Music streaming services look more and more like they’ll eventually do to MP3s what MP3s did to CDs, and what CDs did to tapes, and so on. We’re still a long way from a paradigm shift, but as the popular European streaming service Spotify makes headway in its mission to…
Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…
Sometimes all a flier needs to do to win our hearts is be as adorable as possible. This comes together amazingly for the Snowball Festival up in Vail this weekend, which is filled to the brim with an array of acts, local and national…
Good morning! And what a good morning it is! We’ve got some major news to share with you regarding the Westword Music Showcase. We’ve just solidified the lineup for our Showcase, which takes place this year on Saturday, June 18, and it’s pretty stellar if we do say so ourselves…
Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…
WU-hah! If you’re going to SXSW this year, be sure to mark Thursday, March 17 on your calendar with a big fat red circle. Austin Music Hall is the place to be from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. for our annual Village Voice Showdown, being co-produced by Frank 151. This…
The next incarnation of Brewski’s Pub & Grill opened at 2100 East 104th Avenue in Northglenn. Chuck Persichetti — who ran the old Brewski’s at Highway 36 and Pecos Street for a decade, as well as several other spots during his 45-year run in the bar business — opened the…
Okay so by now you’ve had a chance to absorb the deflating news that the Mile High Music Festival is being put on ice this year, and you’ve even offered up with some suggestions of how to make Mile High more enticing if the festival returns next year, which organizers…
Denver Noise Fest may very well be the loudest, most chaotic event that Denver sees on a yearly basis. It can give you tinnitus in the span of four minutes, cause an upset stomach in ten and rupture your bowels in twenty. That is to say, it’s the most fun…
Look, we’ll be the first to admit iOS is a treasure-trove of useless crap, but every once and while one of those pieces of useless crap steps outside the boundary and does something remarkably cool. Case in point, this Jackson 5 remix app called Musicshake that lets you completely reconfigure…
Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on…
JOSH RADINWith Laura Jansen and Cary BrothersBoulder Theater | February 28, 2011 “The Radin audience is an audience that loves music,” said Laura Jansen in the middle of her opening set. And, I would add, chick flicks, even if, like me, they’d vehemently deny that under oath. But only the…
In case you’ve noticed that the Mile High Music Festival hasn’t announced its lineup yet for this year and you’ve wondered why — first of all, congratulations on being astute, but secondly, the lineup hasn’t been revealed because, well, there is no lineup this year. There is no festival. After…
When I lived there, I saw a dead person after he was shot,” recalls Catch Lungs of living in Phoenix as a kid. “There was blood dripping all over. I was a kid, and seeing a dead body like that up close was crazy. It was a weird perception to…
“We’ve got a jukebox here, and we’re just kind of keeping it more of a neighborhood bar,” says David Senger, the owner of 3014, which last year took over the space at 3014 East Colfax Avenue previously occupied by Senger’s on the Fax. He recently laid off the guys who’d…
Like a lot of young punkers, Red Vs. Black drummer Sam Tallent and bassist Clay Dehaan were infected with the bug when they connected with early hardcore bands. But unlike many of their peers, Tallent and Dehaan don’t treat their music like a cultural accessory to cast off in early…
After a four-year stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that included being the band’s musical director, alto saxophonist Bobby Watson went on to play on nearly thirty albums as a leader and close to a hundred recordings as a sideman with jazz heavies like Max Roach, George Coleman, and Wynton…
There’s nothing at all ironic about this band embracing ’70s power pop. In the ’80s, too many acts who were heavily influenced by the gritty glam rock of Slade and the sharp hooks of Sweet produced some seriously shlocky material. Bare Wires, meanwhile, seems to have taken stylistic cues from…
In contrast to the deafening blog-shouting that accompanied the Cold War Kids’ 2006 debut, this year’s release of their third LP, Mine Is Yours, prompted little more than a squeak. Now largely dismissed as simpering riders of a long-since-crashed wave of toothless indie pop, the Kids are getting older and…
Anyone living in the United States after 1970 — when Randy Newman’s classic 12 Songs was released — has heard Randy Newman somewhere, somehow. Because of his hit songs, including “Short People” and “I Love L.A.,” and his scoring of numerous movies and television shows, Newman’s presence and his knack…
Falling somewhere between Tin Pan Alley and bluesy Americana, this debut from Bonnie & the Beard sounds as if the band spent last year on an extended journey, collecting adventures and experiences along the way. The songs are the sort that come from people who once had dreams of running…
After forming the Denver-based rock group Stinos in 2006, Justin Harned and Brad Jones were looking for a new musical direction, and so they brought in violinist Harmony Greenhalgh and a bassist and drummer and started Left Foot Green in early 2008. On the band’s sophomore release, Fun With Vengeance,…
