It’s been eight months since New York indie rockers Ra Ra Riot released Need Your Light, the band’s fourth full-length studio album, and since then, 2016 has been a constant stream of touring, press responsibilities and more touring. Ten years into its existence, Ra Ra Riot has got the recording/touring…
Mac Miller headlines Halloween on the Rocks tonight with a bevy of openers including Vince Staples, BIG K.R.I.T., Pouya and more. The Naked and Famous, Car Seat Headrest, Chelsea Grin and Itchy-O are also playing Halloween night. Young the Giant takes over the Ogden Theatre for two nights, A$AP Ferg is at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tomorrow, Hiss Golden Messenger is at the Bluebird Theater on Wednesday and Bettye LaVette is at the Oriental Theater on Thursday. See our full list of picks below.
While it may not be historic, it felt significant that two pioneers of the disco/dub beat-driven post-punk, one from the original wave, Gang of Four, and one from its 1990s revival, the Faint, shared the stage at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday night.
Budweiser Fear Fest is about as close to a pop-up haunted house as you’ll find in these parts. Located in an old Budweiser bottling plant at 4375 Brighton Boulevard, the late-night music event features zombies from the 13th Floor Haunted House.
Band-Aids were worn in solidarity with the rapper, songs were sung word-for-word and thoughts of encouragement were shouted from the audience.
Tonight it was easy to forget that Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Stevie Nicks are both senior citizens and that their greatest impact on popular culture happened in the first half of the 1980s when both ruled the airwaves. Go ahead, try to tell them that. Because last night, both stars rocked like the old days.
I catch Katy Goodman as her van pulls into a gas station in rural Oklahoma. She’s been on the road all morning, and her back is killing her. Not that this is all that surprising: Touring is a slog, and driving through the extensive Midwestern farmlands that separate major cities is especially brutal. And gas station yoga sessions only do so much against the grueling eight-hour trek from Dallas to Kansas City.
There are a ton of Halloween shows and parties this weekend, including Widespread Panic’s three-night run at the 1STBANK Center, DeVotchKa’s annual Halloween run on Friday and Saturday at the Boulder Theater, the Infamous Stringdusters’ Big Top Halloween at the Fillmore Auditorium, Cherub at Red Rocks and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe performing Prince’s Dirty Mind with Fishbone’s Angelo Moore. Also on tap this weekend are Joan Baez, Gang of Four, Screaming Females and the Sword. See the full list of our picks below.
Not unlike The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne last Saturday night, Tom Araya, Slayer’s ass kicking bassist/vocalist, talked to the Fair crowd about the importance of remembering to share the love about halfway through the band’s set. Then he and his band melted the faces off the people in the front…
New Wave has gone country. Yesterday members of long-running rock band the Pretenders stopped in to Rockmount Ranch Wear, the downtown Denver purveyor of classic Western wear that frequently draws celebrity visitors. “We never know who is going to walk in the door,” Steve Weil, president of Rockmount Ranch Wear,…
Post-punk since the ’90s has been largely shaped by the music of two bands: Joy Division and Gang of Four. The furious energy, disciplined songwriting and angular guitar work of Gang of Four are clear and direct influences on the likes of the Faint, the Rapture and every band that…
Theater Electronic-music imprint Always Human TapesTheater is putting on a showcase of its artists over three days at the ATLAS Black Box Theater on the CU Boulder campus and at 1010 Workshop in Denver. Ryan Wurst founded the label in the summer of 2013 while earning his master’s degree in visual…
Last month, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds released the dark and deeply poignant album Skeleton Tree, along with the album’s companion film, One More Time With Feeling. Cave and company will stop at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday, June 18 as part of a nineteen-city North American tour. Tickets go on sale…
The definition of “pop music” is a constantly evolving — as a genre, it’s easily impressionable and malleable while also being a great fortune-teller of what and how the rest of popular culture will present itself in the moment. That’s also what makes pop music so wonderful — it is…
Halloween in Denver seems to inspire more holiday-themed musical events than any other holiday outside of the Fourth of July, and one list of things to do just wasn’t enough. What follows are ten more of the best concerts/musical happenings for the season of the witch — in chronological order. 1. Halloween…
Chance the Rapper took the opportunity to shoot a video for the song “How Great” on September 20 while passing through Denver as part of his ongoing tour. The hip-hop star used a choir of local singers, and the video was shot using nine iPhones. One of the singers involved…
If you scroll back a couple of weeks on Mac Miller’s Instagram, past the concert shots and fashion portraits, you’ll find a photo diary of the Pittsburgh rapper’s recent trip to South Africa. There, nestled among photos of beautiful beaches, mossy mountains, the Mandela House and zebras, is a minute-long…
San Francisco-based producer Charlie Yin, who performs as Giraffage, keeps things playful, including his upbeat, electronic pop songs and R&B remixes. Scroll through his recent Facebook entries, and you’ll find a photo of Yin eating grapes, an announcement that he’s working on a new album, and stream-of-consciousness musings on his About page, including thoughts…
Last week, the Pretenders released the Dan Auerbach-produced album Alone, the band’s first album since 2008’s Break Up the Concrete. Fans who purchase the album at Twist & Shout (at the in-store register, not online) can get a wristband to see the Pretenders play an acoustic set at the store at 7…
Pop star Elle King passed through Denver last weekend and changed lives — not through her performance but through marriage. King, best known for her infectious 2015 single “Ex’s and Oh’s,” is currently playing a run of dates called the Ministry Tour, and she’s offered to officiate a wedding during…
The leaves are changing and temperatures are dropping, which can only mean that ski season is quickly approaching. And while skis and snowboards are getting dug out of closets and storage units all over the Front Range, the mountains are about to be alive with the sound of music.Yes even…
“We had been the good kids for so long, but I was so full of angst and pissed off, too.” These aren’t the words of a sullen teenager; this is Joel Madden admitting that he and the members of Good Charlotte were just as emo as the rest of us…
