Music

Drugs and music are a timeless combination, like peanut butter and jelly.

Seattle-based electronic duo ODESZA take over Red Rocks on Saturday and Sunday, while Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson teams up with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks tonight.

The Disco Biscuits might travel to Colorado from Philadelphia, but the east coasters may as well be a Denver band at this point.

Midnight Oil has not toured for more than a decade. The time has come; a fact’s a fact, as the group’s hit song “Beds Are Burning” goes.

Belgian industrial/dance band Lords of Acid headline the Gothic Theatre with Christian Death, Combichrist and ITSOKTOCRY opening. General admission tickets ($34.50-$40) and a limited number of early bird tickets ($24) go on sale on Friday, May 26, at 10 a.m.

Memorial Day is here. It’s time to dance and sing our hearts out, remembering those who have come and gone before us, who have struggled to make this world a better place.

Lost Walks vocalist Dameon Merkl sits in the back room of Carbon Cafe & Bar. The experience is surreal for him. The now-upscale joint was once home to Paris on the Platte — a hot spot for Denver’s counterculture for nearly thirty years.

Sure, hiking, backpacking and rafting are all good reasons to go to the mountains. But when you’re tired of nature, consider attending these stunning live-music events, venues, concerts and festivals – some of which are free – up in the high country.

After finishing classes at Bear Creek High School on Thursday, June 10, 1971, Steve Baum, who had just turned sixteen, and a few of his high school buddies drove straight to Red Rocks Amphitheatre to see Jethro Tull. Little did they know, tear gas would soon be burning their eyes.

One of the first DJs to explode into mainstream stardom, Paul Van Dyk won the first ever Grammy for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” in 2003. Van Dyk didn’t stop there: He was named No. 1 DJ in the world for two consecutive years as he went on to sell over three-million albums.

Randall Frazier has been running sound at concerts and engineering records in and around Denver for two decades. As a sound engineer and talent buyer at Walnut Room for nearly ten years, Frazier left his mark on Denver’s underground scene.

Encountering masses of intoxicated young adults stumbling along Larimer Street between 27th and 28th streets isn’t all that uncommon on weekends — especially since that part of RiNo is packed with trendy bars including the Meadowlark, Cold Crush, Nocturne and Larimer Lounge. The difference on Saturday, May 21, was that drunk people…

This is all getting horribly familiar, isn’t it? We’ve lost another one — a great musician and songwriter taken far too young. We’ll never know quite why Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden and AudioSlave, made the decisions that he did, but it’s not for us to judge. Here are ten of his best songs.

Project Pabst returns to the RiNo Neighborhood on Saturday, May 20 with a weighty lineup that includes Ice Cube, Phantogram, Danny Brown, Kurt Vile & the Violators, STRFK, while the Five Points Jazz Festival and the Global Dub Festival (featuring Flux Pavilion, Illenium and more) is at Red Rocks on Saturday as well.