Concerts

Boulder folk artist Silent Bear has joined the ranks of fourteen other singer-songwriters and bands showcased on volume five of Songs for Standing Rock

This year’s Decadence lineup features an array of dance and electronic artists from the Grammy-nominated Disclosure to the saxophone-wielding GRiZ and Denver earth-shakers Bassnectar. Grab your kandi and light up your sneakers. Here are 21 tracks to warm you up.

Damian Burford’s years of booking shows, writing zines and recording podcasts have prepared him to organize the Don’t Panic: A South Broadway Music Festival

Looking to bring in the New Year with style? Check out this stellar lineup of concerts and events.

Denver pop-punk band SPELLS premieres its first music video, “Staying In Is the New Going Out.”

The Flaming Lips are coming to Aspen to play from their new album, which was created, in party, while recording with Miley Cyrus.

Yonder Mountain String Band pushes the boundaries of what bluegrass can be.

At Westword, Virgil Dickerson has been heralded as the most significant figure in Denver music in the past year. When you consider everything Dickerson has been involved in, that’s not a surprising turn of events. Nonetheless, the man himself was surprised.

Cash Kiser III, a 29-year-old music promoter who took his own life Saturday, December 17, built the Grand Junction music scene.

Denver Noise Fest 2016 proves Denver’s DIY scene is far from dead.

Nicholas and Cara Yañez of the band Get Along are making their way as a married couple and musicians with a two-year-old daughter.

Rockmount Ranch Wear sells Western designs sought out by generations of musicians wanting to adopt the Old West authenticity of the company’s brand.

Killswitch Engage and Anthrax bring their co-headlining Killthrax tour to the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, April 28.

Wondering which venues opened and closed in 2016? Here’s a roundup.

This weekend’s concerts are all about the holidays.

Bryan Ostrow, an organizer of the recently shuttered DIY venue Flux Capacitor, talks about the future.

Despite the recent shut down of Rhinoceropolis, Denver Noise Fest 2016, originally scheduled to happen at the DIY space, will go on at nearby Globe Hall.

Finding dusty record shops that cater to artsy geeks has never been so hard in Boulder, where the city’s eccentric charm has been diluted by a sky-high cost of living and an influx of techies from the coasts. Absolute Vinyl is one of the last spots where the college town’s once notorious weirdness still lingers.

Chic’s Nile Rodgers, the producer behind Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” will be receiving an award for musical excellence.

The Colorado Springs DIY space Flux Capacitor was shut down by the fire department for zoning code violations late last week, venue organizers posted to Facebook last Friday.

We’re shining the spotlight onto a few of the brilliant women in Colorado’s music scene and the musicians they admire.

Two weeks after a fire burned the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, killing 36 people, Denver’s DIY community came out in the hundreds to raise money for the victims and dance to ambient and experimental hardcore.