Concerts

The DCPA has contributed $50,000 to the fight against Initiative 300.

As far as pioneers go, there can only be so many. Tony Humphries – while generally unknown to casual fans of dance music – is one.

Shpongle, NGHTMRE and Slander, Slushii, LÉON, Jai Wolf, Itchy-O, Dance Gavin Dance and Kodak Black all play Denver area concerts this weekend.

Cinco de Mayo, the holiday that commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, will be celebrated in Denver all weekend long.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on May 10.

Austen Grafa plays in Bud Bronson & the Good Timers and Grayson County Burn Ban; now, the Texas-bred, Denver-based singer-songwriter is playing under his own name too.

Luke Combs, Chromeo and Florence + the Machine are among the acts playing Red Rocks in May 2019.

Thanks to road closures, the 1975 and its gear are stranded somewhere on Interstate 80.

Denver punks are gathering to remember Brittany Strummer.

For an electronic-music artist, Jai Wolf’s indie allegiances are worn loudly and proudly on his just-released debut album, The Cure to Loneliness.

Some fans applaud. Others get plain weird.

Twiddle talks about its roots, its previous Red Rocks concerts, and its upcoming show at the venue with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong.

The 1975,  Interpol, Twiddle and Pigeons Playing Ping Pong all play Red Rocks Amphitheatre concerts this week, while Santigold, Lizzo, Beach Fossils and Rise Against play other venues.

Most cover and tribute bands are pure snooze fests. Not so The Nuns of Brixton, “the only Clash cover band that matters.”

Musician Santigold discusses how her art has evolved.

Denver indie-pop duo OptycNerd is writing an album about growing up.

The Offspring, Bad Religion, the Vandals, Black Flag, Strung Out, Dwarves and more are part of the Sabroso Festival, Pardon My French featuring DJ Snake, Tchami X Malaa and Mercer is at Red Rocks Amphitheatre tonight and FoCoMX takes over Fort Collins.

Looking for a deal? Live Nation just announced its fifth annual National Concert Week, in which fans can get $20 tickets to 2,800 concerts.

Mary J. Blige and NAS, Social Distortion and Flogging Molly, and Wiz Khalifa all announced concerts in Denver this week.

After Pitchfork wrote a mixed review of Lizzo’s new album, Cuz I Love You, the diva took a shot a music writers who don’t make music, saying they should be unemployed. Twitter blew up.

In 2012, musician and author Donna F. Brown received an unexpected phone call, a connection that set in motion an unimaginable series of events and brought her life’s journey – and her ’70s band Medusa – full circle.