Billy Joel and Elton John, both legendary pop singers and pianists, have been on their Face 2 Face tour since March will visit the Pepsi Center Sunday, November 22. After opening the show with a series of duets, each playing pianos and trading vocals, Joel and John will play sets…
It’s rare to see a flier for a dance-music event that’s this elegant and understated. Fliers for what used to be called raves relied heavily on abstract CGI imagery, eye-scorching color schemes and faux-clever drug/pop culture references to grab one’s attention. None of that is on display here. Instead we…
Update: Manchester Orchestra is playing on Friday night at Club 156 in Boulder. Andy Hull’s solo project, Right Away, Great Captain is slated to open. Tonight will mark the first time the two have performed together. Bad news for those expecting to see Manchester Orchestra, the subject of this week’s…
It’s all about the image. This week’s flier sports a warped, neo-psychedelic visual that takes us back to the days of drawing out our drug-inspired visions on our high-school math notebooks. Except, we weren’t nearly this good, and we drew a lot more dragons and shit. In any case, the…
Emmylou Harris, who was inducted into the Country Music of Hall of Last Year, visits the Macky Auditorium Friday, November 20 in support of her latest effort, All I Intended to Be. Buddy Miller, who backed up Robert Plant and Allison Krauss last year at Red Rocks, opens the show…
Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s Fame Kills tour, which was just announced on Monday, has been canceled. The tour was to include a stop at the Pepsi Center on December 2 and tickets were scheduled to go on sale Saturday, October 3. There’s no word yet on why the tour…
Update: Drag just added another show at the Triple Nickle in Colorado Springs (JJ Nobody’s place) on Thursday, October 8. This one appears to be without Slim Cessna, though.This one has all the makings of a Mile High classic. Two stellar bands, each a headliner on its own, on the…
It’s not always artful images or striking use of typography that catches our eye for a flier of the week. No, sometimes it’s just something simple, comforting and downright inviting — something like this grade-school arts-and-crafts flier for Paper Bird’s upcoming date at the Boulder Theatre this Friday, October 2…
Kanye West and Lady Gaga are taking their 34-city Fame Kills tour on the road, and that includes a stop at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, December 2. Word has it that the two, who share equal billing on the tour, will integrate their performances. Ticket run from $39 to…
The kind of quasi-military design seen here seems to be gaining popularity these days. Perhaps that’s a reflection of the militaristic times we live in, or maybe it just fits the feel of dubstep, which is also gaining popularity. Or maybe it’s just that big-ass guns and the heavy metal…
This week wasn’t quite as insane with show announcements as last week, but we did still get the line on a fair amount of decent gigs. The Fiery Furnaces, touring in support of its eighth album, I’m Going Away, will stop at the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, November 24. Tickets…
Update: Just received word that the Pixies added a second show on Tuesday, November 17 at the Fillmore. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, September 26 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased directly at the Fillmore box office, online at LiveNation.com or by phone at 1-877-598-6659. [original post: 07/28/09]…
Coming off a pretty impressive summer of high profile Colorado appearances, including a return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival, a packed tent at Mile High Music Festival and a stop at Red Rocks with the Allman Brothers, acoustic jam band Railroad Earth could almost call Colorado their second home. Add in…
Bold abstraction is the order of the day on this week’s top flier design. The interlocking lines and squiggles on this bold, largely black and white flier come together to strongly suggest circuit boards, computer parts and other high-tech concerns. The big circle puts me in mind of a record…
It’s been an insanely busy week of concert announcements that run the gamut from King Kahn & BBQ Show and Melt-Banana, Wolfmother and Ghostland Observatory to Stone Temple Pilots, Insane Clown Posse and Kevin Smith (yep, Silent Bob himself will speak). Steely Dan fans might get a bit giddy to…
As we reported in July, the Pixies will visit the Fillmore Auditorium Monday, November 16 as part of a nine-city US tour celebrating the twentieth anniversary of act’s 1989 watershed album Doolittle. The original line-up of Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering will play Doolittle in its…
Once we saw this flier, there was no question as to whether it would be our flier of the week. I mean, come on! If you think there’s any way we could resist that image of a disco ball transformed into a UFO, clearly you have no idea how we…
Summer is almost over, but it’s not gone yet. That’s why this week’s flier caught our eye — it grabs that last little bit of summer firmly and has a bit of fun with it. The show is Dressy Bessy at the Gothic this Saturday, September 5 and the poster…
Originally a solo project for David Longstreth, the Dirty Projectors is now touring as a six-piece in support of the band’s latest, the wonderful Bitte Orca. Longstreth and company stop at the Bluebird Theater Sunday, November 8. Tickets are $15.25 in advance and $18 day of show and go on…
Motorhead’s Saturday, September 26 show at the Fillmore Auditorium with Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy has been canceled. Refunds are available at point of purchase, but if you bought tickets at Fiddler’s Green they will be refunded at the Fillmore box office. Other recent cancellations include Slipknot’s August 31…
Our top flier of the week comes to us from Sub.Mission’s Thursday residency at Sutra. This one’s been floating around for a while but somehow escaped our attention until now. No matter, we caught it just in time before it expired. From the weird, abstract, “virtual-reality walkthrough of the Parthenon”…
Former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval will be hitting the road next month for the first time in eight years on the heels of her forthcoming album, Through the Devil Softly, due September 29 on Nettwerk. Sandoval her band the Warm Inventions visit the Bluebird Thursday, October 1. Tickets are…
