Music

Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, the husband-and-wife duo behind Denver band Tennis, have just finished writing and producing their fifth album, Yours Conditionally, under their brand-new label, Mutually Detrimental. A booker for Coachella heard a single from the new record and asked Tennis to play the giant music festival in April.

Casey James Prestwood, veteran of Colorado country-rock band Drag the River and acclaimed Alabama emo group Hot Rod Circuit, is a country-music encyclopedia. Get him talking about legendary session musicians and he’ll spin a yarn the size of Texas. Discussing the earnest, emotional and sometimes downright depressing lyrics he sings over his backing band, the Burning Angels, however, doesn’t come so easily.

Is that a cloud of weed headed toward Colorado? Nope. It’s Snoop Dogg and his caravan of hip-hop greats bringing the annual Wellness Retreat back to the state, this time to Red Rocks. He will be sharing the stage with burning-hot rapper Wiz Khalifa, the hip-hop legends in Cypress…

In the wake of the Ghost Ship tragedy in December 2016, the network of informal, unconventional and otherwise underground music and art venues took a major hit nationwide, as many were shut down or put on indefinite hiatus in the name of safety. But in Denver, a pair of shows at the Five Points vegan hole-in-the-wall, the Handy Diner, proved DIY is thriving.

Technology evolves quickly, and in the world of electronic music and the many sub-genres that branch off of it, the flavor of today can be stale by tomorrow. That said, there are many artists in the region who have learned to grow with the technology. This year will be a…

Cleveland’s hip-hop sensation Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will perform at the Fillmore Auditorium in April. The group, which has sold over 50 million records, has a storied history collaborating with both Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G, bridging the East Cost and West Coast divide that haunted ’90s hip-hop. Below is the group’s…

Pop singer JoJo fell ill, so she’s cancelled her March 1 show at the Gothic Theatre. Refunds are available wherever tickets were purchased.

Country singer Miranda Lambert is headed to Red Rocks Amphitheatre this August with Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen in tow.

Since 1989, Cleveland’s Ringworm has been blurring the jagged lines between hardcore punk and thrash/death metal, an almighty mashup of rock’s more extreme subgenres. And while Ringworm is hardly the first band to make that blend, in 2017 it remains one of the more interesting. Still, 28 years is a…

From underground rapper Mykki Blanco on his developing fan base to the artist who gave Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike a homemade Bernie Sanders/Martin Luther King Jr poster, this week has had been a rich one for music in Denver. In case you missed them, here is a recap of…

John Mayer has announced his Search for Everything World Tour will continue into the summer, and he and his band will be playing Denver on July 19. Mayer’s concert will include a solo set, as well as performances with his full band and the John Mayer Trio. Here is his…

Hip-hop artist Mykki Blanco raps and sings about everything from the ups and downs of drugs and addiction to his shifting gender identity. He has been an icon for hip-hop loving queer youth, as he has lived as a trans woman and a genderqueer person while producing some of the most lyrically devastating, smart and inspiring underground hip-hop songs of the past decade.