Music

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.

Road-trip tips from touring musicians, J. Hamilton Isaacs and Kevin Greenspon.

Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist.

A brief cartoon history of City, O’ City.

Denver folk singer turned soul sensation Nathaniel Rateliff will be returning to the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

Kyle McQueen, a gifted multi-instrumentalist and bass player for Denver psychedelic-rock band Ancient Elk, died May 6, 2017, a day after his 22nd birthday. His accidental death signaled an abrupt end to a promising music career. Friends and peers say he was a gentle soul who pushed people to do…

Visual music platform Boiler Room has announced its first-ever Denver episode.

Thirty years in, Colorado blues-rock group Big Head Todd and the Monsters has established itself as one of the state’s more successful, if not persistent, musical exports.

Indie/roots band Dispatch might have its origins in Vermont and it might be based in Boston now, but singer, guitarist and percussionist Brad Corrigan is from right here in Denver.

Denver synth-pop darling Retrofette, which will be playing the Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 24, will be releasing a music video for its dancey track “Skeletons,” June 9, at Fort Greene.

It’s a big week for music with Metallica at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull at Pepsi Center, John Mellencamp at Fiddler’s Green, Modest Mouse at the Fillmore Auditorium, Bush at the Paramount Theatre and Phoenix at Red Rocks.

The Roger Waters concert at Denver’s Pepsi Center was a politically incorrect jab at Donald Trump, whom the Pink Floyd singer likened to Nazis and Klansmen. The message of the show was simple: “Resist.”

It doesn’t take Jamie Madrox, who paints his face like a wicked clown and raps about killing people, to compare his horrorcore duo Twiztid to Christ.

We may be weeks away from summer, but concert season is in full swing, the clubs are getting hotter and Denver’s EDM scene is exploding. Here’s your guide.

Punk Rock Bowling, which has a long history in Las Vegas but debuted in Denver, returns this year at the Summit Music Hall and Marquis Theater with a lineup that features a ton of bands like the Vandals, Lawrence Arms, Teenage Bottlerock and more.

To help you plan your calendar, we’ve selected ten of our favorite summer music festivals in Colorado, which run the gamut from jazz and blues to punk and hard rock, with some EDM and classical mixed in.

In the summer of 2011, Erinn Peet-Lukes posted to Craiglist that she was looking for someone to busk with at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Unbeknownst to her, she had planted the seed for what would become one of Colorado’s finest bluegrass acts.

Galactic and Pepper team up for a co-headline show at Red Rocks on Sunday, September 24 with Tribal Seeds and Fortunate Youth opening. Tickets ($30/$38.75) go on sale on Friday, June 2, at 10 a.m.

The story of the band Boston is one of the strangest in rock, especially when it concerns a group that is, on the surface, so inoffensive. This is a band that formed in 1976, 41 years ago, and yet to-date has only released six studio albums. Much of that sluggishness with new material can be put down to some circumstances that vary between the cliched and the downright tragic.