Folk music fans woke up some very sad news this morning. Banjo player, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, folklorist and all-around activist Pete Seeger died late last night in New York from natural causes. He was 94. The loss is tough to quantify for fans of any folk, roots, blues and Americana…
Fresh off his win at the Grammys this past weekend, Bruno Mars, set to wow the world this weekend at the Super Bowl during halftime in New Jersey, will be making his way back to the Mile High City this summer for a date at Fiddlers Green on Sunday, August…
Back with another edition of In the Mix, where we spotlight new dance tracks and mixes from local producers and DJs. This week with a couple fresh remixes from some familiar faces in Denver’s dance music scene, along with a couple grimy originals, one from Roots Mass, a member of…
Prefuse 73 (due this Wednesday, January 29, at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom) is the alias of Guillermo Herren. Having learned the nuts and bolts of hip-hop production as an employee at a studio in the ’90s, Herren created the sort of left-field electronic music that didn’t fit in with that style…
The Dandy Warhols headline the Fox Theatre on Saturday, May 10. Tickets ($23/$25) go on sale on Friday, January 31 at 10 a.m. Naked and Famous headline the Boulder Theater on Tuesday, May 27, and tickets ($25) go on sale on Friday, January 31 at 10 a.m. Keep reading to…
The great thing about Bisco Inferno weekend is that you get two nights packed in with the fans in the intimate Ogden shows, providing its own level of energy, and then they stretch out to the space of 1STBANK Center, where the lasers get put on steroids. After two wonderful…
As we head into the now annual Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks fiesta this weekend, the Red Rocks summer concert schedule is starting to take shape. Jack Johnson is slated to bring his From Here to Now to You tour to Colorado on Monday, August 18, with Michael Kiwanuka. Tickets…
THE DISCO BISCUITS at OGDEN THEATRE | 1/24/14 When we spoke with Marc Brownstein last week before this year’s Bisco Inferno: Winter Edition, he talked about how the band was comfortable with just being a jam band again rather than trying to push every electronic idea, particularly in light of…
EYEHATEGOD at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 1/26/14 A couple of people tried to heckle Eyehategod, but Mike Williams was took the flak deftly and turned it into comedy; you had to hand it to him. Someone yelled out, “I’m bored.” Williams told the guy to come down front where there was…
FRI | ICELANTIC’S WINTER ON THE ROCKS at RED ROCKS | 1/31/14 More than misogyny or materialism, intelligence and verbal skill are championed by Jurassic 5; the vocabulary is impressive and the verbal acrobatics the guys perform are outstanding. J5 carries the energy and excitement of a newer era group…
In his new column, award-winning goofball Shea Serrano, whose recent exploits include Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book, writes about his life and times. I am working on a new book. I cannot say too much about it yet, other than it’s with the same company that published Bun…
Over the next few weeks, we will be following Project Aspect (Jay Jaramillo) and Unlimited Gravity (Ronnie Weberg) as they tour around the country on their first national tour. The pair have grown together collectively in the scene as the Mile High Sound Movement. The two will crisscross the country…
Once upon a time, it was enough for a DJ to weave a spell on the dance floor, but those days are long gone. Now, anyone dabbling in electronic music had better have some serious chops as a producer. And when it comes to production, Alex Metric is one of…
DISCO BISCUITS at OGDEN THEATRE / 1STBANK CENTER | 1/23-25 Jamtronica pioneers the Disco Biscuits build interesting set lists: They invert portions of jams into each other, surprising audience members again and again while shining a mega-ton of lasers in their faces for an overstimulation extravaganza. The Biscuits will take…
Although Steve Crenshaw has spent more than a decade as lead guitarist with the Groove Hawgs (which features Lewis and Floorwax, from 103.5/The Fox) and he’s shared stages with B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Delbert McClinton, he’s been a fixture on the scene since the early ’90s. In recent years,…
Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All (screenings are set for Friday, January 24 through Sunday, January 26 at 7th Circle Music Collective) is the documentary film about the beloved, pioneering pop punk band and its associated project All. Starting in the late ’70s with drummer Bill Stevenson, Descendents took the energy…
Eyehategod (due Sunday, January 26, at the Bluebird Theater) formed in New Orleans in 1988. The influential band combined its influences from the world of the blues, Black Sabbath and hardcore punk into a unique alchemy that lent itself well to dipping into the dark side of the psyche and…
As Bisco Inferno looms ahead of us this weekend, we had a chance to speak with Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein about what it takes to make a happy life and a happy band. Full of enthusiasm and positivity. Brownstein shed a new light on the future of the Biscuits…
There is the best of this, the best of that, and then you have the metaliest metal bands forged by lyrical blacksmiths deep down in the mines of heavy metal. The metaliest, you know, metal. Not as in the genre-est of metal, but the bands that sing of metal the…
More than a decade ago, I was thumbing through the classified ads in this very paper, like I’d done at least a thousand times before growing up, hoping to come across an ad for my dream job. By then, it was more out of habit than anything, wishful thinking, if…
Dave Watts released the reins for the Motet’s latest album. According to the drummer and founder of the Boulder-based band, writing and recording tracks for the new record was much different from the creative process on past efforts. Whereas those featured a revolving cast of musicians led by a single,…
There’s no denying the strong sense of musical history that propels much of Back to the Country. This ragtag ensemble has clearly done its homework when it comes to making American folk, country, blues and roots music, as evidenced by the stunning acoustic solos and heartfelt pedal-steel guitar that drive…
