The creative young Boulder trio Grass is indicative of the music being pushed over the last year by ambitious local cassette label First Base Tapes: gritty and experimental but catchy, clever and (while ear-bleedin’ loud) deceptively pleasant.
Rae Sremmurd brought the Sremmlife II tour through Denver last night and turned the Ogden into a Tumblr-age hit factory, playing banger after banger. Perhaps more than the songs played, the sold-out show featured many ridiculous onstage antics. For those of you who didn’t get a ticket to the show or didn’t get any Snapchats from your friends who were there, Westword compiled a list of all of the wild moments that you missed.
This summer, the Colorado Department of Transportation launched its driver-safety campaign titled “A Few Can Still be Dangerous.” This message for the general public came from results of a CDOT survey last year which revealed that 70 percent of young men ages 21-35 in the state of Colorado believe that they are safe to drive after consuming two or three drinks.
The best concerts around Denver for November 4-6, 2016, including Safe in Sound, Marc Anthony, Sturgill Simpson and more.
Colorado is home to more than its fair share of great music. Perhaps no one knows this better than the musicians themselves. With that in mind, we asked one of our favorite Colorado artists which other local artists we should be checking out, and thus began the “One Band Leads to Another” musical scavenger hunt. It works like this: A band recommends a band, then that band recommends a band, and so forth. Follow the thread to discover new Colorado voices, enrich your local listening experience and find out where you can catch these bands performing live this month.
As a member of Dualistics, Science Partner and more recently the Gin Doctors, singer, guitarist and songwriter Tyler Despres was a fixture in the Denver music community for more than a decade. He died on Tuesday, November 1 the age of 34, of an aortic aneurysm.
List of concerts announced this week for Denver and Colorado.
Concert review of Young the Giant at the Ogden Theatre in Denver.
Interview with organizers about Levitt Pavilion Denver.
Interview with the Lemon Twigs.
Interview with country-folk singer-songwriter Amanda Shires.
Jason Vaughn, 12, of Denver, was shouted out by Drake at a show on October 1. Vaughn responds to his musical hero here.
A profile of the Boulder ‘vocal rock’ a cappella group Face.
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz.Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work.
Concert review of Mac Miller headlining Halloween on the Rocks. Openers included Vince Staples, Big K.R.I.T. and more.
In a post announcing the closing of Quixote’s True Blue at the end of October, owner Jay Bianchi described the venue “as sort of a refuge for Deadheads…” It’s a sad day for the loners of Shakedown Street. But what was once a refuge for Deadheads will now be the refuge for bassheads: Nicole Cacciavillano and her Sub.mission Dubstep brand have purchased the venue. Starting on Tuesday, November 1, the iconic 13th Street venue will be called the Black Box, a venue devoted to Sub.mission’s aim of moving people through sound, not hype.
On Friday night, Wu-Tang Clan rappers Ghostface Killah and Raekwon headlined the Budweiser Fear Fest pop-up Halloween party. Ghostface, however, kept spreading the Halloween cheer after the show had ended. He was riding in a car with Jonny Shuman aka Jonny Denver, the talent buyer who had booked the show with Danny Sax, when the artist asked Shuman to pull over. “It was spur of the moment when he saw some guys sleeping on the street when we were coming down Arapahoe approaching 18th Street,” Shuman says. “He told me to pull over and started handing out twenty-dollar bills.”
While New York, Los Angeles and Nashville have long been home bases to the world’s most talented guitarists, but around Denver there are plenty of top-notch musicians who haven’t fled for more coastal climes. To select our city’s greatest players, we polled our music writers and considered technical proficiency, style, originality and more. We’ve rounded up ten of the best guitarists in Denver, appearing here in alphabetical order. Let us know who we missed.
It’s been eight months since New York indie rockers Ra Ra Riot released Need Your Light, the band’s fourth full-length studio album, and since then, 2016 has been a constant stream of touring, press responsibilities and more touring. Ten years into its existence, Ra Ra Riot has got the recording/touring…
Mac Miller headlines Halloween on the Rocks tonight with a bevy of openers including Vince Staples, BIG K.R.I.T., Pouya and more. The Naked and Famous, Car Seat Headrest, Chelsea Grin and Itchy-O are also playing Halloween night. Young the Giant takes over the Ogden Theatre for two nights, A$AP Ferg is at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tomorrow, Hiss Golden Messenger is at the Bluebird Theater on Wednesday and Bettye LaVette is at the Oriental Theater on Thursday. See our full list of picks below.
While it may not be historic, it felt significant that two pioneers of the disco/dub beat-driven post-punk, one from the original wave, Gang of Four, and one from its 1990s revival, the Faint, shared the stage at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday night.
Budweiser Fear Fest is about as close to a pop-up haunted house as you’ll find in these parts. Located in an old Budweiser bottling plant at 4375 Brighton Boulevard, the late-night music event features zombies from the 13th Floor Haunted House.
