Last week, Bon Iver played Colorado’s 1STBANK Center, and Westword reporter Chris Walker disliked how what should have been an intimate performance was swallowed up by the arena. In turn, readers weighed in, some defending 1STBANK Center as the right venue for the concert and others saying they “hate that place.”
A good dust mask, proper hydration and more tips for not coming home from Indio with a raging sinus infection.
Thanks to the SuicideGirls, the whole concept of women who sport a punk rock, Goth and “alternative” look working as models has been driven at full-speed into the mainstream.
Redd Kross is playing Denver for the first time in twenty years.
Former Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould plays a solo electric show at the Oriental Theater on Saturday while dubstep producer Bear Grillz headlines the Ogden Theater tonight.
We ranked all 161 acts on this year’s lineup, because we’re crazy.
Westword Music Showcase will be here before you know it, and in advance of a Friday, April 13 ticket price increase from $35 to $50 for general admission and $65 to $80 for VIP admission, we’re announcing our first slate of local acts
When Jobless planned to release its new album Attitude Adjustment, the trio decided to throw a fundraising event for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, a variety show including performances by the Romero Theater Troupe, the Black Actors Guild, and like-minded musicians in Total Goth and the Milk Blossoms.
Beck, who set to release a new album this year, will be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, July 11 with Preservation Hall Jazz Band opening. Tickets ($55/$65) go on sale on Friday, April 14, at 10 a.m.
Fans of Bon Iver know the story: In late 2006, Justin Vernon decided to hole up in a cabin in the woods outside of his hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to lay his soul and heartache into an album he was recording.
Denver is blessed with a host of talented musicians of all genres, and most of them record at the many great Colorado studios. That inevitably means that behind the scenes talented producers, engineers and all sorts of studio technicians are working their magic without much fanfare.
The U.K. punk scene lacked glamour when the Damned launched in 1976, and many clubs had no interest in booking the band.
A cartoon history of the Cherry Cricket.
A year after the 1988 breakup of Hüsker Dü, the mighty punk trio that Bob Mould had fronted for a decade, he played his first ever solo shows at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica in support of his debut solo album, Workbook. “It was really nerve-wracking the first couple…
Carl Carrell spent his early twenties striving to make hits. He worked out of a Denver condo that was equipped with a home studio alongside his roommate, who wanted to start a record label. Carrell spent his days mimicking Top 40 songs and pitching what he wrote to national artists…
Kansas could have called it quits when legendary singer and keyboardist Steve Walsh departed in the not-so-distant past.
Chautauqua Auditorium just announced more performances added to its summer schedule, including the Punch Brothers, the Drive-By Truckers, Sleepy Canyon Rangers, Lucinda Williams and more. The historic venue in Boulder kicks off its 120th concert season on June 1 with Hot Rize; other standouts on the lineup (in its entirety…
Denver hip-hop troupe Flobots has never been about doing things the easy way.
They came from the Planet Peelander to spread smiles onto everyone’s faces. Or, perhaps, Peelander-Z came from Japan, via New York, and based themselves in Austin. One of those is the true story, the other is the one that, quite frankly, we should all go out of our way to believe, because it’s way more fun.
These are the best concerts in Denver this week.
Jon Bon Jovi has been hyping the band’s April 14 Pepsi Center concert for months. It was already rescheduled once, and now he’s canceled altogether.
Denver hip-hip duo Top Flite Empire has dropped a video for the track “WAVE,” from the debut album Bad Decisions, and it’s causing a stir within the local rap community thanks to the manner with which it’s tackling race and class stereotypes, and the prejudices that people harbor without knowing it.
