Since Tuesday, June 27, Westword has been following Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan’s efforts with the disability-rights group ADAPT to convince Senator Cory Gardner to vote against a GOP healthcare proposal that would leave 22 million without health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Guitarist Marc Ribot, who’s worked with heavies like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, says playing music is all about what you do with your limitations, and playing acoustic guitar, which he’ll do when he plays two solo sets at Dazzle this Saturday, has definite limitations.
Umphrey’s McGee returns to Red Rocks for a three-night run that kicks off tonight, while Rise Against and Deftones co-headline at the Pepsi Center tonight.
A group of near-strangers formed the punk band Rotten Reputation in January 2016 after a mutual friend had posted on social media about the lack of women in bands in Denver’s music scene.
Denver based rock trio Down Time is releasing its debut EP, Good Luck!, on GROUPHUG. The five-song offering has its origins in songs singer/guitarist Alyssa Maunders was writing while she was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
On Friday, July 7, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from Joseph Lamar and comedy from Caitie Hannan and Joshua Skillman.
HAIM stops at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, September 13, in support of Something to Tell You, which is slated for release on July 7. Tickets ($35) go on sale on Friday, June 30, at 10 a.m.
A sit-in almost turned into a shit-in when disability rights activists with ADAPT started needing to use the restroom — which had been shut down — after they had spent the night in Republican Senator Cory Gardner’s Denver office, trying to force him to vote against a Republican healthcare proposal that the Congressional Budget Office says would leave 22 million uninsured by 2026.
The votes are in. The winners of the 2017 Westword Music Award were announced Tuesday, June 27, at Globe Hall.
The Colorado band BANDITS, which will be releasing its latest 7-inch record at Lost Lake on July 1, is teasing the show with a new music video for the song “Enough.”
Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and seven other members of the disability rights group ADAPT have begun a sit-in at Cory Gardner’s office, today, June 27. The group is demanding that the Republican senator vote against the GOP-led health-care bill that would replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act…
“The most useful thing we can do as humans is to die, be put in the forest and let the forest floor eat us away and later create new life.”
Ebenezer Yebuah, better known by his artist name Mawule, learned at a young age that it is important to make time for what you love.
R&B outfit En Vogue emerged in the 1990s, back when bands like TLC and Destiny’s Child were ruling the mainstream charts.
Ms. Lauryn Hill, Common and En Vogue team up for ’90s Throwback, which is part of SeriesFest, at Red Rocks, on Tuesday, while Paul Simon visits the venue on Wednesday. Rapper Russ hits the Fillmore Auditorium tonight and Warren G is at the Summit Music Hall on Tuesday. Styx, REO Speedwagon and Don Felder take over the Pepsi Center on Thursday night. See our full list of picks below.
Another edition of the Westword Music Showcase has come and gone. As the beats still pound in our heads, the crowd’s cheers echo, a few words from Anthony Ruptak are still ringing too. The singer-songwriter thanked the people listening at 100% de Agave for purchasing a ticket to Showcase and for supporting local music. We couldn’t agree with him more.
In the last year, Denver’s indie-folk trio Edison has been on a seemingly meteoric rise to the top of the local scene. The band started playing together in late 2014, after singer/guitarist Sarah Slaton met drummer and multi-instrumentalist Dustin Morris when she was opening up a tour with his previous band.
When he answers the phone to talk to Westword, Pyn Doll, lead guitarist for the Greek rock band Barb Wire Dolls, sounds like a man who is both worn to a frazzle and spilling over with excitement.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
Seventy of Denver’s best hometown acts will be playing Westword Music Showcase along with a slate of national acts, including Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A, Saturday, June 24.
