There was a time when Mikey Smith would show up with his keyboard to the Meadowlark’s Monday-night jazz jam not knowing if he’d have a drummer to play with. Now there are nights when nine or ten different drummers show up, each hoping they’ll have a chance to play more…
Band reunions and reincarnations can get downright weird. We’ve only got ourselves to blame. Really, this shit is nobody’s fault but our own. The most hardcore of the hardcore music fans are like an even more twisted Dr. Frankenstein, because we won’t accept death. We’re just not having it, and…
This weekend, beginning Friday, April 22, the annual Fort Collins Music Experience, or FoCoMx, will take place across numerous venues in downtown Fort Collins. You can find out more information on the event and buy tickets at the FoCoMx website as well as scope the complete lineup. While there are a…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work…
What is Denver hip-hop? What does it sound like and what does it stand for? There is a lot of discussion surrounding these questions, trying to pin labels on the Colorado hip-hop community. While definitive answers are in short supply, talent is not. As an introduction, here are nine hip-hop…
We are pleased to debut the release of the new video for the song “Desert Minded” by Fort Collins-based rock band Slow Caves. The song will be issued on the band’s upcoming EP of the same name on the Grouphug imprint. Slow Caves, nominated for a 2016 Westword Music Award,…
“Internal fixation.” That’s how Axl Rose’s good-looking foot specialist Dr. Rachel Triche described the lead-singer’s broken foot on April 8. Her ESPN-esque medical update, in which she sat in front of all her various credentials, was both great reality TV and evidence of Team GNR’s belief that rock & roll…
Randall Frazier has long been a staple of the Denver music scene as an artist with experimental electronic/space rock band Orbit Service and, for the past eight years, as the production manager and talent buyer at Walnut Room. In those capacities, Frazier turned the venue into arguably the best-sounding small…
While we put together a guide to 4/20 concerts last week, we’ve included some shows here as well as some other favorites for the week including the legendary South African singer Johnny Clegg at the Boulder Theater tonight and ABC’s Nashville in Concert at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow night that…
Of all the electronic gear crowded onto the Coachella Stage Friday night for LCD Soundsystem’s headlining set, the most eye-catching was not an instrument, but a digital clock. (OK, maybe it wasn’t as visually arresting as the massive disco ball that slowly rose over the stage during opening song “Us…
DJ EZ hails from Tottenham, North London, where for the past twenty years he’s been crucial in developing “UK garage,” an uptempo, sample heavy form of house music. His Pure Garage compilations, first released in 2000, have sold over two million copies, helping the genre gain a wider audience. At…
Flosstradamus, the electronic-music duo made of up artists J2K (Josh Young) and Autobot (Curt Cameruci) has been influencing the electronic scene since its inception more than ten years ago. The trouble-making duo are no strangers to the demon’s mouth that is popular music, having been chewed up, spit out, and…
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame honors 20th Century Pioneers on Saturday at the Glenn Miller Ballroom, including music by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Lannie Garrett. Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne help get the 4/20 festivities kicked off on Saturday at 4/20 Rally at Civic Center park while Holy…
Iron Maiden formed in 1975, meaning that last year the band turned forty. So how is it, pray tell, that guitarist Janick Gers is still stretching his leg up to the top of his amp stack with alarming regularity? How is it that they all still appear to be in…
[Tucker Gumber, aka “The Festival Guy,” has been to over 90 festivals and written a book, Festival Thrower’s Bible, about how to make them an optimal experience. He is also the creator of the FestEvo festival resource app for fans. Ahead of Coachella, L.A. Weekly asked him to share some of…
April 16 is Record Store Day, the day of the year when people are supposed to celebrate the culture surrounding independent record stores. According to the Record Store Day website, the idea was raised at a gathering of record store owners back in 2007, and ultimately turned into a real…
More than two years after the Monkey Barrel opened at 1611 Platte, the bar and live-music venue is closing the location at the end of April as the building is slated to be demolished in June to make way for an office building. There will be one final bash at…
Coldplay brings its A Head Full of Dreams tour to the Pepsi Center on Monday, August 29. Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara opens the show. Tickets (29.50-$179.50) go on sale on Friday, April 15 at 10 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium announced its summer concert series, which includes Ziggy Marley, Trevor Hall, Gregory Porter,…
For decades, Iron Maiden has been a crew of pioneers in heavy metal, so it should come as no surprise that the band continues to literally pilot its own plane. The English rockers perform at the Pepsi Center tonight on its current The Book of Souls World Tour, and landed…
This might come as a shock to many of the citizens in Denver but 4/20 ISN’T ABOUT YOU. The infamous date has gotten a lot of flack lately, mostly in the argument that it has become overrun with commercialization. Everyone is trying to capitalize off of the plant in every…
In 1967, when producer Tony Visconti first met a young David Bowie, in the office of David Platz, head of London-based publishing company Essex Music, the first thing Visconti did was stare into Bowie’s eyes, which appeared to be two different colors. “I didn’t know which one to look at,”…
Okay, so you blew your tax refund on a ticket to Coachella. How do you make these the best three days of your life while on a budget? It’s not easy. Last year, writer Marc Ballon asked a bunch of people how the hell they afforded Coachella. Most estimated they…
