The music industry and how music is disseminated these days is quite different than when Echo & the Bunnymen released significant albums like Porcupine and Ocean Rain in the 1980s. Guitarist Will Sergeant says that everything’s changed; the whole ballpark has changed. That’s why the band, which released its twelfth…
On Thursday, the local news outlet Denverite noticed that the building that houses the record store Twist & Shout has been listed for sale for $4 million dollars. The listing, represented by Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors, includes the 13,303-square-foot building occupied by Twist & Shout, Chipotle and New World Cheese…
At some point in the Garbage show Shirley Manson remembered that Garbage had played in the same building on the Version 2.0 tour and that it had a different name. Someone brought up Mammoth Gardens, the venue’s even older name, and Manson tried to recall where the stage was set…
Grande Orquesta Navarre came together in the summer of 2015 when Evan Orman, Sara Parkinson, Susan Cahill and Tom Hagerman decided to ditch the genre confines of their former tango outfit Exstasis for a more open-format band. Drawing on their mutual interest and backgrounds in classical music, jazz, rock, pop…
Skylab descends on the National Western Complex on Saturday with a stellar lineup that includes Deorro, KSHMR, Markus Schulz, DJ Dan vs Donald Glaude, Bro Safari and more, while the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival kicks off today and features Joe Walsh, Gary Clark Jr., Jason Isbell, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band…
Mama, we’re not in Muskogee anymore. Country legend Merle Haggard is throwing his hat into the marijuana market from beyond the grave. Haggard died on April 6, 2016, on what would have been his 79th birthday. Before his death, however, he had joined forces with the Colorado Weed Co. in 2015…
Chase Dobson was known in Denver for his two-year tenure with Lipgloss and Analog Space, but in March 2011, he joined pop star Mike Posner’s first big tour doing keyboard tech and Ableton Live production work. Since then, Dobson’s main job has been touring the world doing similar work for various…
The aura of the free-love movement echoed throughout the Boulder Theater yesterday evening as psychedelic baby boomers gathered to watch as a band that has been playing music for over fifty years tore the house down. The Zombies — that’s right, the Zombies — were in Boulder last night. Although…
The September 13, 2016 edition of NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross features an interview with comic and “Roastmaster General” Jeff Ross who produces and hosts Comedy Central’s celebrity roasts and others. During a line of questioning about changing audiences in an age of trigger warnings, Ross insists that more people want to…
Shawn Mendes, who’s set to release his new album, Illuminate, on September 23, will be at the Pepsi Center on Monday, July 17; tickets go on sale Saturday, September 17, at 10 a.m. Channel 93.3’S Not So Silent Night 2016, featuring Empire of the Sun, Kaleo, the Strumbellas, JR JR and…
“This song is like if a Jimmy Eat World song had sex with a Taking Back Sunday song, and their kid joined the Promise Ring,” Mark Hoppus said last night while introducing the 2001 hit “Stay Together for the Kids.” He then directed those in the audience who still sported…
America’s love affair with British rock and roll is long and storied. From the moment the Beatles washed up on these shores, American fans began flocking to bands like the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks, later discovering the colorful antics of the Sex Pistols and T. Rex, not…
When it comes to the story of Denver, there are many different versions. For the members of hip-hop group Fed Rez, the tale of the Mile High City is all about the westside — and food. Lots and lots of Mexican food. Its latest track, “Danver” name-checks Tamale Kitchen and Tacos…
Editor’s note: Twenty years ago today, influential hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas after being shot six days earlier. In his new book, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (out today with Hachette Books), former music…
The first time that Marisa Demarco and her bandmates played the Titwrench music festival, they decided to execute a crazy idea that had been stewing in the back of Demarco’s mind. They planned to build their set around a giant bird sculpture, a kind of parade puppet. At the end,…
Since forming 1993 and putting out a self-titled debut album in 1995, Garbage has not been a band to take the easy road. Famously composed of three guys known primarily for their production work prior to this band, it was Steve Marker who spotted Shirley Manson singing with Scottish alt-rockers…
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…
The Velveteers started in Boulder in September 2014 when frontwoman and songwriter Demi Demitro started playing guitar. Demitro had been singing and making up songs from a very young age and eventually starting some kind of band seemed inevitable. “My parents have videos of us on road trips and I’d…
English singer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier can barely believe what’s going on in his life right now. In 2011, he was seventeen and making split-screen YouTube videos of himself playing a variety of different instruments while covering songs like Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing.” But the Internet’s…
Tribute bands. Love them or loathe them, they’ve been big business for years now, and as nostalgia tightens its grip on music fans, they’ll likely go on and thrive. People love going out, paying $5 or so for a ticket, and catching a band playing faithful versions of songs they…
Daryl Hall & John Oates headline Red Rocks tonight with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue opening while Goo Goo Dolls is at the venue tomorrow. This week’s lineup also includes Blink-182 is at Pepsi Center, Bloc Party at the Ogden Theatre, Butch Walker at…
It’s the weekend and we all have “Get Weird” scrawled at the top of our to-do lists. But beyond the usual hijinks and bad bar-mitvah dancing you’re applying to dance floors all over Denver, here are three concerts this weekend that are truly strange. 1. On Saturday, September 10, there’s…
