Cannabis and music have always gone hand in hand, but even since Colorado legalized recreational pot use in 2012 with Amendment 64, it is still illegal to consume cannabis in public and in private businesses that are accessed by the public – including concert venues. This November, voters in Denver…
As a proud 10-time Coachella attendee, I was more than a little curious when Goldenvoice announced Desert Trip, fondly referred to as “Oldchella.” Leave it to the creators of the two-weekend music festival to find another way to make history. When Desert Trip instantly sold out both weekends, it was…
It’s metal Monday tonight with Slayer and Anthrax at the Fillmore Auditorium and Brujeria at the Bluebird Theater. Dave Matthews plays a rally today at National Western with vice president hopeful Tim Kaine while Andrew W.K. brings his The Power of Partying 50 State Speaking Tour to the Gothic Theatre tomorrow and…
It’s easy to call Joyce Manor a pop-punk band. But it’s not easy to tell how the California group writes songs that are both 100 percent punk and 100 percent pop, or how the band seems to have as much in common with Arthur Russell as with Blink 182. Many…
Danny Pappas, lead singer of local hard-rock act My Own Iris, passed away on Sunday, October 2. Fellow local acts Scarlet Canary, Pride In Pieces, Lost Point, Vermillion Road and Beyond Influence are performing at a memorial show in honor of Pappas at 7 p.m. this Sunday, October 9 at…
Yes, we know. You picked up tickets to the Great American Beer Festival because you are a beer connoisseur. You plan to get slowly buzzed on really rare pours, and you’ve plotted out a course through esoteric barrel-aged styles from breweries that don’t distribute in Colorado. But here’s the thing:…
Over funky synths, a deep seductive voice beckons: “Local Floozies have been waiting for you…” The Floozies, an electronica duo comprised of brothers Mark and Matt Hill, created a YouTube video to promote their “Red Rocks Romance package” for the show they’re playing this Saturday, October 8. You can’t help but…
G. Brown was a budding music journalist in his late teens when he first made his way up to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. It was 1973 and, following a riot at a Jethro Tull show in ’71, the authorities had banned “harder” rock bands from performing at the venue. So Brown…
British electronica producer Tipper is bringing three different shows at the Fillmore over three nights, including a trip-hop night on Friday, an uptempo night on Saturday and an ambient night on Sunday. This weekend’s lineup also includes Big Head Blues Club at Boettcher, the Floozies at Red Rocks, the Selecter at the…
You’re a Chicago-based indie record label and you’ve discovered that your stockrooms are overflowing. Traditional record stores can’t put all of the releases on display, so the challenge is putting about 300 different pieces of vinyl, each by a largely unknown artist, in front of the eyes of the record-buying…
Rhys Fulber is currently touring with his live electronic-music project Conjure One and making a very rare stop at Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake, Colorado, a town across I-25 from Monument. Fulber is perhaps best known for his time with well-known industrial band Front Line Assembly and…
Bon Jovi is set to release its new album, This House is Not for Sale, on November 4; the band will kick off a U.S. tour in support of the album in February, with a stop at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, March 14. Tickets ($37.25-$157.25) go on sale to…
When people ask me what clubs I usually play in Denver, chances are I mention at least one spot on South Broadway. I first played the hi-dive in my early twenties with a broken foot and on crutches, the result of a drunken walk home on an icy night. I…
In 1991, three of the “Big Four” of thrash metal embarked on a tour that has since been hailed as a high point for the genre, dubbed the Clash of the Titans. Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth — all potential headliners in their own right — laid waste to venues across the…
When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, the Bodysnatchers and the Selecter. The Selecter’s vocalist, Pauline Black, says the whole idea of…
Last December, Snoop Dogg launched his own line of weed here in Denver, and earlier this year he headlined his third annual Merry Jane Wellness Retreat on 4/20 at Fiddler’s Green. Since the smoke has cleared from that show and if you’re jones-ing for some more Snoop, he’s bringing his Puff Puff Pass Tour…
On an evening at Red Rocks that felt like the tipping point between the tail end of summer and cool start of fall, Tears For Fears caught the perfect weather for its music. Tears For Fears fuses fond memories, melancholia and a celebration of life — a mood also tapped…
Andrew W.K. wants you to ask yourself: What would a wizard do? “Try to imagine that you’re the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world,” he says, “and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It’s more than self-awareness; it’s the ability to access…
One of Kelley Williams’ most boasted memories of his recent tour was the night his band, Back of a Car, played a show on the roof of a trophy-engraving center in Arlington, Texas. “There were like forty people who came. It was really cool,” he says. These are the kinds…
Ned Garthe Explosion’s highly experimental music, and the artistic concepts surrounding it, began with a realization that the cops weren’t paying attention, which allowed the bandmembers to get away with whatever they wanted. “Stuart [Confer] and I used to live in this house by Fort Logan mental hospital,” guitarist and…
There has never been a mega-festival quite like Desert Trip. There are just six acts and only one stage. No art installations, no dance tent, no bands you never heard of serenading you in the distance while you stand in line at the beer garden. Just a half-dozen rock &…
Four years ago, Dave Matthews performed at an Obama rally at the Community College of Aurora. Matthews shows his support for the Democratic party again next Monday, October 10 when he teams up with senator and vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine for a rally and concert at the National Western Complex…
