In its brief run, Fort Collins band Candy Claws made quite the mark, in Colorado and elsewhere. In fact, in the short time that Candy Claws was active, the duo of Karen McCormick and Ryan Hover earned a fan base big enough to include Ben Phelan, John Ferguson and Robert…
The house calls are always the hardest. You don’t know what’s going to be in there. It could be a conservative dinner party, a room full of wasted bachelorettes or (worst-case scenario) a single unsuspecting person, home alone. The house Nic Hammerberg has just pulled up to doesn’t have any…
When you’re a musician, the place you grow up in has a huge impact on the type of music you write and the message you convey to the rest of the world. The Ramones talked about the chaotic struggle of living in New York and doing anything to get by in…
Doomtree appears this Friday, March 6th, at the Gothic Theatre. The septet has for more than a decade been one of the most exciting and innovative hip-hop crews in the country. Hailing from Minneapolis, the seven members of Doomtree grew up in the same metropolitan area that produced Atmosphere and…
Damien Rice and Iron & Wine team will be at Red Rocks on Monday, August 10, and tickets ($45-$65) go on sale on Friday, March 6 at 10 a.m. Country start Dierks Bentley headlines the Sounds of Summer Tour at Fiddler’s Green on Thursday, August 13, with Kip Moore, Maddie &…
Editor’s note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an ’80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver’s work in his new book SAINT COLE from Fantagraphics books. Last Week’s episode of Rufus Baxter!…
Hey! I enjoy going to concerts. In order to do that, I have to spend some time outside. So I loved our unseasonably warm February! It was great. I didn’t even think twice about leaving my house. But now it’s cold, and there’s snow, and I’m not sure what to…
Motionless In White $16/$18 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, Summit Music Hall The best ever death metal band out of Scranton comes to Denver with For Today and Ice Nine Kills. Young Thug $33.50-$359:00PM Wednesday, March 4, Ogden Theatre Every pocket of music is always looking for its next golden…
It’s a big day for Mumford & Sons fans: The band has just announced its third album, Wilder Mind, which will be out in early May. The British quartet will also bring back its Gentlemen of the Road series this year — the festival comes to Salida on August 21…
This year’s Fourth Annual Nerd Prom drew over 800 geeks to the Summit Music Hall, all dressed as the best of nerdom. There were wizards and wolverines, Mario characters and Jedis, Batman villains, Dr. Who characters, and thirty-somethings there for the excuse to wear a prom dress. And amid them…
The second round of voting in the Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll is now under way. We’ve tallied all the online ballots filled out by readers, and identified the top five finalists in more than a hundred categories. You can see them all here, where you can also vote…
The Westword Music Showcase will return to over a dozen stages in the Golden Triangle neighborhood on June 20, 2015. This year’s headliners include Flume, the Black Angels and Misterwives, and we’ve got plenty more planned! Tickets don’t go on sale until next Friday (although you can get access to…
Friday, February 27 Itchy-O $10/$15 8:00 p.m. Gothic TheatreIt is impossible to ignore Itchy-O. At full capacity, the band comprises 32 members, all dressed in matching costumes, all masked, delivering truly alien vocals and playing marching-band instruments along with guitars, basses, taiko drums and electronics attached to portable amplifiers. There…
Listening to be B. Dolan’s music is as much about ingesting a modern history lesson as it is entertainment. An East Coast rapper who works within the same social justice realms as the acts that have inspired him — like Public Enemy and Bob Marley — the artist has been…
Free time is a precious commodity. Weekend warriors have a mere 48 hours to get as nasty as they wanna be, then it’s a long, hot shower and another five days of money makin’. No one wants to waste their Saturdays on shitty drinks in shitty environments. And there’s nothing…
When Cory Elbin started Gorinto in April 2010 at The Mercury Café, it was already an extension of his life as a cook at the Denver institution. He had also played in various experimental bands prior to that time and wanted to have an event that would incorporate the worlds…
Macon Terry, a long time supporter, player and overall stalwart of the Denver music community, is constantly thinking of ways to use his interests and experiences to help the Denver music scene. His newest endeavor, Collectible Records, aims, not only to give added exposure to some of Macon’s talented musical…
Voivod is set to perform on Wednesday, February 25th at Summit Music Hall sharing the bill with Napalm Death, Exhumed, Phobia, Iron Reagan, Black Crown Initiate and Vimana for the Through Space and Grind Tour. Inspired in part by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, punk, 70s prog and…
Long before Bart Dahl landed a gig as a manager at Madison House (and later moved to New York when the Boulder-based booking and management company opened an office there) he played in a few bands in the mid ‘90s while getting his “first peek behind the curtain, so to…
Anton Krueger is not a DJ. He is, however, up for a challenge. A few weeks ago, New York-based MC, performance artist and author Mykki Blanco came through Colorado as a guest lecturer for the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design’s series on identity and art. Blanco was also…
Before today, ten-year-old Aiden had never written a song, but he did have plenty of experience writing. For some time now, he’s been working on a rewrite of the original Star Wars trilogy and a manuscript for a movie based on the Warcraft video-game series, so the crossover into music…
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