed in various incarnations since it formed in 1995 and is touring now as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO. At its core, AMT is a psychedelic rock band informed by noise, the avant-garde, prog rock and jazz. Its shows are mind-altering experiences embodying what the best psychedelic rock does.
The Spring 2017 edition of the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival takes place this weekend, May 5 and 6, at the Center for Musical Arts. The event, which showcases musical and visual electronic arts started in 2016 with both a Spring and Autumn edition.
Peter Hook, the bass player for Joy Division and New Order, is touring with his band, the Light, to perform albums from both of his previews acts.
Arrington De Dionyso is currently on tour performing This Saxophone Kills Fascists, his homage to the spirit of free jazz and a mobile protest against the cultural and political times in which we find ourselves.
The BellRays have been forging their own path in rock-and-roll since their inception in 1990. Back then, as now, there were very few black women fronting rock bands, something lead singer Lisa Kekaula jokes she kind of likes it.
Teacup Gorilla may not be prolific, but it’s never afraid to take risks.
Since at least the early ’80s, Colorado hasn’t been short on indie labels: from Wax Trax to We Never Sleep, Doughnut Krew, Elephant 6, Suburban Home, Gestalt, Soda Jerk, W.A.R., Gift and many more. Usually these are started by someone with initiative and resources that finds a way to put out the music that had no chance for a release on a more commercial record label.
