I had been waiting more than twenty years to see Pearl Jam live, and last fall, the time had finally come: I was going to see Seattle’s finest at the final weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. It was worth the wait. Eddie Vedder drank a bottle of…
We’ve got a brief in-house update for you: Tickets for Artopia, which is Westword’s annual event celebrating the city’s art, culture and fashion, get a little more expensive starting tomorrow. Right now, you can get them for $25. What you’re getting, specifically, is admission to City Hall, where we’ll have…
The show was exactly an hour in length — it may not have been intentional, but Nika Rosa Danilova snuck onto the stage at the Bluebird Theater last night at 9:15 p.m. sharp and tumbled her way off at exactly 10:15 p.m. It felt short, but it was enough –…
The first time Bill Frisell played a jazz tune on guitar in public was at a talent show during his junior year at East High School, in 1967. He wasn’t even the featured performer; the school’s band director, Vincent Tagliavore, asked him to learn Wes Montgomery’s “Bumpin’ on Sunset” to…
Sometimes it seems like it’s all about connections. After the members of Caramel Carmela linked up in 2009 and began playing together, a network of old friends proved valuable in helping the band get better gigs. “We played a bunch of our first shows with Saige, and I had gone…
One Sunday not too long ago, the homie Jayce “FL” Cabell and I went to South Broadway to see Slick Rick at 3 Kings Tavern. We arrived in the area around nine o’clock and burdened a pipe with broken-down marijuana crumbs before drifting toward our destination. Rarely do I smoke…
The Lumineers are unquestionably Colorado’s biggest musical success story of the last few years. The Americana outfit is therefore a fitting headliner for tonight’s concert celebrating the inauguration of governor John Hickenlooper, who is starting is second term. Hickenlooper is a longtime fan of the band and a slew of…
Deep Club has been throwing some of the most tastefully curated parties of recent years featuring experimental electronic dance music. Modeled in part on the raves of the ’90s and choice clubs showcasing that music in the U.S. and Europe, a Deep Club event is welcoming but intimate. Currently, the…
Tweedy, which features Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer, headline the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday, March 28 in support of their debut, Sukierae, which was released last September on Wilco’s dBpm imprint. The first part of the show includes songs from the new album and Tweedy…
[jump] Editor’s note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an ’80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver’s work in his new book YOUTH IS WASTED. Last week’s THRILLING episode of Rufus…
Who’s Bad, the traveling tribute show to the King of Pop himself stopped by the Ogden Theatre Saturday night. Jackson himself will, for obvious reasons, never play the intimate Ogden, but fans got to glimpse what it might be like thanks to the tribute act. Our photographer was there, and…
Editor:The O’s are an Americana band comprising Taylor Young and John Pedigo. Like many of the other 50 artists on the Steamboat Springs MusicFest lineup (and many of its 6,000 attendees), they are from Texas. They will be documenting their first experience at the festival for Westword. There will be…
via Stapp’s official websiteMental illness isn’t funny, you jerks.In case you haven’t been flooded with hundreds of cheering reposts on your social-media feeds, Scott Stapp is having a hard time. When bad things happen, people laugh. Whether it’s out of some sort of genuine happiness for the pain of someone…
If Edith Lake Wilkinson of Provinceton, Massachusetts, were alive today, her life would have turned out differently. Instead, Wilkinson was born in 1868 and worked tirelessly to even study art as a woman. By 1925, the struggle got the best of her, and she was committed to a mental asylum…
This week’s best shows include Paul Collins (formerly of the Nerves) at the hi-dive with his new-ish band, the Beat. That should be a great one — same with Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake on Thursday. The rest of our picks follow. See also: 50 Ways to Support…
After a slow week following the New Year’s Eve festivities, this weekend brings a solid slate of shows to Denver. The Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony is tonight, and you’ve got two chances to see the legendary Rosanne Cash. The rest of our picks follow! See also: Ten…
Editor:The O’s are an Americana band comprising Taylor Young and John Pedigo. Like many of the other 50 artists on the Steamboat Springs MusicFest lineup (and many of its 6,000 attendees), they are from Texas. They will be documenting their first experience at the festival for Westword. There will be…
FoCoMX, a massive annual music festival in Fort Collins, will stop accepting applications for bands hoping to play the 2015 event on Sunday, January 11. The festival takes place over two days in April. The 2014 festival brought out some 130 bands, including The Yawpers, Wiredogs, Wendy Woo band, The…
Old Curtis St. Bar has given way to The Curtis Club. Before shutting its doors in 2012, Old Curtis St. Bar was a host to an eclectic schedule of shows starting around 2003, when Kosta Razatos brought live music regularly into the long-running family business. An anecdote that serves as…
In 2011, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s first inductees were John Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Since then, local legends like Judy Collins, Barry Fey, Sugarloaf, Flash Cadillac, Serendipity Singers and others have been welcomed into the Hall. This year’s class includes the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Poco, Firefall…
Editor:The O’s are an Americana band comprising Taylor Young and John Pedigo. Like many of the other 50 artists on the Steamboat Springs MusicFest lineup (and many of its 6,000 attendees), they are from Texas. They will be documenting their first experience at the festival for Westword. There will be…
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That was very much the case Monday night when Leighton Peterson, half of Denver’s Safe Boating is No Accident was the victim of a house fire. He and his roommate lost pretty much everything. But both of them (and Peterson’s dog) are fine…
