For the third consecutive summer, DeVotchKa is slated to make its way back to Red Rocks for another otherworldly collaboration with the Colorado Symphony. If you haven’t caught one of these shows yet, well, let’s just say that it’s pure and absolute bliss. Tickets for the show range from $27.50…
I remember it was always such a cool, hip place,” recalls Kid Congo Powers of Denver and his trips to the city. “I remember playing there with the Bad Seeds in this beautiful old theater, a small, ornate place. It was a small theater, and I just remember it struck…
The nostalgia is infectious on The Motet, the recent self-titled full-length from the Boulder-based funk outfit. Part of that feel comes from the band’s expertise in analog effects; thanks to a mastery of old-school pedals, keyboards and horns, songs like “123” sound like they’d fit on any vintage P-Funk record…
Brad Fitch shares more than a passing resemblance to John Denver, and he’s performed at a number of the late folksinger’s tribute concerts. That’s fitting, as Denver happens to have been an early influence on Fitch, whose music straddles the line between folk and country and Western. John Denver devotees…
It’s clear from opener “Artist’s Way” that the new release from local hip-hoppers the Abstract Collective is more organic than electronic. The rapping, meanwhile, blends the rapid-fire delivery favored by Anticon artists — particularly Yoni Wolf — with the more R&B/jazz-inflected instincts of Blackalicious. Despite the soothing effect of Cody…
Illenium’s Risen is the kind of album that will cause jaws to drop. Opening with the silky vocals of Sirma on “Drop Our Hearts,” which has a grimy sort of Skrillex growl at the drop, the record moves to a more club-like vibe on “Up,” incorporating a monumental build topped…
After a long and storied career, during which they’ve outlasted many of their counterparts from the 1980s, the men of Mötley Crüe are hanging it up for good. Before they do, though, the dudes are embarking on one final tour, a cross-country jaunt that will bring them back to Denver…
TREY ANASTASIO BAND at OGDEN THEATRE | 1/28/14, NIGHT ONE The Trey Anastasio Band kicked off its spring tour in Denver last night and debuted a couple of new songs in front of a sold-out crowd whose members had been lined up down the block and across the street before…
Rocket From the Crypt (due Saturday, February 1, at the Summit Music Hall) formed in 1989 after the split of Pitchfork, an act that featured John Reis, who was also a member of influential noise rock/experimental punk band Drive Like Jehu at the time. Rocket’s playful spirit and its sound…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
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. Monday evening after school, word began floating around that another blast was heading our way, that it was likely to handicap everything and everyone again…
Fresh off an absolutely sizzling performance at last summer’s Westword Music Showcase, Trampled by Turtles is set to make its way back to Colorado this summer for a date at Red Rocks on Saturday, August 16, with the Devil Makes Three and Deer Tick. Tickets for the show range from…
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…
