We didn’t have too many lowlights at Coachella this year, but a few minor annoyances and major bummers did stand out. Let us vent about a few them right now. Those EDM Headliner Billboards It would be nice to at least wait until setting foot on the festival grounds to…
Sierra Blackford really wanted to go to Coachella. But it wasn’t easy. The 23-year-old Hawaiian singer-songwriter juggled three jobs as a waitress, playing gigs at local bars and working in a slipper store to save enough for her concert tickets, heavily discounted airfare (she knows somebody in the industry), camping…
It’s 4/20 week, and while we locals may not care, the rest of the country certainly seems to. Or at least, that’s the conclusion we must draw from this week’s concert calendar, which gives a hint of the insanity in store for this coming weekend. Check out artists ranging from…
Luke Thinnes has had quite the developmental musical arc since he got out of high school just a few years ago. One of his old bands, the avant-garde As I Call “Triumph!” Into the Sun, was a promising act. The drone/atmosphere-driven sleepdial was always compelling. But with French Kettle Station,…
Contrary to what you might have heard, Coachella is more than just a fashion parade for B-list celebrities and trust fund kids. It also still features music! Here are reviews and recaps of some of the first weekend’s most memorable sets, from Jack White, Run the Jewels, FKA Twigs, Steely…
It was shortly after Charles Bradley’s stellar Friday afternoon set. Four coffees sat heavy in my bladder and had already spent our meager per diem on 2.5 beers. It was time to break the seal. When used for their intended purpose, port-a-potties are hardly a pleasant experience for either sex…
This weekend’s best concerts include the North Mississippi Allstars, Felabration, the Used and more. See all our picks below. North Mississippi Allstars $22.75 9 p.m., Friday, Ogden Theatre Great White $15 7 p.m., Friday, Casselman’s Bar & Venue Felabration $12.50/$15 8:30 p.m., Friday, Fox Theatre The Deer $10 7 p.m., Friday, The Walnut Room…
There’s a healthy amount of ironic distance involved in the output of Father John Misty. But for all the puns and technicolor illustrations and general Wes Anderson-ness of J. Tillman’s music, there’s no denying that he puts himself, heart and soul, completely into it. There’s plenty of proof, but you…
[Columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] Coachella has thrived long enough to generate its own clichés: the bros named Sioux watching Warpaint wearing war paint; the candy…
With the massive three-day festival less than a week away, we’ve decided to create this quiz to help you get in touch with your inner Coachella stereotype. A you a burner? A bro? A VIPrima donna? Don’t be afraid to embrace out your festie identity. See you on the polo…
STS9 returns to Red Rocks for at two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday, September 11 & Saturday, September 12, which will be the band’s seventeenth and eighteenth performances at the venue in the past dozen years, and one night at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, September 10. General admission tickets are…
There are dance clubs that host dance parties all the time — every weekend night. Those are great. Some of them do that really well, to the point that an entire culture develops around those nights, those parties. People wait in long lines in the freezing cold in very few…
For Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday celebration, local jazz vocalist Venus Cruz saw an opportunity to honor both the icon’s role in American history and jazz’s place in Denver’s story. This Saturday, April 11, Cruz and a group of fellow musicians will pay tribute to Holiday inside the Great Hall at…
It really does take many kinds of people to make a world, some good, some bad. And then there’s the really bad, and the ugly. And now that Coachella is upon us once again, we’re reminded of the ugliest types of people to be stuck in a blazing desert with,…
Last September, we told you that the Rockies were considering a full-fledged concert series, where bands would play on the new Rooftop before certain home games. That series has become The Rooftop Live! presented by Hard Rock Café, and it will feature local bands performing before nine games throughout the course…
The Colorado Chatuaqua is the state’s oldest music venue — it opened in 1898 in the shadow of the Flatirons. This year, Chatuaqua will celebrate its 118th summer concert series with a particularly strong lineup: Steve Earle & the Dukes, Ziggy Marley, Michael McDonald, Indigo Girls and plenty more —…
It began with a book: Girls to the Front, by Sara Marcus. After a fellow musician gave David Castillo the book, which chronicles the rise and influence of the riot grrrl movement, he was inspired to make a zine. The zine never happened, but the idea became a band called…
I met Felix Ayodele (aka Fast4Ward) through a small DJ circle when he moved to Colorado twelve years ago. Every week, fellow musician Jacob Sanders and I visited Ayodele’s music shack behind his house, and the three of us would seize whatever instruments were close by, huddling over an eight-track…
The guys in Homebody pulled into Boise, Idaho, for the Treefort Music Fest on Wednesday, March 25. On paper, the drive from Denver to Boise is roughly eleven hours, but it really takes more like thirteen-plus if you choose to take I-70 instead of I-25 out of Colorado. Why make…
Who says a rock star has to be real to be awesome? With all of the movies, books and songs about the music industry (or otherwise featuring fake bands), there’s a wide range of fictional musicians to love. Unlike real musicians, they’ll never let you down by putting out a…
Writing a book is hard. Writing a book on something that happened thirty years ago when you’re half way across the world is harder. But for Bob Medina, finding a way to archive and share the Denver punk scene of the ’80s while spending most of his time teaching in…
Colorado Springs is just over an hour by car from Denver, but that has often been enough to prevent too much cross pollination in music between the two cities. Still, anyone willing to make the trip from Denver to check out shows or to catch a Springs band knows that…
