Fresh on the heels of being named as a member XXL Magazine’s prestigious Freshman 2012 Class earlier this week, alongside Macklemore, Machine Gun Kelly and Hopsin, among others, the Los Angeles-based rapper known as Kid Ink comes back to Denver tonight for a show at the Ogden Theatre with DJ…
You wanna party? Oh yes you do. It’s Friday and you don’t have anything better to do! It’s the third day of the Greatest Show on Turf celebrating DJ Ktone’s birthday, the Analog Space crew is getting down at Meadowlark, there are tons of reggae parties tomorrow, as well as…
Welcome to the weekend! Whether you’re making your way up to the mountains for Snowball Music Festival 2012 or staying behind in the city, there’s an abundance of musical choices: Tonight at the Fillmore Snoop Dogg throws down before heading up the hill himself for a slot at Snowball, while…
There is a ridiculous amount of talent in the state this weekend, and we do mean ridiculous. Between the Crystal Method, Bassnectar and the renowned Tigerskin (aka Dub Taylor), you’d have plenty to choose from. SnowBall Music Festival kicks off this weekend in Vail with Rusko, MiMOSA, Major Lazer, MartyParty…
On the heels of its Winter Carnival at 1STBANK Center this time last year, String Cheese Incident will be returning to Red Rocks this summer for a three night stand that kicks off on Thursday, July 5 and runs through Sunday, July 7. Presale tickets are on-sale through the band’s…
Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists in an entirely…
It took many years and countless headlining acts before Don Strasburg felt secure about the financial future of the Fox Theatre. Along with fellow investors Dicke Sidman, Dave MacKenzie, Jon O’Leary and James and Charles Hambleton, Strasburg had taken a big risk investing in the former movie house, dancehall and…
SnowBall Music Festival is about to hit Avon again. We were there for the icy, snowy, steamy, crammed and all around awesomeness of the inaugural edition last year, and just in case you weren’t, or you need a refresher of what to expect, we compiled this Survival Guide just for…
A few assumptions come to mind when thinking of engineer students: They love to study, hate to party and they speak in words, which to an untrained ear, can sound like gibberish. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with CU engineering student tapped to design the official T-shirts…
Another show going on sale this week that you should know about: Das Racist, no strangers to the Front Range, its making its way back to the Centennial state for a gig at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Saturday, April 21. While it’s been a minute since we kicked…
As is the case with many musicians who got their artistic start in another field, Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion intended their project to be more than just musical: Nouvion’s visual aesthetic lends Memoryhouse’s output a bit of its sense of space and shadings of mood, while Abeele’s classical training…
DJ Ktone’s fifth annual Greatest Show on Turf begins this evening at Sutra Night Club with Denver Got Next, a showcase of the hottest up and coming hip-hop talent coming out of the town. On the fifth edition of his annual week-long birthday celebration, Ktone is out to make this…
The Monkees started as an experiment in pop music and television, a musical outfit whose image was precisely controlled and whose music drew freely on formula. Davy Jones played a big role in the look, feel and sound of the 1960s musical act whose Saturday morning television would refine the…
It’s that time again. South By Southwest is a mere two weeks away, and truckloads of locals are preparing to make their way down to the Lonestar state to showcase their wares. While all the individual acts will be playing various shows (which we’ll have a full rundown of in…
TREY ANASTASIO @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 2.28.12 The soft, beautiful and, at times, elegant side of Phish’s musical catalogue shone last night as frontman and songwriter Trey Anastasio took the stage at the Boettcher Concert Hall backed by the 65-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Outside, fans dressed in suits, ties…
While the Denver Botanic Gardens summer concert series schedule hasn’t been released yet, the folks at Swallow Hill, who help present the shows, have announced that the B-52s, who are celebrating their 35th anniversary this year, and Squeeze will be at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July…
MEGADETH @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2.28.12 See Also: Interviews with Chris Broderick and David Ellefson Last night at the Fillmore, Dave Mustaine stopped the show after “Whose Life Is It Anyway,” and the band left the stage. After a handful of minutes, Mustaine came back on and said, “Security guys…
That’s what we’re hearing. According to a post on Blabbermouth.net, Lemmy, Motörhead’s godlike frontman, has reportedly lost his voice and has decided to take the night off. Megadeth and the other acts on the bill are slated to perform as scheduled. We’ve reached out to the folks at Live Nation…
Sleigh Bells are coming the Ogden Theatre on Friday, April 13. On the heels of a new album that just dropped and a Saturday night Live stint that got everybody worked up, Sleigh Bells is making its way back to the Mile High City to no doubt assault and completely…
KORN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2/28/12 The most distracting element of any modern Korn concert is not the spectacle. It’s not Fieldy’s glow-in-the-dark bass or Jonathan Davis’ epileptic writhing or the fact that, completely confident and decked in all black, the nu metal foursome looks like a pack of reggae…
When I first got going,” recalls Lorin Ashton, “I was into fuckin’ brutal, satanic death metal.” Even with all of his hair, it’s hard to imagine that Ashton, better known in dance circles as Bassnectar, was once enthralled with extreme metal. After all, dubstep, the subgenre he’s essentially helped pioneer,…
Back in the mid-’90s, with the Fluid in limbo after the release of Glue and Roadmouth, Matt Bischoff found himself yearning to get back to playing regularly. He discovered that his friends Dave Stewart, a former bandmate in the Frantix, and Chanin Floyd, who had recently left Twice Wilted, were…
