Since 1989, Cleveland’s Ringworm has been blurring the jagged lines between hardcore punk and thrash/death metal, an almighty mashup of rock’s more extreme subgenres. And while Ringworm is hardly the first band to make that blend, in 2017 it remains one of the more interesting. Still, 28 years is a…
Since its inception in 2003, Emmure has been one of the most polarizing metalcore acts. Vocalist Frankie Palmeri hasn’t shied away from Internet trolls, meeting trash talk with a no-fucks-given attitude. He’s had beef with bands like the Acacia Strain, rattles off offensive lyrics like “Ask your girl what my…
Mardi Gras is this week, and the city will be partying on Tuesday. Enjoy some jazz and zydeco, taste some New Orleans-style food, and drink until you’re ready to fast. If you’ve misplaced your beads from last year, you’re sure to find more at any of these shows. Billy Wallace…
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, who headlined the Pepsi Center in 2012, return to the venue on Thursday, while guitarist John Scofield performs music from his latest album, Country for Old Men, tonight at the Boulder Theater. Also on tap this week are After the Burial at the Summit Music…
From underground rapper Mykki Blanco on his developing fan base to the artist who gave Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike a homemade Bernie Sanders/Martin Luther King Jr poster, this week has had been a rich one for music in Denver. In case you missed them, here is a recap of…
John Mayer has announced his Search for Everything World Tour will continue into the summer, and he and his band will be playing Denver on July 19. Mayer’s concert will include a solo set, as well as performances with his full band and the John Mayer Trio. Here is his…
Omaha-based project CBN, which combines power electronics with drone, has been on a nationwide tour with Filth from Denton, Texas, and Gnawed from Minneapolis. For years, the bands had crossed paths on the DIY circuit and online. One weekend, they happened to be in the same place at once and…
Stewart Copeland, drummer and co-founder of the Police, wants people to know that if they see him and the Colorado Symphony perform Tyrant’s Crush, his concerto for trap set and orchestra, this weekend, that “they can make as much noise as they want. This ain’t Mahler.” Tyrant’s Crush, Copeland’s first concerto,…
Artopia, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, is at City Hall on Saturday, Lil Wayne headlines the Mile High Smoke Out at the Bellco Theatre tonight, while Hieroglyphics play shows at the Aggie Theatre and Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom. Stewart Copeland, former drummer of the Police, teams up with the Colorado Symphony…
Hip-hop artist Mykki Blanco raps and sings about everything from the ups and downs of drugs and addiction to his shifting gender identity. He has been an icon for hip-hop loving queer youth, as he has lived as a trans woman and a genderqueer person while producing some of the most lyrically devastating, smart and inspiring underground hip-hop songs of the past decade.
The political post-hardcore act Milemarker, which began in 1997 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, defied Maximumrocknroll’s rule that bands with keyboards were not punk. The musicians decided the band was “going to be even more punk and get keyboards and make some music that you couldn’t say wasn’t punk and see…
Ryan Adams, who released Prisoner last week, will headline Red Rocks on Tuesday, June 20, with the Infamous Stringdusters opening. Tckets ($46.50-$55) go on sale on Friday, February 24, at 10 a.m. The Pixies return to the Fillmore Auditorium on Wednesday, October 18. Tickets ($49.75-$55) go on sale on Friday, February 24,…
The members of the influential hip-hop crew Hieroglyphics grew up within walking distance of each other in Oakland. They steeped their psyches in the city’s diverse cultural offerings and cultivated their instinct for originality on their own terms.
Molina Speaks is not demure. His new podcast, about different perspectives on art, healing and activism, which he’s co-producing with his partner and fellow artist and poet Sheree “Lovemestiza” Brown, is called Brown Genius. Molina, who used the tag “Chicano Picasso” on works he’s created in the past year, made…
Thundercat has had a career that would be the envy of any modern musician.
Chris Brown will be bringing 50 Cent, Fabolous, O.T. Genasis and Kap G on the road for a 33 city tour, including a stop at Denver’s Pepsi Center, in May.
Grammy-winning electro-indie-folk innovator Justin Vernon and his band Bon Iver will headline the 1STBANK Center in April.
Reload Productions, a pioneer of bass-heavy music in Denver, is throwing its eighteenth anniversary party, bringing the Ram Records crew, which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary.
Old Crow Medicine Show will headline Denver’s Paramount Theater in May to perform Bob Dylan’s album Blonde on Blonde in its entirety. The concert will support the release of the band’s album Fifty Years of Blonde on Blonde.
Last week we brought you a list of twelve defunct DIY spaces that shaped Denver’s music scene; this week we’re focusing on alternative venues. Though the distinction between the two is blurry, what distinguishes an alternative space is that it has another function entirely: Perhaps it’s a coffee shop, an art gallery or a bike repair shop, but it also hosts occasional concerts.
Danny Argote stood toward the back of the Fillmore Auditorium at the Run the Jewels concert. He was wearing a “Fuck Racism” t-shirt from the Afro-punk activist band Fishbone and holding a large poster of Bernie Sanders and Martin Luther King Jr throwing up the hand signs for the hip-hop act Run the Jewels.
The Colfax Tattered Cover Was Once the Historic Bonfils Memorial Theatre
