Music

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.

Earlier this week, we reported that musicians had accused Stella’s on 16th of double-booking bands and then failing to tell them their gigs had been cancelled.

Marilyn Barela is having a party, and she expects City Council members to be there. The occasion: She wants them to hear just how loud Levitt Pavilion concerts are and to persuade them to vote against a proposed massive Superfly music festival at the Overland Golf Course.

Before we sit down to talk with metal titans Lamb of God’s grouchy-yet-likeable frontman Randy Blythe, we’re warned by his people that we’re not to discuss his incarceration in a Prague prison five years ago, events that led to his 2014 memoir Dark Days.

On Friday, August 4, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from the Budrows, plus local comedy, beer and artists.

It’s a big weekend for hip-hop with KS 107.5 Summer Jam XX, featuring Migos, Ludacris, Kid Ink, Post Malone and more, happening tonight at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, while Kendrick Lamar headlines the Pepsi Center tomorrow with Travis Scott and D.R.A.M. opening.

The first time Austin-based filmmaker Joe Nicolosi saw the avant-garde marching band Itchy-O was at a Stanley Film Festival in Estes Park.

The world has changed fast since the release of the 2014 Zola Jesus album Taiga.

A$AP Mob, featuring Featuring A$AP Rocky, A$AP Twelvy, A$AP Nast and A$AP Ant, headlines 1STBANK Center on Friday, November 3 with Key! and Cozy Boys opening. Cat Power plays an intimate show at the Marquis Theater on Saturday, August 19; tickets ($38.50-$42) are on sale now. Gary Numan, who has a new album slated for a September release, returns to the Gothic Theatre on Monday, December 18; tickets ($25-$85).

Justin, it may indeed be too late now to say “sorry.” On Monday, Justin Bieber canceled the remainder of his Purpose tour, including the August 12 gig at Denver’s Mile High Stadium, due to “unforeseen circumstances.”

Brian Cohen, the owner of Stella’s on 16th, has come under fire from Denver musicians who say their bands were hired to play the venue’s summer music festival but were replaced by other acts without notice.