Tonight: Open Music Session Featuring Natalie Tate

It’s the first Friday of February, and it’s time to celebrate: Spring is on its way (according to the groundhog) and it’s time for another Open Music Session. Denver’s Open Media Foundation hosts this monthly party at 700 Kalamath, and it’s free and open to the public. The event features…

#TBT: Arcade Fire and Millionaires Shaking Maracas in Aspen

Aspen is fucking weird, man. To celebrate #ThrowbackThursday, we’re looking back to this last New Year’s Eve, which we spent at a bizarre yet quintessentially Aspen party: At midnight we had a clear view of fireworks over the mountains — if only Win Butler would’ve moved his head.  In a…

Where to Get Funky in Denver This Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is upon us. Fat Tuesday officially occurs next Tuesday, February 9, but the celebrations will heat up starting this weekend. Though jambalaya, King Cakes and hurricanes are part of the fun, the soul of Carnival season is found in the music. We’ve rounded up the best bets for…

Solid State Rocket, Featuring Lara Ruggles, Takes Off

In the city of Longmont, tucked into a quiet, almost-suburban neighborhood off of Main Street, is Wind Over the Earth. A studio disguised by a successful storefront selling music equipment, Wind Over the Earth is home to a new project, Solid State Rocket. The self-described “three-piece indie rock group” is…

Bullet for My Valentine Brings Venom and “Big Smiles” to Denver

It seems amazing, but it’s been eighteen years since metal band Bullet For My Valentine formed in the nice-but-unspectacular Welsh town of Bridgend. The first few years were spent finding their feet and learning their trade but by 2005 the band released debut album The Poison album and in Britain the boys were a…

Blues Club Brendan’s Pub Seized by Colorado for Back Taxes

After a six-decade run, Jerry Feld sold Club 404 in December 2011, and since then it was the short-lived Denver Wheel Club 404, a bike-oriented bar, and in January 2013 Kevin Geraghty took it over and spent a year renovating before opening it as Brendan’s Pub, the live-music venue he ran in…

Is Los Lobos the Greatest California Band?

Remember that scene in the classic ’80s bio-pic La Bamba when Ritchie Valens, played by Lou Diamond Phillips, is blowing the roof off a late-’50s party in Los Angeles with both Latinos and whites dancing their asses off to Mexican-American rock and roll? That feeling of joy, abandon and possibility—just…

Your Survival Guide for Winter on the Rocks

Winter on the Rocks is upon us. The annual winter show at Red Rocks is bringing another drool-worthy lineup featuring Adventure Club and Big Grams, which is the new collaboration between Big Boi and Phantogram. But because the concert is in January instead of July, there are some weather-related concerns.To…

Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

This weekend’s line-up includes Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks (featuring Big Grams and Adventure Club) at Red Rocks, Leftover Salmon at the Aggie Theatre, Interpol’s Sam Fogarino’s DJ set at Bar Standard and Talib Kweli at the Ogden Theatre. See the full list of our picks below.  FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Icelantic’s…

Open Music Session: Listen and Remix Straight White Teeth

When Straight White Teeth performed at Open Media Foundation’s monthly Open Music Session in June 2015, the locals pulled out their most-loved pieces including “Hot Blood Shaking in a Cage,” “Hurricane” and more. While indie guru Patrick McGuire was the frontman for the Denver band Flashbulb Fires for the past five years,…