Every First Friday, Open Media Foundation throws quite a party with Open Media Sessions, complete with a concert. Last month, PrettyMouth dominated the sessions stage. The moody Denver band says “Sinisterly” was perhaps the first PrettyMouth song ever recorded, and at the October 2 show viewers were treated to an…
Experimental and avant-garde music has been a significant part of the Denver music world since at least the early 1980s, despite a relative lack of attention in the press and certainly little airplay. Today, this city’s experimental music scene is far larger than you might expect. We’ve pulled together a…
Snow is falling, but don’t forget to take your chances on Rockygrass and Telluride Bluegrass lotteries before you lose your mind — and your batteries — stuck in I-70 ski season traffic. Although tickets for the festivals don’t go on sale until December, the 2016 lotteries for Telluride camping spaces…
The members of Yo La Tengo knew that the 25th anniversary of Fakebook, an acoustic-driven album largely made up cover songs, was approaching — and they also knew they didn’t want to wait as long as they usually do between albums. So they decided to follow up 2013’s Fade with Stuff…
This weekend’s concerts include shows by Bruce Cockburn, Don Byron, Juan Gabriel and AWOLNATION. Read on for the full list of our picks. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Bruce Cockburn$29.50-$39.50, 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater Sturgill Simpson $29.50/$35, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Don Byron Quartet $15, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m., Dazzle Pat Green …
Veteran music journalist and Denver-based author Steve Knopper, who will speak tonight at the Boulder Book Store, recently released his latest book MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson through Simon and Schuster. The current music-business editor at Rolling Stone, Knopper is a Colorado native and worked for several daily newspapers…
As a cold rain fell in Boulder last night, I walked into eTown Hall for the first time since eTown relocated from the Boulder Theater in 2012. Shame on me for previously only passing by the show’s incredible new setting, inside a renovated church that originally opened in 1922. eTown…
Globe Hall, a Texas-style smokehouse and dive bar in Globeville, started serving barbecue and pouring drinks yesterday, and will kick off its music programming in the attached music hall this weekend with free shows featuring Gasoline Lollipops and Casey James Prestwood & The Burning Angels on Friday, as well as Jen…
Philadelphia’s Beach Slang has spent the last few years writing songs that are so emotionally charged, raw, sincere and thoughtful that they transcend mere rock and roll. The name of the group’s latest record, The Things We Do to Find the People Who Feel Like Us, may be long —…
The members of The Milk Blossoms take turns when they talk – as the conversation circles the table, each musician makes space for the next one to speak. Five minutes into this exchange, it’s clear that Michelle Rocqet, Harmony Rose and Brent Larson are not only bandmates, they’re friends. Good…
Carrie Underwood will kick off The Storyteller Tour-Stories in the Round, her first tour “in the round,” in January; it will stop at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, March 29, and at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, March 30. Tickets for both shows go on sale…
It couldn’t be done, they said. It’ll be a blizzard, and kids will be sliding down the ramp, they warned. Well, surprise, surprise — it has yet to snow in the metro area and the first ever Red Rocks show on October 31 was held in beautiful, mid-50s degree weather…
Noise rock/no wave band CP-208 split last month. While that development may not be big news to anyone who didn’t like the band (or didn’t even know about it), the dissolution quietly marked the end of a certain era of underground music in Denver — because the band’s membership and…
Flaural is releasing its debut EP, Thin King, tomorrow at the Hi-Dive. It’s a project that’s come together relatively quickly: Until last year keyboardist Connor Birch, drummer Nick Berlin and guitarist Noah Pfaff were members of the promising indie rock outfit A Band In Pictures and singer/bassist Collin Johnson was…
With more new music being released today than ever before, people seeking to expand their music libraries can get overwhelmed. The sheer amount of content available on the internet is staggering — iTunes alone offers over 43 million songs! (Assuming that each of those songs averages four minutes, it would…
Renowned clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Don Byron, who recently moved to Denver from New York to be a full-time faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Department of Music, in the Jazz and American Improvised Music program, is showing his students the value of getting nerdy. “I’m talking about…
Prepare to have your brain rearranged by the soul-crushing doom of Windhand, Monolord and Danava, all playing at the Bluebird on November 4. This tour has been getting a lot of attention because of the unusual lineup: Windhand is signed to Relapse Records, and instead of playing with other bands from…
Tommie Phillips has one foot in the past and the other securely in the future. Having lived through the psychedelic sounds of the ’60s, the progressive rock of the ’70s, the revival of both in the ’90s and the death of numerous music formats and their subsequent resurrections, he’s seen…
Live concert/performance DVDs and videos are hardly a rarity these days, but while documentaries about a band, a performer or a musical scene are relatively common for large cities like Los Angeles and New York, they are few and far between in Colorado. But they do exist, and here are…
There are a lot of places where you can hear live music in Denver, but there was only one spot where you could hear everything from soul to funk to death metal at just about any hour, day and night: the practice space at 2200 Larimer Street. Built in 1904,…
The Southern gentleman, sharply dressed in a cobalt blue blazer, slacks and a starched, white-collared shirt, appeared in front of the blood-red curtains at the Gothic Theatre on All Hallows’ Eve, accompanied by a six-piece band that held more soul than a worn-out Texas riding boot. Leon Bridges, a 26-year-old…
