On Friday, May 5, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from Los Lunaticos, while comedy will come courtesy of Jose Macall.
Growing up as musician in the major label system, Aimee Mann says the thing she constantly heard was, “This doesn’t sound like a single. We need to have a single. It has to be more up-tempo. Radio won’t play a song that isn’t up-tempo.”
Red Rocks is now open for business, and many clubs and venues have events loaded with electronic acts to help us dance our way into the summer. Take a look at what is happening in the electronic scene for May 2017.
Janet Jackson just announced her 56-city State of the World global tour, starting September 7, and she’s going to be making a stop in Denver.
There are band names that mean basically nothing, and then there are those that describe the music perfectly. Essentially, for every Smashing Pumpkins, there’s a Bombpops.
While trance music and Cinco de Mayo may be far from synonymous, both offer global excuses to go wild on a Friday night.
Kendrick Lamar, Justice, Hans Zimmer and this year’s art installations were highlights. But not everything was an Instagram-worthy moment.
Cinco de Mayo is this week, and Denver knows how to party with a variety of events celebrating Mexican culture and heritage.
Let’s cut to the chase: Charly Bliss is a terrific band from Brooklyn that pairs crunchy pop-rock with the sugary vocal melodies of frontwoman Eva Hendricks. The results are sweet and serrated and effervescent and muscular and totally addictive.
Take Note the Concert, featuring Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, OneRepublic, Isaac Slade of the Fray, Todd Park Mohr and more, is Thursday at 1STBANK Center, while Chance the Rapper takes over Red Rocks on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Superfly and the City of Denver announced Thursday, April 27, they would be moving forward with contract negotiations on a project that would bring a massive music festival to the city-owned Overland Park Golf Course.
For the seventh consecutive year in a row, DJ collective Thievery Corporation will be playing Red Rocks – this time with Colorado great, DeVotchKa.
Cancer sucks. Every year in the United States, 72,000 young adults are diagnosed with cancer, equating to one diagnosis per seven minutes. One of these young adults is Caly Bevier. She is a 17-year-old, stage-3 ovarian cancer survivor who shared her story of strength with thousands when she auditioned for the TV show America’s Got Talent.
It was fourteen years ago when Cris Kirkwood was serving 21 months in prison for striking a security guard at a post office with his own baton.
Power metal may be an unfamiliar subgenre to most, especially here in the States, but it’s one of the most theatrical, empowering and popular forms of heavy metal. Originating in Europe, a power metal concert can feel like a party in Middle Earth.
The Joe Russo’s Almost Dead show with Medeski Martin & Wood that was originally scheduled for Red Rocks on Saturday has been moved to the 1STBANK Center due to incoming inclement weather. Killswitch Engage and Anthrax team up tonight at the Fillmore Auditorium while Peter Hook & the Light will perform the Substance albums by Joy Division and New Order.
Superfly has selected the Overland Golf Course as the ideal Denver metro site for a massive music festival.
A year ago, Brent Cowles told us that he had a big year ahead of him. He was right. Cowles might not have set the world on fire commercially, but that was hardly his intention anyway.
Hold onto your hats, y’all! Summer is right around the bend, signaled in Denver by snowmelt and the opening of Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado’s altar to outdoor music. While it’s the season of eclectic festivals and all-day electronica, fans of arena shows and country music are in luck with these thirteen major concerts hitting the Denver area this summer.
Earth Wind & Fire and CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers stop at the Pepsi Center on Thursday, July 20 as part of their 2054 North American summer tour. Tickets ($39.50-$125) go on sale on Friday, April 28 at 10 a.m.
It’s been a long day for L.A. Witch. It’s the first day of the band’s new tour — but without a gig to show for it. Having flown north from Orange County on a mid-April afternoon, the bandmembers are waiting at the San Francisco airport for a flight to Toronto, where they’ll play the first of 25 scheduled dates.
Sonically, Russian Circles, Eagles of Death Metal and Mastodon share little with each other. But Monday night at the Fillmore Auditorium, the three bands found common ground with a crowd of earnest, hungry music fans that greeted all three acts with enthusiasm.
