After closing the Monkey Barrel at 1611 Platte Street at the end of April (the building was slated to be demolished) owner Jimmy Nigg planned to move the bar to 4401 Tejon Street in Sunnyside and hoped to have it up and running this summer. But his plans hit a snag…
Beach House is winding down its touring cycle for its 2015 albums Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars. During the past year the band has made good on its impulse to have diverse performance experiences with elaborate props and a light show made especially for the tour. “We had…
The 26th annual Rocky Mountain Folks Festival is at Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons this weekend and includes a stellar lineup including The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Conor Oberst, Lucinda Williams, Passenger and Mavis Staples. Also this weekend: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats headline Red Rocks, Josh Groban is at the…
The first-ever Denver Keytar Fest, being held this Saturday, was organized by independent concert promoter Claudia Woodman, who has been booking shows for underground bands in Denver for several years. Known as “Claudzilla,” Woodman brings some verve and skill to playing the keytar, an instrument that some may see as silly…
Nathaniel Rateliff says he’s pretty worn out at this point. He says he’s visited a lot of doctors in the last year and gotten a bunch of intravenous vitamin injections along the way. The longest span of time that he and his band the Night Sweats have had off since…
“In this day and age, an artist should never go on stage without understanding their business,” says Jay Nazz, drummer with Austin country-rock band Reckless Kelly. Let’s let those words sink in for a minute, because not only are they potentially artistically apocalyptic when you think of the countless talented…
The story starts off something like this: One day, Reed Weimer’s dad came home with an old Army Jeep, maybe from the Korean War, that had been painted tomato red. Weimer’s dad told his son he could drive the clunker if he checked the oil regularly. Sure, Weimer said. But Weimer…
After several years as a weekly dance party, Lipgloss will become a monthly event at Pearl’s, with a monthly special event held at Bar Standard. The last weekly Lipgloss will be held at Bar Standard on Friday, September 2, says Lipgloss founder Michael Trundle. Zia of the Dandy Warhols will…
Electro-indie duo Cherub will headline Red Rocks on Saturday, October 29, with Gorgon City, Frenship and Boo Seeka opening. General admission ($39.95) and VIP tickets ($99.50) go on sale Friday, August 19, at 10 a.m. BoomBox will do a three-night New Year’s Eve run at the Gothic Theatre, from Thursday,…
Lake Street Dive is, well, classy. The band’s 2014 album, Bad Self Portraits, has received critical acclaim, and the band has been touring well-known venues in both domestic and international circuits. But as a classically trained group developing its signature sound from vintage jazz, soul, Southern rock and blues, Lake Street Dive…
With multiple platinum albums under his belt, Josh Groban is among the most successful pop singers of the past fifteen years. He has also appeared on most prominent television talk shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 20/20, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. (He even performed…
The psychedelic, jazzy, swooned-out trio Digable Planets sailed onto the Gothic Theatre’s stage on Tuesday evening, one stop on their twenty-date reunion tour this summer. As fans will painfully remember, Planets broke up in 1995 after making two momentous albums: Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) and Blowout…
To many people, the word “Journey” inspires thoughts of everything that can go wrong with rock and roll: bland lyrics, bubblegum-pop melodies, chugging riffs and technical ability given priority over soul. To others, the band represents everything great about music: anthemic choruses, bubblegum-pop melodies, chugging riffs and technical ability given…
Those who remember the Denver screamo band Drop Dead, Gorgeous, which ceased to exist in 2011, might struggle to reconcile the intense punk noise that band created with the delicate synth-driven music that a few of the bandmembers make with their new project, 888. Sort of. Because if you explore…
Despite the sunny weather and large population of outdoor enthusiasts , Denver has long harbored an impressive, talented and generally gloomy heavy metal community. From nationally known power-houses like Cephalic Carnage, Speed Wolf and Primitive Man, to up-and-coming work horses like Of Feather and Bone, Khemmis and Abrams, Denver is…
Get excited, Gryffindors. (And you, too, Slytherins, if you can stomach excitement.) The Colorado Symphony is adding another show to its highly popular (and currently sold-out) Movie at the Symphony: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, during which the symphony will play the film’s score in its entirety. The added…
The Go-Go’s formed in Los Angeles in the midst of the city’s rising punk scene, three years before their debut album, 1981’s Beauty and the Beat, shot to the top of Billboard’s Top 200 on the strength of pop hits like “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “We Got the Beat.” “When…
Creative Adult’s early seven-inch singles were often presented as punk, but their relatively nondescript cover art gave little away about the music within. Certainly punk seemed to be at the root of it, but it was also noisier than that, more willing to color outside the lines of what punk…
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…
From Kenny Rogers to Miranda Lambert, the Lone Star State has a proud history of producing top-selling country musicians. However, think about the edgier, outlaw side of the genre, and your mind might take you to places like Memphis and Nashville. But dig a little in Texas and you’ll find…
Over the last few years, Pretty Lights’ performances have been rumored as hit or miss. But kicking off his two-night run at Red Rocks (last Friday and Saturday) with unreleased music, Derek Vincent Smith was ready to show his fans a new side of his sound. Add to that a…
“We’re embarrassingly big fans of Band of Horses,” laughed Ricky Young, frontman of opening act Wild Feathers. The admission drew huge cheers from The Ogden Theatre crowd, none of which seemed at all reticent to show enthusiasm for the beloved Seattle headliner of the Friday, August 13, show. While there’s…
