There are a few two-night stands in town this weekend, including country star Brantley Gilbert at Red Rocks, Cake at the Boulder Theater and Mandolin Orange at the Bluebird Theater. The Snowboard on the Block Festival is over two days as well, with a lineup that includes Wolfmother, Afroman, Chief…
Last Sunday night, local rapper BossMan Goodie, AKA 29-year-old Tyrone Adair Jr. of Aurora, was killed in a shooting outside the hip-hop venue and nightclub Cold Crush at 2700 Larimer Street. The nightclub, which opened in May 2013 and was named Westword’s Best New Bar that year, has now been…
As the air turns crisp and rollerblades are tucked in the closet, many of us are turning our attention to indoor activities that can still get the blood pumping. Spin class works the legs, bouldering works the arms, but dance — dance works the soul, baby. Whether you’re into flailing,…
Starting at the age of fourteen, pianist Larry Wegner would sometimes play Glenn Miller hits with the Bob Murphy band at dances at American Legion and VFW halls in Yuma, near the eastern border or Colorado. He’d get home around 5 a.m., get some sleep and then play organ at…
After nearly thirty years of performing as Little Fyodor, Dave Lichtenberg is putting his current project, Little Fyodor & Babushka Band, on indefinite hiatus. That means that the band’s show on Saturday, October 15, at the Lion’s Lair will be its last performance for the foreseeable future. The event is…
Country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill bring their Soul2Soul world tour to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, August 1, 2017; tickets go on sale Friday, October 14, at 10 a.m. Last July, Lotus released Eat the Light, the electronic outfit’s first album with vocals on every song. The band headlines…
Miguel may make get-down jams for the “consent is sexy” generation, but last night at the Boulder Theater, the question on everyone’s mind was when the R&B star would take off his goddamn shirt. Dressed in a white fringed jacket, the singer-songwriter delivered a relatively stripped-down performance in which he…
The Pamlico Sound is releasing its latest full-length album, Jive Church, which represents a good deal of work, re-work and rebirth for the band over the course of the last year and a half. Horn player and vocalist Will Baumgartner put the outfit together in June 2015 after a year’s hiatus…
Meet Don Strasburg. No, not that one. Based on the name, you would be forgiven for thinking this is a profile of Don Strasburg, the owner of Boulder’s Z2 Entertainment and senior talent buyer at AEG Live whose notoriously competitive booking methods help maintain his companies’ monopoly over the Denver…
Despite the sold out Slayer and Anthrax show happening up the street at the Fillmore Auditorium, Brujeria, Cattle Decapitation and Piñata Protest garnered a sizable audience at the Bluebird for its own raw display of musical brutality. San Antonio’s Piñata Protest brought an odd but effective mixture of punk and…
Since co-founding members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left 1970s-tinged Australian hard-rock band Wolfmother in 2008, it has been less a band in the conventional sense and more the musical outlet of sole remaining original member Andrew Stockdale. The singer and guitarist plays nearly everything on new album Victorious, with…
First things first: The members of TEEN would really like you to stop comparing their band to Warpaint. “People say, ‘They sound just like Warpaint!’” frontwoman Kristina “Teeny” Lieberson tells me from her home in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. “And it’s like, I love Warpaint, thanks, but no, we…
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…
It’s 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and a classic rock cover band is serenading a small, mostly middle-aged crowd lazing around a pool at the Shadow Hills RV Resort in Indio, California. They’re belting out Van Morrison’s “Wild Night,” which seems like an odd choice for this hour — or…
Green Day, which just released Revolution Radio last Friday, will be coming the to 1STBANK Center on Wednesday, April 5 as part of the band’s North American tour, which kicks off in Phoenix in March. Against Me! will open the show. Pre-sale tickets go on sale for Idiot Nation fan club members on…
Cannabis and music have always gone hand in hand, but even since Colorado legalized recreational pot use in 2012 with Amendment 64, it is still illegal to consume cannabis in public and in private businesses that are accessed by the public – including concert venues. This November, voters in Denver…
As a proud 10-time Coachella attendee, I was more than a little curious when Goldenvoice announced Desert Trip, fondly referred to as “Oldchella.” Leave it to the creators of the two-weekend music festival to find another way to make history. When Desert Trip instantly sold out both weekends, it was…
It’s metal Monday tonight with Slayer and Anthrax at the Fillmore Auditorium and Brujeria at the Bluebird Theater. Dave Matthews plays a rally today at National Western with vice president hopeful Tim Kaine while Andrew W.K. brings his The Power of Partying 50 State Speaking Tour to the Gothic Theatre tomorrow and…
What a long, strange trip it’s been, indeed. Quixote’s True Blue will close at the end of this month, according to a Facebook announcement that owner Jay Bianchi posted yesterday. The venue, which Bianchi writes, began twenty years ago “as a sort of refuge for Deadheads who needed a place to…
It’s easy to call Joyce Manor a pop-punk band. But it’s not easy to tell how the California group writes songs that are both 100 percent punk and 100 percent pop, or how the band seems to have as much in common with Arthur Russell as with Blink 182. Many…
Danny Pappas, lead singer of local hard-rock act My Own Iris, passed away on Sunday, October 2. Fellow local acts Scarlet Canary, Pride In Pieces, Lost Point, Vermillion Road and Beyond Influence are performing at a memorial show in honor of Pappas at 7 p.m. this Sunday, October 9 at…
Yes, we know. You picked up tickets to the Great American Beer Festival because you are a beer connoisseur. You plan to get slowly buzzed on really rare pours, and you’ve plotted out a course through esoteric barrel-aged styles from breweries that don’t distribute in Colorado. But here’s the thing:…
