Music

Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and seven other members of the disability rights group ADAPT have begun a sit-in at Cory Gardner’s office, today, June 27. The group is demanding that the Republican senator vote against the GOP-led health-care bill that would replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act…

“The most useful thing we can do as humans is to die, be put in the forest and let the forest floor eat us away and later create new life.”

Ebenezer Yebuah, better known by his artist name Mawule, learned at a young age that it is important to make time for what you love.

R&B outfit En Vogue emerged in the 1990s, back when bands like TLC and Destiny’s Child were ruling the mainstream charts.

Another edition of the Westword Music Showcase has come and gone. As the beats still pound in our heads, the crowd’s cheers echo, a few words from Anthony Ruptak are still ringing too. The singer-songwriter thanked the people listening at 100% de Agave for purchasing a ticket to Showcase and for supporting local music. We couldn’t agree with him more.

In the last year, Denver’s indie-folk trio Edison has been on a seemingly meteoric rise to the top of the local scene. The band started playing together in late 2014, after singer/guitarist Sarah Slaton met drummer and multi-instrumentalist Dustin Morris when she was opening up a tour with his previous band.

When he answers the phone to talk to Westword, Pyn Doll, lead guitarist for the Greek rock band Barb Wire Dolls, sounds like a man who is both worn to a frazzle and spilling over with excitement.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.

Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.