April 16 is Record Store Day, the day of the year when people are supposed to celebrate the culture surrounding independent record stores. According to the Record Store Day website, the idea was raised at a gathering of record store owners back in 2007, and ultimately turned into a real…
More than two years after the Monkey Barrel opened at 1611 Platte, the bar and live-music venue is closing the location at the end of April as the building is slated to be demolished in June to make way for an office building. There will be one final bash at…
Coldplay brings its A Head Full of Dreams tour to the Pepsi Center on Monday, August 29. Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara opens the show. Tickets (29.50-$179.50) go on sale on Friday, April 15 at 10 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium announced its summer concert series, which includes Ziggy Marley, Trevor Hall, Gregory Porter,…
For decades, Iron Maiden has been a crew of pioneers in heavy metal, so it should come as no surprise that the band continues to literally pilot its own plane. The English rockers perform at the Pepsi Center tonight on its current The Book of Souls World Tour, and landed…
Okay, so you blew your tax refund on a ticket to Coachella. How do you make these the best three days of your life while on a budget? It’s not easy. Last year, writer Marc Ballon asked a bunch of people how the hell they afforded Coachella. Most estimated they…
On the rooftop of an apartment building, I find the congregation of Deer Tick super fans. Or at least, “Deer Tick super fans” is what they call themselves. My three friends — Rachel, Mikal, and Aryn — have been talking about the concert we’re seeing tonight, headlined by Deer Tick,…
With a stage set like a mythical rendition of childhood in the ’50s and ’60s, which included a giant TV center stage and radio studio lights on either side, Elvis Costello spent a full two hours presenting an autobiographical, retrospective performance piece with music rather than anything like a conventional…
The good people at the Humane Society of the South Platte Valley and the Longmont Humane Society host a whole bunch of animals that are available for adoption. Some of them bear a slight, and we stress “slight,” resemblance to some of our favorite people with animal tendencies: rock stars…
About halfway through A$AP Rocky’s set, which was 7 percent music and 93 percent high-as-hell ramblings delivered from his permanent seat atop a suitcase, I realized I had made a huge mistake. It was April 20, 2014, more commonly known as “4/20, bro!!” here in Denver, and I was standing…
When you have a phone interview with a band on tour, there are about fifty different ways that the conversation can derail. Typically, your interview subject is tired or hung over and has about twenty minutes of quiet in a packed day that has now been sacrificed to talk to…
While 4:20 p.m. has long been an ideal time to smoke a blunt, April 20 in Colorado has become an unabashed holiday for tokers as well as a hot spot for pot-centric musical acts who conveniently choose to play the state around this time of year. Sure, there are a…
Elvis Costello brings his solo to the Paramount Theatre tonight while Generation Axe (featuring guitarists Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi) is at the same venue on Wednesday. Also this week there’s Iron Maiden at the Pepsi Center, Ellie Goulding at 1STBANK Center, two nights…
Many Denverites take off for the mountains as soon as the workweek ends, hitting the slopes non-stop until trudging back home on Sunday afternoons. Yet sometimes even the most dedicated snow junkie wants a change of pace — an activity other than hurtling downhill — and Colorado’s mountain towns offer…
Father John Misty headlines the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday and Sunday while Peter Murphy brings Stripped acoustic tour to the Gothic Theatre on Sunday and Anders Osborne is at the Boulder Theater tonight. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul…
For the last decade, the Seattle-based innovative pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz had been looking for an excuse to combine two of his groups: the Gravitas Quartet, a chamber ensemble, and Sweeter Than the Day, which has the same lineup as his previous project Zony Mash but in an acoustic…
The origins of the tale of Sweeney Todd can be traced back all the way to the 1840s. It was then that the character first made an appearance in the serial short story The String of Pearls. After going through several different amalgamations, the murderous barber finally reached wide acclaim in…
It was an incredible all-ages scene: Teens, middle-schoolers, even babies being held by excited parents were lined up outside Seattle venue Chop Suey last week by 4:30 p.m. for the Tacocat album release party. Tacocat decided to put on two shows that day: a 21 and up concert in the…
Denver Botanic Gardens announced its 2016 Summer Concert Series, including Ziggy Marley, Marc Cohn, Jose Gonzalez, Martin Sexton, Chris Isaak, UB40, George Benson and more. Tickets go on sale to the public on Tuesday, April 19 while pre-sale tickets Denver Botanic Gardens members run from Monday, April 11 through Monday,…
Playing modern blues is a delicate balance between playing original and inventive music while paying homage to the genre’s storied past. What separates the greats from the rest is not so much the structure and composition of the music, but more the attitude and spirit exuded while playing it. Tuesday…
Local dubstep promotion team Sub.mission has seen no shortage of success over the last few years, as it has signed artists, brought international acts to Denver and helped to define the thriving dubstep scene in the city today. This year, Sub.mission celebrates its ninth anniversary with a party and show…
You know that saying, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist”? After seeing Justin Bieber in concert at the Pepsi Center last night, I think the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was us convincing ourselves he’s more than a silver-throated young…
Tucked in the northeast corner of Ultra Music Festival near the UMF Radio stage, dozens are unabashedly grabbing condoms courtesy of the Florida Department of Health. Most pick up the flavored ones that come in pineapple and strawberry varieties, and there the confident few who grab the Magnum XL’s. (Just…
