Temple Nightclub, which launched ten years ago in San Francisco and opened its second location in Denver in October, will debut LVL, a second, smaller room, on New Year’s Eve, that will spotlight house and bass music on alternating nights.
In the wake of a 2006 hostage crisis at Platte Canyon High School, music helped teachers and students heal.
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club played the night Y2K arrived and soothsayers had predicted the world would end. Lord Dwight Pentacost explains what happened
The November Open Music Session welcomed Wildermiss, a band whose members say on their Facebook page that, for the better part of the past year, they’ve been quietly taking Denver by storm.
Little girls smudged with makeup awoke from Katy Perry dreams across Denver today, plotting to skip school. Their parents stumbled into work, if they didn’t play hookie themselves. They’re all surely mentally hungover from Perry’s concert, so entertaining that her messages were hidden in the fun.
Colorado Music Hall of Fame will induct jazz and classical music performer Charles Burrell, the first person of color to play in the Denver Symphony.
Here are the best bets for concerts happening around Denver this week.
Last week, Westword wrote about DJ Jason Heller’s monthly anti-Trump dance party benefiting the ACLU called 45s Against 45. Some readers oppose the idea of the party, either arguing that it was stupid or ineffective, while others outright loath DJs.
Pile of Priests is bringing its anti-religion death metal to Lost Lake Lounge on Friday, November 24.
Katy Perry, GWAR, Leftover Salmon and Jewel are among the best musical acts playing Denver Thanksgiving weekend.
The Denver music scene is often touted as a network that balances ambition with frequent shows of kindness, whether that means putting on benefits for medical expenses, banding together for DIY festivals, or simply showing up for all-local shows.
GWAR is coming to Denver, with sexual harassment and killing President Donald Trump on the spoof metal band’s mind.
Do a good deed and have a great time at American Gothic 2017, a benefit for artist Steve Gordon
Tyson Murray, of the Railbenders, talks about the disaster that was his first concert.
Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductee Dianne Reeves remembers her encounter with Ella Fitzgerald, her years at George Washington High School, and the musicians who influenced her.
Philip Bailey, Larry Dunn and Andrew Woolfolk of Earth Wind & Fire honed their musical chops at Denver’s East High School. It was the first place that Bill Frisell performed a jazz song on guitar in public. And when trumpeter Ron Miles was at East, he played his first solo.
The music industry has long been dominated by white men. To open space for other voices, Denver musicians Elinor Saragoussi and Jacob Cohen, aka Rooster Jake, compiled and self-published New Angles: Perspectives of Women, Queer and Gender Non-Binary Members of the Greater Music Community.
The dance party 45s Against 45 uses seven-inch records to fight Donald Trump’s administration and raise funds for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Morrissey and the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are sending his concertgoers a pro-vegetarian message, starting tonight, November 20, at his show at Denver’s Paramount Theatre.
Leftover Salmon is bringing its annual post-Thanksgiving Day shows to the Boulder Theater, and this year, the musicians say they may offer up some surprises.
Looking for live music Thanksgiving week? Here are the best concerts in Denver.
Readers continue to debate whether Denver audiences are the worst in the country…or among the best.
