Music

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.

Concert review of Mac Miller headlining Halloween on the Rocks. Openers included Vince Staples, Big K.R.I.T. and more.

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.

Band-Aids were worn in solidarity with the rapper, songs were sung word-for-word and thoughts of encouragement were shouted from the audience.

Tonight it was easy to forget that Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Stevie Nicks are both senior citizens and that their greatest impact on popular culture happened in the first half of the 1980s when both ruled the airwaves. Go ahead, try to tell them that. Because last night, both stars rocked like the old days.

I catch Katy Goodman as her van pulls into a gas station in rural Oklahoma. She’s been on the road all morning, and her back is killing her. Not that this is all that surprising: Touring is a slog, and driving through the extensive Midwestern farmlands that separate major cities is especially brutal. And gas station yoga sessions only do so much against the grueling eight-hour trek from Dallas to Kansas City.

There are a ton of Halloween shows and parties this weekend, including Widespread Panic’s three-night run at the 1STBANK Center, DeVotchKa’s annual Halloween run on Friday and Saturday at the Boulder Theater, the Infamous Stringdusters’ Big Top Halloween at the Fillmore Auditorium, Cherub at Red Rocks and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe performing Prince’s Dirty Mind with Fishbone’s Angelo Moore. Also on tap this weekend are Joan Baez, Gang of Four, Screaming Females and the Sword. See the full list of our picks below.

Not unlike The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne last Saturday night, Tom Araya, Slayer’s ass kicking bassist/vocalist, talked to the Fair crowd about the importance of remembering to share the love about halfway through the band’s set. Then he and his band melted the faces off the people in the front…

New Wave has gone country.  Yesterday members of long-running rock band the Pretenders stopped in to Rockmount Ranch Wear, the downtown Denver purveyor of classic Western wear that frequently draws celebrity visitors.  “We never know who is going to walk in the door,” Steve Weil, president of Rockmount Ranch Wear,…