The inaugural edition of 71Grind (a play on nearby area code 719), a kind of celebration of heavy music of various styles, is in Colorado Springs on Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4 at Black Sheep and Flux Capacitor. Organized in part by Sean and Bryan Ostrow, brothers who…
Robyn Hitchcock spent a good chunk of his life in England, including his tenure with the psych-rock band Soft Boys and through his solo career with and without the Egyptians. These days, however, Hitchcock’s living in Nashville, where he’s working on a new album. He’s been living in Nashville since…
Pretty Lights, who is set to play two nights in Telluride on August 26 and 27, also announced a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13. Tickets ($49.75-$60), and a limited number of two-day GA passes, go on sale on Friday, June 3 at…
Every month in Denver, there are many metal shows and metal-centric events, but its can be hard to keep track of everything. Here’s a rundown of the best metal-riffic happenings in the area this June, with information on why these shows are worth dragging yourself away from the Judas Priest…
M83 is undoubtedly a band of its times, which, of course, means it takes as much from the past as it does from the future. At Red Rocks Tuesday the band took full advantage of its brilliant surroundings and presented its luminous, spacious and triumphant music the way it was intended…
Most of the bills for Red Rocks concerts tend to make sense in both an artistic and commercial sense. Even when Soundgarden played the show there in the summer of 2014 with Nine Inch Nails and Oneohtrix Point Never, it felt like a good fit since Trent Reznor has had…
D.O.A. from Vancouver is considered one of the foundational bands of hardcore punk. Its album Hardcore ’81 is generally believed to be the first time the term was used in connection with punk’s second wave. As with contemporaries like Black Flag, Bad Brains and Middle Class, D.O.A. drew inspiration from early…
Pete Pidgeon was just a toddler he heard Garth Hudson’s organ solo on “Chest Fever” from the Band’s 1968 debut, Music From the Big Pink. When his parents put the record on in their living room and he heard the organ, he says it was the first time he remembers…
While we would never recommend illegally downloading somebody’s art, the Internet is still a veritable garden of riches for the broke music fan. If you’re reading this, you’re online already. All you have to do is navigate. 1. Youtube. Youtube is a solid place to start to get your fix…
From 2008 to 2012, Jesse Elliott did not have a permanent home. The musician, best known for his work with These United States and Ark Life, was touring so much that planting his roots in one spot for too long seemed unnecessary. But in 2012 Elliott moved to Colorado, and…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work…
Blasting out the gates with “No Wow,” The Kills spent little time with preambles and set the stage for a ferocious energy that lasted for the rest of the show. The Kills aren’t really known for low-key shows, but this performance was especially generous. Even with the drummer, the keyboard…
Denver has been home to many music venues that have had major impact on the local scene and, to some extent, the national music scene. A list of those noteworthy concert venues that are now gone could easily be five times as long. Below are ten clubs, studios and spaces…
The Pepsi Center is a cavernous place to watch a concert. There are arenas like it all around the world. Basketball jerseys hang from the incredibly high ceiling, concrete stairs run top to bottom, and the sound can echo all around the joint. On Thursday evening, however, Florence Welch’s voice…
Editor’s Note: Trawling the Small Print is a new feature wherein we squint hard at big festival lineups and spotlight a few gems that may have been hidden below the headliners. Saturday is the Day of Rock in Denver, a one-day festival this Saturday, May 28, aims to benefit Amp…
Tonight, The Kills are at the Ogden Theatre and the Devil Makes Three and Shakey Graves are Red Rocks, while My Morning Jacket takes over Red Rocks on Saturday and Sunday. Also, a reunited Fruit Bats play the Larimer Lounge on Sunday. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, MAY 27 The…
The Flaming Lips is rehearsing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and they’re having trouble getting in sync. It takes a few attempts to realize the problem: The violin section is missing three measures from its sheet music. “Don’t worry! We will reprint it before tomorrow,” conductor André de Ridder assures the…
Not so many years ago, Jamie Hince, guitarist and electronics-and-production wizard for the Kills, might have had to give up playing guitar completely. After complications from cortisone injections into his knuckles to treat the strain of playing guitar so much, Hince had to have multiple surgeries and a tendon removed…
When this scribe was a blossoming wee headbanger in the late 1980s and early ’90s, air guitar was what we did instead of dance when we went to clubs underage. It was the tribal ritual for the terminally uncool — those of us without any sense of rhythm and next-to-no…
Drake and Future will be at the Pepsi Center for two nights on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2., and tickets ($49.50-$149.50) go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 26, at 10 a.m. Dinosaur Jr., who’s set to release Give a Glimpse Of What Yer Not in…
Desiree Albee has hosted her music-and-fetish night, Repent, for nearly two years, but she’s always known that the event represented only one flavor of Denver’s goth scene. In a flash of inspiration, she conceived of an event that would bring together the city’s various goth-themed nights and include as many…
Last night, soul singer Leon Bridges somehow upped his cool factor another thousand percent when he showed up unannounced to Goosetown Tavern’s Turn It Up Tuesdays open-mike night. The 26-year-old artist, known for his stripped-down take on retro soul, performs at the Paramount Theater tonight, Wednesday, May 25, but he…
