Music

Summer music festivals: sunshine, timeless jams, good vibes, full hearts and dirty feet. Also summer music festivals: sludge pits, casual assault, blown eardrums, tachycardia and dirty feet.

Taylor Swift rose from the ashes in Denver.

The Devil Makes Three brought gravity to Red Rocks.

Youth on Record has Big Gigantic reasons to party.

When Andre Carbonell was five-years-old, his father strangled his mother to death.

Three years ago, Pat Anthony couldn’t sing.

Don’t let parking at the Taylor Swift concert wreck your life.

Take your pick.

Ticket prices increase May 29.

Meet the people behind the sound board.

A band with the word “Devil” in its name evokes darkness. A group either shies away from that, or — as in the case of California’s The Devil Makes Three — delves deep into the shadows.

Grandoozy, the massive music festival taking over the Overland Park Golf Course September 14 to 16, just announced the Break Room, a space showcasing dance and electronic music acts.

About six months after Kasim Sulton joined Todd Rundgren’s rock band Utopia in 1976, the bassist was ready to quit.

Producer and beatmaker Simon Green, better known by his stage name Bonobo, has become one of the most respected names in electronic music.

A roller skating mishap led to a painful UMS.

Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has been one of the most prolific, consistent and successful names in indie music for a decade. On their new record The Faster I Call, The Louder It Runs, Wasner feels like an artist entering her creative prime.

The Decemberists visit Red Rocks Amphitheatre on tour behind their new album I’ll Be Your Girl, which adds synths to the band’s well-known folk-rock sound.

Don’t miss these shows.