Amy Kress played music secretly for years. But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided it was time to share what she’d written. It was a nerve-wrecking for her to tell people about her music, let alone perform in front of others. Many of her friends didn’t even…
Last week, Chris Banks, a.k.a. Jackal, and Amelia Coen got married at a Borgore concert, and it was totally legal and totally planned. Banks and Coen have been together for four years, and they’ve been ready to get married for some time, but they needed one more thing before they…
The members of Portland’s thunderous, riff-happy Red Fang don’t necessarily regret documenting their unquenchable thirst for really cheap beer in a series of music videos. They certainly weren’t subtle about it. In the video for “Prehistoric Dog,” for example, the band builds armor out of discarded Miller High Life and…
The Family Dog opened in September 1967 and closed just a year later. In that short span, the venue was home to plenty of epic experiences. Janis Joplin started off the Family Dog’s time in Denver with the band Big Brother. The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Van…
Kathyryn Ellinger wrote the Sleepers’ excellent new album, Drive, following the most harrowing decade of her life. On it, she appears to have reached the full potential of her considerable songwriting range. Ellinger, who goes by Kat, has played piano since she was a kid and has been a part…
GNU: Experience Gallery, in its former location at 109 Linden Street in Fort Collins, provided an oasis of alternative culture to anyone who showed up. It was literally underground, next to Pin Ball Jones and relatively under the radar. But it hosted touring bands and regional acts willing to make…
Once upon a time, T.Williams (performing at Beta tomorrow night), who’s known for his underground house/bass production and sets, partnered up with S.E.F. to found the Deep Teknologi label. “We came to a point with that label when that U.K. deep house thing was going on,” he explains, “and my…
Bruce Pavitt is best known as a founder of Sub Pop Records — the label that is credited with bringing Nirvana, grunge and the entire “Seattle sound” to the masses more than twenty years ago. Pavitt’s devotion, skill and connections fed the early days of this regional music movement that…
Two major things inspired the Wiredogs’ newest album, Kill the Artist Hype the Trash: trauma and Iggy Pop. The personal trauma the band experienced in their daily lives is responsible for the album’s deep, personal lyrics and frustrated, aggressive tone. The title? That was all Iggy. At Riot Fest in…
James Iha will DJ Lipgloss this Friday, January 23, at Beauty Bar. Iha is best known for his time as a guitarist for alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins. He left that band in 2000 and went on to join A Perfect Circle, and he has contributed to numerous recordings by…
Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. is a poet, actor, performance artist and rapper — but he is best known as Mykki Blanco, a musical project that melds all of his experience and expertise together. Defying categorization, Blanco works to push the rigid confines of sex and sexuality presented in popular music…
Old Curtis St. Bar has given way to The Curtis Club. Before shutting its doors in 2012, Old Curtis St. Bar was a host to an eclectic schedule of shows starting around 2003, when Kosta Razatos brought live music regularly into the long-running family business. An anecdote that serves as…
Sometimes it seems like it’s all about connections. After the members of Caramel Carmela linked up in 2009 and began playing together, a network of old friends proved valuable in helping the band get better gigs. “We played a bunch of our first shows with Saige, and I had gone…
Old Curtis St. Bar has given way to The Curtis Club. Before shutting its doors in 2012, Old Curtis St. Bar was a host to an eclectic schedule of shows starting around 2003, when Kosta Razatos brought live music regularly into the long-running family business. An anecdote that serves as…
When Jenny Kaminski, a.k.a. DJ J’Adore, learned she was on the Decadence NYE lineup, she couldn’t contain her excitement. “Even though my name was so tiny at the very bottom, I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “It’s my biggest gig to date for sure, hands down.” Still, performing is only…
The term “Ameripolitan” has been most notably championed by outspoken Texas singer-songwriter Dale Watson. But in recent years, other traditionalists, fed up with mainstream country music and looking for a way to separate themselves from the likes of Luke Bryan and Taylor Swift, have adopted the term as well. Some…
Mouth House, located at 2858 California Street, was host to the most eclectic shows in the DIY circuit. From 2011 to 2013, it had a festival called Festibowl that included comedy and the kind of music you weren’t going to often find playing in bars or more commercial venues. It…
Imagine that you’re in a band going out on your first major tour. At most of the stops outside of your hometown, away from your friends, there are ten to twelve people watching your set. But at one show, 200 kids are packed into the venue, actually waiting to see…
The Goth and industrial bands from Denver enjoyed a kind of heyday in the ’90s in Denver, with several active bands playing live. There was even a high-profile festival for a handful of years: the Denver Dark Arts Festival (later Tte Colorado Dark Arts Festival). When the momentum behind any…
Colorado’s last great soul-funk band was formed in 1966 in Phoenix, Arizona, where it was known as Freddi-Henchi and the Soulsetters. In 1968, founding members Freddy Gowdy and Marvin “Henchi” Graves decided to move the band to California in hopes of engaging a national audience and obtaining a record deal…
The members of good-times punk band SPELLS will happily share their opinions on any number of things. Mythical creatures, for example: “I think Bigfoot is just John Lithgow in a costume,” says Peter “P” Bohner. “That’s where he vacations. Some people go to Vail or Aspen…”A band that isn’t short…
“Denver is tight,” says P.O.S with a chuckle when asked about the music scene here. The rapper, producer, part-time punk-rocker and founding member of Doomtree will be heading here at the end of this week. He’ll be playing the Bluebird Thursday night, and Friday night he will be heading to…
