Sharone Borik performed her first show in her mid-teens at the Seventh Circle Music Collective. There, with well-crafted, piano-centric songs, fierce honesty and a strong voice, she established herself as a regular act, with support from one of the collective’s key organizers, Aaron Saye.
Redd Kross is playing Denver for the first time in twenty years.
When Jobless planned to release its new album Attitude Adjustment, the trio decided to throw a fundraising event for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, a variety show including performances by the Romero Theater Troupe, the Black Actors Guild, and like-minded musicians in Total Goth and the Milk Blossoms.
Los Angeles-based soul and psychedelia band Chicano Batman is touring in support of its 2017 album Freedom Is Free.
As a kid, Bison Bone’s Courtney Whitehead would leave the radio on all night long and wake up in the middle of the night listening to the more adventurous end of country music programming.
Jay Vance, who performs as Jbot, plays brutal music with robots.
Denver goth promoter Joshywa Schrader passed away in the early morning hours of March 8, 2017, at age 41.
Before associates of Beyoncé Knowles recruited Too Many Zooz to perform on her hit 2016 album Lemonade, the trio had established itself as a standout act in New York’s subways.
Monique Ortiz and Mike Howard of Alien Knife Fight met while both were working, in two separate buildings, for Grav Labs in Austin, Texas, but they didn’t really know one another. One day, in 2010, they ran into each other while practicing with their then projects: Ortiz’s not so serious band, which mostly jammed, and Howard’s stoner-rock band Bay of Pigs.
Electronic dance collective Deep Club will celebrate its four-year anniversary with house and techno music legend Mike Huckaby.
Emma Ruth Rundle’s solo music may be inspired by folk, but that hasn’t stopped her from touring the country with black-metal act Deafheaven and post-rock band This Will Destroy You.
Noisy, experimental rock band Creepoid and its brethren in psychedelic sounds Ecstatic Vision are touring the U.S. this spring, and Thursday, March 23, will stop at Denver’s hi-dive.
Pam Puente, a fixture in Denver’s punk scene since she was 14-years-old, died in early March. Known as a wild-child, she earned praise and ire — often from the same people, says Jill Mustoffa, a Denver punk-show promoter who knew the musician for decades.
Indie/math rock band Montoneros’s members named the band after a leftist political group.
KUVO DJ and storied singer Venus Cruz says that when she arrived in Denver from New York, she felt like “the first Latina on the surface of Mars.” It was 1992. As Cruz tells it, the city was poor, economically and culturally. But for someone fleeing a tumultuous past, in…
As the lead singer for hard-rock band Heart, Ann Wilson was one of the very few prominent female voices in an era overwhelmingly dominated by men. Her electrifying voice and knack for turning an imaginative phrase were instrumental in establishing Heart as one of the great bands of the classic-rock…
P.O.S., born Stefon Alexander, started playing music in punk bands like Om, but by the turn of the century was doing hip-hop. He’s a founding member of Doomtree, a hip-hop collective that began as a production project that turned into one of the most successful underground hip-hop crews of recent…
Since the early ’90s, Roni Size has been a critical force in developing jungle and drum-and-bass. Born Ryan Williams, Size was the son of Jamaican immigrants in Bristol, England, and listened to dub and reggae from an early age. The inventive rhythms of both genres and dub’s soundscaping influenced the…
Jesse Manley and his six-piece band will release their latest album, Dust, at Syntax Physic Opera, Friday, March 10. The recording represents the fourth time Manley has written music for the ballet company Wonderbound. This is quite the unusual partnership for a guy whose musical roots lie within the folk…
Curved Light is an electronic music project that emerged in 2015 when Peter Tran moved with his partner, visual artist Deirdre Smith, to Austin. It is the product of his life in music and his work with the experimental rock bands Les Rhinocéros and Hume and her work in video…
Samiam came out of the same Berkeley, California punk scene that was fostered by the legendary DIY venue 924 Gilman Street. Coming along slightly after acts like Green Day and Operation Ivy, Samiam never gained as much commercial popularity as its predecessors. But the group tasted success. In the mid-90s,…
Reed Bruemmer was in the band DDC (Death Destruction Chaos) as a teen before going on to the thrash band Speed Wolf; the latter toured internationally with Napalm Death, among others. Now Bruemmer is in Poison Rites, which is releasing its self-titled debut LP at the Larimer Lounge on Thursday,…
