Before we sit down to talk with metal titans Lamb of God’s grouchy-yet-likeable frontman Randy Blythe, we’re warned by his people that we’re not to discuss his incarceration in a Prague prison five years ago, events that led to his 2014 memoir Dark Days.
On Friday, August 4, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from the Budrows, plus local comedy, beer and artists.
It’s a big weekend for hip-hop with KS 107.5 Summer Jam XX, featuring Migos, Ludacris, Kid Ink, Post Malone and more, happening tonight at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, while Kendrick Lamar headlines the Pepsi Center tomorrow with Travis Scott and D.R.A.M. opening.
The first time Austin-based filmmaker Joe Nicolosi saw the avant-garde marching band Itchy-O was at a Stanley Film Festival in Estes Park.
The world has changed fast since the release of the 2014 Zola Jesus album Taiga.
A$AP Mob, featuring Featuring A$AP Rocky, A$AP Twelvy, A$AP Nast and A$AP Ant, headlines 1STBANK Center on Friday, November 3 with Key! and Cozy Boys opening. Cat Power plays an intimate show at the Marquis Theater on Saturday, August 19; tickets ($38.50-$42) are on sale now. Gary Numan, who has a new album slated for a September release, returns to the Gothic Theatre on Monday, December 18; tickets ($25-$85).
Justin, it may indeed be too late now to say “sorry.” On Monday, Justin Bieber canceled the remainder of his Purpose tour, including the August 12 gig at Denver’s Mile High Stadium, due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
Brian Cohen, the owner of Stella’s on 16th, has come under fire from Denver musicians who say their bands were hired to play the venue’s summer music festival but were replaced by other acts without notice.
Lucinda Williams can’t stop talking about death. And it’s not just talking about it. She can’t quit writing songs about mortality, either — even though she wants to.
A brief comic history of Denver’s Orpheum Theatre
City Council pushed back voting on a massive music festival that would be held at Overland Golf Course, an event that could attract as many as 80,000 people to the quiet Overland Park neighborhood surrounding one of Denver’s oldest public parks.
Singer-songwriter Kayla Rae Jackson had a feeling it was time to let go.
The Violent Femmes may be best known for college and mainstream radio hits like “Blister in the Sun,” “Add It Up,” and “American Music.” But at heart, the act is fundamentally experimental.
Justin Blau, who’s better known by his stage name 3LAU, slumps on a black sofa in front of empty lockers. The visiting-team locker room at Mile High Stadium isn’t familiar territory for the DJ; the only thing moderately athletic about him are his black Yeezy sneakers.
Though AFI, or A Fire Inside, formed while singer Davey Havok and long-departed members Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker were still in high school, and though the first two albums that the band recorded (1995’s Answer That and Stay Fashionable and the following year’s Very Proud of Ya) are certainly efforts to be proud of, the sound of AFI that we know today really started to take shape in ’97 with the Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes record.
Denver has seen too many cancellations as of late, from Kanye West to Bon Jovi. Now, Biebettes have a reason to join in the moping. Justin Bieber sent out a statement sure to break your heart.
Modern English is best known for its hit single “I Melt With You,” from the 1982 album After the Snow. The song was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV and served as an anthem for those struggling to find joy and hope in the dismal age of Thatcher and Reagan.
It’s a great week for fans of ’80s rock, with the Retro Futura tour stopping at the Bellco Theatre tonight that includes Howard Jones, Paul Young, the English Beat, Men Without Hats, Katrina (Ex-Katrina and the Waves) and Modern English, while Violent Femmes and Echo and the Bunnymen co-headlining at the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday.
Confession: Me and my kid fled the downpour Thursday, on opening night of Denver’s newest outdoor venue Levitt Pavilion, long before the headliner, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club played. We were viscerally underprepared: no umbrellas, no raincoats, not even a cotton hoodie – just t-shirts and jeans.
In the DIY world, nobody expects venues to stick around that long. Backspace, an outlet that has been quietly booking loud shows for the past year and a half, is no exception.
Attention all house-heads and ravers: Global Dance Festival 2017 is here.
Bobby Rush says he’s cut 374 records, but he didn’t record any of them in his home state of Louisiana until his most recent album, Porcupine Meat, which he won a Grammy for this year for Best Traditional Blues Album.
