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…
Here at the edge of the desert, a small miracle is taking place. Thirteen miles from the Utah border, an abandoned Rio Grande water tank sits on a small hill two blocks north of the main drag of Rangely. main drag. Made of welded, half-inch-thick steel plates, the tank is…
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…
There’s a stellar line-up of music in town this week, including Peaches, Yo La Tengo, Broncho and Lucero. The full list of our picks follows: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Rob Thomas $45-$99.50, 7 p.m., Paramount Theatre City and Colour $35.75, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Peaches $20, 8 p.m., Summit Music Hall …
Every First Friday, Open Media Foundation throws quite a party with Open Media Sessions, complete with a concert. Last month, PrettyMouth dominated the sessions stage. The moody Denver band says “Sinisterly” was perhaps the first PrettyMouth song ever recorded, and at the October 2 show viewers were treated to an…
Snow is falling, but don’t forget to take your chances on Rockygrass and Telluride Bluegrass lotteries before you lose your mind — and your batteries — stuck in I-70 ski season traffic. Although tickets for the festivals don’t go on sale until December, the 2016 lotteries for Telluride camping spaces…
The members of Yo La Tengo knew that the 25th anniversary of Fakebook, an acoustic-driven album largely made up cover songs, was approaching — and they also knew they didn’t want to wait as long as they usually do between albums. So they decided to follow up 2013’s Fade with Stuff…
This weekend’s concerts include shows by Bruce Cockburn, Don Byron, Juan Gabriel and AWOLNATION. Read on for the full list of our picks. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Bruce Cockburn$29.50-$39.50, 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater Sturgill Simpson $29.50/$35, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Don Byron Quartet $15, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m., Dazzle Pat Green …
As a cold rain fell in Boulder last night, I walked into eTown Hall for the first time since eTown relocated from the Boulder Theater in 2012. Shame on me for previously only passing by the show’s incredible new setting, inside a renovated church that originally opened in 1922. eTown…
Globe Hall, a Texas-style smokehouse and dive bar in Globeville, started serving barbecue and pouring drinks yesterday, and will kick off its music programming in the attached music hall this weekend with free shows featuring Gasoline Lollipops and Casey James Prestwood & The Burning Angels on Friday, as well as Jen…
Philadelphia’s Beach Slang has spent the last few years writing songs that are so emotionally charged, raw, sincere and thoughtful that they transcend mere rock and roll. The name of the group’s latest record, The Things We Do to Find the People Who Feel Like Us, may be long —…
The members of The Milk Blossoms take turns when they talk – as the conversation circles the table, each musician makes space for the next one to speak. Five minutes into this exchange, it’s clear that Michelle Rocqet, Harmony Rose and Brent Larson are not only bandmates, they’re friends. Good…
Carrie Underwood will kick off The Storyteller Tour-Stories in the Round, her first tour “in the round,” in January; it will stop at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, March 29, and at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, March 30. Tickets for both shows go on sale…
It couldn’t be done, they said. It’ll be a blizzard, and kids will be sliding down the ramp, they warned. Well, surprise, surprise — it has yet to snow in the metro area and the first ever Red Rocks show on October 31 was held in beautiful, mid-50s degree weather…
Flaural is releasing its debut EP, Thin King, tomorrow at the Hi-Dive. It’s a project that’s come together relatively quickly: Until last year keyboardist Connor Birch, drummer Nick Berlin and guitarist Noah Pfaff were members of the promising indie rock outfit A Band In Pictures and singer/bassist Collin Johnson was…
With more new music being released today than ever before, people seeking to expand their music libraries can get overwhelmed. The sheer amount of content available on the internet is staggering — iTunes alone offers over 43 million songs! (Assuming that each of those songs averages four minutes, it would…
Renowned clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Don Byron, who recently moved to Denver from New York to be a full-time faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Department of Music, in the Jazz and American Improvised Music program, is showing his students the value of getting nerdy. “I’m talking about…
The Southern gentleman, sharply dressed in a cobalt blue blazer, slacks and a starched, white-collared shirt, appeared in front of the blood-red curtains at the Gothic Theatre on All Hallows’ Eve, accompanied by a six-piece band that held more soul than a worn-out Texas riding boot. Leon Bridges, a 26-year-old…
There’s a wide variety of acts in town this week, including Sturgill Simpson, All Time Low, the Sword and Youssou N’Dour. See our ten picks below. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 All Time Low and Sleeping with Sirens $25/$35, 6 p.m., 1STBANK Center The Sword $19.99, 9 p.m., Gothic Theatre Local H …
Sub.mission’s Fusion Factory shows are starting to get a lot of attention: Not only do they bring the biggest names in underground dubstep to Denver a couple of times a month, but the BYOB art studio space that’s Fusion Factory’s home is a breath of fresh air after all the…
In a 2009 Westword article, Patrick McGuire admitted that, in large part, it was due to a diminishing faith in God that he pursued music. Around that time, he was fronting the band Flashbulb Fires which, until its break-up in late 2014, was a mainstay in the Denver music scene…
If you’re a doom or psychedelic metal fan, chances are you’ve been waiting to see Acid King for a long time. The legendary Bay Area powerhouse — part-stoner metal, space rock and desert rock, and part doom and psych metal — was formed in 1993 by Lori S., the group’s vocalist…
