Concerts

SAVOY @ RED ROCKS, MAIN STAGE | SAT, 7/20/13 Savoy’s laser show is now one of the most acclaimed in the country, and that’s just the visual element. The acts sound, which draw influence from dubstep, trap, house and electro, is equally as compelling, and the group’s live act offers…

MELVINS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | MON, 7/15/13 Since 1983, the Melvins have been perfecting their brand of influential rock, inspired in part by punk and in part by the music Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover grew up hearing as kids in the ’60s and ’70s. With the Melvins, the…

DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT @ DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | 7/13/12 When Annie Clark noted how the first time she had heard David Byrne’s music was when she saw Revenge of the Nerds, we thought we knew what was coming next. Instead, though, Clark played “Cruel,” one of her own…

Christopher Golub is not a Radiohead hater. Golub’s Brooklyn-based company Studio Orca curates the music played in Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has over 1,400 locations. In honor of the Colorado-based restaurant chain’s twentieth anniversary this weekend, we profiled Golub (“Black Beans, White Stripes”) in this week’s issue, and when the…

DAVID BYRNE & ST VINCENT @ BOTANIC GARDENS CHATFIELD | 7/13 David Byrne and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) initially met at an AIDS/HIV benefit in 2009. But after they ran into each other at a collaborative performance between Björk and Dirty Projectors, it was suggested to Byrne that he…

DJ TENNIS @ NORAD | SAT, 7/13/13 Like much of the electronic world’s cream of the crop these days, DJ Tennis lives in Berlin, but he grew up in New Jersey and moved to Italy to play semi-professional tennis (hence the moniker), where he threw parties at his tennis club…

Unless you’re in the midst of a three-day bender, beer and leftover fish hardly sounds appetizing, much less like a good idea this early in the morning. That is, of course, unless the beer you’re talking about is from Breckenridge Brewery and the fish in question is Leftover Salmon. In…

ROBERT PLANT @ RED ROCKS | 7/10/13 When you’re Robert Plant, you can get just about anyone to play with you. That’s why you see folks like Billy Fuller of Massive Attack, along with psychedelic rock impresario Justin Adams, ridiculously talented guitarist Liam “Skin” Tyson, talking drum/kolongo/riti master Juldeh Camara,…

Since the 2011 release of (feather), its debut EP, Chimney Choir has put out another EP, (turtle), and a full-length, (ladder), which came out last year. Not only is the band prolific, but it just keeps getting better, as evidenced by the sizable catalogue of really good material it’s amassed…

For those in search of a chill soundtrack to fight the summer heat, the prolific Qknox has delivered right on time. From back-room, cool-jazz musings to pulsing, post-Dilla neck-snappers, the eight tracks that make up On a Remote Frequency Outpost in Space deliver across the spectrum of beat-driven possibility. The…

Rapper (G)nosis’s new album, The Midnight Drifter LP, is conscious but not preachy, deep but not overwrought, forward-thinking but not inaccessible. More impressive, there aren’t any bad songs to be found here, and that’s most certainly a feat for such a lyrically ambitious project. On Midnight Drifter, (G)nosis challenges you…

It’s clear from the material on 3 that the members of Fingers of the Sun have greatly matured as songwriters. A tune like “Skinny Pert and Cool,” for instance, sustains the band’s signature knack for infectious melody while commenting on the beautiful ignorance of youth versus the depressing security of…

We all love music, and we all love all kinds of music,” notes James and the Devil frontman Jim Campbell. “I guess that rather than fast-tracking ourselves into a genre, we just decided to make songs for what they were. If we heard a metal song that we liked, it…

Little Fyodor started playing out live at the end of 1985, around the same time that the legendary experimental band he was in, Walls of Genius, was winding down. For the first two years, Little Fyodor (aka Dave Lichtenberg) was a solo act; his partner, Babushka, came on board in…

Attorneys for SoCo nightclub impresario Regas Christou and Beta owner and Beatport co-founder Brad Roulier each made their closing arguments this morning in the anti-trust lawsuit the former filed against the latter in December, 2010. Closing arguments wrapped just before lunch, and after three weeks of hearing testimony, the jury…

Update, 12 p.m. 7/10/13: The final celebrations slated for this weekend have been canceled because the buyers of the business received their liquor license earlier than anticipated and will take possession of the business tomorrow, July 11. Rick’s Tavern is now officially closed. After more than two decades of being…

Pop icon Barry Manilow is donating a new Yamaha piano to launch an instrument drive for Jefferson County Public Schools, which is partnering with The Manilow Music Project, which provides musical instruments to high schools and middle schools as well as music scholarships at universities throughout North America. Anyone who…

After eight years at 1512 Larimer Street, Tryst is set to reopen next week a block west at 1320 15th Street in the former Mix Music Lounge location between the Drink and Chances. In honor of the occasion, Tryst is hosting a pre-party on Friday, July 19, from 8 to…

Bass Kleph drummed in Loki, a rock-focused band that achieved modest success in Australia several years back, before turning his focus toward electronic music. The electro virtuoso incorporates some elements of house in his sound and is well-known for blending live drum-machine components into his DJ sets, resulting in a…

THE UNCLUDED @ MARQUIS THEATER | 7/5/13 The heaviest part of any show that Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson play together is almost always “Walk Like Thunder.” There’s a raw, poetic honesty and heaviness to the track, which comes from Kimya Dawson’s Thunder Thighs, and this performance certainly proved to…

ROBERT PLANT @ RED ROCKS | WEDS, 7/10/13 Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant returns to town this week with his newest backing band, the Sensational Space Shifters. The lineup features members of his early-’00s band the Strange Sensation and has Plant revisiting both blues-rock and world-music influences after exploring…