Concerts

Scott McCormick likes to talk about the time that Denver musician Sawmill Joe almost cut off his own finger.

A brief cartoon history of Pirate Gallery

It was a long journey for Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie, the electronic duo now known as Bob Moses, to start making music together.

Alice Cooper, who has a new album coming out next month, returns to the Paramount Theatre tonight, while Punch Brothers are playing at Chautauqua Auditorium tonight and Denver Botanic Gardens tomorrow.

In 2012, Ryan Winnen, drummer for Nashville’s breakout indie-pop sensation COIN, found himself playing at “an arguably intolerable volume” in a dorm room with two of his Belmont University schoolmates.

By the time Jack DeJohnette and his family moved from Manhattan to the Hudson River Valley in the early ‘70s, the masterful jazz drummer had worked with Bill Evans and Charles Lloyd and recorded with Miles Davis on albums, including the 1970 jazz-rock watershed release, Bitches Brew.

Metallica is no Justin Bieber. The band’s vision of the world is introspective and couched in mass violence — the sort of horror perpetrated by big bombs, big armies and big nations. It’s the music of post-traumatic stress disorder.

In any city with a vibrant music scene, there is a cornucopia of monthly events catering to various tastes. Denver is no different, and while many more monthly events could have been included in this list, these are thirteen of the best going down each and every month in 2017.

With thirty-million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty is headed to Denver to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.

Westword has released a ticket bundle called the Showcase Squad Pack, four tickets to our annual music showcase for only $220, a savings of $40.

Road-trip tips from touring musicians, J. Hamilton Isaacs and Kevin Greenspon.

Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist.

A brief cartoon history of City, O’ City.

Denver folk singer turned soul sensation Nathaniel Rateliff will be returning to the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

Kyle McQueen, a gifted multi-instrumentalist and bass player for Denver psychedelic-rock band Ancient Elk, died May 6, 2017, a day after his 22nd birthday. His accidental death signaled an abrupt end to a promising music career. Friends and peers say he was a gentle soul who pushed people to do…

Visual music platform Boiler Room has announced its first-ever Denver episode.

Thirty years in, Colorado blues-rock group Big Head Todd and the Monsters has established itself as one of the state’s more successful, if not persistent, musical exports.

Indie/roots band Dispatch might have its origins in Vermont and it might be based in Boston now, but singer, guitarist and percussionist Brad Corrigan is from right here in Denver.

Denver synth-pop darling Retrofette, which will be playing the Westword Music Showcase on Saturday, June 24, will be releasing a music video for its dancey track “Skeletons,” June 9, at Fort Greene.

It’s a big week for music with Metallica at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull at Pepsi Center, John Mellencamp at Fiddler’s Green, Modest Mouse at the Fillmore Auditorium, Bush at the Paramount Theatre and Phoenix at Red Rocks.