Concerts

On May 26, English folk-rock veterans Jethro Tull will play a show with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks. The beloved amphitheater was, of course, the venue for an infamous riot in the summer of ’71 that resulted in a cloud of tear gas, 28 serious injuries, and the cancellation of the remainder of the venue’s 1971 summer program.

A few years ago, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar was preparing the twentieth-anniversary edition of the band’s 1995 debut album Trace. The album cover was a photo of a 1930s Webster Chicago solid-state amplifier.

The epic pop rock band Imagine Dragons is headed for Denver, Saturday, October 14, as part of a world tour celebrating the release of the act’s third album, Evolve, which will be released on June 23.

Lettuce is a funk band that was born when the various members were at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992, though most of the members are proud New Yorkers. However, when Lettuce drummer and hip-hop producer Adam Deitch moved to Denver about a year ago, his colleagues were keen to follow. Guitarist Adam Smirnoff arrived in October, and he couldn’t be happier.

Youth on Record is like a teaching hospital for music producers, says Jamie Duffy about the Denver-based music-education program she runs.

Ethan McCarthy sits on the front steps of Flatline Audio, a recording studio in Arvada. His band Primitive Man has been preparing for a short tour and has just laid down tracks for a soon-to-be-released album.

Few words will make a music fan cringe more than, “actor-turned-musician.” And with good reason.

Not all music buffs have hundreds of bucks to sink into multi-day festival passes, concerts and season ticket subscriptions. This is when creative fans find ways to save some money.

When they made Kinky Friedman, they broke the mold immediately afterwards. Like, they smashed that thing into unrecoverable dust. Because God knows, there’s nobody else on this Earth quite like Friedman.

Chris Brown’s the Party Tour stops at the Pepsi Center tonight with openers O.T. Genasis, Fabolous, Kap G and DC Young Fly, and E-40 comes to the Summit Music Hall tomorrow night. Also on tap this week are KONGOS, who play two nights at the Marquis Theater, actor Kiefer Sutherland brings his country-steeped songs to the Fox Theatre on Wednesday and metal acts Opeth and Gojira play Red Rocks on Thursday.

David Crosby is one of those rare musicians who is in the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame twice, as are all of the members of Crosby, Stills & Nash. For Crosby, it’s his work with CSN and the Byrds that earned him his spots (Graham Nash is also in with the…

The dance rock band the Slants have been shifting their sound from heavier punk toward indie-pop, but that’s hardly the story that’s been making headlines. Around 2009, the group applied to trademark its name with the U.S. government. Application denied.

Westword photographer Brandon Marshall says he has never seen anybody punch so many people at one concert as a man trying to sneak into the Chance the Rapper show at Red Rocks did last night, Tuesday, May 2.

The Spring 2017 edition of the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival takes place this weekend, May 5 and 6, at the Center for Musical Arts. The event, which showcases musical and visual electronic arts started in 2016 with both a Spring and Autumn edition.

They say that, in comedy, timing is everything. That’s the art of the joke, or funny movie scene — the setup, the anticipation, the payoff. And yet, here’s a head-scratcher: How has punk supergroup Me First & the Gimme Gimmes traded off of the same gag for more than twenty years and, more perplexing, remained hilarious?