Concerts

See Also: People of UMS 2011 Kicked off the first day of UMS by catching Bad Weather California in a very humid 3 Kings Tavern. People were packed in pretty tight in the middle of the room and mostly on the flanks. BWC played a loose, relaxed set like the…

In a show of compassion that’s definitely worth emulating, we’ve just received word that Reel Big Fish, which played a show at the Ogden Theatre last week, is in the process of donating the proceeds of its show the following night at the Belly-Up in Aspen to the Colorado Organization…

Sexy, silly, hyperactive — everyone has a look to their dancing and every sensibility under the sun was on display this weekend at Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In appreciation for those who shake it without inhibition, we present these animated GIF files we spotted at Global. Footage…

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Airistotle — a.k.a. Matt Burns of New York City — won the U.S. Air Guitar Championships on Saturday, July 21, 2012 at the Bluebird Theater and now is Finland-bound for the global championships. This year was the first year Denver hosted the finals, after hosting a regional event last year…

What was launched more than a dozen years ago by KTCL as Rave on the Rocks and later came to be known as the Weekend of E has since evolved into a three-day electronic festival. Global again went down last weekend. Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the annual…

FIONA APPLE @ the PARAMOUNT THEATRE | 7.20.12 Any Fiona Apple concert is a study in contradiction. The audience last night at the Paramount Theatre show was privy to a vast frontier of human emotion, Apple braiding herself in and out of binary worlds, slipping from robust woman in command…

Herman’s Hideaway, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and thirty years of live music this year, is debuting a new patio tonight at the Railbenders show. Mike Roth, the venue’s co-owner, says they’re still putting the finishing touches on the open-air patio, but it will be completely functional starting this…

Welcome to the weekend! There are few festivals happening over the next few days, including the Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks and The UMS, which includes a few hundred local acts and national acts like Shabazz Palaces, at various venues along South Broadway. There’s also forward-thinking indie rock act…

BIG K.R.I.T. @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 7.18.12 See Also: – Big K.R.I.T. at the Marquis, 10/21/10 – Mr. Midas and Big K.R.I.T. collab on “Back On” Big K.R.I.T. calls himself the King Remembered In Time, an appropriate name, because he truly is timeless. When the big king stepped on stage,…

The Market Street Summerfest, a free concert featuring Tonic and Sister Hazel and a cast of locals, including Bop Skizzum, the Swayback, Take to the Oars and Strange Americans, is coming to 20th and Market on Saturday, August 11. “Market Street by 20th has needed a fun event to bring…

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It’s a Tuesday afternoon in early spring, and Ha Hau is sitting in his office at the Triad Dragons headquarters at 1235 Elati Street. He and his crew are in the planning stages of this year’s Global Dance Festival. As dance music plays in the background on satellite radio, he…

Post-rock has enjoyed a certain popularity of late — and it’s easy to see why music that loosely fits that designation often gets put under of the umbrella of instrumental rock. Ghosts of Glaciers — due this Friday, July 20, at Mouth House (2858 California Street) — doesn’t bother to…

David Longstreth was living in western Colorado when he befriended the Love Letter Band’s Chris Adolf. The future Bad Weather California frontman put out Longstreth’s debut album, The Graceful Fallen Mango, on his This Heart Plays Records imprint. Since then, Longstreth has released music under the name Dirty Projectors, with…

In the first half of the ’90s, Ishmael Butler went by the moniker “Butterfly” as part of the rap trio Digable Planets. After the outfit’s 1995 split, the group performed one-off shows here and there, but since 2009, Butler has released music with Tendai Maraire under the name Shabazz Palaces…

Depending on whom you ask, Kenny Chesney represents everything that’s wrong with country music today: His songs stretch the once-tried-and-true country conventions so far that with the exception of the twang in his voice and the pedal-steel guitars, it scarcely resembles country, at least the kind once made by the…

Watsky is a San Franciscan poet/rapper, now based in Los Angeles, who first gained recognition as a slam poet. As a performer, he’s about as diverse as they come: serious, silly, cocky and heartfelt — sometimes all at once. His cross-genre appeal is demonstrated by his impressively varied resumé: winner…

The Lord notwithstanding, there were a couple of awesome things about growing up in the Calvinist parochial school system. JK — there was nothing awesome about growing up in the Calvinist parochial school system, but some aspects of it were more bearable than others. For example, sitting in chapel for…