For close to three decades, Bob and Cathy Lyons ran the no-frills, nautical-themed Brown Barrel Tavern at 76 South Broadway. The bar was one of the last old-school joints in the Baker neighborhood, an area that was once full of them, and earned a nod in our Best of Denver…
Great news if you’ve been waiting your whole adult life to attend an Adult Swim Block Party: Here’s your chance. The network is planning to rock the block in Fort Collins (specifically, Walnut Street between Linden and Mountain in Old Town) on Thursday, November 10, from 7-11 p.m. If the…
If you’ve got a wicked sensation right now in your rock nerve, there’s good reason for that: George Lynch is back in town for a benefit show. After a full day’s activiities, including a poker run, a 5K walk, plus a dinner and auction to benefit Dave Lucero, who’s been…
As part of Wilco’s tour in support of The Whole Love, its debut album on its own dBpm label, the band just announced its western North American dates, which includes a stop at the Fillmore Auditorium on Thursday, January 19. According the Wilco’s web site, ticket details will be released…
Michael Trundle’s plate isn’t just filled these days. It’s overflowing to the point where he’s dropping crap everywhere — but he’s dropping it like it’s hot. While he’s preparing for a trip to the Big Apple next week for the Live4Ever official CMJ showcase, where he’ll perform as boyhollow alongside…
Feeling wistful for the tepid days of no-frills, interchangeable, middle-of-the-road, radio-rock from yesterday? Boy are you in luck! We’ve just received word of a free concert being brought to you by the fine folks at CU-Boulder’s Program Council taking place up in Boulder at the Glenn Miller Ballroom on Sunday,…
Update (10/31/11): See photos from Playing Apart, this past weekend’s one-of-a-kind performance art spectacle in lower downtown Denver. Um, yeah, so this sounds positively awesome. There’s an event planned for Saturday, October 29 dubbed “Playing Apart,” in which an entire ninety-piece marching band from Bear Creek High School is going…
Tonight at City O’ City, beloved local songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff will be playing a handful of songs as part of KGNU’s annual fall fund drive. The event begins at 10 p.m. and will be broadcast live on KGNU (88.5 FM & 1390 AM). Rateliff will be performing a handful of…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, December shows by Beats Antique and Pretty Lights were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Veronica, Vices I Admire, INCA and Hazel Miller all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores, new and…
While we know you’re still busy trying to nail down what you’re doing for Halloween and you probably haven’t even really given much thought to where you’ll be celebrating New Year’s yet, we’ve just received word that Pretty Lights is setting up shop at 1STBANK Center for a pair of…
Belly dancing, heavy drums, performance artists and live music create the environment surrounding Beats Antique, who we’ve just learned will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, December 3. Talk about making moves: Around this time last year, the act was opening for the Glitch Mob on Halloween, but this…
While the Grizzly Rose has been bringing in country acts since the 1989, the venue has had a lot of success bringing in ’80s-centric rock bands like Dokken and Brett Michaels. So it makes sense that the same folks behind the Grizzly Rose plan to open their own rock club…
If we know you (and let’s face it — we know you well, probably better than your mom), your plans for Halloween have already begun to take shape. Yes? Well, before you move that entry from pencil to ink on your calendar, there are a few more enticing options to…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, a show at the Paramount Theatre featuring Puscifer was announced, along with a Kulwicki Twins Foundation benefit at the Bluebird Theater in January being headlined by Mudhoney and The Fluid. On local radio specialty shows,…
Bring Me the Horizon’s show this weekend, originally scheduled for the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, October 2, has been moved to the Summit Music Hall. Tickets for the all-ages show, which also features Parkway Drive, Architects (UK), Deez Nuts and On Broken Wings, are still available ($25) and tix for…
Tomorrow night was supposed to mark the release the CD release party of Author Unknown, the new outfit featuring Mark Sundermeier, at the Toad Tavern. The show has now turned into a benefit for Sundermeier, who was involved in a major car accident a few weeks ago. The former Trampolines…
Good news for those of you who miss Indie 101.5: John “Whip” Wilbur, the station’s morning show host and music director, and Lipgloss co-founder Tyler Jacobson have announced plans to launch a new Internet-based indie radio station in Denver, Post 303…
Guns N’ Roses, who announced last week that it would be coming to Denver (but no venue or date has been confirmed yet), is among the fifteen acts nominated, along with the Cure, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Freddie King, Donovan, Erik B & Rakim and Red Hot Chili Peppers, for…
Since the Oriental Theater had to close this week for repairs after a chunk of its ceiling fell on the stage last Friday, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose latest ensemble melds jazz, electronic and Indian music, will be playing at Quixote’s True Blue instead on Friday, September 30. The show still…
Each time Cut Copy has come through town over the last few years, the Australian indie electronic group has played a bigger venue as its popularity grew, moving up from the Larimer Lounge in 2008 to the Bluebird in 2009 to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, October 4. After the…
Last June, Colorado Public Radio announced plans to convert 1340 AM, an all-news station, to a new music station, and now CPR plans to roll out a new station, Open Air, on Monday, October 31. “Open Air is a natural extension of CPR’s mission to offer an in-depth exploration of…
Rapper Game hits the the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 2 and the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 3 as part of R.E.D. Tour in support of his fourth album,The R.E.D. Album, which came out in August on Interscope/DGC after almost two years of delays. Game was a recent cover-story…
