As partners in Strong Survive Promotionz for the past five years, independent concert promoters Travis Ragan and Ivan Ovchinnikov have booked shows at a number of venues around Denver, but they’ve never gotten a cut of the bar sales. So when they found out that the Roxy Theatre, an old…
As the Colorado Symphony Orchestra continues on without a music director, Austrian Christian Arming is slated to guest-conduct the season finale concerts this weekend. The all-Wagner greatest-hits program includes selections from Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger, and Die Walkure, which is part of the Ring Cycle…
Last night, the Sub.Mission crew kicked off its Electronic Tuesdays series, and for the next three weeks, it will be packing the Other Side full of electronic music from nearly two dozen different DJs. Generally speaking, when you have that many artists spread over a series of dates, it’s difficult…
Update: We just received word that tickets for Devo’s performance on July 30 at the first annual Denver County Fair go on sale this morning at 10 a.m. So that’s what Barry Fey was working on. In news that’s sure to inspire the nerdiest of our pals to spontaneously bust…
Anyone who missed Bright Eyes’ show last night at the Fillmore will get another chance to see Conor Oberst and company, as the Boulder Theater just announced a date with the band on Tuesday, August 9. Tickets ($30 in advance and $35 day of show) go on sale this Friday,…
Update: Whoa! Stop the presses. So we were just getting ready to send word via Twitter that tomorrow night’s show had been canceled (see original post below), and we stopped by John Grant’s Twitter page, which led us to his Facebook page and that’s where learned the actual reason his…
After working in the action-sports industry for years and setting a Guinness World Record for longest journey on a mini-motorcycle, Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson have now embarked on a different journey: Cheapskates Action Sports Bar, which opened last week in the former home of Bliss Café at 7501 Grandview…
Due an unspecified family emergency in the Bright Eyes camp, the Fillmore show originally slated for Friday has been moved to Sunday. Bummer news if you have to work that night or otherwise can’t make it, but at least the show wasn’t canceled. We just received official word from our…
After more than a decade-long run, 5 Degrees (1475 Lawrence Street) is closing this weekend with a final bash on Saturday, June 4, with $20 for all-you-can-drink wells and $50 of bottle service. The building that houses the club is under construction to make way for University of Colorado Denver…
Joe Triscari’s Moon Light Speed Press screen printing is quickly becoming one of our favorite concert flier makers in town, and Triscari and Josh Everingham’s Il Cattivo CD release flier proves once again they’ve got the screening skills to keep up with the already lovely artwork…
If you happened to miss the Disco Biscuits shows at the Ogden this past week or didn’t get up to Red Rocks last night for Bisco Inferno — or if you just can’t get enough of those crazy Biscuits: The Disco Biscuits have been added to the lineup for the…
When Sub.Mission decided to bring some of the most popular international dubstep stars, Flux Pavilion and Doctor P., to Denver, apparently, they didn’t realize how high the demand is here for good bass music. Initially, the Sub.Mission folks booked the Exdo event center for the show. When the demand for…
Have we ever told you how much we love dinosaurs? We really do — in fact, next to robots and cute animals, they’re pretty much our favorite thing to see on concert posters. That’s especially the case in this The Sound Collapse EP release show flier, where we get an…
This Sunday, May 29, City Hall is slated to kick off its new weekly Rockers, Rollers & Riders concert series with the Mighty 18 Wheeler and Hotgun, which features members of the Informants, Railbenders and GT & the Sidewinders. If you haven’t heard about it yet, the weekly shows, Rockers,…
There’s a brand new festival coming to Snowmass Village over the Fourth of July weekend, and Leftover Salmon (pictured) is among the acts slated to headline. Sharing the bill at the inaugural Eco Music Festival, taking place June 30 through July3, is Perpetual Groove, Tea Leaf Green, the New Mastersounds,…
In commemoration of it’s third consecutive year of Denver being the host city for their famed Bisco Inferno kick-off, the Disco Biscuits are opening up pop-up shop on south Broadway. The store will be JAM-packed with Biscuits merch and there’s a meet-and-greet with the band scheduled for tomorrow when the…
If, for whatever reason, you don’t happen to be working next Thursday, May 26, and you’re in the Broomfield area, Broomstock 2011 is slated to take place at Broomfield County Commons Park, with two dozen acts performing on two stages. Along with familiar names like No Fair Fights, The Skyline…
When we think of monthly electronic music series, we tend to assume they’ll follow a very specific theme throughout their existence. That’s not exactly the case with 187 Ultra, the new musical series being curated by Sole and Pictureplane at the hi-dive — although you could argue that eclecticism is…
When it comes to metaphors and posters, we like things that are easy to understand and relatively simple. That said, we’re not sure exactly how we’re supposed to feel about this image of a seemingly diseased heart and lungs, but it’s so damn fitting for Roger Green’s style of Americana-melancholia…
With the exception of the main headliners (Dennis DeYoung and the Gin Blossoms) and a handful of new local acts, the lineup for this year’s Denver Day of Rock Concerts for Kids (taking place for free on five stages along the 16th Street Mall, between 15th and 16th Streets, on…
Techno and craft beer go together like … well, like nothing we’ve ever seen before, because oftentimes, craft-beer-lovers and lovers of electronica occupy different spheres of existence. But come September 29, the inaugural Great American Techno Festival, brainchild of local DJ/producer/man-about-town John Templeton, will hitch a ride on the lauded…
Film on the Rocks has become a rite of summer at this point for fans and a milestone in the careers of the lucky musicians who get to perform each year on the hallowed stage of Red Rocks. After a fake version reportedly made the rounds this past weekend, the…
