If you missed the hour-long live stream a bit ago in which “Weird” Al Yankovic announced the headliners for this year’s edition of Bonnaroo, rest easy: We’ve got you covered. We took notes on all the acts announced thus far. Prepare to be overwhelmed: There’s roughly ten billion on the…
Brace yourself, my aging hipster friend: If you haven’t heard, your favorite band from nearly a decade ago is back together and playing shows again. While the Coachella date is the one that got everybody hyperventilating, the Postal Service’s tour actually kicks off a few days earlier in Reno. After…
It’s coming. You ready? Save the date: Saturday, June 22. That’s when we’ll be taking over the Golden Triangle once again for the nineteenth annual edition of the Westword Music Showcase, presented by Miller Lite. You know the deal: more bands than you can consume in one sitting, spread across…
At one time, the Jet Entertainment Group ran a number of spots in town, including Wicked Garden, two Purple Martini locations (one of which was later dubbed Jet South) and the Jet Lounge, located on the main floor of the Jet Hotel, which opened in 2006 at 1612 Wazee Street…
If you’re fond of the Dave Matthews Band, you’ll want to bust out your Sharpie and circle Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24 on your calendar. That’s when Mr. Matthews and company are slated to make their return to Colorado, or more specifically to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in…
ELECTRIC SIX @ LARIMER LOUNGE | TUES, 2/19/13 Electric Six has been bringing the party to the unwary for a decade. The group’s songs combine ’80s rock, disco and New Wave into a cranked-up, ultra-catchy sound all its own, with lyrics that mix a David Lee Roth-esque bravado with surreal…
LIFE IN COLOR // BORGORE @ BALCH FIELDHOUSE | 2/16/13 Life in Color: Rebirth is new name for the former DayGlow touring party, and the name pretty much sums up just what this party is about. A mostly white-clad crowd piled into the Balch Fieldhouse to see what all the…
NEUROSIS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2/16/13 Experiencing the rare and punishing set from Neurosis at the Summit Music Hall evoked the sensation of being in front of an oncoming freight train. But then the music itself was so powerful and felt like so many things that it was almost…
Ah, nuts. We had a sinking suspicion that this would be the case when last week’s dates in Dallas and some other cities were pushed back. Turns out Morrissey will not be resuming his tour in Denver this coming Thursday night at the Buell Theatre as originally planned. The doctor…
We know it’s beautiful here. Carrie Underwood evidently finds it pretty breathtaking, too. This photo from the country queen’s Instagram account shows Underwood taking an oxygen break before last night’s encore. See also: – Photos: Carrie Underwood @ 1STBANK Center, 2/14/13 – The misappropriation of country music: Kid Rock opened…
SNOW THA PRODUCT @ ROXY THEATRE | SAT, 2/16 It may at first seem easy to dismiss Snow Tha Product as another Iggy Azalea or Kreayshawn-level gimmick because of her gender and unconventional appearance, but it gets harder and harder the more you listen to her. Make no mistake, Snow…
ALESSO @ OGDEN THEATRE | FRI, 2/15/13 Sweden is experiencing a groundswell of bass drops and bleep-bloops, the result of electronic dance music’s worldwide takeover. And riding shotgun on the revolutionary journey is Alesso, the Swedish house DJ who broke onto the EDM scene a few years ago as one…
OM @ LARIMER LOUNGE |2/13/12 It was impossible not to be moved last night by the music of OM, as the visceral, low-end sounds moved through your body and the music hit you and washed around you like a physical force. The mixture of those chthonic tones, with the clatter…
I don’t lie in my music,” says Danny Vincennie. “I don’t exaggerate shit, and if it didn’t happen to me, you’re not going to hear about it.” Vincennie, who has been performing under the moniker Extra Kool since going solo after the 2006 split of his long-running Optik Fusion Embrace…
You could be excused for expecting an outfit named Warhawk to be a metal band. But while these guys clearly share influences with many metal merchants — you’ll hear a bit of Black Sabbath’s edgy darkness and more than a dash of Pentagram’s gritty boogie — they sound more like…
It’s impossible to miss the influence of New Orleans in the brash, brassy sound of Galactic. Since forming in 1994, the sextet has experimented with plenty of sounds and styles, dabbling in everything from hip-hop to electronica. But the lush legacy of New Orleans’s native jazz, funk, soul and R&B…
Lauded local trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell, a Denver native now living elsewhere, have performed and recorded together a number of times, but they’ve only teamed up with drummer Brian Blade on a handful of occasions, including on Miles’s latest disc, Quiver, which was issued this past fall…
One of the few heavy bands with a genre-transcending appeal, Oakland’s Neurosis forged an impressive sonic evolution across several decades. Starting out as a political crust/hardcore band in 1985, by the time of its 1992 album — the epochal Souls at Zero — Neurosis was on the path to creating…
Doro Pesch was the charismatic frontwoman of the ’80s German metal band Warlock. With power and confidence that were rare at the time, Pesch, the first woman to front a band at the 1986 Monsters of Rock festival, possessed a stirring, sometimes animalistic wail. Warlock split in 1987, two years…
After growing up in Denver, Rob Drabkin went to Trinity University in San Antonio to major in biochemistry and molecular biology. But a few weeks before graduation, he says, something snapped in him while watching the Broadway musical Chicago. His mind drifted, and while daydreaming, he realized he would have…
In order to fully understand the impact Dean Paul has had on the West Coast techno scene, you should know that he is a full-time resident with Droid Behavior, the Los Angeles collective behind the Droid Recordings label (other residents include techno powerhouses Audio Injection, Drumcell and Raíz), the D-Node…
On “Disappear 1,” which opens Rowboat’s Of Disappearing, Sam McNitt displays a keen gift for articulating the paradoxical delicacy and intensity of certain emotions. The crushing sense of loss conveyed in that song is both comforting and unnerving: It’s as though the feelings being addressed were too overwhelming to endure…
