Brian Wilson celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Beach Boys’ landmark album Pet Sounds on Tuesday at the Paramount Theatre, while Tears for Fears is at Red Rocks tonight and in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, and Maroon 5 headlines the Pepsi Center on Thursday. Also on Thursday is the Lampedusa: Concerts for…
Last night Drake’s blistering Summer Sixteen tour stopped at Denver’s Pepsi Center for the first of two sold-out shows. The two-hour set never lagged in energy, jam-packed with the rapper’s hits, and also featured special guest Future. We don’t want to ruin any surprises for the folks going to tonight’s…
On Friday, October 7, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will feature musical guests Jux County and comedian Brent Gill. Last month, the September 2016 Open Music Session welcomed bluesy pop-rock band the Symbols, a band that actually describes its own music…
Drake is at the Pepsi Center for a two-night stand this weekend, while Neil Young + Promise of the Real are in Telluride Town Park for two nights. This weekend’s lineup also includes GRiZ, Megadeth, Danny Brown, Alan Jackson, Devin Townsend Project and Lera Lynn. See the full list of our picks below. …
The first round of artists performing at this year’s Decadence NYE in Denver has been announced! And it’s shaping up to be a star-studded lineup of EDM superstars, including DJ Tiesto, hometown hero GRiZ, 2015 Westword Showcase headliner Flume, Bassnectar, Chainsmokers and Disclosure, to name a few. At the Colorado Convention Center…
Legendary British ska band The Specials eased into Wednesday night’s set at the Ogden Theatre with “Ghost Town” and “Do Nothing” but gradually built up the energy throughout the hour-and-a-half long set. “It’s time to start skanking!” said original guitarist Lynval Golding just before “Rat Race.” Golding, along with other original members, including…
Wednesday night’s Crystal Castles show at the Bluebird Theater was comfortably sold out, but it wasn’t a cramped affair. No, it felt like being in a stadium that had “sold out” because some corporation bought a lot of seats. A scalper out front looked particularly lonely and downtrodden; he could’ve…
She was brought into the venue on the shoulders of two hunky, shirtless gentlemen. I watched her, then I looked up at the crowd up top watching her — as a venue, Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox is set up to let dining patrons in the halo of booths above observe the…
This weekend, Drake (aka the Canadian Crooner, the Wonder From Up Yonder, the Rihanna Whisperer) is taking over the Pepsi Center, and what better way to honor his arrival than by addressing the age-old question: Is Drake emo? Emo, of course, is a label ascribed to pop-punk bands who wax…
Panic! at the Disco brings its Death of a Bachelor arena tour to the Pepsi Center on Friday, March 17 with openers Misterwives and Saint Motel. Tickets ($29.50-$59.50) go on sale on Friday, September 30 at 10 a.m. The Experience Hendrix Tour returns to the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, March…
Without some context, the scribbles in my reporter’s notebook would read like they were made by someone on an acid trip: “Floating, tetrahedral animals…fuck yeah!” “Band appears like a hologram, immersed in surrounding light.” “Jónsi has such a unique voice…Now there’s a spaceship beaming light down on him, like he’s…
When it comes to humble beginnings, Denver’s No Direction Records just might take the cake. The label’s origins resemble something out of a Silicon Valley success story (even if the similarities begin and end there). Founder Evan Kallas started the label out of his father’s basement in Wyoming in the…
On September 13, Colorado singer-songwriter Silent Bear found himself singing a new song to a group of Dakota Pipeline protesters in front of the Boulder County Courthouse. “I ain’t gonna work on Kelcy’s pipeline no more,” the song begins. “They’re protectors of the water, they’re protectors of the land, they’re…
Hailing from Southern Texas, the Oh Hellos are a brother-sister duo turned ten-piece band, and they’re bringing their Celtic-influenced style to Denver’s Ogden Theatre on Thursday, September 29. Identified by slightly harrowing vocals, somber strings and celebratory eruptions of drum and choral cheers, the Oh Hellos captivate listeners with intensely emotional harmonies…
Last night, while most of Denver was sitting in front of their televisions attempting to discern which political figure is the least maniacal of the remaining nominees, Die Antwoord did not hold back the crazy — unleashing it on the Ogden Theatre. South African rappers Yolandi Visser and Ninja brought…
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…
In conversation, Grant Kwiecinski is a lot like the music he creates as GRiZ: fun, funky and relentlessly positive. GRiZ, who headlines Red Rocks on Saturday, October 1 — as well as a just-announced after-party DJ set at the Gothic Theatre — is typically grouped with the producers of EDM and…
Denver residents have been lucky to witness firsthand the power and energy of a rising “new soul” band in the form of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Across the country, acts like Leon Bridges, JD McPherson, and St. Paul and the Broken Bones are bringing the storied style of…
When Chicago metal band Disturbed emerged with debut album The Sickness in 2000, having formed as Brawl in 1994, the hard rock-loving world was nu-metal crazy. Bands like Korn and Coal Chamber (yes, even Coal Chamber) had convinced everyone that going severely bass-heavy and adding an element of hip-hop to the vocals…
The Specials, the renowned ska band that formed in Coventry, England nearly four decades ago, finally got together again to record demos last November, after years of gathering material and ideas. According to founding member and guitarist Lynval Golding, it was drummer John “Brad” Bradbury’s idea to do a new tour…
Warpaint’s new album, Heads Up, is being rightfully praised for its seamless integration of rock instrumentation with the aesthetics of electronic music and hip-hop. Since the band’s debut full-length, The Fool, in 2010, Warpaint has been making music that’s difficult to pigeonhole into one genre. Whether dubbed a new kind of post-punk,…
This weekend, fans flocked to Rowdytown 2016, the sold-out two-day mini-festival put on by electronic duo Big Gigantic at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. These fans were ready to party and were not shy about it. Dressed in brightly colored garb and light-up flat-billed hats and cat ears, they came. Toting customized…
