As a teenager growing up in Wales, Eddie Roberts, guitarist and founder of the New Mastersounds, started immersing himself in faraway influences: jazz and New Orleans funk. “It’s a bit of a strange one and I don’t quite understand it myself,” Roberts says. “I know for me the music is…
AC/DC returns to the Pepsi Center tonight while Godspeed You! Black Emperor is at the Ogden Theatre, and in the next few days it’s Bullet for My Valentine, the New Mastersounds, Infamous Stringdusters and Hop Along. See the full list of our picks below. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AC/DC $95-$140, 7:30 p.m. Pepsi…
This weekend STS9 returns to the Fillmore for a two-night stand, Dressy Bessy celebrates the release of its new album, Kingsized, at the hi-dive, Guster headlines the Paramount and Phish bassist Mike Gordon is at the Gothic Theatre. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 STS9 (also Feb…
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…
Say the name “Rossonian” to Denverites, and more often than not, they will recall The Rossonian, the historic hotel in the heart of Five Points and the center of that neighborhood’s storied jazz scene. Over the last few years, local band Rossonian has been making a name for themselves with…
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…
People often ask Gumbo le Funque singer and saxophonist Jason Justice what part of New Orleans he’s from, since the local band he fronts is steeped in city’s music. Justice says he tells them, “’I’m from northern Louisiana: a place called Norman, Oklahoma.’ People are always just floored that it’s…
The Flaming Lips, who have performed their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin live a handful of times over the last few years, will be playing it with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks on Thursday, May 26. Tickets ($39.95-$59.75) go on sale on Friday, February 5 at 10 a.m. The Smashing Pumpkins…
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…
At 29, Frances Quinlan says she is coming to terms with her flaws. “I’m really just beginning to realize how much of an idiot I was in the first half of my twenties,” says the singer and songwriter of Hop Along. “I cried when I turned twenty. I hope I…
In the fall of 2008, Denver band Dressy Bessy set out on tour to support its fifth album, Holler and Stomp. Shortly after the tour began, the U.S. economy collapsed. The group was suddenly paying four dollars a gallon for gas to drive to empty venues and play to a…
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…
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…
This week’s lineup includes SafetySuit at the Bluebird Theater, Brothers Comatose at the Larimer Lounge, Queensryche at the Summit Music Hall, Bryson Tiller at the Ogden Theatre and Grace Potter at the Boulder Theater. See the full list of our picks below. ONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 SafetySuit $18-$22, 8 p.m. Bluebird…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
You thought singing the national anthem at a Broncos game or making a Rolling Stone year-end list were career highlights for Nathaniel Rateliff? Well, my friends, we may have just now reached peak Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. No, the peak is not them headlining Red Rocks. The Night Sweats…
by Stephanie Grey First and foremost, Max Frost is an accomplished beat maker. While melodies come easily, it’s with drums and synthesized beats that Frost first builds the infrastructure of a song. Through later combining everyday ephemera and chords, he relays an easy sense of intimacy. Something almost thematic in…
Nine years of your life doesn’t sound a lot when you’re into your thirties, but a lot of living and growing goes on between the ages of sixteen and 25. Now imagine doing it in the public eye. We cringe at the idea of our late teens being recorded for posterity…
