Though AFI, or A Fire Inside, formed while singer Davey Havok and long-departed members Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker were still in high school, and though the first two albums that the band recorded (1995’s Answer That and Stay Fashionable and the following year’s Very Proud of Ya) are certainly efforts to be proud of, the sound of AFI that we know today really started to take shape in ’97 with the Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes record.
Denver has seen too many cancellations as of late, from Kanye West to Bon Jovi. Now, Biebettes have a reason to join in the moping. Justin Bieber sent out a statement sure to break your heart.
Amadou & Mariam, who headline at the Boulder Theater on July 29, may be the planet’s unlikeliest dance music icons: He’s 62, she’s 58, and they’ve spent decades as both musical and romantic partners following their 1975 meeting at the Institute for the Young Blind in their native Mali, Africa. But if you can listen to Bofou Safou, a remix-heavy EP released in advance of La Confusion, an album due on September 22, without moving, it’s probably because you’re distracted by the priest giving you last rites.
Modern English is best known for its hit single “I Melt With You,” from the 1982 album After the Snow. The song was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV and served as an anthem for those struggling to find joy and hope in the dismal age of Thatcher and Reagan.
It’s a great week for fans of ’80s rock, with the Retro Futura tour stopping at the Bellco Theatre tonight that includes Howard Jones, Paul Young, the English Beat, Men Without Hats, Katrina (Ex-Katrina and the Waves) and Modern English, while Violent Femmes and Echo and the Bunnymen co-headlining at the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday.
Confession: Me and my kid fled the downpour Thursday, on opening night of Denver’s newest outdoor venue Levitt Pavilion, long before the headliner, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club played. We were viscerally underprepared: no umbrellas, no raincoats, not even a cotton hoodie – just t-shirts and jeans.
In the DIY world, nobody expects venues to stick around that long. Backspace, an outlet that has been quietly booking loud shows for the past year and a half, is no exception.
Attention all house-heads and ravers: Global Dance Festival 2017 is here.
Bobby Rush says he’s cut 374 records, but he didn’t record any of them in his home state of Louisiana until his most recent album, Porcupine Meat, which he won a Grammy for this year for Best Traditional Blues Album.
After a long run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Global Dance Festival sets up shop this weekend in the parking lot of Sports Authority Field at Mile High with EDM heavies Excision, Datsik, Hardwell, Kaskade and more. String Cheese Incident is at Red Rocks for a three-night stand, while Neil Diamond is at the Pepsi Center and Buddy Guy is at Denver Botanic Gardens. See our full picks below.
At the ripe age of 50, world-renowned prog and tech house master John Digweed is as fresh as ever. With a jam-packed touring schedule and a busy day-to-day, the veteran remains relevant in a scene he’s dominated for more than thirty years. In July, alone, the English DJ has booked…
The Coathangers started as a joke between friends. They had all protested George W. Bush in Washington D.C., in 2006. “On the way back home we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we started a band?’” says guitarist Julia Kugel.
Railroad Earth stops in the area for a three-night New Year’s Eve run that includes Friday, December 29 and Saturday December 30, at the Fox Theatre, and Sunday, December 31, at the Paramount Theatre.
The ten best concerts at Levitt Pavilion Denver for summer 2017, including 311, the Cumbia Festival, Gaby Moreno and more.
Three years ago Singer Kerry Pastine and guitarist Paul Shellooe wanted to start a group that sounded like a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. The two musicians, who had long been in the blues act the Informants, aimed for a heavy, vintage sound.
Tyler Grant looks like a thin, shaggy Chuck Norris holding a Telecaster. The 41-year-old jamgrass flatpicker, whose music drips with rootsy authenticity, has been around guitars since he was growing up in California in the ’80s and ’90s.
A brief comic history of the 15th Street Tavern.
Global Dance Festival, one of the city’s best electronic music events, is back for 2017 – but, there have been some big changes.
Colorado Springs-based DIY space Flux Capacitor, in partnership with Pikes Peak Library District, re-opened to the public on July 15 in the Knights of Columbus building at the Penrose Branch complex in downtown Colorado Springs.
Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae superstar, has gone through some drastic changes in recent years.
Face it: Denver is no Memphis. We’re just not a blues town. But if you look around, you can find bars, restaurants, pool halls and more that host regular blues jams and showcase touring and local blues artists that are as good as anything you’ll find in the South.
The Goo Goo Dolls are probably best known for the monster ballad “Iris” from the City of Angels soundtrack, a fact that must drive their hardcore, long-time fans crazy.
