Concerts

After a long run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Global Dance Festival sets up shop this weekend in the parking lot of Sports Authority Field at Mile High with EDM heavies Excision, Datsik, Hardwell, Kaskade and more. String Cheese Incident is at Red Rocks for a three-night stand, while Neil Diamond is at the Pepsi Center and Buddy Guy is at Denver Botanic Gardens. See our full picks below.

At the ripe age of 50, world-renowned prog and tech house master John Digweed is as fresh as ever. With a jam-packed touring schedule and a busy day-to-day, the veteran remains relevant in a scene he’s dominated for more than thirty years. In July, alone, the English DJ has booked…

The Coathangers started as a joke between friends. They had all protested George W. Bush in Washington D.C., in 2006. “On the way back home we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we started a band?’” says guitarist Julia Kugel.

Three years ago Singer Kerry Pastine and guitarist Paul Shellooe wanted to start a group that sounded like a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. The two musicians, who had long been in the blues act the Informants, aimed for a heavy, vintage sound.

Tyler Grant looks like a thin, shaggy Chuck Norris holding a Telecaster. The 41-year-old jamgrass flatpicker, whose music drips with rootsy authenticity, has been around guitars since he was growing up in California in the ’80s and ’90s.

Global Dance Festival, one of the city’s best electronic music events, is back for 2017 – but, there have been some big changes.

Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae superstar, has gone through some drastic changes in recent years.

Face it: Denver is no Memphis. We’re just not a blues town. But if you look around, you can find bars, restaurants, pool halls and more that host regular blues jams and showcase touring and local blues artists that are as good as anything you’ll find in the South.

The Goo Goo Dolls are probably best known for the monster ballad “Iris” from the City of Angels soundtrack, a fact that must drive their hardcore, long-time fans crazy.

Westword’s Kyle Harris reviewed the Queen concert on July 6, writing about the differences between the original frontman Freddie Mercury and the current lead singer Adam Lambert. Readers took to Twitter and Facebook, blasting Harris for minimizing the struggle Lambert went through as a gay man and celebrating both guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor’s performances as well as Lambert’s

Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household.

Hall & Oates practically oozed pop hits that indelibly marked the musical landscape of the 1980s with a lasting impact still felt in current pop culture.

Toronto-based electronic music producer Deadmau5 will be at Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Thursday, October 19 and Friday, October 20, and he’ll be bringing his updated, custom-built 18-foot Cube 2.1.

Let’s be honest — they had to have seen it coming. If you call your band Black Pussy and don’t expect some sort of a backlash, then you’re either stupid or….. nah, you’re stupid. They knew what was coming. They just didn’t care.

Queen still rocks, even if the legendary band’s concerts feel feel like an uptempo funeral. And why shouldn’t they?

If you’re a musician or comedian who people are paying to see, there is no excuse for getting too high.

Roommates may be an experimental rock band, but its members are unabashed pop-music fans. Guitarist Alex Goldsmith says the title of the group’s debut full-length, Victoria, is a nod to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.