Country star Dierks Bentley will be performing at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Saturday, September 2, at 7 p.m, and at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 15. He will be joined by Cole Swindell and Jon Pardi.
Colorado’s Latino musicians have been blending genres, breaking down musical barriers and defining much of Denver’s culture, often without recognition.
Metallica will be playing Mile High Stadium on June 7, 2017, just like they did in 2000, 1992 and 1988.
Lo Moon took a different route than other bands coming up in the age of the Internet. Rather than share musical ideas and songs immediately through social media or a digital platform like Bandcamp, the Los Angeles group worked on its music for four and a half years before releasing its debut single, “Loveless” in 2016.
Sting, touring in support of his new album, 57th & 9th, performs at the Fillmore on Valentine’s Day (Tuesday, February 14) while genre-bending act Kneebody previews music from its forthcoming album, Anti-Hero, at the King Center tonight. This week’s lineup also includes Savoy at the Fox Theatre, Circa Survive at the Ogden Theatre and Skrillex at the Belly Up Aspen. See our full list of picks below.
When people who knew Clayton Counts saw a Facebook memorial account for him, they assumed it was a joke. That would be his style. He had faked his own death on at least one occasion and left in his wake a long string of pranks. Sadly, this was no hi-jinks.
For a moment, Theo Bleckmann didn’t know if he was alive or dead. Five years ago, the New York-based vocalist and composer, who has been a fixture in the avant-garde and jazz scenes for 25 years, was in a car accident that severely damaged his eyes.
Valentine’s Day is the most romantic day of the year. For those interested in an evening of champagne, songs you can slow dance to and bands that won’t scare your date away, we’ve found the best events for a nice night out for all musical tastes.
Ratio Sessions is a series of mini-concerts showcasing national acts performing lightened up, mostly acoustic versions of their songs hours before their main Denver gigs.
Academy Award winning MC and producer Juicy J has been in the hip-hop game since 1991, when he co-founded the Memphis crew, Three 6 Mafia. Juicy J struck out on his own, building his personal music business, producing his own records, touring aggressively, rapping about weed, booze and blowjobs, eventually securing his own cannabis strain and becoming the spokesperson for Colt 45.
Between 1993 and 2003, metal vocalist Dez Fafara fronted Coal Chamber, one of the groups synonymous with the nu-metal movement. He spent that time decked out in cutesy Goth make-up and black string shirts. Honestly, he looked like a Hot Topic mannequin, for better or worse.
These are the must see concerts of this weekend.
Artopia 2017 will feature the sounds of the streets as well as street artists.
Used to be that a bar was only as good as its jukebox, until even the most respectable of hole-in-the-walls started going digital. Not that we can blame them. Maintaining a thirty-, forty-, fifty-year-old machine that’s constantly prodded by drunk people is expensive. Indeed, the list of bars that maintain…
Vahco Before Horses was three when his grandmother heard somebody playing Beethoven on a piano. “She walked in, and it was me sitting on phone books playing by ear,” the now-43-year-old underground hip-hop musician says.
A roundup of the latest Denver concert announcements.
AEG announced today that New York punk band Blondie will join Grammy-nominated alternative band Garbage for the Rage and Rapture Tour. The groups will play Fiddler’s Green on July 16. Fans can also look forward to the May 2017 release of Blondie album Pollinator, as well as Garbage’s summer 2017…
A brief cartoon history of the Rainbow Music Hall.
It’s been two-and-a-half decades since monster-themed Finnish hard rock band Lordi formed. While they might not have set the United States on fire, the group is big news in Europe.
“With your last dollar would you buy this record or a sandwich?” That is the question Motown Records founder Berry Gordy would ask producers and songwriters when deciding which new albums to release. It’s also the question Ru Johnson and her guest judges will ask musicians and artists, Wednesday, February 8 at The Black Box, for the latest edition of her hip-hop event, Test Kitchen.
Ever since sisters Laurie and Katelyn Shook began making their quirky brand of jam-folk, as seen through the lens of magical realism, the Shook Twins have been steady climbers.
Angel Olsen wants you to know that the shiny silver wig she wears in her videos has no deep meaning. It’s not a tribute to Bowie, an homage to her mother, a symbol indicating her involvement in some secret society or an obscure feminist statement. There is no hidden significance, period.
