Phil Bianchi, who died on July 14 at the age of 51, helped make Sancho’s Broken Arrow, the bar he opened with his two brothers in 2000, a Cheers for Deadheads. He would give customers nicknames and make sure they knew they were welcome there.
Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers don’t mind being the opening act for country singer Miranda Lambert on her Highway Vagabond Tour stop at Red Rocks, on August 8-9.
Country singer Miranda Lambert is at Red Rocks for two nights this week with Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen opening, while Green Day headlines Fiddler’s Green on Wednesday.
If Axl Rose had worked a civil servant job all these years, he could be retiring early. And if he’d kept pushing the boundaries of his music into the future, he might still be performing songs, in his mid-fifties, that are as pivotal to today’s culture as the old songs were to kids growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Madchild has been in the hip-hop game for eighteen years. This Canadian rapper found great success in both the United States and his home country. He is a former member of the group Swollen Members and began his solo career as Madchild back in 2012, after hitting a low point battling his addiction with Oxycontin.
John Moreland makes his words count. His bluesy folk-rock with a country twang resonates in the chests of listeners, partly because of his deep and raw voice and partly because of his highly personal and honest lyrics.
The singers in Face Vocal Band have been making rock music with their mouths for fifteen years in Colorado.
Jerry Garcia 75th Birthday Concert, featuring Bob Weir & the Campfire Band with Melvin Seals, Jackie LaBranch, Gloria Jones, Oteil Burbridge, Kamasi Washington and more, is tonight at Red Rocks while Steve Earle & the Dukes return to the Boulder Theater.
Seventeen years ago, Michael Weintrob was a student at Colorado State University and the house photographer at the Aggie Theatre in Fort Collins. While he was taking portraits of the Derek Trucks Band backstage, he asked the bass player to do something crazy: put his bass down his shirt.
Steve Earle didn’t just admire the outlaw country movement that was dominated by guys like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Earle was part of it.
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Slayer guitarist and co-founder Kerry King doesn’t listen to much new music. He sticks to the classic metal outfits that inspired him around when he, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman and Tom Araya started playing together in 1981. The only guilty pleasure to speak of on King’s iPod is a compilation of South Park Christmas carols. Otherwise, he sticks to the old stuff: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
After Guns N’ Roses plays it three-plus hour concert on Wednesday night, the 6,400 chairs installed for the show on the floor of Sports Authority Field at Mile High will have to be moved and moved fast.
Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith, the musicians behind the folk act Rising Appalachia, did not grow up dreaming of being in a band — but it’s not surprising that they wound up in one.
There’s no just or obvious reason why Lea Luna isn’t at the top of the charts week after week, reigning supreme in a world where EDM and pop have collided in a union that some see as unholy and others find refreshing. That blurred line is where she’s most comfortable, but something isn’t clicking with the world at large — at least not yet.
By the time I had some disposable income to splash around, Guns N’ Roses wasn’t classic anymore.
Was Kendrick Lamar making eye contact with me? I’m sure I wasn’t the only person asking that Saturday, July 29, as he played Denver’s Pepsi Center.
A brief comic history of the Black Box.
City Council voted on Monday, July 31, to approve a contract with Denver Festivals LLC that would allow the music promotions giant Superfly to run a three-day for-profit music festival at the public Overland Golf Course.
To avoid an uncomfortable encounter with a seasoned show-goer, here’s a list of basic Red Rocks rules. Help us help you, people. Help us help you.
I was surprised to hear Kanye West blaring at Hop Alley recently. It wasn’t the nice, Polo-shirt-wearing Kanye of Late Registration, either. This was angry Kanye. This was Yeezy.
Guns N’ Roses, which recently launched the North American leg of its Not in This Lifetime tour, rolls into town on Wednesday at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, while country stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw take over the Pepsi Center for two nights.
