Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world flock to Red Rocks every summer for music, movies and awe-inducing geology. In spite of the facility’s fame, confusion remains common about its operation. Here are the most important things to know about Colorado’s marquee venue. See also: 50 Photos That…
Former Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore has spent the past four summers teaching a course on William Burroughs at Naropa University in Boulder. In this week’s music feature, now posted on the Backbeat blog, Tom Murphy talks to the rock legend about how he got the job and how Patti…
Chromeo and Cut Copy headlined Red Rocks last night in what was among the best shows of the Red Rock’s season. So many aspects of it are worth praise that instead of boring you with a think piece about Dave-1’s tight tight pants or Flume’s entrancing visuals, we decided to…
Swallow Hill started as a little folk school in 1979. It has grown exponentially in recent years — we have appraised you of a recent expansion to a second location in Lowry; a new, ambitious music school director and even an RV it plans to turn into a mobile school…
Thurston Moore is best known for his role as one of the pioneering guitarists of the now-defunct experimental band Sonic Youth. But he’s been spending his summers in Boulder for the past four years, teaching a course at Naropa University on William Burroughs’s connection with and influence on music. “The…
The Gaslamp Killer is making an appearance at The 1up on Colfax this Thursday, August 7. Born William Benussen, GLK has been involved directly in producing and creating some of the most innovative electronic music and hip-hop of recent years. When he moved to Los Angeles from San Diego in…
John Denver’s former home in the Aspen area is up for sale. The singer lived in it until his death in 1997, and the current owner bought the property in 1999 as a vacation home. It’s 9,000-plus square feet of mountain house. Well, two mountain houses, really — the main…
Goldrush Music Festival returns for its fourth installment on September 13 and 14 at the Larimer Lounge and Meadowlark. As we told you last week, the initial lineup announcement was greeted with the largest response in the ambitious young festival’s history. It’s a safe bet that trajectory will continue with…
The album art for Computer J. Fox appears to be straight out of the ’80s. On it, a Patrick Nagel-style woman crouches over a soft-pink desktop computer, its clunky screen and keyboard juxtaposed with her sleek frame and Jem and the Holograms blue hair. A listen to the record reveals…
1. The first time she heard Sara Bareilles’s breakout hit “Love Song,” a young swimmer named Hannah Bradford immediately won her race, setting a personal record in the process. That was in 2007, when the song was ubiquitous, particularly among suburban families driving to swim meets. So the girl who…
Shatterproof’s Up In Smoke tour could be a sequel to National Lampoon’s Vacation. The rock band, based out of Fort Collins, started planning its first tour in March. By mid-July, Shatterproof was ready. Its bus, named “ShatterBus,” was not…
Widespread Panic will be at the 1STBANK Center for a three-night Halloween run at 1STBANK Center from Friday, October 31 to Sunday, November 2. Tickets ($55.75/$61) go on sale on Friday, August 8 at 10 a.m. Canadian EDM duo will also Adventure Club at the 1STBANK Center on Saturday, November…
Denver Black Sky II brought a true believer’s lineup of hardcore and metal to the Gothic Theater over the weekend. The crowd found the proceedings deeply satisfying — on Saturday night, Englewood was home to more broadly grinning people in pointy-font t-shirts than anywhere else on the planet. Photographer Aaron…
Red Rocks plays the classics this week, with performances by Chicago (with REO Speedwagon) and Boston. It’ll also host a damn good time of a double-bill in Chromeo and Cut Copy. The rest of our picks follow. See also: Cut Copy on Interactive Billboards, Unusual Guitars and the Summer of…
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Cut Copy co-headlines Red Rocks with Chromeo this Tuesday, August 5. With Flume and Duke Dumont sharing the bill, the show will represent different facets of an international electronic dance music that isn’t directly connected with the EDM phenomenon. Cut Copy first came to the attention of audiences outside its…
HARD is an organization that brings skyrocketing DJs in sunglasses and aggressively patterned shirts to venues and boats around the country. Last night, the Red Rocks installment (HARD: Red Rocks, duh) brought headliners Nero and Dillion Francis along with a few more artists and several thousand people who are, in…
Big weekend for big shows here in Colorado. A few festivals, including Telluride Jazz, bring deep lineups to the mountains. And the alleged last ride of hair metal legend Motley Crue comes to Denver tomorrow. We have plenty more — see the full list of our picks below…
When Joan Baez played at the Botanic Gardens a few weeks ago, she kicked off her shoes and danced around the stage, pulling her keyboard player away from his instrument to join her. As she did, people in the audience got up from their blankets and danced too, because how…
There was no gobbing, no fighting, no obvious fascist skinheads ruining last night’s Black Flag show for other people. There were also no members of the classic line-up beyond the band’s founder, Greg Ginn. But twenty-eight years after Black Flag last did a national tour, that was to be expected…
Tomorrow, Westword, Open Media Foundation and Greater Than Collective will co-hosting a live performance by Denver’s Kitty Crimes at the Denver Open Media studios at 7th and Kalamath. It’s a continuation of our Open Music Sessions, where we will create several videos based on regular live tapings of exceptional bands…
Sarah Slaton can’t stop saying yes to Colorado music. In addition to her avid support of the scene as a fan, she performs in the band Edison, works for the Vinefield Agency as a manager and recently accepted a position as artist development director for SpokesBuzz. We spent some time…
