Every New Colorado Concert Announcement

More than four years after Ween’s New Year’s Eve run in 2011, the band reunites for three-night run at the 1STBANK Center from Friday, February, 12 through Sunday, February 14. Single day general admission tickets ($38.75-$45) and three-day passes go on sale Friday, November 20 at 10 a.m. Justin Bieber…

The Paris Attacks: When Loving Music Becomes a Radical Act

I’ve been reviewing concerts since I first thought I could be a journalist. It was way back in the now more-popular-than-ever ’90s, when I was a staff reporter for my high school newspaper, the George Washington Surveyor. I took notes on punk shows and relayed my experience to my fellow…

Chance the Rapper Shook the Fillmore With Family Matters

“I met my daughter this year,” Chance the Rapper told the crowd last night at The Fillmore. The crowd responded with love vibrations that shook the street. His current tour, called Family Matters, is chock-full of sentiment from the 24-year-old Chicago rapper, as he welcomed the birth of his daughter…

Is Jentry McCombs the Best Street Performer in Denver?

Jentry McCombs has a bone to pick. “Your magazine says I’m the ‘self-proclaimed’ best street musician in Denver, but I don’t like that,” McCombs says, semi-jokingly referring to a five-year-old article about Denver’s street musicians. “I am the best street musician, and I am the king of Denver. Who can…

Alan Wilkis and Big Data Battle the Internet at the Ogden Wednesday

Big Data, the electro-rock band responsible for the 2013 hit “Dangerous,” will perform at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, November 18. The Brooklyn-based five-piece band helmed by producer Alan Wilkis fuses electronic music with live instruments and the spirited vocals of Wilkis and Liz Ryan. Together with the rest of…

The Fifteen Best Concerts in Denver This Week

It’s an epic week for music in metro Denver, with shows featuring Glen Hansard, Chance the Rapper, Young the Giant, Chris Young, Minus Bear and Skinny Puppy, among others. See our top fifteen picks below.  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Chance the Rapper $39.50/$45. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium  Glen Hansard $35/$38.50, 7:30…

Composer/Inventor Trimpin Crafts a Free Performance at CU Tomorrow

An upended, dismembered piano sits in the middle of the floor at the ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio, deep below the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Kneeling before it, a slight, older man is wiring the piano pieces to an array of electromechanical devices. He is the mononominate sound artist…

Innamind Take Over in Denver Saturday Night

Sub.mission is taking over the Walnut Room tomorrow for a special, one-off show featuring two of the premier artists from renowned dubstep label Innamind Recordings. In advance of the show, we caught up with Innamind DJ and label boss Kursk, aka Jeremy Pattison, to talk about the visiting DJs, his…

Seven Sins Salon Is Ready to Rock in Lakewood

When an elderly man walked into his familiar barbershop in Lakewood last week, he found Cannibal Corpse blaring and a giant Ouija board instead of a quiet waiting room. His normal barber had been replaced with technicolor-haired and tattooed stylists, who informed him that Seven Sins Salon had taken over…

The Eleven Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

This weekend’s live music calendar includes some great shows, including Trey Anastasio Band at the Fillmore and the Motet at the Ogden, and both groups play two-night stands. The Roots move into the Ogden on Sunday, Low is at the Larimer Lounge, and JD McPherson is at the Fox on…

Every New Colorado Concert Announcement

The Cure’s first major North American tour since 2008 stops at Fiddler’s Green on Sunday, June 5, with the Twilight Sad opening. The tour will include nearly four decades of Cure material, including hits, rarities and as-yet unreleased tracks in a brand-new stage production. Reserved tickets ($35-$75) and lawn seats…

Branded Bandits Return as BANDITS With a Darker, More Melodic Sound

Lulu and John Demitro got off to an early start in music. Growing up in Boulder, the siblings began playing classical piano before they were five. Through high school John played in bands, including the hard-rock band Bassline; Lulu, who is a year younger than John, played keyboards in that…

Patrick Dethlefs Makes Some History at Tiny Library Concert

The last time I heard music at the History Colorado Center, it was at an October program on state symbols: Denver Gay Men’s Chorus program director James Knapp sang “Where the Columbines Grow,” Colorado’s first official state song, which just marked its hundredth birthday. Knapp has a spectacular voice, but…

Behind the Scenes of the New Wheelchair Sports Camp Video

Hot off the heels of a music video showing at the Denver Film Festival, which runs through the end of this week, Wheelchair Sports Camp is back at work filming a video for “Hard Out Here For A Gimp.” The song is from WheelGrabbers, a collaboration between the local hip-hop…