The Colorado Music Hall of Fame is now officially up and fully operational at its new location at the Trading Post of Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The grand opening party for the new Comfort Dental-presented CMHOF was earlier this week. The honorary crowd listened to guitar and vocals by local musician Jim…
Colorado inspires an incredible amount of songs, some of them great. Colorado-themed songs range from gentle acoustic tributes to hip-hop narratives, heavy-metal disses to poignant country ballads. The earliest non-Native American songs crafted here were cowboy tunes such as “The Colorado Trail” and instrumentals like the pioneer fiddle melody “Coming…
Our sister paper in New York, the Village Voice, has a great story about Colorado’s Gregory Alan Isakov. In it, writer Dacey Orr talks to Isakov about his career trajectory, songwriting style and, yes, his sheep, T-Swift (“We love Taylor Swift. Everybody does.”). It’s one of the inhabitants of the…
Kraftwerk is currently on its 3D Concert tour of North America, with a stop planned for the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Wednesday, September 23. The multi-media show includes a performance of the music with 3D video accompaniment. The combination of a tactile experience and modern technology fits perfectly with…
The Knew will celebrate its new record, Schmew, with a release show at Ratio Brewery on Saturday, September 19. The band will be playing alongside Wheelchair Sports Camp, High Plains Honky and DJ Clark Continental. For the last ten years, The Knew has been developing the kind of rock music…
Goldrush Festival recently announced the full schedule (below) for the 2015 festival. Following suit with the model of the 2013 and 2014 festivals, Goldrush 2015 features a headlining act of some significance to the underground experimental music scene. In 2013 Noveller graced the Sidewinder stage on Friday, September 27th and…
Goldrush Festival recently the line-up for its 2015 festival and tickets for the two day musical extravaganza are now available. The independently funded and organized festival is part of a long tradition in Denver of music fans putting together worthwhile events like Titwrench, Denver Fest, Girl Wreck Fest, Synesthesia, Denver…
Last week, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats begin a lengthy tour that will take the Denver soul sensation from Salt Lake City to Europe, with a stop at Red Rocks over the weekend. “We’ll be gone until about Thanksgiving,” Rateliff said just before leaving for the 40-show run. “All…
It’s surprising how man people showed up early to the Taylor Swift concert Saturday night at the Pepsi Center. For most of these rabid fans, preparations for the event started a long, long time ago. Most bought tickets to the show, which ran Saturday and Sunday, months in advance. Others…
Kenny Knight is a 62-year-old Parker man who put out a country/psych-rock album called Crossroads in 1980. It was not a success, and disappeared into obscurity until it was discovered by a record collector earlier this year. Now, Crossroads is the subject of glowing reviews in national music publications like…
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats released their self-titled debut album this Friday on the legendary Stax Records. This week’s Westword cover story details Rateliff’s long history in the Denver music scene. But every member of the band has been a notable contributor to the city’s creative community. Over the…
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats released their self-titled debut album last Friday on the legendary Stax Records. This week’s Westword cover story details Rateliff’s long history in the Denver music scene. But every member of the band has been a notable contributor to the city’s creative community. Over the…
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats will release their self-titled debut album this Friday on the legendary Stax Records. Last week’s Westword cover story details Rateliff’s long history in the Denver music scene. But every member of the band has been a notable contributor to the city’s creative community. Over…
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats will release their self-titled debut album this Friday on the legendary Stax Records. This week’s Westword cover story details Rateliff’s long history in the Denver music scene. But every member of the band has been a notable contributor to the city’s creative community. Over…
<<<LUKE MOSSMAN DID NOT HAVE A CURRENT PHOTO>>> Past Denver Bands: Achille Lauro, Hello Kavita, Centennial, Megan Burtt and Blake Brown. Current Denver Bands: Science Partner and Covenhoven Instrument in The Night Sweats: Guitar. Bio: Mossman grew up playing piano from ages 6-10. He had wanted to play guitar and finally…
Jon Shockness is an ex-member and co-founder of noteworthy Denver-based hip-hop act Air Dubai. He performed with the group for the final time on August 14, a year after he decided to part ways. In August 2014, Air Dubai was part of Warped Tour, something Shockness had, until then, felt…
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats will release their debut, self-titled album this Friday on the legendary Stax Records. This week’s Westword cover story details Rateliff’s long history in the Denver music scene. But every member of the band has been a notable contributor to the city’s creative community. Over…
The sixth edition of Titwrench Fest will be held at Dryer Plug Studios on October 3 and 4 of this year. 2014 found Titwrench overseas in Sweden rather than Denver, taking the inclusive spirit of the event not just out of Colorado but out of the USA entirely. The festival…
Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs (“Crap Rap N.W.A”) and ran over a pile of the group’s records with a steamroller. A little later,…
It would be easy to dismiss Nick Cageao as a hired gun. After all, he didn’t join Mutoid Man, the psych-metal side project-turned-full-time-stunner from guitarist Steve Brodsky and drummer Ben Koller, until after the band released its blistering, ornate debut EP, Helium Head. But even the fact that Cageao is…
Danielle de Picciotto is a multimedia artist who co-founded Berlin’s long-running and highly influential Love Parade electronic-music festival. Her husband, Alexander Hacke, is the bassist for legendary and foundational industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten. The two are currently touring together, presenting a unique combination of music, film, visual art and literature…
An inevitable phenomenon in any music community where there are newspapers, weekly magazines and ‘zines with coverage of local music is that of the the writer and musician. Naturally, due to reasons of a conflict of interest, if you do happen to fall into both categories, there’s a great chance…
