Concerts

CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE at LARIMER | 8.28.11Christie Front Drive, the band that embodied the best of what emo was about and could be, last played a show on September 1, 2007 at the Marquis after a ten year hiatus. Fortunately it was only about a four year gap for this…

THE CHRISTINES at HI-DIVE | 8.27.11The last time the Christines played, it was December 6, 2008 at the hi-dive, around the release of its most recent offering, Here It Comes Again. This time around, it was a real treat to see James Paul, who played guitar with the band when…

STONES THROW PARTY at CITY HALL | 08.26.11Stones Throw Anniversary party! Anniversary celebrations are typically fancy and more merry than Christmas. The good folks from Stones Throw Records who came out to Denver to rock with the crowd — Mayer Hawthorne (as DJ Haircut), Peter Butter Wolf, Strong Arm Steady,…

DENVER AFTERDARK on LARIMER | 08.26.11While there were many memorable performances at the Denver Afterdark festival — presented by Analog Space, curated by Peter Black and spread out between several venues on the 2700 block of Larimer last night — the most unusual and, subsequently, memorable set of the evening…

Kickstarter may very well be the best invention aiding music makers everywhere since the advent of amplification and, uh, electricity. While the notion of appealing directly to fans to help underwrite recording efforts strikes some as distasteful or even shamelessly opportunistic, these sorts of endeavors have, for the most part,…

Tonight begins a non-stop weekend of shows and dance parties, effectively making sure Denver goes hard into the tail-end of the month, starting with the Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Party at City Hall. Stones’ head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf will be putting it down with a live video performance, along…

The 2700 block of Larimer Street will be ground zero for Denver Afterdark tonight; the lineup includes the Whomp Truck, DJ Narky Stares, Iuengliss and Cacheflow, among many, many more local names. Don’t miss this party — we’d get there before, you know, after dark. (7 p.m., $12). And while…

BIG FREEDIA at LARIMER LOUNGE | 8.24.11So from the looks of it, there really was “azz everywhere” last night at the Larimer Lounge when Big Freedia brought her sissy bounce movement to the Mile High City. Our resident shutterbug, Brandon Marshall was on hand to capture the festivities, which also…

After almost two decades together, Carbon Leaf (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Chamberlin) has effectively created its own brand of accessible bluegrass. But the Virginia natives can’t be pinned to a single genre — the band has an ostensible pop side, one that best translates live through Carbon…

The Climax Lounge (2217 Welton Street), which got its start four decades ago as an after-hours joint, has a colorful past. In the ’90s, as the Raven, it hosted punk-rock acts; the Fray and M. Ward have played there. But over the past few years, the Climax hasn’t seen a…

Big Freedia (performing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Bass Drum of Death and Narky Stares) is here, and she is a riled up force to be reckoned with. Currently the figurehead of the long-percolating Bounce (or Sissy Bounce) movement, she is just one part of a strong undercurrent of…

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE at RED ROCKS | 8.23.11″There will be a couple of times during this set when yours truly will be sucking wind,” Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard proclaimed early in his band’s set. “Because as you know, this show is taking place on top of…

YOUNG JEEZY at OGDEN THEATRE | 8.23.11The last time Young Jeezy roared through the Mile High City with that unmistakable voice and charming face was for a cameo during Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour at the Pepsi Center. Last night for the Denver leg of the TM103 tour at The Ogden…

Alex Winter, perhaps best known as Bill, from the band the Wyld Stallyns in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure has just announced he’ll be hopping behind the camera to direct a feature-length film about the peer-to-peer file-sharing service that helped start the digital music revolution, Napster…

Girls! Girls! Girls! A wise man once said, “put ya number on this paper cause I would love to date ya, and free drinks help the cause!” … or something like that. Anywho, it looks like if you’re of the female persuasion, on virtually any day of the week, you…

Young Jeezy’s (performing tonight at the Ogden Theatre with Freddie Gibbs and Young Doe) rough-hewn voice is unmistakable, and whether he’s pushing hard on his own tracks or lending his growl to songs by the likes of Bun B and Drake, the rapper leaves an unforgettable mark. Even Usher’s 2008…

This Saturday will be a historically significant date for the Anschutz Entertainment Group, as it will mark the beginning of AEG’s eventual migration from TicketMaster. With back-end technology developed by Outbox, a company in which AEG is both a client of and has an equity stake in, the nation’s second-largest…

When I was really young, my mom used to collage all of our furniture,” Cassie McNeil recalls. “I grew up in the mountains above Lyons, in a cabin where there’s no electricity or running water. My mom would collage every piece of furniture in my room. Little pictures and rubber…

By happenstance, this week has somehow shaped up to be a throwback/reunion of sorts to the best parts of local music from 1990s, with two beloved Denver acts from that era playing shows a day apart. This Saturday, August 27, the Christines will be at the hi-dive. Formed in 1992,…

Everyone in Mister Heavenly comes from higher-profile bands, such as Man Man, Islands and Modest Mouse. But Ryan Kattner, Nicholas Thorburn and Joe Plummer decided to do something different with Mister Heavenly, their side project. Melding a ’50s pop aesthetic with musical darkness, the members of Mister Heavenly have become…