Widespread Panic returns to Red Rocks for three nights (Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28) and will also perform at the two-day Ride Festival (Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12) in Telluride that also includes Gov’t Mule, Jonny Lang, Trigger Hippy, North Mississippi Allstars, The Temperance Movement and more…
Editor’s note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an 80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver’s work in his new book SAINT COLE from Fantagraphics books. Last Week’s Episode Of Rufus…
The Sloths will make its Denver debut on Tuesday, March 10th at the Hi-Dive. Early purveyors of California garage rock in the mid-1960s when its members were teenagers, The Sloths in its earliest incarnation released a two-sided 45 of “Makin’ Love” and “You Mean Everything to Me” in 1965 and…
We did it! We survived our two-week winter! Now that it’s definitely, officially spring, get out and see a concert. There are plenty of good ones this week, including Talib Kweli at Cevantes’ and the start of Greensky Bluegrass’s three-night stand in Boulder. Monday, March 9 Misterwives $5-$13 8:00PM Bluebird…
Witch House started as a kind of joke between Travis Egedy of Pictureplane and his house music producing friend Shams in 2009. It was a reference to the darker electronic music that they and artists like Salem and Crystal Castles were making. Though, truly, the music wasn’t necessarily dark and…
Before essentially disappearing from live music in 2012 and quietly releasing its most recent album, Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time, in 2013, Candy Claws was one of the few bands around on a small budget that managed to create a genuine sense of the otherworldly with its music…
Over the last six months Scott Mattson and his wife Nicole have been transforming the building at 1330 27th Street from a warehouse-type space into Nocturne, a modern take on the 1940s jazz supper club, which opens to the public on Monday, March 9. Mattson, who graduated from Metro State…
“There was a time when there was a thriving music scene in Boulder. At least [there were] a lot of record stores and shows, places with interesting music,” says filmmaker Dan Schneidkraut, whose feature-length documentary Old Man — about his father, Andy Schneidkraut, and his iconic record shop, Albums on…
This weekend’s best concerts includes a pair of SXSW kickoff shows, the debut of Sound of Ceres and the return of Bleachers. See the rest of our picks below. Friday, March 6 Datsik $26 8:00PM Ogden Theatre Doomtree $20 9:00PM Gothic Theatre Mix Master Mike $10 9:00PM Beta Illegal Pete’s…
As musicians love to explain to anyone stupid enough to listen to them, organizing and playing shows can be a lot of work for little reward. In addition to wrangling multiple groups of morons in the same room at the same time, setting up shows also requires dealing with various…
Join us on Saturday, June 20, 2015, for the 21st Westword Music Showcase, featuring the inventive producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Flume as well as Austin psych-rock titan the Black Angles, pop genius Misterwives and over 100 more of the best bands and artists from Colorado and beyond on a dozen stages in Denver’s…
Some of the most prominent members of the Denver hip-hop scene came together at the Bluebird Theater last night for a spotlight performance of the 3hree Project. Spearhead by Denver Promoter Francois Baptiste and born out of KMG studios, the 3hree Project vision started in late 2013. Over a year…
While inches of snow accumulated in Denver earlier this week, the evening becoming a quiet, the city felt quaint and the Bluebird Theatre was accosted by the guttural sounds of a pair of Detroit and New York’s finest, who combined form PRhyme. DJ Premier and Royce da 5’9 come from…
Musicians Daisy Mauterer and Brian Weikel live in a quiet Fort Collins neighborhood with bright street lights, lawns separating one property from the other and neat driveways. After returning from a gig around 2 a.m. recently, the couple chose sleep over unloading their packed CR-V. In the morning, when they went…
Joshua Fairman and Jordan Linit have been playing music together since they were thirteen. In middle school, their parents would drop them off at Blues Bars with state-issued papers giving the teenagers permission to play music in an adult venue. Then, the boys would go home and listen to their…
When keyboardist and singer Mark Shusterman, bassist and singer Rhett Rogers, guitarist Alex Eschen and drummer Scott Beck first formed the Blue Rider four years ago, the band was doing a lot of covers of soul and R&B songs from the late ’50s and early ’60s, with some psychedelic stuff…
In its brief run, Fort Collins band Candy Claws made quite the mark, in Colorado and elsewhere. In fact, in the short time that Candy Claws was active, the duo of Karen McCormick and Ryan Hover earned a fan base big enough to include Ben Phelan, John Ferguson and Robert…
The house calls are always the hardest. You don’t know what’s going to be in there. It could be a conservative dinner party, a room full of wasted bachelorettes or (worst-case scenario) a single unsuspecting person, home alone. The house Nic Hammerberg has just pulled up to doesn’t have any…
When you’re a musician, the place you grow up in has a huge impact on the type of music you write and the message you convey to the rest of the world. The Ramones talked about the chaotic struggle of living in New York and doing anything to get by in…
Doomtree appears this Friday, March 6th, at the Gothic Theatre. The septet has for more than a decade been one of the most exciting and innovative hip-hop crews in the country. Hailing from Minneapolis, the seven members of Doomtree grew up in the same metropolitan area that produced Atmosphere and…
Damien Rice and Iron & Wine team will be at Red Rocks on Monday, August 10, and tickets ($45-$65) go on sale on Friday, March 6 at 10 a.m. Country start Dierks Bentley headlines the Sounds of Summer Tour at Fiddler’s Green on Thursday, August 13, with Kip Moore, Maddie &…
Editor’s note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an ’80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver’s work in his new book SAINT COLE from Fantagraphics books. Last Week’s episode of Rufus Baxter!…
