In the words of Erykah Badu, the concept of a “double bind” is “two conflicting ideas…[which can result in] transcendence, an existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.” Though this phrase is usually applied to irreconcilable differences, in Badu’s hands it becomes an opportunity for transcendence, words that…
By the time Dr. Dog finished touring in support of its 2008 breakthrough Fate, the quirky Philadelphia indie-rock quintet had become what the Band was to musicians in the late ’60s and early ’70s: the group everyone would give a limb to be in. It was the authenticity, the seemingly…
Chic, which headlines the Paramount Theatre on February 19, has been nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ten times (a record), but has not yet been enshrined — a fact that leaves group leader Nile Rodgers perplexed, to say the least. But in many ways, that doesn’t…
Black Sabbath’s (perhaps) final tour stops at the Pepsi Center tonight while Metric is at the Fillmore Auditorium tomorrow night, Hoodie Allen is at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday and Mike Peters of the Alarm playing a solo acoustic set at the Soiled Dove on Thursday. See the full list of…
As if it hadn’t been four years, and a whole lot of drama, since the last time Ween performed, Aaron Freeman—who had shocked his bandmates in 2012 by announcing, in a Rolling Stone interview, that Ween was over and he’d no longer go by Gene Ween—smiled and told a sold-out,…
Sarah Slaton doesn’t like hospitals, but that doesn’t stop her and the band Edison from regularly playing music in one. She and her bandmates in Denver’s popular folk trio Edison regularly volunteer for Amp the Cause’s Sunday Sounds at Children’s Hospital Colorado, which turns the hospital’s foyer into a makeshift…
Rival Sons from Long Beach, California is the opening act on the current, and purportedly last, Black Sabbath tour including the date this Monday, February 15, at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Since 2009 the four-piece hard rock band has been honing its sound and making a name for itself,…
Ween, who last played in Denver four years ago, reunite for three shows this weekend at 1STBANK Center while the New Mastersounds play two night at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, the Flaming Lips are the Belly Up Aspen and Erykah Badu is at the Ogden Theatre on Valentine’s Day. See the…
Anthony Russo Band performed at the September edition of the Open Music Sessions, the free monthly concert and party hosted by Denver’s Open Media Foundation. Fresh off a tour behind Curtis Hawkins’ LP South Clarkson Street, the local trio — which includes Hawkins himself on bass — brought its blend of…
Emi Night of Strawberry Runners moved to Denver from the Midwest in 2011 for the same reasons as many transplants — friends and the sunshine. Night has been immersed in the music scene since her arrival, playing in Mega Gem and now performing as vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and all-around leader…
Originally formed in Athens, Georgia in 2008, the band is now based out of Nashville. Considering its eclectic sound drawing from country rock and modern psychedelia, Futurebirds sounds very much like the product of a city that, along with Denver, co-birthed ’90s indie pop with Athens and a city where…
Dead & Company, which features Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, as well as John Mayer and others, will headline Folsom Field on Saturday, July 2 and Sunday July 3. They’ll be the first shows at University of Colorado’s 50,000-capacity stadium since Dave Matthews Band’s show there in…
Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, which was started in 1999 in Las Vegas by brothers Shawn and Mark Stern (owners of BYO Records), is coming to Denver for the first time at Summit Music Hall Thursday, June 2 through Saturday, June 4. The initial lineup includes Buzzcocks, Millencollin, FLAG…
Last week we interviewed Frances Quinlan of Hop Along, a genre-straddling indie rock band that’s made music critics (including this one) gush. (That Voice tho!) Our conversation ranged from Chris Brown and Taco Bell to Denver’s “amazing free clinic,” which hopefully Quinlan won’t need to visit again when the band…
“We make fun of people getting underwear for Christmas in childhood,” says Bethany Wallace. “But some people only have the pair they’re wearing, and that’s a bizarre invisibility to our privilege.” Wallace is the organizer of UnderAware: Unmentionables Costume Party and Benefit Show for Urban Peak featuring live music from…
If you’re in Denver, odds are you spent last weekend closely following the Broncos World Championship team (and/or avoiding sports bars and casual conversation, tucked away in your home hiding from the Orange Crush). Meanwhile, another squad of hometown heroes was being broadcast across television screens nationwide: Nathaniel Rateliff and…
At this point in its long and ragged career, going to an AC/DC show is much like watching It’s a Wonderful Life at Christmas. It’s warm, familiar, and you can recite line after line, possibly to the annoyance of the person sitting next to you. To its fans, an AC/DC show is like…
A few minutes before Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s string section took the stage last night at the Ogden Theatre, a slow, bass-heavy drone began washing over the packed-in Denver crowd. Kids who had been jammed against the rail for two hours waiting for the electrifying Montreal symphonic indie-rock act suddenly…
Long before becoming one of the world’s preeminent jazz bassists and performing with celebrated pianists like Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Paul Bley, Gary Peacock had an experience in 1953 while playing drums for his high school graduating class when he realized that jazz was his calling. “I had a…
Almost everyday at local record-selling institution Twist & Shout, owner Paul Epstein says he notices the same thing: a constant stream of young buyers all looking at vinyl with “a deer in the headlights” look, examining vinyl “like the monkeys in 2001: A Space Odyssey.” The customers are clueless, and…
Like the rest of Denver, we have been experiencing a deluge of emotions following the Broncos’ victory in Super Bowl 50 — mostly positive, and mostly expressed nonverbally via cheers, happy grunts, the occasional clash with police and tears over Beyoncé. (She dressed as a Black Panther. Does that mean…
As a teenager growing up in Wales, Eddie Roberts, guitarist and founder of the New Mastersounds, started immersing himself in faraway influences: jazz and New Orleans funk. “It’s a bit of a strange one and I don’t quite understand it myself,” Roberts says. “I know for me the music is…
