Concerts

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,…

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…

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…

Over the course of her 55-year-long storied music career, folksinger and activist Joan Baez has been fearless in standing up for what she believes in, both on stage and off. She marched with Martin Luther King Jr. on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, got arrested…

Be still, tween hearts across the Front Range. No, really, be still. Charlie Puth, the pop singer-songwriter behind the single “Marvin Gaye” and the hook of massive Wiz Khalifa hit “See You Again,” has fallen ill and cancelled the rest of his current tour — including his scheduled show on…

The musicians of duo In the Whale have established a bit of a reputation as road dogs over the years. Based out of Denver — when they are not living on the road — the two have risen in the ranks of the local rock scene, while inciting some controversial accusations…

On Friday, November 4, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will feature musical guests the Hang Rounders and comedian Timmi Lasley. Last month, the October 2016 Open Music Session welcomed Jux County, a band recently profiled in Westword and self-described as “punktry.”…

While there are a pair of huge shows at the Pepsi Center — Tool and Stevie Nicks — this week, there are a lot of other shows on tap this week that are just as worthy, whether it be Nelly, Margo Price, Meshuggah, Marillion or LVL UP. See our full list…

Last weekend, MartyParty’s fast set rocked the otherwise laid-back Block Festival in downtown Denver, and afterward, Westword got to chat with Martin David Folb, the sole DJ behind MartyParty and one half of the duo known as Pantyraid. MartyParty, which Folb describes as “drum and bass, which has now turned into halftime…

While there’s a diverse lineup of acts performing this weekend, tonight is particularly varied, with Shpongle, Straight No Chaser, Esme Patterson, John Gorka and LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang. Also on tap are Elle King at the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, Schoolboy Q at the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, and Five Finger…

On October 23, rapper Joey Bada$$ is playing at the Fillmore Auditorium with Schoolboy Q. But if you can’t make it out, you can always catch him on season two of Mr. Robot, in which Joey plays the philosophical, Seinfeld-obsessed sidekick to main character Elliot. The role garnered him some…

Roger Waters, who performed The Wall at the Pepsi Center in 2012, brings his Us + Them tour to the venue on Saturday, June 3. The show will include classic Pink Floyd material, new songs and solo work. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 21, at 10 a.m. Kings of…

On Monday, October 3, a motley crew gathered at Syntax Physic Opera for happy-hour drinks and industry talk. But this wasn’t your typical after-work wind-down: It was the ninth installment of the Colorado Music Collective. The room was filled with members of Denver’s independent music community, including bookers, publicists, festival…

Just over a year after the folks at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom took over the Aggie Theatre, they entered into a joint venture with fellow independent promoter Soda Jerk Presents (who operate the Summit Music Hall, Marquis Theatre, Moon Room and the Black Sheep) to take over another venue in downtown Fort…