On this day fifteen years ago, Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip while riding in a car driven by Marion “Suge” Knight. The seeming culmination of a media hyped East Coast vs West Coast rivalry, the murder of 2Pac has been shrouded in mystery and conspiracy…
Adele makes Billboard chart history this week, as “Someone Like You” flies to the top spot on the Hot 100. Even though it wasn’t officially released as a single, it’s still all over Denver radio. Adele deserves this, though. Girl has had a huuuuuge year in music. First “Rolling in…
Having established himself as an in-demand drummer in both jazz and rock circles by working with everyone from Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, Brian Blade is also a strong leader in his own right — namely, with his Fellowship Band, which will be at…
Fashion Designer, musician, entrepreneur, public speaker and downright cool broad are but a few ways to describe Brandi Shigley (due with B.Sue tonight at the hi-dive for a triple EP release show). The first time I came in contact with Brandi was in her store, Fashion Denver. Some soft, sweet…
Update (9/28/11): The follow-up story to this original item has now been posted. While you’re certainly free to express your opinion in the comments section below or, better yet, on the story itself, important reminder: please keep the discussion civil. We’ve deleted several comments that we felt crossed the line…
While DJ Max Klaw has had his share of weekly club nights at various local venues, on top of a weekly residency at Carey Hart’s Wasted Space club at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, for the past year, he’s been heading up Sex Panther on second Fridays at Beauty…
“Folks, a star is born.” So wrote AEG impresario Don Strasburg this morning on Facebook in reference to Michael Kiwanuka. And, man, I’m here to tell you: There’s clearly a reason that Strasburg does what he does for a living. Dude can spot talent from a mile away. Kiwanuka, a…
Kelly Clarkson is back. Again. After disappearing from the pop-music scene following her massive hit album Breakaway, then returning with the Clive Davis-hated project My December, then returning again with “My Life Would Suck Without You,” Kelly Clarkson makes another comeback with her new single, “Mr. Know It All.” Thank…
Phish played three shows over this past Labor Day Weekend in Denver (Commerce City, actually) at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Read all about each Phish concert in Denver here. Being the tech-savvy — if shaggy haired and a little rough around the edges — fans they are, Phish-heads took to…
Over the course of a line-up change or two, Ideal Fathers, playing its final show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, developed a sound and a stage presence that probably would have otherwise been lumped in with “dance punk,” but there was always an agenda in the band to inspire people…
Phish parking lots are a gold mine of bootleg memorabilia for fans. It used to be that a clever T-shirt design was the hot item on lot, but these days, fans have been moving into a different type of collectors item: hat pins. Below are our top ten hat pins…
If you’ve just joined us, earlier this week we gave away a pair of three-day, general admission field passes to see Phish this weekend at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Rather than just giving the tickets away at random, we asked folks to share their best Phish stories, and the response…
8Ball and MJG (due at Casselman’s this Sunday, September 4) are one of the dopest hip-hop acts to ever come out of the south. The Memphis duo ushered in an entirely new era of hip-hop, unwrapping their lives in layers with vivid tales of pimping hoes, making money and moving…
Boyz II Men (due this Monday, September 5 at the Taste of Colorado) is the best selling R&B group of all time. Having sold over sixty million albums worldwide and continuing to tour consistently, even during the group’s more recent down years, the crooning fellas from Philly have enjoyed the…
Borrowing its name from the carousing, profligate brother in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Mitya (due tonight at Larimer Lounge with Young Analogs and Sparkle & Burn) has spent the last handful of years evolving its sound and bringing together angular guitar textures with driving rhythms and dark,…
Update: Contest is now officially over. We’ve picked two winners (Getz and Joan Rivers), who have each won a pair of three-day, general admission field passes to see Phish this weekend at Dick’s Sporting Good Park, courtesy of Backbeat and our gracious friends at AEG Live. Thank you for all…
There’s a grip of local hip-hop this week, including a a new mixtape featuring The Pirate Signal, a metaphor heavy, tongue-in-cheek joint from Innerstate Ike, a remix of A.V.I.U.S.’s single “Same Ol’ Line,” a video from Mr. Midas featuring Rockie that’s more club anthem than many singles currently being played…
Keri Hilson (due at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre tonight with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, the Far East Movement and Lloyd), the gal with the sweet face and grown woman lyrics, first made a splash with the release of her debut album, In a Perfect World in 2009, with features from Kanye…
Besides Chris Brown’s mad hops and lip-synching skills and Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future giving props to Earl Sweatshirt in his best new artist speech, MTV’s Video Music Awards show last night was one for the ladies. Even when Lil Wayne closed the show, shirtless and all, he was…
The last time Return to Forever (due at the Parmount Theatre tomorrow night) played in the Mile High City in 2008, we overhead one guy marveling at how the show was on how par with a spiritual experience for him. It was certainly one of the more electrifying jazz fusion…
Mister Heavenly (due tonight at the hi-dive with WATERS and ManCub) came together when Ryan Kattner approached his friends Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse and Nick Thorburn of Islands with some songs he’d been working on in a kind of doo wop style and asked if they’d like to help…
What does mermaid porn, an ominous ice cream truck driver and a bionic arm have in common? One mega star: Lady Gaga. Or at least Gaga’s video for her new single, “Yoü And I.” We may not be too jazzed about the recent announcement that she’s opening the VMAs this…
