It’s a week full of arena shows with Shawn Mendes at the Pepsi Center tonight, while John Mayer visits the venue on Wednesday, and Earth, Wind & Fire and CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers take it over on Thursday night.
Westword’s Ana Campbell was outraged after attending a concert at a well-known country venue and finding that the performer seemed drugged out of his mind.
Westword’s Kyle Harris reviewed the Queen concert on July 6, writing about the differences between the original frontman Freddie Mercury and the current lead singer Adam Lambert. Readers took to Twitter and Facebook, blasting Harris for minimizing the struggle Lambert went through as a gay man and celebrating both guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor’s performances as well as Lambert’s
Blondie emerged in the mid-’70s underground rock scene, hitting mainstream airwaves with its third album, 1978’s Parallel Lines.
Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household.
It’s a busy weekend at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre with Jack Johnson tonight, Daryl Hall & John Oates and Tears for Fears tomorrow, and Blondie and Garbage on Sunday.
Hall & Oates practically oozed pop hits that indelibly marked the musical landscape of the 1980s with a lasting impact still felt in current pop culture.
The Insane Clown Posse blew it like a two-liter of Faygo.
A brief comic history of the Rossonian
Toronto-based electronic music producer Deadmau5 will be at Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Thursday, October 19 and Friday, October 20, and he’ll be bringing his updated, custom-built 18-foot Cube 2.1.
Let’s be honest — they had to have seen it coming. If you call your band Black Pussy and don’t expect some sort of a backlash, then you’re either stupid or….. nah, you’re stupid. They knew what was coming. They just didn’t care.
Keeping up a weekly music event or club night takes a lot of work. Fortunately, Denver isn’t short on DJs and musicians hustling for the city’s nightlife. Here are eleven of the best weekly music events in the Mile High City.
“I don’t think my eyes really opened up until the first time I got shot at,” says Tim Burdick, Denver pop-punk singer turned Army ranger. Dodging bullets was the last thing on Burdick’s mind when he was a high school musician in the late ’90s, playing in the pop-punk band Suburbia’s Finest.
Queen still rocks, even if the legendary band’s concerts feel feel like an uptempo funeral. And why shouldn’t they?
If you’re a musician or comedian who people are paying to see, there is no excuse for getting too high.
Roommates may be an experimental rock band, but its members are unabashed pop-music fans. Guitarist Alex Goldsmith says the title of the group’s debut full-length, Victoria, is a nod to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.
Tears for Fears is not a nostalgia act, despite evidence to the contrary. The seasoned British band has been touring in recent years without a new studio album, instead performing its throng of hits and deep cuts.
This morning, Jay-Z announced his new world tour, 4:44, and the multi-million-record-selling rapper is Denver-bound.
Beck, born Bek David Campbell, has been the king of the oddballs and uber-cool malcontents since first bursting into the public consciousness in the early ‘90s.
After headlining Red Rocks on Wednesday, Ween is at the Ogden for two nights, while Beck, Santana and Michael Franti & Spearhead also play Red Rocks this week. Preservation Hall, which opens for Beck on Tuesday, stops by the much more intimate Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox tonight, and Natalie Merchant is at Denver Botanic Gardens on Wednesday.
Lorin Ashton, the electronic music producer and DJ who plays under the name Bassnectar, grew up throwing death metal concerts at his town library.
WTF is rock ‘N’ roll? is the latest album from Denver’s Hot Apostles. The record’s title is a fitting question for the band’s guitarist Tay Hamilton, who has been asking what constitutes rock-and-roll from a young age.
