The versatile Los Angeles band Los Lobos—with its two iconic singer/guitarists, César Rosas and David Hidalgo—formed in 1973 and entered the national consciousness big-time in 1987 with a faithful cover of “La Bamba,” a surprise hit from the Ritchie Valens biopic.
Opera has a bad reputation of being so exorbitantly epic that it’s hard for all but the wealthiest to access. Boulder Opera challenges that notion.
On Friday, March 3, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will feature musical guests El Javi, as well as a set by comedian James Conklin. Last month, the February Open Music Session welcomed Matt Rouch & the Noise Upstairs, a folk-roots-country outfit…
The Reverend Horton Heat, who has already played three shows in Colorado this month, continues his run, joining Jello Biafra for five nights at the Larimer Lounge, Tuesday, February 21, through Saturday, February 25. The Supersuckers and Reno Divorce will provide support on the first three shows and Wayne “The…
The past week had its share of memorable concerts that included monsters, stoners and heartthrobs. Juicy J, Run the Jewels, Lordi and Sting all packed the house. Here’s what it looked like.
The members of the punk band, The Dickies included TV-loving kids who were raised in the Valley, bathed in privilege and swimming pools, with interests not stretching much further than water slides and movie stars.
Classic rockers Styx, REO Speedwagon and Don Felder announced this morning, February 16 that they will be embarking on a summer tour: “United We Rock,” and making a stop in Denver on June 29, at the Pepsi Center.
Electronic music maven Veronica Lamaak’s neighbor Craig Sandoval was shot while trying to stop a burglary at her home. She’s half of the duo that runs Sorted, a group that throws underground, electronic music parties in the Denver area. She decided to hold a benefit for him.
Los Lobos plays a pair of intimate shows at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox this weekend, while singer-songwriter Howie Day plays two nights at Soiled Dove. Also on tap is Don’t Panic Fest at various venues on South Broadway, Lotus at the Fillmore Auditorium, Dwight Yoakam at the Paramount Theatre, and Dennis DeYoung singing the music of STYX (the band he used to front) at the Boulder Theater. See the rest of our picks below.
When Sepultura formed in Brazil in 1984, there was little evidence to suggest that the band was ever going to be anything more than your run-of-the-mill death metal outfit. By the second album, Schitzophrenia, people were taking notice. The fourth, 1991’s Arise, catapulted Sepultura into the international spotlight, and then…
The Australian post-punk, environmentalist band Midnight Oil announced its first world tour in more than twenty years, and it will include a Denver stop, at the Paramount Theatre in May.
Perched high above the basketball court, nearly in the rafters, Cassidy Bednark watches Pepsi Center workers prepare for another game: the Nuggets versus the Clippers. Bednark is nestled into his signature yellow and powder-blue DJ booth. Going over his playlist before tip-off, Bednark — who is the official Denver Nuggets DJ — steps behind his turntables and becomes DJ Bedz: The White Shadow, ready to rock the stadium.
Sturgill Simpson, who just won a Grammy for Best Country Album, headlines Red Rocks on Monday, September 25; tickets ($45-$55) go on sale on Thursday, February 16, at 10 a.m.
The annual festival Project Pabst Denver announced its lineup today, and rapper Ice Cube will be headlining.
Having recently ditched the quaint academic haven of western Massachusetts for the sunny shores of southern California, the members of Potty Mouth are in a transitional phase.
In February, Open Media Foundation hosted its monthly free Open Music Session event, which featured musical guests Matt Rouch & the Noise Upstairs. Before that, the December 2016 Open Music Session welcomed High Fiction and Rob Drabkin, a Denver indie-rock double bill. High Fiction is an unconventional power duo, with a trad-folk…
Larry Damore played in a new-wave cover band in Chicago throughout most of his teenage years. Like many people growing up in the ’80s, he was inspired by The Decline of Western Civilization, a documentary chronicling Los Angeles’s early punk scene that included bands like Black Flag, the Germs and X.
Three time Billboard-chart-topping rapper Future announced that he will drop his new, self-titled album Future, on Friday, February 17 and going on the Nobody Safe world tour that will bring him to Denver’s Pepsi Center June 13. He will be joined by Migos, Tory Lanez and Kodak Black. Tickets go…
Chance the Rapper, the independent hip-hop artist who won Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Album at the Grammys for an album released entirely online and without a major lable, just announced he’s coming to Red Rocks in May.
A brief comic history of Denver’s downtown theater neighborhood, the Great White Way.
Colorado has been home to DIY spaces since at least the 80s. These venues have been critical to the growth of the local music scene, providing places outside of commercial venues for musicians to experiment. What follows are twelve of the most important DIY spaces to have emerged in the eastern Colorado Music scene since the turn of the century.
The history of the L.A. Guns is nothing if not storied. The band formed in 1983 amid the riotous Hollywood sleazy hard-rock scene, and one year later merged with another band, Hollywood Rose, to form Guns N’ Roses. When guitarist Tracii Guns left the fledgling Guns and Roses in ’85,…
