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Roddy Bottum of Faith No More: “Bigotry Is Chickenshit.”

Tonight — September 8 — legendary experimental rock band Faith No More brings the weird and the wonderful to Red Rocks with opener Gogol Bordello. FNM started in 1981, shortly after high-school friends Roddy Bottum and Billy Gould moved to San Francisco, where Bottum attended San Francisco State University as…

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Wale Will Host This Year’s White Party

Denver’s infamous White Party, which gets its name from the fashion rule about wearing white after Labor Day, celebrates its 13th anniversary this year with a star-studded line-up. This year’s White Party, sponsored by 3Deep Productions and Ciroc, will take place as usual at Club Beta, on September 6, the…

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Chelsea Wolfe’s Abyss Was Inspired by Nightmares

Chelsea Wolfe is about to kick off a series of shows with Denver’s Wovenhand playing support. They’ll start this Saturday, August 28 at the Bluebird Theatre. The pairing is perfect, as both projects are possessed of great musical darkness and intensity. “My record label and management company recently brought [Wovenhand]…

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Meet Five Artists Playing at Black Summer

As Straight Outta Compton sparks a new interest in hip-hop around the country, plenty of artists have long been working to embody what NWA did in its time, creating independent, unapologetic art. Denver is full of such artists. You can routinely find hip-hop in venues across the city, including the Roxy and…

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Megan Burtt Is Ready to Tell Her Story

Singer-songwriter Megan Burtt has always been a gifted musician with a rich and vibrant voice. But her career hasn’t always gone smoothly. After graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 2008, singer-songwriter Megan Burtt moved to Cleveland, Mississippi, about hour south of Clarksdale, which is hailed by many as…

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Peter Yarrow on the Importance of Folk Festivals

Saying that Peter Yarrow was influential in folk music would be a profound understatement. Yarrow, due at this weekend’s Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, might be one of the most important figures in the genre and his impact can be felt across music of all kinds. A founding member…

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Synesthesia and the Growth of Psych Rock in Denver

When Synesthesia debuted in Denver’s RiNo district a couple years ago, it was a Spartan affair at the Meadowlark and Larimer Lounge, attracting just 200 people. Now, the Larimer’s Bart Dahl says he’s happy to see what was formerly called Denver Psych Fest “flourish in our neighborhood” — this year’s…

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Vomitstep Is a Thing Now, Thanks to DJ Snails

Yes, vomitstep is a thing. The dubstep world has outdone itself with this gross new form of music that’s like dubstep, but “wobblier.” To politely vomitstep, make sure you are near a toilet or have a barf bag on hand.  EDM music is known for its bizarre off-set of genres…

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Bob Drake Helped Put Denver on the Experimental Music Map

Bob Drake is playing his first-ever all-solo show in nearly four decades of performing music internationally. Hardly a pop star, Drake is nevertheless a legend in Denver avant-garde music circles and an accomplished sound engineer whose production flourishes grace the work of mainstream artists. He grew up in Ohio and…

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Led Zeppelin Inspired Izcalli’s New Album Title, III

Luigi Ramirez’s dad rolls up in a van with flames painted on the hood, and two little kids — Luigi’s brother and sister — get out and start hauling drum stands to the tent. Luigi, skinny and dressed in black, lugs the kick. A pudgy dude in khaki shorts inspects…

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Jazz Organist Pat Bianchi Reaches for a Higher Standard

After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in the late ‘90s, Pat Bianchi moved to Denver and started a decade-long run playing organ and piano at local clubs like El Chapultepec and Herb’s. But in 2008, Bianchi, a Rochester native, moved back east to New York City. Instead of…