US Air Force cadet Brett Hagen has big dreams, so he rounded up his particularly agreeable friends and re-wrote “Shake it Off” in order to ask its original singer, Taylor Swift, to be his date to a dance. Specifically, he wants to bring her to the 2016 USAFA Ring Dance,…
The Underground Music Showcase launches on Thursday, July 23 and runs through Sunday, July 26 in various venues, from as far north as 6th Avenue to Alameda. The yearly festival, originated by the Denver Post, brings together a huge array of local and touring bands, and the event as a whole…
Mac Miller and Action Bronson team up for the first every Halloween show at Rocks on Saturday, October 31. Flatbush Zombies, Tory Lanez, Goldlink and Domo are also on the bill. General admission tickets ($39.99) go on sale on Friday, July 24 at 10 a.m. Nearly five decades after the…
Everybody knows the haiku formula: three lines — five syllables, then seven, then five — and some shit about nature. Boom. Haiku. Of course, there’s a little more to it than that. At its essence, each a haiku is a shifting picture, a series of three images that color each…
Riot Fest is a little over a month away. The lineup includes some monster names (Iggy Pop, Run DMC, etc.), but you don’t necessarily have to go in for the whole thing in order to get a sampling. Today, the organization announced a series of after-shows, featuring artists like Rancid,…
For a year and a half, Kaji was mostly a secret band that singer Kevin Gentry was developing. Kaji’s debut show, on January 30, 2015, at Syntax Physic Opera, unveiled a fully formed project, with guest musicians and backup singers. Without any official promotion, just word of mouth among friends,…
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver has a particularly gorgeous rooftop, one that comprises plants, downtown views and a charming cafe. For the past few summers, the MCA has brought musicians and patrons together in that space for a small concert series. This year’s set of shows, dubbed the B-Side…
In Savvi Neufer’s kitchen is a large plastic tub with everything she needs to cook a meal at a moment’s notice: spices, baking powder, Ziploc bags, cookie cutters, olive oil, cutting boards, corkscrews, boxes of rice, paper plates and more. The tub is nearly as big as she is, so…
One of the biggest metal events of the year is the Denver Black Sky Fest, held at the Gothic Theater. In the past, big metal festivals have been relegated to the coasts, but the metal scene in Denver is blossoming into its own beast. So it is only fitting that Denver…
In a concert season that continues to expand, Red Rocks Amphitheatre has officially announced its first-ever Halloween show on October 31, featuring headliners Mac Miller and Action Bronson, with Flatbush Zomies, Tory Lanez, GoldLink, Domo Genesis. Tickets will be available for purchase this Friday July 24 at 10:00 a.m., starting…
If you grew up watching Headbanger’s Ball every weekend, it’s impossible not to associate the term “pop metal” with unequivocal shills like Slaughter, Trixter and Firehouse. It says a lot about how crotchety the international metal scene is now — and how heavy the music has become — that a…
Global Dance Festival took over Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the weekend — it’s the last true, unapologetic rave at this historic frontier. EDM lovers brought the heat, the light up swords, and the cannabis. The artists sets are stacked one on top of another, not giving the audience members time…
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock officially kicks off his second term today with a series of inaugural events. The day starts with a swearing-in ceremony at 11 a.m. and ends with a party at the Denver Botanic Gardens featuring a performance from legendary new jack swing group Bell Biv DeVoe. There…
There were serious Denver connections at this weekend’s Melvins show. Andrew Novick did one of his GetYourGoing slide shows to start off the night. The affable and intelligent Novick can be found at all sorts of events, including his own a pop-up ramen shop, a Beyond Thunderdome-themed party and —…
Good Old War took a high-energy and lively crowd at the Bluebird Theater and, by the end, transformed it into a quiet and transfixed audience that hung on the band’s every word. The Philadelphia trio managed this by playing a show full of carefully written pop songs that are poignant…
ALL WEEKEND Global Dance Festival$99-$210 6:00PM Red Rocks Amphitheatre Winter Park Jazz Festival$25-$75 12:00PM Hideaway Park FRIDAY, JULY 17 Darius Rucker$25-$99.50 7:00PM Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre Jurassic 5$35-$40 9:00PM Ogden Theatre The Melvins$17/$20 8:00PM Summit Music Hall BLKHRTS$6 8:00PM Herman’s Hideaway Heems$15 9:00PM Larimer Lounge SATURDAY, JULY 18 The Fray$30-$99.50 7:00PM…
I loved you, iTunes. I loved you, and you betrayed me. You and your evil, malformed henchman, the iCloud, have trashed my 20,000-track music library and I don’t know what to do. I admit, I adopted you reluctantly at first — I was proud of my CD collection, and those…
Death Cab for Cutie, playing its first tour without founding guitarist Chris Walla, stopped at Red Rocks earlier this week. After an opening set by tUnE-yArDs, the legendary band proved it still had plenty of power. Photographer Miles Chrisinger was there to capture the scene — check out a few of…
As I stood at the concession stand in the bottom of some nameless suburban movie megaplex wasteland before seeing Amy last weekend, a guy behind me in line said, “who wants to see a movie about a woman who drinks herself to death?” I had to restrain myself. I —…
After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in the late ‘90s, Pat Bianchi moved to Denver and started a decade-long run playing organ and piano at local clubs like El Chapultepec and Herb’s. But in 2008, Bianchi, a Rochester native, moved back east to New York City. Instead of…
Umphrey’s McGee will be at the Fillmore Auditorium for a three-day New Year’s run on Wednesday, December 30, Thursday, December 31 and Saturday, January 2. The band is also planning to announce a one-of-a-kind show on January 1. KBCO and Live Nation pre-sale starts Thursday, July 16 and tickets ($37.50-$80)…
The inaugural Bluebird District Music Festival hit East Colfax last weekend, and if you weren’t there, you missed three days of insane local talent. We were there, wandering the wickedest street and taking in all the music. Here’s what we thought of BDMF, volume one: 1. Lost Lake is the…
