Music

It’s not that disco throwbacks and show-tunes are all that bad or that house music beats don’t have their place in queer life. But let’s get real. By the end of Pride, if we have to hear “I Will Survive” or “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” one more time, we might do something that would make us less than proud.

During the time that Madeline Johnston lived at DIY music venue Rhinoceropolis, she and fifteen others inhabited tiny, windowless rooms patched together behind a performance area.

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.

Denver-based international soul sensation Nathaniel Rateliff, of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, appeared on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, alongside Chuck Berry Jr., Chuck Berry III and the Roots on June 13, 2017.

To enjoy a music festival, you have to be prepared. Here’s what to bring.

Scott McCormick likes to talk about the time that Denver musician Sawmill Joe almost cut off his own finger.

A brief cartoon history of Pirate Gallery

It was a long journey for Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie, the electronic duo now known as Bob Moses, to start making music together.

Alice Cooper, who has a new album coming out next month, returns to the Paramount Theatre tonight, while Punch Brothers are playing at Chautauqua Auditorium tonight and Denver Botanic Gardens tomorrow.

In 2012, Ryan Winnen, drummer for Nashville’s breakout indie-pop sensation COIN, found himself playing at “an arguably intolerable volume” in a dorm room with two of his Belmont University schoolmates.

By the time Jack DeJohnette and his family moved from Manhattan to the Hudson River Valley in the early ‘70s, the masterful jazz drummer had worked with Bill Evans and Charles Lloyd and recorded with Miles Davis on albums, including the 1970 jazz-rock watershed release, Bitches Brew.

Metallica is no Justin Bieber. The band’s vision of the world is introspective and couched in mass violence — the sort of horror perpetrated by big bombs, big armies and big nations. It’s the music of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

With thirty-million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty is headed to Denver to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.

Westword has released a ticket bundle called the Showcase Squad Pack, four tickets to our annual music showcase for only $220, a savings of $40.