The Global Glow music festival premiered over the weekend in Evergreen. The festival was created to showcase the CU Denver’s music program and give faculty a space to showcase their musical and artistic work. Todd Reid, Percussion Area Coordinator at the University of Colorado Denver played his iPad alongside the…
It’s the kind of week where we’ve got fourteen recommendations below and we’ll be spending this introduction talking about the ones we had to leave off: Tech N9ne is in town again/still in town, playing in Colorado Springs. Greater Than Collective’s Social Club at Lannie’s Clocktower has its June installment…
Not too long after the Hard Rock Café opened in 1998 on the 16th Street Mall, the Fray played one of its first gigs there. John Lindsay, Hard Rock Denver’s senior sales and marketing manager, said the guys in the band walked up the mall begging people to come to…
It is, as even casual observers of this section and/or billboards in the vicinity of the Golden Triangle will be aware, Westword Music Showcase season. I say season because it’s not just the festival itself (but: June 21 on that). It’s also about the related Westword Music Awards, which give…
Hugh Evans used to have three indoor soccer fields housed in about 80,000 square feet where heran the Colorado Clash soccer club. There was also an 18,000 square-foot party room where large bands from Mexico would sometimes play. But after the building was bought by some pot growers and Evans…
Backbeat’s goal has always been to get more people involved in the Denver music scene and to give the people who already are some things to think about or laugh about or generally just spend time with. That mission has evolved over the years as our resources have, and starting…
It’s a good one, folks: KS 107.5 FM’s Summer Jam brings hip-hop royalty to Englewood tonight, and most of the people there will probably be capping off their weekends with The Fray at Red Rocks on Sunday. There’s more: Dragondeer, subject of this week’s Backbeat feature, will release its long-awaited…
Film on the Rocks kicked off its fifteenth season on Tuesday with a screening of Caddyshack. As at all of these, a couple Colorado bands played opening sets. We won’t make you wait for a verdict: It is spectacularly awesome to have one of those spots. There are down sides…
A Colorado summer can be short, but there are plenty of ways to make it sweet, especially if you pack it with as many festivals, road trips and patios as possible. We’ve picked out ten music festivals sure to give you the flavor of the state’s musical offerings — everything…
I have an embarrassing tendency to bait people into conversations where I just talk about cool things I am doing. Surprise, right? While it likely stems from being bored with hearing of the mundane achievements of others (babies, crappy jobs, cars), there is a part of me that figures it…
Eric Halborg is best known in Denver music for his work fronting the Swayback, a hard-driving rock band that has toured the country and attained unusual success here at home. He’s got another band these days; called Dragondeer, it’s an outlet for the kinds of blues and jam bands he…
Denver’s DJ Cavem Moetevation spends plenty of time focusing on the “green” stuff. But his green stuff is not money or weed. Instead, his focus is on kale and being eco-friendly. Cavem — a former Westword MasterMind award winner — is a husband and father, a teacher, a rapper, a…
Fantasia 2014 is billing itself — at least on Facebook, anyway — as a “performance festival.” But it’s not a big, multi-stage summertime throwdown for thousands. Fantasia 2014 is an intimate experience, one that co-curators Colin Ward and Stefan Herrera hope will draw people to fest location Rhinoceropolis, especially those…
It’s Westword Music Showcase month, and today we have a schedule for you. In case this is unfamiliar territory: For the twentieth year, we’ll celebrate the wide array of Denver’s music scene with a music festival right here in the city. The thing has grown over the decades, and this…
Denver is growing so fast that two years here can feel more like ten. So Travis Egedy — better known as Pictureplane — has missed plenty since he packed up and moved to New York in 2012. Still, he’s practically a native. He spent the better part of a decade…
Note: Dragondeer will release its new EP with a show this Saturday at Lost Lake Lounge. The band will also be featured in the debut of Open Music Sessions at Denver Open Media’s studio’s on Kalamath Street this Friday. Details on that series are coming shortly, but you can RSVP…
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Ed. We got a dispatch from this weekend’s Bassnectar show by a young writer and music lover who is just over three months sober. We’ve chosen to leave her name off of it because the Internet never forgets anything. She is experiencing her first summer in the concert playground of…
Widespread Panic is slated for a three-night run at Red Rocks near the end of this month, but the band will also do a three-night Halloween run at 1STBANK Center from Friday, October 31, through Sunday, November 2. Tickets ($55.75-$61) go on sale Friday, August 8, at 10 a.m. After…
The public radio jazz station, KUVO 89.7 FM — part of Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Network — has been named best “Jazz & Soul Internet Radio Stations” worldwide by The Daily Telegraph in the UK. “I stumbled upon this award-winning music station by accident recently – and have been kicking…
Going to an electronica show is a fantastic excuse to bust out a wild outfit to accentuate your dance moves, and Bassnectar, in town this weekend for their annual appearance at Red Rocks, was no different. Here are the ten best getups from the show, as found by photographer Eric…
Iain Chisholm owns the Italian restaurant Amerigo on Upper Larimer. It’s a good place to be, and recently the lines necessitated expansion. “As the neighborhood came online, we were starting to turn a lot of people away on the weekends because we didn’t have any place for them to wait…
