While there are some bigger Thanksgiving Eve concerts like Dead & Company and the Last Waltz Revisited included in our Twelve Best Concerts in Denver This Week, we’ve compiled the top club events and smaller concerts on what’s hailed as the biggest bar night of the year. See the full…
Hillary Clinton returns to Denver today, and we know what to expect: some powerful rhetoric, at least one killer pantsuit, and a motorcade bumping one of the campaign’s official Spotify playlists. Far from the nostalgia of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign song — Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” — these playlists include…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Kumpholz’s website to see more of his work. …
When High Five came together in 2012, the collective comprised solo artists who pooled their talents and resources in order to create something bigger than their individual efforts — a creative model not unlike that of Minneapolis’s Doomtree. “That’s a very similar format to what we have in that they’re…
If anyone could embody the nickname “Zen Cowboy,” it was country-folk singer-songwriter and master fingerstyle guitarist Chuck Pyle, whose songs have been covered by John Denver, Chris LeDoux, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Suzy Bogguss. Pyle died on November 6, at the age of seventy, in Palmer Lake. “Chuck…
Typically a show billed as “An Evening With…” is something of a nostalgia trip for long-time fans. But that wasn’t quite the case with the Public Image Ltd show at The Gothic Theatre on Friday night. A third of the tracks from the set came from the group’s worthy latest…
Since the late ’90s, Fuck the Facts has been a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of both grindcore and metal. The French Canadian crossover band have undergone a few lineup changes, hiatuses, and other challenges, but they have returned stronger, making more music and hitting the road…
Our Thanksgiving week top picks include Corrosion of Conformity, Puscifer, Misfts, Ryan Bingham and Dead & Company, which features original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann as well as John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti. See our top dozen picks below. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Corrosion of…
“Toki smiles mischievously, drops dirty beat on unsuspecting crowd,” is what I find scribbled at the bottom of my notepad after TOKiMONSTA’s Thursday show at the Bluebird Theater. That’s as good a way as any of summarizing what happened when the L.A. beat producer came through Denver to promote her…
Long before Lee Aronsohn got into producing and writing for a number of sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory and Two and Half Men (which he also co-created), he was a student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the early 1970s — and a huge fan of the band Magic…
“Can we talk about how in ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia,’ that the Devil has a better fiddle solo than Charlie Daniels?” Hang Rounders guitarist Curt Wallach says while discussing the finer points of country music. “There’s no way Charlie Daniels should have won!” While the other members of…
This weekend’s best shows include Dustin Lynch at the Fillmore Auditorium, Redman and Ky-Mani Marley at City Hall, Greensky Bluegrass at the Ogden Theater, Public Image Ltd. at the Gothic and more. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Dustin Lynch $10, 6:30 p.m., Fillmore Auditorium Redman…
It’s game over for live music at The 1Up Colfax. The popular arcade bar remains open, but will no longer host concerts in its 500-capacity venue space, effective immediately. In 2013, owner Jourdan Adler expanded The 1Up’s second location to include a well-equipped concert venue. While the space enjoyed successes…
It ain’t easy being a weed icon. Okay, maybe it is. In the spirit of stoner celebs making regular stops in the Mile High City, Redman and Ky-Mani Marley will be performing at City Hall For Three A Light growers’ manual book release this Friday November 20. Illegal Pete’s will be catering…
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein is likely best known for his stint in legendary punk band Misfits, which he joined at age sixteen to play guitar with his brother, Jerry Only, Glenn Danzig and a string of drummers. When Misfits returned in 1995 after a twelve-year break, Doyle rejoined the band…
More than four years after Ween’s New Year’s Eve run in 2011, the band reunites for three-night run at the 1STBANK Center from Friday, February, 12 through Sunday, February 14. Single day general admission tickets ($38.75-$45) and three-day passes go on sale Friday, November 20 at 10 a.m. Justin Bieber…
I’ve been reviewing concerts since I first thought I could be a journalist. It was way back in the now more-popular-than-ever ’90s, when I was a staff reporter for my high school newspaper, the George Washington Surveyor. I took notes on punk shows and relayed my experience to my fellow…
The current musical era is not short on nostalgia and reunion shows; bands performing classic albums in their entirety have become commonplace for tours and for the Pitchfork Music Festival. In addition to the “classic rock” nostalgia circuit, many bands who had their heyday in the 50s-70s seem to embark…
Hey! I’m Katie Moulton, Westword’s new music editor. On Friday, I drove twelve hours straight west from St. Louis to Denver. On stretches of I-70, I didn’t know whether this was still Kansas or I had just slipped straight into hell. Denver, Damnit became a mantra. For thousands of transplants moving…
In this week’s cover story, “Rhymes to Die For,” we gave you the story of Rachel Aboytes, a local rap artist who performed under the stage name La Baby Smiley. In March of this year, Aboytes was murdered in a drive-by shooting in east Denver. Since then, her fame has…
“I met my daughter this year,” Chance the Rapper told the crowd last night at The Fillmore. The crowd responded with love vibrations that shook the street. His current tour, called Family Matters, is chock-full of sentiment from the 24-year-old Chicago rapper, as he welcomed the birth of his daughter…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Kumpholz’s website to see more of his work. …
