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…
I’m just going to be real, if you were born after 1996, this article is for you. Not only did you miss out on possibly the peak of modern hip-hop, you missed out on an entire culture. Do you remember when Tupac died? If so, this article might not be for you. I…
While we would never recommend illegally downloading somebody’s art, the Internet is still a veritable garden of riches for the broke music fan. If you’re reading this, you’re online already. All you have to do is navigate. 1. Youtube. Youtube is a solid place to start to get your fix…
Steve Diggle didn’t really intend to be in Buzzcocks, a band that, along with the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Jam and the Damned, formed the nucleus of England’s punk explosion four decades ago. In fact, Diggle might have ended up in a different band altogether. In the summer of…
From 2008 to 2012, Jesse Elliott did not have a permanent home. The musician, best known for his work with These United States and Ark Life, was touring so much that planting his roots in one spot for too long seemed unnecessary. But in 2012 Elliott moved to Colorado, and…
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…
Blasting out the gates with “No Wow,” The Kills spent little time with preambles and set the stage for a ferocious energy that lasted for the rest of the show. The Kills aren’t really known for low-key shows, but this performance was especially generous. Even with the drummer, the keyboard…
Denver has been home to many music venues that have had major impact on the local scene and, to some extent, the national music scene. A list of those noteworthy concert venues that are now gone could easily be five times as long. Below are ten clubs, studios and spaces…
The Pepsi Center is a cavernous place to watch a concert. There are arenas like it all around the world. Basketball jerseys hang from the incredibly high ceiling, concrete stairs run top to bottom, and the sound can echo all around the joint. On Thursday evening, however, Florence Welch’s voice…
Chromeo has been at the music thing for about ten years now, pumping out one synthy, upbeat and dancey track after another. You might think it’s effortless for the duo. But according to the group’s lead vocalist Dave “Dave 1” Macklovitch, Chromeo’s aesthetic isn’t effortless at all. He and the…
Editor’s Note: Trawling the Small Print is a new feature wherein we squint hard at big festival lineups and spotlight a few gems that may have been hidden below the headliners. Saturday is the Day of Rock in Denver, a one-day festival this Saturday, May 28, aims to benefit Amp…
Tonight, The Kills are at the Ogden Theatre and the Devil Makes Three and Shakey Graves are Red Rocks, while My Morning Jacket takes over Red Rocks on Saturday and Sunday. Also, a reunited Fruit Bats play the Larimer Lounge on Sunday. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, MAY 27 The…
The Flaming Lips is rehearsing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and they’re having trouble getting in sync. It takes a few attempts to realize the problem: The violin section is missing three measures from its sheet music. “Don’t worry! We will reprint it before tomorrow,” conductor André de Ridder assures the…
Not so many years ago, Jamie Hince, guitarist and electronics-and-production wizard for the Kills, might have had to give up playing guitar completely. After complications from cortisone injections into his knuckles to treat the strain of playing guitar so much, Hince had to have multiple surgeries and a tendon removed…
When this scribe was a blossoming wee headbanger in the late 1980s and early ’90s, air guitar was what we did instead of dance when we went to clubs underage. It was the tribal ritual for the terminally uncool — those of us without any sense of rhythm and next-to-no…
Drake and Future will be at the Pepsi Center for two nights on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2., and tickets ($49.50-$149.50) go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 26, at 10 a.m. Dinosaur Jr., who’s set to release Give a Glimpse Of What Yer Not in…
Desiree Albee has hosted her music-and-fetish night, Repent, for nearly two years, but she’s always known that the event represented only one flavor of Denver’s goth scene. In a flash of inspiration, she conceived of an event that would bring together the city’s various goth-themed nights and include as many…
Last night, soul singer Leon Bridges somehow upped his cool factor another thousand percent when he showed up unannounced to Goosetown Tavern’s Turn It Up Tuesdays open-mike night. The 26-year-old artist, known for his stripped-down take on retro soul, performs at the Paramount Theater tonight, Wednesday, May 25, but he…
When the duo GO DARK released its first EP on Halloween 2014, it was speculated that one member was prolific rapper and beat producer Doseone. Eventually it was revealed to be true that the pioneer of alternative hip-hop had teamed up with newcomer Ash, who had never before been part…
Three years after forming, the Denver-based Latin ska band Roka Hueka will release its self-produced debut album Red at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox on Saturday, May 28, with fellow local Latin-Caribbean fusion acts Quilombo and ArteCura opening. Mixing influences and transcending borders is a recurring theme for Roka Hueka, in both…
