Roots music — whether country, reggae, Americana, bluegrass or folk — holds massive appeal here in Colorado. We love music that boils songs down to something completely devoid of pretension. Throw traditional instruments into the arms of the musos, wind them up and let them go. As a result, we’re…
Texas-based indie pop band Eisley, that just released I’m Only Dreaming last month, is at the Lost Lake Lounge tonight, while hard rock stalwarts UFO and Saxon take over the Summit Music Hall Tuesday night. Also on tap this week are Kevin Abstract, Norma Jean as well as Pat Benetar and Neil Giraldo.
Riot Fest announced it would cancel its 2017 Denver festival.
Wesley Watkins knows how to bring people together. “That’s my superpower as a human being,” says Watkins, a force in Denver’s music scene who is currently playing trumpet for Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Wall to Wall tour. Before picking up the spring touring gig, Watkins started organizing WMN and the Queen City of the Plains, a showcase of Denver women musicians happening this weekend, March 17 and 18 at Syntax Physic Opera.
Indie/math rock band Montoneros’s members named the band after a leftist political group.
Enjoy our picks for the best concerts in Denver this weekend.
Kevin Abstract raps about his problems, big and small. On his first album, American Boyfriend, Abstract sings: “I hate my yearbook photo/I hate my passport/I hate my last name/I hate everything it stands for.” While his songs are filled with self-loathing and on-and-off disgust with pretty much everyone and everything…
Rock singer Bryce Fox knows about the devil in us all, and what better way for him to let his horns out than to perform on St. Patrick’s Day, at 93.3’s Keggs & Eggs festival? Raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Fox grew up listening to a variety of musical styles, which…
Country star Brad Paisley headlines the Pepsi Center on Saturday, July 15, with Dustin Lynch, Chase Bryant and Lindsay Ell opening; tickets ($29.50-$74.50) go on sale on Friday, March 17, at 10 a.m. Paul Simon, who played at the Bellco Theater last year, will be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday,…
We’re excited to announce the bands and musicians who made the ballot for this year’s Westword Music Showcase. More than 200 musicians, fans, journalists and industry players weighed in on their favorite acts in the Front Range. Based on those recommendations, we have have compiled this ballot showcasing some of the…
This month 53-year-old DJ Paul Oakenfold plans to be the first DJ to “party at the top of the world” and play Mount Everest. Tomorrow, March 16, he plays Denver. Everest won’t be the world-renowned DJ’s first extreme trip. Over his thirty year career, he’s played everywhere from an Alaskan…
As eclectic and musically wide-open as the Denver scene is, there are still some areas and genres where we’re lacking. Much of that has more to do with the variety, or lack thereof, of cultures in the Denver region. We might have, for example, a lot of Latinos in Colorado,…
The rock band American Authors has performed all around the world, making a name for itself with songs like its recent hit, “Born to Run.” The group is slated to play in Denver on Friday, March 17, for Channel 93.3’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival, Keggs & Eggs, which promises…
On Thursday, March 23, the Ogden Theatre stage will be graced by a slate of Colorado superstars: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, DeVotchKa, Joe Sampson, and Jonny 5 and Brer Rabbit of Flobots. While it’s easy to be wowed by the star power of the lineup, the concert has…
As the lead singer for hard-rock band Heart, Ann Wilson was one of the very few prominent female voices in an era overwhelmingly dominated by men. Her electrifying voice and knack for turning an imaginative phrase were instrumental in establishing Heart as one of the great bands of the classic-rock…
Last year it was widely reported that Insane Clown Posse’s Gathering of the Juggalos would take place in Denver. Not so. “We couldn’t find a location in Colorado that would work for the Gathering,” Jason Webber of Psychopathic Records e-mailed Westword on March 13. “We should be announcing a final location…
In the mid-’90s, Orange County ska punk was very much the in thing. Bands like No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and the Aquabats took a third-wave ska scene from cities like Anaheim and Huntington Beach into the upper reaches of the Billboard charts. Forming in 1995 and taking its name…
British rockers Enter Shikari have risen from playing the darkest dives and the bottom of festival bills to headlining arenas in the UK. Here in the States. though, the band hasn’t quite managed to get a foothold on anything like that level of success yet. That’s not particularly unusual; there…
Guitar wiz Adrian Belew, who’s worked with King Crimson, David Bowie and Frank Zappa, returns to the Boulder Theater on Tuesday with his power trio, while Ann Wilson of Heart takes over the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday. Also on tap this week are Residual Kid at Lost Lake Lounge, Etienne…
Jesse Manley and his six-piece band will release their latest album, Dust, at Syntax Physic Opera, Friday, March 10. The recording represents the fourth time Manley has written music for the ballet company Wonderbound. This is quite the unusual partnership for a guy whose musical roots lie within the folk…
Although St. Patrick’s Day is Friday, March 17, things kick into gear this weekend with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi, as well as a number of other celebrations with Celtic music and Irish dance. Here’s your guide to events throughout the…
Curved Light is an electronic music project that emerged in 2015 when Peter Tran moved with his partner, visual artist Deirdre Smith, to Austin. It is the product of his life in music and his work with the experimental rock bands Les Rhinocéros and Hume and her work in video…
