The new Com Truise album Iteration, due out June 16, marks the conclusion of a loosely science-fiction themed trilogy that began with the project’s 2011 debut Galactic Melt. Without lyrics, the themes may not be as obvious, but song titles like “Ether Drift,” “Dreambender” and “Ephemeron” conjure visions of a retro-futurist aesthetic embodied by films like Blade Runner and the more recent Beyond the Black Rainbow.
While there have been a few shows at Red Rocks over the last few weeks, the summer season at the storied venue kicks into gear this weekend with Bonobo and Nick Murphy (Chet Faker) tonight and Lettuce tomorrow night. Swallow Hill’s Denver Ukefest continues tonight and tomorrow night and Denver All Day Fest III is at multiple venues on South Broadway. Also on tap this weekend are Flogging Molly at the Fillmore Auditorium, Old Crow Medicine Show performing Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde at the Paramount Theatre and Son Volt at the Fox Theatre and Gothic Theatre.
On May 26, English folk-rock veterans Jethro Tull will play a show with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks. The beloved amphitheater was, of course, the venue for an infamous riot in the summer of ’71 that resulted in a cloud of tear gas, 28 serious injuries, and the cancellation of the remainder of the venue’s 1971 summer program.
A few years ago, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar was preparing the twentieth-anniversary edition of the band’s 1995 debut album Trace. The album cover was a photo of a 1930s Webster Chicago solid-state amplifier.
Simon Green, the brains behind Bonobo, grew up in Brighton, England, playing piano. He picked up guitar in his teens, but soon ditched it for electronic music, preferring the portability of electronics and how they allowed him to create on his own schedule without having to rely on a full band.
Die Antwoord, who headlined the Ogden Theatre last year, will move to much bigger digs when the duo brings its Love Drug World Tour to Red Rocks on Sunday, August 20.
The epic pop rock band Imagine Dragons is headed for Denver, Saturday, October 14, as part of a world tour celebrating the release of the act’s third album, Evolve, which will be released on June 23.
Lettuce is a funk band that was born when the various members were at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992, though most of the members are proud New Yorkers. However, when Lettuce drummer and hip-hop producer Adam Deitch moved to Denver about a year ago, his colleagues were keen to follow. Guitarist Adam Smirnoff arrived in October, and he couldn’t be happier.
A brief comic history of Denver’s Webber Theater.
Youth on Record is like a teaching hospital for music producers, says Jamie Duffy about the Denver-based music-education program she runs.
Ethan McCarthy sits on the front steps of Flatline Audio, a recording studio in Arvada. His band Primitive Man has been preparing for a short tour and has just laid down tracks for a soon-to-be-released album.
Colorado has a bevy of great synthesizer artists, and not all of them are producing electronic dance music. We searched far and wide to create a list of synth masters, with a particular focus on people working on the fringes of club culture and pioneering new ways of using their instruments to craft music.
Few words will make a music fan cringe more than, “actor-turned-musician.” And with good reason.
Not all music buffs have hundreds of bucks to sink into multi-day festival passes, concerts and season ticket subscriptions. This is when creative fans find ways to save some money.
When they made Kinky Friedman, they broke the mold immediately afterwards. Like, they smashed that thing into unrecoverable dust. Because God knows, there’s nobody else on this Earth quite like Friedman.
Chris Brown’s the Party Tour stops at the Pepsi Center tonight with openers O.T. Genasis, Fabolous, Kap G and DC Young Fly, and E-40 comes to the Summit Music Hall tomorrow night. Also on tap this week are KONGOS, who play two nights at the Marquis Theater, actor Kiefer Sutherland brings his country-steeped songs to the Fox Theatre on Wednesday and metal acts Opeth and Gojira play Red Rocks on Thursday.
More than 200 people from the music industry form a nominating committee that helps select acts that make it onto the Westword Music Awards ballot, where readers have the chance to vote for the best acts in various genres, many of which will appear at the Westword Music Showcase on June 24.
Money Plays 8 formed in Denver two decades ago. The nine-piece outfit, which broke up in 2002 and will play two twentieth anniversary reunion shows on Saturday, May 6, quickly established itself as the area’s most popular swing band.
David Crosby is one of those rare musicians who is in the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame twice, as are all of the members of Crosby, Stills & Nash. For Crosby, it’s his work with CSN and the Byrds that earned him his spots (Graham Nash is also in with the…
The dance rock band the Slants have been shifting their sound from heavier punk toward indie-pop, but that’s hardly the story that’s been making headlines. Around 2009, the group applied to trademark its name with the U.S. government. Application denied.
Acid Mothers Temple has performed in various incarnations since it formed in 1995 and is touring now as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO. At its core, AMT is a psychedelic rock band informed by noise, the avant-garde, prog rock and jazz. Its shows are mind-altering experiences embodying what the best psychedelic rock does.
Dada Life brings its annual Land Before Time set to Red Rocks tonight with Slander, Pegboard Nerds, Kill Paris and Bassrooks while Aimee Mann headlines the Boulder Theater and Brother Ali is at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom.
