Concerts

If you didn’t pick up your tickets for this year’s Westword Music Showcase during our special Voice Deal of the Day pre-sale over the weekend, don’t sweat it. Tickets are now officially on sale, and they’re still ridiculously cheap. Okay, so they’re not ten bucks cheap anymore, but still less…

Like every other athletic team in America, the Nuggets have plenty of fan tribute remixes of Wiz Khalifa’s unlikely jock jam “Black and Yellow.” Sports, in general, attracts some truly horrific rap remixes, and this song has seen some real abuse in the ill-advised hands of fans. There are, however,…

Part conspiracy theorist, part activist, B. Dolan is a multi-faceted force to be reckoned with. As a rapper, the East Coaster brings his slam poet style to life with post-apocalyptic stories of a desolate earth, utilizing beats from the dubstep to marching band variety to take on his science fiction…

CATCH LUNGS With One Be Lo • Guilty Simpson • Elzhi Food Chain • Fresh Breath Committee 03.04.11 | Marquis Theater Detroit hip-hop was definitely in the fucking building for Catch Lungs’s CD release party. In addition to the fellow locals in Food Chain and Fresh Breath Committee, One Be…

As you might have read, Tickle Me Pink played its last show on Saturday, March 5 at Summit Music Hall. Openers were Caramel Carmela, The Say So and Regret Night. Photos by Aaron Thackeray. See full Tickle Me Pink final show slideshow…

SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL Big Gigantic • Local Natives • Paper Diamond Lotus • Savoy • Bassnectar 03.05.11 | Vail Valley The weather for the second night of Snowball was very similar to the first night of the fest, hosting the likes of Paper Diamond, Lotus, Savoy and the bass-master himself,…

THEE GOOCHI BOIZ With Night of Joy • Bury My Bones • Miracleman 03.05.11 | Rockaway Tavern Miracleman — the duo comprised of Chris Westin and Sara Century — with its bedraggled drum kit, keyboards, a tape player with samples and an acoustic guitar, set up on the floor in…

SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL Pretty Lights • Diplo • Zed’s Dead 12th Planet • LazerDisk Part Sex 03.04.11 | Vail Valley If there was one thing the organizers of the Snowball Music Festival took into consideration, it was the time management with transitions between artists. Everything on that end ran smooth…

This Friday, Afterhours Anonymous brings you its Spring Social featuring DJ Foxx, Ben A, Joey B, Bones and Quinn at miniBAR in Cherry Creek. The oh-so-cleverly-named crew threw one of Denver’s best and most exclusive New Year’s Eve parties this year by reuniting the entire Casa del Soul Collective for…

This weekend’s Snowball Festival in the Vail Valley has already surpassed expectations. Barely in its first year, and the festival has put together an impressive lineup that includes acts like Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, the Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Local Natives and Diplo, alongside a slew of…

Props to the Chain Gang of 1974, who has really captured the attention of the editors at Spin. Last fall, after the outfit’s performance at CMJ, the magazine praised the act for delivering one of the best sets at the festival. And now, the group, led by former Denverite Kamtin…

As if it’s not obvious by the name, Weedeater is a weed band — but not a weed band in the Cypress Hill, Slightly Stoopid or Sublime sense. Weedeater still promotes weed smoking, yes, but it’s about a lifestyle — a heavy, heashy one that lends to fans participating in…

Earlier this week when we announced the headliners for this year’s Westword Music Showcase, we mentioned that you’d be able to pick up tickets for just ten bucks. Ten bucks for Chromeo, Yo La Tengo, Del the Funky Homosapien with a full band, Murder By Death, Young the Giant, Epilogues…

As last weekend’s LOVE event indicated, the underground electronic-music scene in the metro area is alive and kicking. This month alone, three new residencies are kicking off at various locales; keep reading for the details…

Lisa Shaw’s smooth, sultry voice is utterly unmistakable. Arguably the most noteworthy singer in contemporary house music, the modern-day diva has worked extensively with the one-and-only Miguel Migs on numerous tracks for Naked Music and Migs’ newer label, Salted. Shaw’s ubiquitous vocals are practically synonymous with deep, soulful house. Fans…

Jeff Austin is an integral part of the worldwide jam and contemporary bluegrass community — the staple mandolin player is a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band, and over the years, he has played with the likes of Keller Williams and members of String Cheese Incident and North Mississippi…

Does anyone actually give a shit about what MTV has to say about music anymore? Didn’t the network abandon that whole “music” portion of its brand not too long ago? The outlet is banking on somebody giving a shit, because it’s just partnered with Sony’s “Extreme Music” library to help…

Happy 303 Day, y’all! (Or is it Merry 303 Day? We can never get it straight). Today, in case you haven’t noticed is March 3 — or 303, if you’re into that whole brevity thing — which just happens to be the area code of our fine city and the…

It’s Only Blood, the debut release from six familiar faces led by Stuart Confer, is about apathy. All four songs address not feeling when you should, and let’s just say the perspective isn’t exactly hindsight. The title track starts the seven-inch out quietly, building to a pop about halfway through…

Good lord, sounds like the Ogden’s got some pretty sweet shows lined up in the coming months. Just before he heads off to Bonnaroo and High Sierra, we hear that Warren Haynes is slated for a two-night stand at the Ogden on May 24-25, and we’ve also confirmed that Cake…

In the independent hustle of hip-hop, the mantra is: Get in where you fit in. It’s all about expansion, new business ventures and more compelling promotion of the music. Under this guise — and similar to the quarter-water-turned-multi-million-dollar-business-venture of 50 Cent — Innerstate Ike is launching his own brand of…