Music

The last track on emo-punk band Modern Baseball’s newest release, Holy Ghost, is about co-frontman   Brendan Lukens deciding to get help for his mental issues, which had culminated in suicidal ideations. “Just Another Face” ends the album, but it also welcomes a new era of Modern Baseball, one in which…

At a time when all things indie rock have been relegated to the dustbin of pop culture, Denver band the Outfit still stands out. The group’s soon-to-be-released self-titled album is representative of its current creative ambitions. The Outfit is the first twelve-inch vinyl record that the band has released; it…

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.  Stoney’s Bar & Grill will host bands performing at the 2016 Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 25. …

Saxophonist and vocalist Max Wagner, a longtime local jazz fixture, named his latest album Gratitude for good reason. “The main thing I feel about my life in music and my experiences as a musician is just gratitude — just grateful,” he says. “All along, I have been so blessed that I’ve been…

Summer is finally here, and few things pair more perfectly with Colorado’s scenery than great music. Fortunately, the state has long been a destination for musicians, and some of the most stellar concert experiences have taken place here under the stars…or in bright sunshine, or rain or snow. A few…

On an early tour through Colorado in 2003, Sam Beam, performing as Iron & Wine, was scheduled for a March show in Denver at the Climax Lounge, a then small rock club north of downtown. It was the night of the worst blizzard in recent memory. “I do remember the…

The Lumineers are at Red Rocks for pair of sold-out shows on Tuesday and Wednesday while Leon Russell is at the Oriental Theater tonight and Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) and Jesca Hoop will be at the Boulder Theater on Tuesday, June 7.  See the full list of our picks below. …

The Chromeo concert with What So Not, Four Tet and Jamie xx had all the trappings of a large-scale EDM concert: the elaborate lighting rigs and sets of music aimed at the dance-music crowd. Opener What So Not and especially Four Tet should have had their set times pushed later…

As Langhorne Slim, who performs Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at the Bluebird Theater, walks around California’s Napa Valley before his set at Bottlerock Festival, he is thinking of a different time in his life.  “I used to live out here years ago, a lifetime ago,” he says…

Tonight, the Open Media Foundation hosts its monthly Open Music Session which features Sole and Mikrofone Rob, and doubles as a celebratory kickoff for the organization’s new FM radio station. Last month, the Open Music Session was two-for-one night, as hip-hop acts Curta and Qbala joined forces to present those gathered…

Punk Rock Bowling, which kicked off on Thursday, continues this weekend with Millencolin, 88 Fingers Louie, Allout Helter and Wiredogs tonight, and FLAG, Anti-Nowhere League, Youth Brigade and Potato Pirates tomorrow at the Summit Music Hall. Robyn Hitchcock plays a solo set on Friday, June 3 at Swallow Hill and Grant-Lee Phillips…

The best set of last night’s sold-out show at Red Rocks Ampitheatre depends on who you ask. Though opener Anderson .Paak was able to lift the anxious crowd’s hands into the air before sunset, it was Bryson Tiller who received the deafening screams of admiration from several thousand fans. Both…

The inaugural edition of 71Grind (a play on nearby area code 719), a kind of celebration of heavy music of various styles, is in Colorado Springs on Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4 at Black Sheep and Flux Capacitor. Organized in part by Sean and Bryan Ostrow, brothers who…

Robyn Hitchcock spent a good chunk of his life in England, including his tenure with the psych-rock band Soft Boys and through his solo career with and without the Egyptians. These days, however, Hitchcock’s living in Nashville, where he’s working on a new album. He’s been living in Nashville since…

Pretty Lights, who is set to play two nights in Telluride on August 26 and 27, also announced a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13.  Tickets ($49.75-$60), and a limited number of two-day GA passes, go on sale on Friday, June 3 at…

Every month in Denver, there are many metal shows and metal-centric events, but its can be hard to keep track of everything. Here’s a rundown of the best metal-riffic happenings in the area this June, with information on why these shows are worth dragging yourself away from the Judas Priest…

M83 is undoubtedly a band of its times, which, of course, means it takes as much from the past as it does from the future. At Red Rocks Tuesday the band took full advantage of its brilliant surroundings and presented its luminous, spacious and triumphant music the way it was intended…

Most of the bills for Red Rocks concerts tend to make sense in both an artistic and commercial sense. Even when Soundgarden played the show there in the summer of 2014 with Nine Inch Nails and Oneohtrix Point Never, it felt like a good fit since Trent Reznor has had…

D.O.A. from Vancouver is considered one of the foundational bands of hardcore punk. Its album Hardcore ’81 is generally believed to be the first time the term was used in connection with punk’s second wave. As with contemporaries like Black Flag, Bad Brains and Middle Class, D.O.A. drew inspiration from early…

Pete Pidgeon was just a toddler he heard Garth Hudson’s organ solo on “Chest Fever” from the Band’s 1968 debut, Music From the Big Pink. When his parents put the record on in their living room and he heard the organ, he says it was the first time he remembers…