As reported last week, the Avett Brothers will be at Red Rocks in July, while Warren Haynes and Cake are due at the Ogden in May and June respectively. Also, Arctic Monkeys, who have been working on their fourth album, make their way back to the Ogden again on Monday,…
Mark your calendars: We’ve just heard that the Avett Brothers are due at Red Rocks on Saturday, July 9, with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. Presale begins on Tuesday, March 8. Tickets officially on sale next Saturday. Don’t snooze. How quickly do you think that bad boy is going to…
Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…
Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…
Denver Noise Fest may very well be the loudest, most chaotic event that Denver sees on a yearly basis. It can give you tinnitus in the span of four minutes, cause an upset stomach in ten and rupture your bowels in twenty. That is to say, it’s the most fun…
Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on…
You know what’s awesome about dream catchers? They catch your dreams and turn them into reality. Well, that’s how we’ve always understood it — though we’ve never actually researched it. Anyway, this flier for the Bonnie & the Beard release party might just be a dream come true, as releasing…
Country superstar Toby Keith says he used to play in Colorado quite a bit, including five-night stints at the Grizzly Rose, and so it made sense to open his ninth and largest Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Denver. Keith stopped by his 22,000 square-foot Northfield Stapleton…
Having just won a Grammy for Album of the Year for The Suburbs, the Arcade Fire kicks off its North American tour at the 1STBANK Center on Saturday, April 9, a week before the Montreal-based band headlines Coachella. Local Natives opens the show. General-admission tickets ($40) go on sale this…
While this year’s line-up for the the 8th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival is still being solidified and won’t be announced until April, we do know legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller will headlines this year’s fest, which is Saturday, May 21 at venues along Welton Street in historic Five Points. Fuller,…
Not very often are we won over by a flier that lacks the essential flier things like typography, solid design and a good color choice — but every once and a while one slips through that’s filled with so much damn heart and soul it’s impossible not to love. That’s…
Queens of the Stone Age, who will re-release an expanded and remastered edition of its self-titled debut, visits the Ogden Theatre on Friday, April 8, as part of short tour that only includes fourteen North American dates. On this tour, Josh Homme and company will be playing the entire first…
Known as Big Sal in the professional wrestling community, Salmineo Martin built a pretty good reputation with Juggalo Championship Wrestling and Primo’s Hardcore Wrestling. He even went on tour with the Insane Clown Posse…
Sometimes all it takes to catch our eye is a nice big landscape on a flier. Even if we can’t quite make out what cities are being mashed together here, this one still manages to peak our interest in the show and the material based solely on our passing interest…
London-based singer Adele, touring North America this May in support of her forthcoming sophomore release, 21, which hits stores February 22, is slated to stop by the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, May 28. Tickets ($27.50-$30) go on sale this Saturday, February 12 at 10 a.m…
First Friday is usually a day reserved for people who like art wander around the city and stare at pretty pictures and talk to each other about how they have no money, but if they did, boy, they’d totally buy that painting. However, as this week’s flier shows us, it…
Country superstars George Strait and Reba McEntire have sold close to 125 million records. combined. In his career, which spans more than three decades, Strait has had more number-one singles than Elvis, and his latest effort, Twang, debuted at the number-one slot on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. Reba, meanwhile,…
As you might have heard, Kool Herc (aka Clive Campbell), father of the breakbeat and master hip-hop visionary, was hospitalized over the weekend. Since news of his illness and subsequent trouble covering medical costs first dropped on DJ Premier’s blog, there has been an outpouring of support from the hip-hop…
Flier design doesn’t have many proven rules, but there is one that is nearly irrefutable: cartoon demon babes are always a good idea. Toss in some fire effects, and it’s next to impossible to resist the urge to stare longingly at our pick this week, which combines some simple lines…
Old school metal fans across the country are no doubt peeing themselves right now over The Big 4 (we certainly are). In case you happened to miss the big announcement on Facebook earlier today, four of the metal’s venerable titans are going to be together on the same stage for…
By now you’ve seen the monstrosity that’s been constructed at Civic Center Park. Turns out it wasn’t a mini-skyscraper skyscraper after all. It’s a ramp, as you can see here in the photo taken just a bit ago from the top of structure by our always intrepid scribe and resident…
Les Paul has been a long-time inspiration for Jeff Beck, and last summer, Beck paid tribute to the legendary guitarist on what would have been Paul’s 95th birthday. Beck’s two performances at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club, where Paul performed for fourteen years until his death of August 2009, will…
