Concerts

The forward-thinking Manchester, England-based trio GoGo Penguin is a squarely acoustic act with a piano, an upright bass and a drum kit, but the group’s songs are interpretations of electronic music projects the act first builds on a computer using software like Logic or Ableton.

Over the last six years, Phish has set up shop for three nights as part of its annual Labor Day weekend run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. A Taste of Colorado returns to Civic Center Park this weekend with music by Rick Springfield, 38 Special, Sheila E., KONGOS, Five for Fighting and more.

August proved to be an incredible month for concerts in the Denver area. Legacy groups like Guns n’ Roses and Depeche Mode brought a healthy dose of nostalgia to the city, while local bands gone big like Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and the Lumineers played jam-packed venues. Here are some of our favorite images from this month in music.

The criticism that Foreigner has to face is much the same as that fielded by Journey and Boston: The current lineup touring under the classic band name bears little resemblance to the group of people responsible for recording the hits that created the brand in the first place.

It’s okay to punch Nazis. That’s the message in the newest song from Colorado Springs feminist punk outfit Cheap Perfume, the video for which drops September 1.

Local R&B and neosoul singer Danae Simone looked at the lineup of hip-hop shows in Denver and noticed something missing: women.

The Costa Mesa-based band the Growlers formed about eleven years ago, blending surf rock and psychedelia with a dark edge. When the musicians organized their first festival in 2012, they dubbed it “Beach Goth.”

Denver has built a rich electronic music scene. Here are some of our favorite places to dance to EDM.

While studying guitar making at the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix in the late ‘80s, Matt Flaherty remembers people saying, “Building an electric guitar is like an eighth-grade shop project.” Flaherty, who started Texas Toast Guitars out of his Arvada-based shop in 2011, has been thinking about that quote since first hearing it.

Nobody denies it can be dispiriting to sit in a virtual waiting room, hoping to get Red Rocks concert tickets, only to find out every seat sold out within minutes of going on sale. Yet that’s exactly what happens to Denver concert goers each year.

Singer Laetitia Sadier, who co-founded the art-pop band Stereolab in 1990, likes the freaks: Young Marble Giants, Joy Division, the Residents and “those freaky freaks from overseas.” But when she was a teenager growing up in France and first discovered the surrealist French singer Brigitte Fontaine, Sadier thought, “Here’s my mother.”

The experimental music festival Titwrench is back at it again with another stellar lineup of bands fronted by women and queer people. This ninth festival will be bringing more than thirty acts to perform at Denver’s Mercury Cafe.

The Lumineers take over Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre for three nights while Friday night Depeche Mode headlines Pepsi Center and Father John Misty plays Red Rocks. Also on tap this weekend are Reggae on the Rocks featuring Sublime with Rome, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Fishbone and more, Titwrench Music Fest at Mercury Cafe, Goosefest 2 at Goosetown Tavern, and Lucero at Denver Botanic Gardens. See our full picks below.

When we spoke with LaRissa Vienna back in March, she described the sound of LaRissa Vienna and the Strange as, “kind of eerie, or spooky-sounding. A lot of it is also harder-hitting, so it lands somewhere in that rock spectrum. The violin really brings an extra element in there. I…

It has been an immense couple of years for Los Angeles indie-rock band Warpaint. Having formed in 2004, the group, composed of Emily Kokal (vocals, guitar), Theresa Wayman (guitar, vocals), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass, vocals) and Stella Mozgawa (drums), didn’t waste any time building a solid reputation within the then-sparse…

Shania Twain, set to release her new album, Now, on September 29, will stop at Pepsi Center on Friday, July 27 as part of a lengthy North American tour that kicks off next year. Tickets ($69.95-$149.95) go on sale on Friday, August 25, at 10 a.m.

The left has had an internal debate about the rise of white supremacy as of late: punch a Nazi, or love a Nazi? String Cheese Incident drummer Michael Travis decided to riff on the topic on his Facebook page, where he bashed antifascists for engaging in violent clashes with white supremacists in Charlottesville. But that wasn’t all.

In 2006, work began on the restoration of the exterior of the Historic Elitch Theatre, which celebrated its 125th anniversary last year, after receiving $5 million in federal, state and city grants as well as private donations. Five year later, work started on the interior and was completed in 2014. While the theater opened that summer for its first public events in fourteen years, it hasn’t hosted a major concert there since 1996.

The Lumineers blasted into stardom with the earworm “Ho Hey” on the act’s 2012 self-titled debut full-length. The indie-folk rockers were armed with catchy, stripped-down songs and a marketable story about how in 2009, founders Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites ditched prestigious New York City for Denver, which was then a cheap cowtown — at least that’s how their story goes.