Concerts

From a creatively active Denverite to a now fully immersed Baltimorean, Nick Houde has always been a vocal participator in the DIY community at large. Houde’s musical projects — from Transistor Radio Sound and BDRMPPL to Snake Feathers and Future Heavy — have pulled from diverse movements like no wave…

When a local band opens for a national act, the former generally does its best to impress its touring counterparts. When Denver hardcore band Bankrobber recently played with Bane, the group was impressive enough that Bane asked the outfit to go on tour. For a band like Bankrobber, with deep…

The music of DJ/producer Steve Smooth is a bit like his name — kind of cheesy, but in a way that can’t help but make you smile. His pumping, high-energy tracks are short on subtlety and long on slick production and relentless thump. It’s a bit predictable and sounds enough…

So this is kind of rad: I’m listening to Sirius XMU right now and in between cuts from No Age and LCD Soundsystem, I just heard that song “Marathon” from Tennis, the breezy, uplifting one that kind of reminds me of “Bruises” by Chairlift — another lauded act with Colorado…

Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like: A compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. This time…

At the beginning of the year, you might recall us mentioning something about Overcasters heading to Hollywood later in the year, where they’d spend a week tracking their new album with Rick Parker, a producer with a list of credits that includes records by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the…

So it turns out Justin Bieber does have a purpose after all (well, a purpose beyond being annoying and giving pre-pubescent girls their first crush object). A musician by the name of Nick Pittsinger took Bieber’s “U Smile,” slowed it down 800 percent as a joke and inadvertently created a…

RUSH 8.16.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheater It’s taken more than three decades for Rush to refine its approach to stadium rock, and the long gestation period has paid off. The Canadian trio’s three-hour set at Red Rocks Monday night showed just how carefully the band has constructed its approach to…

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Little did the guys from the Knew know when they picked up a trio of pinatas on Federal this past Friday for their show at the Mile High Music Festival this past weekend that they’d be such a hit. In anticipation of their early afternoon set on the Bison Stage,…

Surely you’ve heard about this by now: Over the weekend, it seems, Tila Tequila narrowly escaped what sounds like an absolutely harrowing ordeal at the 11th Annual Gathering of Juggalos, in which she sustained cuts and bruises to her face and person from being pelted with everything from “beer cans,…

Another Mile High Music Festival is in the books. Weather was ideal, parking was a breeze, and there were plenty of memorable moments at this year’s fest, from Rivers Cuomo wandering through the crowd during Weezer’s set to Z-Trip throwing down a Colorado-centric version of “California Love” to Cypress Hill…

My Morning Jacket opened up its set with “Tonight I Want To Celebrate With You” and followed that up with “Gideon” and then “Anytime and “Magheeta.” Jim James wove gorgeous guitar lines while jamming in and out of songs, meandering from place to place. The outfit played “Golden,” faded drum…

Weezer, 6:45 p.m. on the Wolf Stage A piercing series of guitar lines, the push of a pounding drum line and synchronized singing syllables lent an epic feel to the beginning of Weezer’s set. As soon as Rivers Cuomo and company took the stage, it seemed the band was working…

As I crossed the festival grounds toward the Bison tent, where BoomBox was scheduled, I caught strains of Matt Morris and his amazing voice, and Ozomatli getting their reggae-style funk on. I reached my destination just as BoomBox took the stage and immediately knew I was in for a good…

Train brought back the alterna-ballad ’90s (acknowledging that most of the band’s output has taken place within the last ten years, I still think the band sounds more like the Goo Goo Dolls or Counting Crows than anything much that’s happening now) with a set that left heartfelt emotion to…

Jimmy Cliff, 3:45 p.m. on the Kyocera Main Stage Jimmy Cliff and his band delivered all of the expected musical components within the first strains of their hour-plus set. The godfather of roots reggae and his ensemble set down a set composed of syncopated beats, choppy 2/2 guitar accompaniment and…

When I interviewed him a few weeks ago in advance of his appearance here, Raul Pacheco, guitarist for Ozomatli, told me he wanted to invite audience members to bring instruments and join the band to jam onstage — and while the band didn’t entirely deliver on that promise (I’m guessing…

Colorado is a pretty progressive state when it comes to smoking marijuana. There are hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries centers that will sell the kush to anyone with the money and a doctor’s note. But with the swarms of cops and security roving the grounds of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park…