Concerts

The ebullient melodies that informed the music of Ian Gassman’s old band Night Owl can be heard throughout Confluence’s new EP. But instead of reflecting that group’s more upbeat Elvis Costello vibe, these songs have an expansiveness of spirit reminiscent of recent pop bands such as Surfer Blood and the…

Aside from touring as a solo act under the VibeSquaD moniker, Aaron Holstein has found the perfect balance between his duties as a highly sought-after EDM producer and those of being a father. Following a successful stint on Bassnectar’s VaVaVoom tour, Holstein has settled in for 2013 by touring with…

tINI holds down residencies in Ibiza, London and other high-profile cities all over the world as well as in her native Germany; despite her name, she’s clearly a force to be reckoned with. Then again, her moniker is just as likely a nod to her minimalist techno vibe as it is…

If you missed the hour-long live stream a bit ago in which “Weird” Al Yankovic announced the headliners for this year’s edition of Bonnaroo, rest easy: We’ve got you covered. We took notes on all the acts announced thus far. Prepare to be overwhelmed: There’s roughly ten billion on the…

It’s coming. You ready? Save the date: Saturday, June 22. That’s when we’ll be taking over the Golden Triangle once again for the nineteenth annual edition of the Westword Music Showcase, presented by Miller Lite. You know the deal: more bands than you can consume in one sitting, spread across…

At one time, the Jet Entertainment Group ran a number of spots in town, including Wicked Garden, two Purple Martini locations (one of which was later dubbed Jet South) and the Jet Lounge, located on the main floor of the Jet Hotel, which opened in 2006 at 1612 Wazee Street…

ELECTRIC SIX @ LARIMER LOUNGE | TUES, 2/19/13 Electric Six has been bringing the party to the unwary for a decade. The group’s songs combine ’80s rock, disco and New Wave into a cranked-up, ultra-catchy sound all its own, with lyrics that mix a David Lee Roth-esque bravado with surreal…

LIFE IN COLOR // BORGORE @ BALCH FIELDHOUSE | 2/16/13 Life in Color: Rebirth is new name for the former DayGlow touring party, and the name pretty much sums up just what this party is about. A mostly white-clad crowd piled into the Balch Fieldhouse to see what all the…

NEUROSIS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2/16/13 Experiencing the rare and punishing set from Neurosis at the Summit Music Hall evoked the sensation of being in front of an oncoming freight train. But then the music itself was so powerful and felt like so many things that it was almost…

We know it’s beautiful here. Carrie Underwood evidently finds it pretty breathtaking, too. This photo from the country queen’s Instagram account shows Underwood taking an oxygen break before last night’s encore. See also: – Photos: Carrie Underwood @ 1STBANK Center, 2/14/13 – The misappropriation of country music: Kid Rock opened…

SNOW THA PRODUCT @ ROXY THEATRE | SAT, 2/16 It may at first seem easy to dismiss Snow Tha Product as another Iggy Azalea or Kreayshawn-level gimmick because of her gender and unconventional appearance, but it gets harder and harder the more you listen to her. Make no mistake, Snow…

ALESSO @ OGDEN THEATRE | FRI, 2/15/13 Sweden is experiencing a groundswell of bass drops and bleep-bloops, the result of electronic dance music’s worldwide takeover. And riding shotgun on the revolutionary journey is Alesso, the Swedish house DJ who broke onto the EDM scene a few years ago as one…

OM @ LARIMER LOUNGE |2/13/12 It was impossible not to be moved last night by the music of OM, as the visceral, low-end sounds moved through your body and the music hit you and washed around you like a physical force. The mixture of those chthonic tones, with the clatter…

I don’t lie in my music,” says Danny Vincennie. “I don’t exaggerate shit, and if it didn’t happen to me, you’re not going to hear about it.” Vincennie, who has been performing under the moniker Extra Kool since going solo after the 2006 split of his long-running Optik Fusion Embrace…

You could be excused for expecting an outfit named Warhawk to be a metal band. But while these guys clearly share influences with many metal merchants — you’ll hear a bit of Black Sabbath’s edgy darkness and more than a dash of Pentagram’s gritty boogie — they sound more like…

It’s impossible to miss the influence of New Orleans in the brash, brassy sound of Galactic. Since forming in 1994, the sextet has experimented with plenty of sounds and styles, dabbling in everything from hip-hop to electronica. But the lush legacy of New Orleans’s native jazz, funk, soul and R&B…

Lauded local trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell, a Denver native now living elsewhere, have performed and recorded together a number of times, but they’ve only teamed up with drummer Brian Blade on a handful of occasions, including on Miles’s latest disc, Quiver, which was issued this past fall…

One of the few heavy bands with a genre-transcending appeal, Oakland’s Neurosis forged an impressive sonic evolution across several decades. Starting out as a political crust/hardcore band in 1985, by the time of its 1992 album — the epochal Souls at Zero — Neurosis was on the path to creating…

Doro Pesch was the charismatic frontwoman of the ’80s German metal band Warlock. With power and confidence that were rare at the time, Pesch, the first woman to front a band at the 1986 Monsters of Rock festival, possessed a stirring, sometimes animalistic wail. Warlock split in 1987, two years…