Over the years, the space next door to the Boulder Theater has housed different bars and restaurants, most recently Ghost BBQ and Sprits. But when that partnership between the venue and the restaurant expired, Z2 Entertainment, which operates the Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre, stepped in to create the Lounge…
Texas-based indie pop band Eisley, that just released I’m Only Dreaming last month, is at the Lost Lake Lounge tonight, while hard rock stalwarts UFO and Saxon take over the Summit Music Hall Tuesday night. Also on tap this week are Kevin Abstract, Norma Jean as well as Pat Benetar and Neil Giraldo.
Riot Fest announced it would cancel its 2017 Denver festival.
Wesley Watkins knows how to bring people together. “That’s my superpower as a human being,” says Watkins, a force in Denver’s music scene who is currently playing trumpet for Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Wall to Wall tour. Before picking up the spring touring gig, Watkins started organizing WMN and the Queen City of the Plains, a showcase of Denver women musicians happening this weekend, March 17 and 18 at Syntax Physic Opera.
Pam Puente, a fixture in Denver’s punk scene since she was 14-years-old, died in early March. Known as a wild-child, she earned praise and ire — often from the same people, says Jill Mustoffa, a Denver punk-show promoter who knew the musician for decades.
Indie/math rock band Montoneros’s members named the band after a leftist political group.
Enjoy our picks for the best concerts in Denver this weekend.
Kevin Abstract raps about his problems, big and small. On his first album, American Boyfriend, Abstract sings: “I hate my yearbook photo/I hate my passport/I hate my last name/I hate everything it stands for.” While his songs are filled with self-loathing and on-and-off disgust with pretty much everyone and everything…
SuperMagik, the Denver disco-funk band formerly known as Filthy Children, has seen lineup changes, a shift in its sound and a new name.
Rock singer Bryce Fox knows about the devil in us all, and what better way for him to let his horns out than to perform on St. Patrick’s Day, at 93.3’s Keggs & Eggs festival? Raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Fox grew up listening to a variety of musical styles, which…
Country star Brad Paisley headlines the Pepsi Center on Saturday, July 15, with Dustin Lynch, Chase Bryant and Lindsay Ell opening; tickets ($29.50-$74.50) go on sale on Friday, March 17, at 10 a.m. Paul Simon, who played at the Bellco Theater last year, will be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday,…
We’re excited to announce the bands and musicians who made the ballot for this year’s Westword Music Showcase. More than 200 musicians, fans, journalists and industry players weighed in on their favorite acts in the Front Range. Based on those recommendations, we have have compiled this ballot showcasing some of the…
KUVO DJ and storied singer Venus Cruz says that when she arrived in Denver from New York, she felt like “the first Latina on the surface of Mars.” It was 1992. As Cruz tells it, the city was poor, economically and culturally. But for someone fleeing a tumultuous past, in…
This month 53-year-old DJ Paul Oakenfold plans to be the first DJ to “party at the top of the world” and play Mount Everest. Tomorrow, March 16, he plays Denver. Everest won’t be the world-renowned DJ’s first extreme trip. Over his thirty year career, he’s played everywhere from an Alaskan…
As eclectic and musically wide-open as the Denver scene is, there are still some areas and genres where we’re lacking. Much of that has more to do with the variety, or lack thereof, of cultures in the Denver region. We might have, for example, a lot of Latinos in Colorado,…
The rock band American Authors has performed all around the world, making a name for itself with songs like its recent hit, “Born to Run.” The group is slated to play in Denver on Friday, March 17, for Channel 93.3’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival, Keggs & Eggs, which promises…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work…
On Thursday, March 23, the Ogden Theatre stage will be graced by a slate of Colorado superstars: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, DeVotchKa, Joe Sampson, and Jonny 5 and Brer Rabbit of Flobots. While it’s easy to be wowed by the star power of the lineup, the concert has…
As the lead singer for hard-rock band Heart, Ann Wilson was one of the very few prominent female voices in an era overwhelmingly dominated by men. Her electrifying voice and knack for turning an imaginative phrase were instrumental in establishing Heart as one of the great bands of the classic-rock…
P.O.S., born Stefon Alexander, started playing music in punk bands like Om, but by the turn of the century was doing hip-hop. He’s a founding member of Doomtree, a hip-hop collective that began as a production project that turned into one of the most successful underground hip-hop crews of recent…
Last year it was widely reported that Insane Clown Posse’s Gathering of the Juggalos would take place in Denver. Not so. “We couldn’t find a location in Colorado that would work for the Gathering,” Jason Webber of Psychopathic Records e-mailed Westword on March 13. “We should be announcing a final location…
In the mid-’90s, Orange County ska punk was very much the in thing. Bands like No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and the Aquabats took a third-wave ska scene from cities like Anaheim and Huntington Beach into the upper reaches of the Billboard charts. Forming in 1995 and taking its name…
