Music

Vanessa Carlton isn’t a household name anymore, but her song “A Thousand Miles” will be familiar to most people who listened to pop radio in the early 2000s.

It is common practice for songwriters to retreat deep into isolation for focus and perspective when writing new music. For Dead Man Winter’s David Simonett, due April 4 at the Bluebird Theater, his retreat to the tiny village of Finland, Minnesota, not only helped him reshape his musical perspective but also get his life back on track.

The March Open Music Session welcomed El Javi, a Denver-based Mexican acoustic flamenco guitarist who uses his gypsy lifestyle to shape his music alongside percussionist Jordi Marin, as showcased by this year’s EP A Gypsy Journey: Pt.1 Trip.

It’s a big week for arena shows, with Ariana Grande at the Pepsi Center tonight and Eric Church at the venue on Wednesday, and Green Day at 1STBANK Center on Wednesday. Also this week, Indigo Girls team up with the Colorado University Symphony Orchestra to record a live album at…

We survived March, spring came, and now snow is apparently back. So as we sit inside this first weekend in April, let’s look back at some of the best times Denver music lovers had in March, relish the memories we made and bemoan those we missed.

April is rife with potential to see some awesome DJs. Many of these events are centered around Denver’s favorite cultural holiday 420. So earmark your calendars and find your favorite pair of trainers to dance all night long.

DanceSafe has declared today International Day of Drug Checking, a holiday to promote drug-checking kits that test the purity of various substances.

Keyboardist Marco Benevento, touring in support of Woodstock Sessions, plays Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight and the Fox Theatre tomorrow, while Social Distortion plays the second of two nights at the Ogden Theatre tonight. This weekend’s lineup also includes G. Love & Special Sauce, Big Wild, Teenage Bottlerocket, Jeezy and Flow…

The band PrettyMouth quit playing from October 2016 until March 2017, in part, because Marie Litton, the group’s lead singer, was suffering from complications with her scoliosis, a curvature of the spine that can causes debilitating pain if untreated.

GRiZ takes over Red Rocks for two nights on Friday, September 1, which will be the debut of the GRiZ live band, and Saturday, September 2. General admission tickets ($49.75) and two-day passes ($99.50) go on sale on Saturday, April 1, at 10 a.m.

The Henderson-based band Holophrase created the video for “Alligatron” on a tight budget, with a homemade set, thrift-store costumes and some simple green-screen magic — well, the screen wasn’t green. It was pink.

About halfway through Jonathan Richman’s hour-long set at the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday night, he proclaims, “We don’t do concerts; we do parties.”

When UC Boulder professor Adam Bradley, alongside co-editor Andrew DuBois, released the book The Anthology of Rap in 2011 and, one year earlier, put out Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop, he sought to prove rap lyrics had literary value. Likewise, his “Hip-Hop in the Classroom” course has been…

Currently, 18 of the first 30 songs listed on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart are electronic music, hip-hop, or contain some element of either. This year, the 19th edition of Ultra Music Festival was a reflection of that. The main stage, headlined by the biggest names in EDM — DJ…

Music has always been a way to escape, and dance music embodies this mission more than any other genre. Following the “disco sucks” movement of 1979, marginalized groups — black, Latino, and gay — were once again pushed outside the mainstream. Genres like house and techno were born in the warehouses in which these groups sought refuge.

Building a career on blending traditional blues and hip-hop for a college audience, G. Love & Special Sauce emerged in 1992 and stumbled upon a winning formula.

Up here in the Rocky Mountains, the popularity of country music seems like a given.

Things haven’t been easy for a local nonprofit that serves refugees, Project Worthmore, in the current political climate.

Sunday night, Ultra Music Festival let downtown know that its three-day party was over with a fireworks display at the end of DJ Snake’s set on the main stage. Condo dwellers breathed a sigh of relief knowing they would finally be free once again to roam the city.

In 2001, Russian-born singer-songwriter Regina Spektor released the 11:11 debut album, a self-released effort recorded while she was performing in colleges and amid the downtown New York City anti-folk scene.