Music

In the DIY world, nobody expects venues to stick around that long. Backspace, an outlet that has been quietly booking loud shows for the past year and a half, is no exception.

Attention all house-heads and ravers: Global Dance Festival 2017 is here.

Bobby Rush says he’s cut 374 records, but he didn’t record any of them in his home state of Louisiana until his most recent album, Porcupine Meat, which he won a Grammy for this year for Best Traditional Blues Album.

After a long run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Global Dance Festival sets up shop this weekend in the parking lot of Sports Authority Field at Mile High with EDM heavies Excision, Datsik, Hardwell, Kaskade and more. String Cheese Incident is at Red Rocks for a three-night stand, while Neil Diamond is at the Pepsi Center and Buddy Guy is at Denver Botanic Gardens. See our full picks below.

At the ripe age of 50, world-renowned prog and tech house master John Digweed is as fresh as ever. With a jam-packed touring schedule and a busy day-to-day, the veteran remains relevant in a scene he’s dominated for more than thirty years. In July, alone, the English DJ has booked…

The Coathangers started as a joke between friends. They had all protested George W. Bush in Washington D.C., in 2006. “On the way back home we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we started a band?’” says guitarist Julia Kugel.

Three years ago Singer Kerry Pastine and guitarist Paul Shellooe wanted to start a group that sounded like a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. The two musicians, who had long been in the blues act the Informants, aimed for a heavy, vintage sound.

Tyler Grant looks like a thin, shaggy Chuck Norris holding a Telecaster. The 41-year-old jamgrass flatpicker, whose music drips with rootsy authenticity, has been around guitars since he was growing up in California in the ’80s and ’90s.

Global Dance Festival, one of the city’s best electronic music events, is back for 2017 – but, there have been some big changes.

Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae superstar, has gone through some drastic changes in recent years.

Face it: Denver is no Memphis. We’re just not a blues town. But if you look around, you can find bars, restaurants, pool halls and more that host regular blues jams and showcase touring and local blues artists that are as good as anything you’ll find in the South.

The Goo Goo Dolls are probably best known for the monster ballad “Iris” from the City of Angels soundtrack, a fact that must drive their hardcore, long-time fans crazy.

Westword’s Kyle Harris reviewed the Queen concert on July 6, writing about the differences between the original frontman Freddie Mercury and the current lead singer Adam Lambert. Readers took to Twitter and Facebook, blasting Harris for minimizing the struggle Lambert went through as a gay man and celebrating both guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor’s performances as well as Lambert’s

Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household.