Concerts

Reload Productions, a pioneer of bass-heavy music in Denver, is throwing its eighteenth anniversary party, bringing the Ram Records crew, which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary.

Old Crow Medicine Show will headline Denver’s Paramount Theater in May to perform Bob Dylan’s album Blonde on Blonde in its entirety. The concert will support the release of the band’s album Fifty Years of Blonde on Blonde.

Danny Argote stood toward the back of the Fillmore Auditorium at the Run the Jewels concert. He was wearing a “Fuck Racism” t-shirt from the Afro-punk activist band Fishbone and holding a large poster of Bernie Sanders and Martin Luther King Jr throwing up the hand signs for the hip-hop act Run the Jewels.

The versatile Los Angeles band Los Lobos—with its two iconic singer/guitarists, César Rosas and David Hidalgo—formed in 1973 and entered the national consciousness big-time in 1987 with a faithful cover of “La Bamba,” a surprise hit from the Ritchie Valens biopic.

On Friday, March 3, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will feature musical guests El Javi, as well as a set by comedian James Conklin. Last month, the February Open Music Session welcomed Matt Rouch & the Noise Upstairs, a folk-roots-country outfit…

The past week had its share of memorable concerts that included monsters, stoners and heartthrobs. Juicy J, Run the Jewels, Lordi and Sting all packed the house. Here’s what it looked like.

The members of the punk band, The Dickies included TV-loving kids who were raised in the Valley, bathed in privilege and swimming pools, with interests not stretching much further than water slides and movie stars.

Classic rockers Styx, REO Speedwagon and Don Felder announced this morning, February 16 that they will be embarking on a summer tour: “United We Rock,” and making a stop in Denver on June 29, at the Pepsi Center.

When Sepultura formed in Brazil in 1984, there was little evidence to suggest that the band was ever going to be anything more than your run-of-the-mill death metal outfit. By the second album, Schitzophrenia, people were taking notice. The fourth, 1991’s Arise, catapulted Sepultura into the international spotlight, and then…

The Australian post-punk, environmentalist band Midnight Oil announced its first world tour in more than twenty years, and it will include a Denver stop, at the Paramount Theatre in May.

Sturgill Simpson, who just won a Grammy for Best Country Album, headlines Red Rocks on Monday, September 25; tickets ($45-$55) go on sale on Thursday, February 16, at 10 a.m.

The annual festival Project Pabst Denver announced its lineup today, and rapper Ice Cube will be headlining.

In February, Open Media Foundation hosted its monthly free Open Music Session event, which featured musical guests Matt Rouch & the Noise Upstairs. Before that, the December 2016 Open Music Session welcomed High Fiction and Rob Drabkin, a Denver indie-rock double bill. High Fiction is an unconventional power duo, with a trad-folk…

Three time Billboard-chart-topping rapper Future announced that he will drop his new, self-titled album Future, on Friday, February 17 and going on the Nobody Safe world tour that will bring him to Denver’s Pepsi Center June 13. He will be joined by Migos, Tory Lanez and Kodak Black. Tickets go…

Chance the Rapper, the independent hip-hop artist who won Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Album at the Grammys for an album released entirely online and without a major lable, just announced he’s coming to Red Rocks in May.

Colorado has been home to DIY spaces since at least the 80s. These venues have been critical to the growth of the local music scene, providing places outside of commercial venues for musicians to experiment. What follows are twelve of the most important DIY spaces to have emerged in the eastern Colorado Music scene since the turn of the century.

The history of the L.A. Guns is nothing if not storied. The band formed in 1983 amid the riotous Hollywood sleazy hard-rock scene, and one year later merged with another band, Hollywood Rose, to form Guns N’ Roses. When guitarist Tracii Guns left the fledgling Guns and Roses in ’85,…

Country star Dierks Bentley will be performing at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Saturday, September 2, at 7 p.m, and at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 15. He will be joined by Cole Swindell and Jon Pardi.

Colorado’s Latino musicians have been blending genres, breaking down musical barriers and defining much of Denver’s culture, often without recognition.

Metallica will be playing Mile High Stadium on June 7, 2017, just like they did in 2000, 1992 and 1988.