With the 7th edition of Titwrench in the rearview, now is a good time to consider the legacy of one of festival’s mainstays: Lust-Cats of the Gutters, which is no longer an active project. The duo featured former Westword contributor Robin Edwards on guitar and vocals and Alex Edgeworth on…
Why is it that people are so eager to tell you about all the “must have” albums missing from your collection? A real friend would help you avoid the pitfall of spending hours upon hours trying to appreciate albums that supposedly are indispensable but are, in reality, just okay —…
Wax Idols is making an appearance at Juice Church on Friday, October 23. The band has long been the outlet for songwriter and lead vocalist Hether Fortune, who started the band while she was living in the San Francisco area. Initially, the band was often described as garage rock, but…
The Gofundme campaign to help Denver musician Joe Richmond is about to get a big boost thanks to the band AMZY. Richmond, who has produced and recorded a number of local musicians over the years, was involved in a motorcycle accident in early October, seriously injuring his foot. It was…
Silversun Pickups headline the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, December 8 with Foals opening. Tickets ($35) go on sale on Friday, October 23 at 10 a.m. STS9 will be at the Fillmore Auditorium for a two-night stand on Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6. Tickets ($34.75/$40) go on sale on Friday,…
Scotland’s Chvrches will be performing at the Fillmore Auditorium on Thursday, October 22. The pop group got off the ground in 2011, when Iain Cook and Martin Doherty decided to go in the studio and see what would come about. At that time, Cook had been producing an EP by…
This year has brought not one but two Toro Y Moi albums, both interesting and fantastic. Fully shedding his chill wave image, Chaz Bundwick (the man behind the project) released the guitar-driven full-length What For? and Samantha, a mixtape that features recordings from 2012 to the present, showing how much Bundwick has evolved…
A church service is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on the first Friday of October at Church in the City-Beth Abraham, at the corner of Gaylord Street and 16th Avenue, and about forty worshippers have gathered in the main sanctuary. But this will not be a traditional church service…
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club has been delivering riveting, high-octane sets for more than two decades, earning a sizable international audience along the way. And for nearly half that time, some members of the Denver-based group have been part of a much quieter quartet called DBUK. “It’s a different experience,” says…
The Zombies, both versions of the band, are hardly new to the music world but there was still a freshness and purity about how they approached playing the music and the self-effacing graciousness with which they conducted themselves on stage. Like they still had something to prove but in a…
The Motet show at Red Rocks this past summer was a wet and wild party. Now, you can relive the epic night (or experience it virtually) with the group’s newest video. The 2015 Motet Red Rocks video features the Denver band, and about 10,000 of its fans, getting seriously funky…
Montreal’s Ought, which headlines the Larimer Lounge on October 23, has only released two full-lengths to date: 2014’s More Than Any Other Day and this year’s Sun Coming Down. But it’s already won more rapturous reviews than plenty of bands that have been around for decades — although such raves tend…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. This week, he talked to Deer Pile (and City ‘o’ City) owner Daniel Landes about one of the most open-minded venues in town. Visit Karl Christian’s website to…
It’s a great week for live music in Denver. The legendary Zombies play the Paramount tonight, and hip-hop world-beater Run the Jewels has a pair of shows at the Ogden. There are a handful of excellent local bills as well. Read on for the full list of our picks. MONDAY,…
The rumor going around was that Autechre would play in total darkness. This proved to be mostly true as the room and stage lights went down at the beginning of the band’s roughly hour-long set with only the running lights on the stairs, the bright green exit signs on either…
Chris “Sizzle” Forsythe passed away in the early hours of October 14, 2015. Not long before that, he’d been dropped off at his home after a night serving as sound engineer at the Black Sheep, the club in Colorado Springs where he’d been working for a decade. He was among…
Denver is a haven for musicians. It has a plethora of venues, a governor that can be a bit over-excited about the banjo, and a veritable sea of musicians to collaborate with. The sheer size of the musician population has led to more bands then we could name here, and…
Legendary experimental electronic duo Autechre performs at the Bluebird Theater this Saturday, October 16. Rob Brown and Sean Booth formed the project in 1987 out of a shared interest in electronic music and the hip-hop world in Manchester UK. “Looking back, as a kid, it appears it was everywhere,” says…
The Darkness return to Denver to perform this Friday, October 16, at the Summit Music Hall. The U.K.-based rock band made a big splash with its 2003 debut album, I Believe In a Thing Called Love. Its brash and theatrical performance style and music sounded like it could have existed…
“I feel like you kind of curate a space, no matter where you are, it’s really important to remember and feel the intimacy that DIY shows so often provoke,” says Harmony Tividad when asked what it’s like playing in bars.Though neither member of Girlpool is old enough to be in…
The third annual Americas Latino EcoFestival is ongoing in Denver, and it’s using music to inspire conservation efforts. The downtown festival, which features over 400 presenters and takes place now through Saturday at the Denver Art Museum, History Colorado and Denver Public Library, features presentations by advocates and experts designed…
You remember cassettes? The cases always broke after you accidentally stepped on them. The actual tape caused you mental anguish as you attempted to manually rewind it with a pencil. Loading it in a tape deck made the best analog sounds known to mankind. Well, good news lovers of both…
