The Best Concerts in Denver This Week, December 7 to 10

Drummer Brian Blade is town for four nights at Dazzle with the Fellowship Band (and with Bill Frisell and Ron Miles later in the week) and Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham, brings his Led Zeppelin Experience to the Summit Music Hall while other picks this week…

Funky Buddha Lounge Moving to New Location

The Funky Buddha Lounge is moving locations. The cocktail bar and entertainment venue at 776 Lincoln will reopen after the new year at 1033 Broadway in a smaller space next to Bar Standard, according to Doug Bohm, Director of Marking and Promotions for SoCo Nightlife, which promotes Funky Buddha and…

The Twelve Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

This weekend’s live music calendar includes a couple good ones, like Channel 93.3’s Not So Silent Night 2015, Elephant Revival, English Beat, Booker T. Jones and Nikki Lane. See the full list of our picks below.  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Chase Rice $23, 8:30 p.m. Grizzly Rose Elephant Revival $27, 8 p.m. Ogden…

Tacocat and Sallie Ford Ripped Up Paradigms at the hi-dive

At the Tacocat merch table, between some vinyl and sweatshirts for sale, was an old paper book titled The Woman’s Dress For Success Book. It was priced at $100. It was a partially a joke, but mostly a direct statement. There were a lot of statements, musical and otherwise, from…

Pig Destroyer’s Blake Harrison To Debut Solo Project at Rhinoceropolis

Legendary grindcore band Pig Destroyer is co-headlining the Denver Black Sky festival with Skinless at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, December 5. Based out of Alexandria, Virginia, Pig Destroyer began in 1997 when vocalist J.R. Hayes, formerly of Enemy Soil, and guitarist Scott Hull, formerly of Anal Cunt and Agoraphobic…

Five Reasons That Denver Is the New Hot Spot for Metal

It’s no secret on a global scale that ever since recreational cannabis became legalized, people started flooding to Denver, and the city experienced a huge influx of culture, industry and innovation. With this came new musical movements, subcultures and events, and one that has gotten a big boost is metal…

Elephant Revival Plans Iridescent Ball for Ogden Home Stand

The Elephant Revival has morphed over the years into this region’s most warm and fuzzy feel-good bands. When considering metro Denver isn’t short on folk bands, that’s no mean feat. It’s no dig either; the Nederland troupe has that mournful, mildly gothic (without the Cure makeup) quality that many country…

Denver Reunion Shows, Part 3: Warlock Pinchers

The third and final installment of High Plains Underground Archives’ series on Denver music reunion shows, features Warlock Pinchers. These days it is very easy to find out about local bands if you make even a small amount of effort. But back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, this was…

Electronic Artist Slow Magic on the Paradox of an Anonymous Identity

Slow Magic makes another appearance in Colorado at the Gothic Theatre on Thursday, December 3, with like-minded electronic pop artists Giraffage, Lindsay Lowend and Bollywood Life. Performing in a costume and striking mask, Slow Magic aims to direct the audience’s attention to the music and the show’s visual art. The mask…

Rubedo Releases New Song in Honor of Ikey Owens

The day after famed keyboardist Ikey Owens passed away in October 2014, a song came to Rubedo vocalist Kyle Gray. Owens produced every Rubedo album, and was like a brother and honorary bandmate to the Denver trio — constantly providing connections, companionship and words of wisdom. Gray, overcome by grief,…

Tacocat on Broad City, Rookie and Using Humor To Make a Point

Tacocat’s web address is tacocatdotcom.com. Tacocat’s name is a lighthearted palindrome. While these initial details might seem silly, they reveal much about the irreverent humor and lateral thinking that underpin the band’s creative work. “Everybody that uses Tacocat on the Internet uses it for [something fairly silly], so we had…

Homeboy Sandman on Lice, His Free EP, and Rooting for the Nuggets

New York-bred MC Homeboy Sandman is a lyricist that has gained praise from all walks of life in the hip-hop community. He is a lyricist’s lyricist — writing raps that are intelligent and to the point, with instantly recognizable wit, oozing from clever one-liners that stick out like a Magic…

Welcome to the D.O.P.E. Game Moves Forward, Looks Back

It was a great summer for independent hip-hop in Denver and beyond, with more venues opening their doors to the genre, and creativity in the rap world reaching new highs. Riding those highs, Kaipran Promotions will present a show celebrating independent performers called “Legends in the Making” on December 5…

The Ten Best Concerts in Denver This Week

This week’s picks include Kid Cudi at the Fillmore, Lights and the Mowgli’s at the Ogden, the Bad Plus Joshua Redman at the Boulder Theater and HEALTH at the Larimer Lounge. See the full list of our picks below.  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Kid Cudi $49.50/$55, 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium All…

New Year’s Eve Sucks. Tell Us Why.

Let’s be real: New Year’s Eve sucks. You plan for weeks, trying to find the hot spot to plunge into the new year — or at least to drown last year in a vat of cheap champagne. And let’s not mention the time spent wrangling your friends to pay you…