Lotus, Green Day and All New Denver Concert Announcements

Country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill bring their Soul2Soul world tour to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, August 1, 2017; tickets go on sale Friday, October 14, at 10 a.m. Last July, Lotus released Eat the Light, the electronic outfit’s first album with vocals on every song. The band headlines…

Jive Church and the Rebirth of the Pamlico Sound

The Pamlico Sound is releasing its latest full-length album, Jive Church, which represents a good deal of work, re-work and rebirth for the band over the course of the last year and a half. Horn player and vocalist Will Baumgartner put the outfit together in June 2015 after a year’s hiatus…

Get to Know Boulder’s Don Strasburg — No, Not That Don Strasburg

Meet Don Strasburg. No, not that one. Based on the name, you would be forgiven for thinking this is a profile of Don Strasburg, the owner of Boulder’s Z2 Entertainment and senior talent buyer at AEG Live whose notoriously competitive booking methods help maintain his companies’ monopoly over the Denver…

Brujeria Grinds Against Trump at the Bluebird

Despite the sold out Slayer and Anthrax show happening up the street at the Fillmore Auditorium, Brujeria, Cattle Decapitation and Piñata Protest garnered a sizable audience at the Bluebird for its own raw display of musical brutality. San Antonio’s Piñata Protest brought an odd but effective mixture of punk and…

Andrew Stockdale, the Lone Wolfmother

Since co-founding members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left 1970s-tinged Australian hard-rock band Wolfmother in 2008, it has been less a band in the conventional sense and more the musical outlet of sole remaining original member Andrew Stockdale. The singer and guitarist plays nearly everything on new album Victorious, with…

Indie-Pop Band TEEN on Gender, Sensuality and Wu-Tang

First things first: The members of TEEN would really like you to stop comparing their band to Warpaint. “People say, ‘They sound just like Warpaint!’” frontwoman Kristina “Teeny” Lieberson tells me from her home in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. “And it’s like, I love Warpaint, thanks, but no, we…

Partying at the RV Resort, Desert-Trip Style

It’s 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and a classic rock cover band is serenading a small, mostly middle-aged crowd lazing around a pool at the Shadow Hills RV Resort in Indio, California. They’re belting out Van Morrison’s “Wild Night,” which seems like an odd choice for this hour — or…

Green Day Coming to 1STBANK Center in April

Green Day, which just released Revolution Radio last Friday, will be coming the to 1STBANK Center on Wednesday, April 5 as part of the band’s North American tour, which kicks off in Phoenix in March. Against Me! will open the show.  Pre-sale tickets go on sale for Idiot Nation fan club members on…

The Ten Coolest Things About Desert Trip, aka “Oldchella”

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…

Phantogram, Miguel and the Best Concerts in Denver This Week

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…

You Bring the Romance, the Floozies Will Bring the Electronic Funk

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…

New Book Delves Deep Into Red Rocks Concert Files

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…

The Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

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…

Rare Reissue Label Numero Will Host Pop-Up Record Sale in Denver

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…