Sting and Peter Gabriel team up for their Rock Paper Scissors tour, which stops at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, July 12. “Having first toured together in the eighties for Amnesty International,” a press release states, “Rock Paper Scissors will find Peter Gabriel and Sting performing both separately and together,…
Sam Fogarino will be the guest DJ at Lipgloss at Bar Standard this Friday, January 29. Fogarino is perhaps best known for being the drummer of Interpol, arguably the most popular of the bands out of the “post-punk revival” of the late ’90s and early 2000s. The band’s debut full-length, Turn…
There is a certain moment in a band’s trajectory when you can actually observe the music evolving. Denver four-piece Tyto Alba is experiencing just such a moment: a young band spreading its wings in sound and spirit before an audience’s eyes. Perhaps movement as a way of being comes naturally…
After opening three-and-a-half years ago at 1515 Madison Street (the former home of the Normandy, PS 1515 and the Pink Elephant), it didn’t take long for Park House (and more recently dubbed Park House / Peacemaker’s Cajun Kitchen) to become a hot spot for music that brought in a steady stream…
Although Casselman’s Bar & Venue, which closes this weekend after a six-year run, it will leave a hole in the live music scene in RiNo, but there are still other spots to see live music in the area, some of which have around way before the area was even dubbed…
ESPN’s Winter X Games return to the Buttermilk ski area in Aspen January 28 through 31. The festival, which started in 1995, showcases the world’s top athletes in extreme iterations of winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling. The culture surrounding the event and the sports themselves encompasses certain…
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame announced this morning that it will honor six musicians with induction — including one who is still actively performing. Dubbed “20th Century Pioneers,” the list of new inductees includes famed big band leader Glenn Miller; Paul Whiteman, the “King of Jazz” in the 1920s and…
For the past two years Sofar Sounds Denver has hosted shows at secret locations throughout the metropolitan area. Whether a house, a back yard or an automotive garage (all past locations for Denver shows), Sofar has organized and internationalized the DIY-show format and its intimacy by providing an infrastructure and…
Sofar Sounds recently appointed Plume Varia guitarist and keyboard player Shon Cobbs as the City Leader for the Denver branch of the international concert series. Founded in London in 2009 by Rafe Offer, Rocky Start and Dave Alexander, Sofar started as a house show alternative to standard commercial venue shows…
This week’s best shows include Trivium tonight at the Black Sheep, Los Lobos at the Boulder Theater, Nas at the Belly Up and JEFF the Brotherhood at the Summit Music Hall. See the full list of our picks below. MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Trivium $18-$20, 7 p.m. The Black Sheep Mountain…
Nearly seven years ago, I ran down the stairs of a Chicago subway station, laughing with my friend Jordan as we barely made it onto the train before the doors closed. Looking around, we saw the train car filled with a handful of other people who were, like us, riding…
Some of the most worthwhile events in Denver happen when the music community comes together and rallies around a social cause. What cause is more pressing right now than homelessness in Denver? Over the past year individuals experiencing homelessness had their tiny houses torn down in Sustainability Park, had possessions…
Jack’s Mannequin celebrates the tenth anniversary of Everything In Transit tonight while X’s John Doe returns to the Lions Lair for a two-night stand, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is at the Fillmore tonight and T.I. is at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22…
While Casselman’s Bar & Venue, which is closing this weekend after a six-year run, brought in a wide variety of local acts, it also booked a number of stellar national acts, including Raekwon, Stryper, Das Racist and Too $hort. Here’s a rundown of ten great moments at the venue. 10…
Weezer and Panic! at the Disco will stop at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 24 as part of their summer co-headlining tour in support of their new albums. Continuing with the emo-pop-punk revival — Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness opens the show. Reserved tickets ($29.75-$75) and general admission lawn…
More music venue closing news: the Armoury on Larimer is shutting down. Named for the Arsenal soccer team’s fan store, the Armoury opened in early 2013 in the Ballpark Neighborhood as an Old World pub that focused on soccer, spirits heavy on beer and browns, and a live-music lineup featuring…
On a cold Friday night in January, on a corner of the Baker neighborhood near the highway and train tracks, sits an unassuming venue for a music festival. Yet the location of the 1010 Workshop — around the corner from the original location of legendary center of local DIY music,…
The singing starts almost immediately, the voice deep and sultry, picking through blues songs in random one- or two-line bursts. It seems a little incongruous that the woman making our sandwiches in a tidy deli called Dubbel Dutch — its storefront painted orange, its shelves neatly lined with packages of…
After a six-year run, Casselman’s Bar & Venue in the RiNo district is closing this Saturday as Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewery is slated to open a brewpub in the building. Casselman’s remaining shows include Mike Ring tonight, a comedy game show on Thursday, January 21, and Stephen Pearcy, former singer for Ratt,…
Thanks to the recent news about Guns N’ Roses, the word “reunion” seems to be buzzing all over social media right now. In the hair metal world, Florida-turned-Colorado band Tryxx reuniting and making a movie about the whole thing. In Frebruary, a re-formed Ween will perform a highly-anticipated reunion stand in…
Last year, just before John Doe, co-founder of the influential L.A. punk band X, took the stage at the Lion’s Lair, Governor John Hickenlooper walked into the storied hundred-person dive bar with some people, including two guys from his security detail. “I give him a lot of credit for going…
Filmmaker Shannon Kelly was getting his commission to make a film for display at Denver International Airport around the time he first and last saw a band whose music seemed to fit his cinematic vision: Pteranodon. Kelly had been a film student at CU and rubbed shoulders with the likes of…
