Music

Andy Baxter of Penny & Sparrow talks about the act’s latest album, Wendigo, and why so many of the songs are all about death.

Looking for live music? Check out our picks for this week’s best shows in Denver.

Commemorating music legend John Denver’s death, Westword’s Michael Roberts weighed in with a rant titled: “The Mega-Irritating John Denver Revival on the 20th Anniversary of His Death.”

Since forming in 2008, Las Vegas alt-rockers in Imagine Dragons have risen steadily, until this year when the band really has exploded. Thanks to its new album Evolve and the accompanying singles “Believer” and “Thunder,” it’s tough to have the radio on for ten minutes, for better or worse, without hearing Imagine Dragons.

While lively punk scenes thrived in many cities across the U.S. in the late ’70s and early ’80s, San Francisco’s had something the others did not. “It feels like the San Francisco scene is so overlooked, because it was more intellectual and more art-based,” says Colorado-based photographer Richard Alden Peterson.

Ivory Circle has released its latest video. Here’s the story behind it.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats will be releasing their full-length live recording of their first headlining show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Live at Red Rocks, on November 10, from Stax Records.

Together Pangea is Denver bound with a stripped down sound.

Here’s your guide to every new Denver concert announcement.

Simon Katz, bassist for Denver-based prog-rock trio Boats Without Oars who died when he was sixteen years old, is remembered by his bandmates on their new album.

Other people’s hats and hairdos have ruined one too many concerts for us. Here are some styles to avoid.

Erica Brown was singing “Billie Jean” at Basin’s Up, when she fell and flashed the crowd.

It’s not the gentrification or the ugly condos that are driving Ian Cooke away. The reason the singer-songwriter is leaving Denver in January, weeks after the Ian Cooke Band collaborates on a production with dance troupe Wonderbound, is simple: love.

British folkie-punk artist Billy Bragg might not appreciate a heady comparison to Bob Dylan and all of the unnecessary weight that comes with it, but the two great songwriters certainly share some traits.

Within the first week after Mixed Up Gifts opened a brick-and-mortar shop on South Broadway, owner Cindy Gamel received a cease-and-desist letter from Philip Guerin, owner of Myxed Up Creations.

Scott Morrill and Adam Stroul, who have been longtime co-owners and talent buyers at the independent Five Points venue Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Other Side, recently joined AEG Presents Rocky Mountains as the company’s newest talent buyers.