Music festivals are often thought to be a strictly summer kind of thing, but luckily for Colorado, our three hundred days of sunshine lends to a whole extra season of live music outdoors. This spring, electronic acts like Diplo and Kaskade, local superstars like Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats…
Lauren Zwicky is all about aesthetics, something that’s evident in her work as a hair stylist as well as in her efforts as a DJ and event organizer. For her, music can influence the way we present ourselves to the world as much as the way we look can have…
Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho runs this week from Wednesday, March 23 through Sunday, March 27. The festival, inspired by organizer Eric Gilbert’s experience with the UMS. At that time, the musician’s band Finn Riggins was on tour for most of the year. That heavy touring brought the band through…
Dinner is served. Kontrast & Fo Chief, two emcees perhaps best known for their work with rap crew Fresh Breath Committee, first gave the world a taste of their own beats and lyrics back in 2011 with the digital album Cannonball Soup. They followed that up in 2014 with Cannonball…
Tripp Wallin has been an active performer and prolific creator of music and performance art since he moved to Denver from Tucson, Arizona in 2002. When he said that his next Tripp Nasty show on Wednesday, March 23, at Club Scum would be his last, it came as a bit…
Gogol Bordello played its jubilant gypsy punk for a sold-out crowd at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday night. The band, led by pied-piper Eugene Hutz, has been mixing accordion, violin and multi-ethnic folk music traditions with straightforward rock hooks since its 2005 breakout album, Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike. Check…
Delaney Clements, a thirteen-year-old from Grand Junction who had become an advocate for children with cancer, died last night after a six-year battle with neuroblastoma. Clements had developed a strong presence on social media with more than 86,000 Instagram followers — a platform she used three months ago in order…
Starting on March 23, Denver’s beloved Summit Music Hall in LoDo will celebrate its sixth year in business with a series of special shows. In addition to the music, these shows will feature six-dollar drink specials, prizes and giveaways, as well as other special events to commemorate the occasion. “The…
It is stunningly loud, cosmically trippy, creating a soundscape that takes listeners on an inward journey, both on records and in a live setting. The aptly named post-rock band This Will Destroy You is headed back to Denver on its West Coast tour, and is happy to be stopping here…
In 2001, the University of Northern Colorado was on the brink of selling public radio station KUNC to KCFR, the Denver station owned and operated by Colorado Public Radio. The amount on the table was $1.3 million but upon hearing the news, general manager Neil Best approached the Board of Trustees with the idea…
This week’s lineup include’s B. Dolan tonight at the Walnut Room, Magma Tuesday at the Gothic Theatre, They Might Be Giants at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday and Santigold at the Ogden on Thursday. See the full list of our picks below. MONDAY, MARCH 21 Alt Nation Advance Placement Tour…
Red Rocks doubles both as an iconic symbol of Denver’s local music culture and as a go-to spot on the international music circuit. This summer, a several bands who got their start in Colorado are gracing the Red Rocks stage, blurring the local and international music scenes. Be sure to…
They Might Be Giants is one of the most well known bands from that pre-alternative rock era in the 1980s when there wasn’t an all-encompassing, vague umbrella term for music that wasn’t punk, wasn’t mainstream pop, not quite straight-ahead rock and yet accessible. The band’s self-titled 1986 debut album was…
Two bands have been added to the lineups for the main stages at the 2016 Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 25, 2016: Chef’Special and Denver’s own 888. Chef’Special, a Dutch alternative folk-pop band from Haarlem, Netherlands, will join Dillon Francis, Matt and Kim, Health, and Black Pistol Fire on…
Progressive rock started out as largely a British phenomenon in the late ’60s but quickly mutated when it spread to the European continent and beyond. The artists that pioneered the genre attempted to bring artistic credibility to rock music either by infusing it with elements of classical-musical structure and daring…
Gogol Bordello brings its super-charged gypsy punk to the Boulder Theater on Saturday night and to the Ogden Theater on Sunday night while the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus’ “The Show Music Go On: The Music of Queen” is at the Temple Buell Theatre for one show tonight as well as a…
For someone like me who comes from working within the DIY music world, $250,000 is a lot of money. Like, a shitload of money. But $250,000 was what was spent last year on the Colorado Music Party, a five-day, five-night unofficial showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Organized by the…
On the surface, it can seem like musicians are the most crucial people in a music scene. But behind every band, emcee and DJ lies the invaluable support of people who also help make things happen — people like Ciara Johnson. Johnson — who passed away in February at the…
Widespread Panic returns to Red Rocks for a three-night run from Friday, June 24 through Sunday, June 25. Tickets ($59.50) go on sale on Friday, March 18 at 10 a.m. Darius Rucker brings his Good for a Good Time Tour to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Thursday, July 7. Dan +…
Santi White, who performs under the name Santigold, is exhausted — which makes perfect sense. When we spoke with her, she was overseeing the release of 99¢, her audacious, eclectic and audaciously clever new album, in addition to creating social media platforms such as a Tumblr that plays off the recording’s…
Bag Raiders, previously known as an electronica duo, might better now be described as a band. Since adding drummer Felix Bloxom (also BR’s in-house producer) to its lineup, the Australian group has taken on a new identity — comfortably defined more by live instrumentation and singing than by their previously…
Earlier today we reported on the names of a few confirmed bands for the new music festival happening near Buena Vista this summer August 5-7, 2016. Organizers of Vertex Festival have now released the full initial lineup for the fest’s inaugural iteration, which features headliners ODESZA, Alabama Shakes and two…
