As I stood at the concession stand in the bottom of some nameless suburban movie megaplex wasteland before seeing Amy last weekend, a guy behind me in line said, “who wants to see a movie about a woman who drinks herself to death?” I had to restrain myself. I —…
After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in the late ‘90s, Pat Bianchi moved to Denver and started a decade-long run playing organ and piano at local clubs like El Chapultepec and Herb’s. But in 2008, Bianchi, a Rochester native, moved back east to New York City. Instead of…
Umphrey’s McGee will be at the Fillmore Auditorium for a three-day New Year’s run on Wednesday, December 30, Thursday, December 31 and Saturday, January 2. The band is also planning to announce a one-of-a-kind show on January 1. KBCO and Live Nation pre-sale starts Thursday, July 16 and tickets ($37.50-$80)…
The inaugural Bluebird District Music Festival hit East Colfax last weekend, and if you weren’t there, you missed three days of insane local talent. We were there, wandering the wickedest street and taking in all the music. Here’s what we thought of BDMF, volume one: 1. Lost Lake is the…
The Colorado installment of Riot Fest is a month and a half away. We told you about this year’s lineup earlier — it includes Ice Cube (and special guests), Iggy Pop, Modest Mouse and more. Yesterday, Riot Fest announced its single-day lineups, tickets for which go on sale Thursday at…
Mark Sundermeier was driving home late one night in September 2011 from the Toad Tavern, where he was serving as talent buyer, when a semi ran his car off the highway. He can’t remember the accident at all — nor can he remember the two days before it. He slipped…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson co-headlined a show last night at Red Rocks as part of the End Times Tour. One of those bands drew a ton of fans. We’ll give you a hint: It’s the one who played at the enormous Fillmore Auditorium in February. The other one…
“It’s pretty much made to fail, because nobody really wants to see a guy with a laser pointer doing a PowerPoint, especially at a concert,” quips Andrew Novick. He’s talking about his own work as GetYourGoing, a sing-along show turned PowerPoint performance project that is currently on tour with the…
Jim White is a music legend — if you don’t know him, you probably still know his work. As the drummer in Dirty Three, White came to prominence in the ’90s alternative rock world. He became known as a gifted and intuitive percussionist and regularly worked with the likes of…
After a huge weekend for live music, the excitement continues this week. There are the big names at Red Rocks (Wilco, Morrissey, Death Cab) and a few good club shows. ALL WEEK Biennial of the Americas Various venues throughout Denver — many events are free. Find more details here. MONDAY,…
The drive to Conifer for the Living Spaces showcase offered a preview of the spirit and quality of the event. To get there, you took I-70 to highway 285, into a neighborhood without pavement called Aspen Park, a small town next to Conifer. While they weren’t quite log cabins, the…
As a lifelong National Public Radio fan, I, like millions of American’s who tune in, feel like the personalities are beloved friends. Ira Glass, Audie Cornish, Garrison Keilor, Steve Inskeep, Bob Boilen and others have spent thousands of hours, miles, and stories with me. Their voices are ingrained in my…
I think I may be an EDM fan. That’s a hard sentence to write, because for as long as I can remember, it’s a genre that I’ve actively railed against. I’ve ignored it, avoided it, gone so far as to trash talk it and judge its fans. But as I…
Even the greatest bands have to call it quits at some point. Some of them do it more gracefully than other, but it’s way more fun when a band completely implodes and airs their dirty laundry for all to see. Here are ten of the ugliest band breakups in history…
The summer festivals continue in Colorado, with the debut of the Bluebird District Music Festival (featuring a heavy-hitting lineup of local talent) and the continuation of the Ride Festival up in the mountains. It’s also time for the Avett Brothers’ annual residency at Red Rocks — this year’s openers are…
The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was the first great tragedy of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility of human…
Thursday | October 23rd, 2014 | Chicago, Illinois: Going into Illinois, we had to pass through the largest truck stop in the United States, equipped with full showers, laundromat and what seemed to be a kind of mini-mall where you could get stuff you will likely never find at even a…
Festival Season is in full swing, and with the summer of 2015 comes a new, scrappy, homegrown festival called the Bluebird District Music Festival. If you bought a 3-day wristband, (which you can do here) you’ll be spending this hopefully rain-free weekend traversing the five venues and half mile of…
Boulder’s iconic Trident Cafe, which opened in 1980, is a good place to go if you want to feel bad about your fashion sense. Tom Abraham, one of the cafe’s numerous baristas, can generally be found behind the counter in the daytime sporting his trademark fuzzy black hair and glasses,…
All Time Low and Sleeping with Sirens co-headline the 1STBANK Center on Monday, November 2 with One Ok Rock opening. Tickets ($25/$35) go on sale on Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. Alvin & the Chipmunks bring a brand new, music-filled interactive live show to the Bellco Theatre on Sunday, December…
In October 2014, Denver-based industrial/avant-garde band Echo Beds embarked on a tour of the American Midwest. Without a booking agent — working instead with friends and friends of friends — members Keith Curts and Tom Nelsen were able to put together a resoundingly successful tour that paid for itself. But…
