Holy Moses! It’s no stretch to say that yesterday was the hottest day of the summer. Literally. Not only did the late news reports back this up, but we’re pretty sure if you ask anyone in the sea of people who attended the eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase, they’ll co-sign…
Alright, it’s here! Finally! The waiting is over! The eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase. You’ve probably already printed it out, cut it out, copied and highlighted the schedule, but just in case you haven’t, here’s the most up-to-date version of today’s lineup for the Showcase. All of the TBAs are,…
Welcome to the weekend! You made it. And of course, this is not just any weekend. It’s the Westword Music Showcase weekend! Whoo freaking hoo! So with that in mind, here’s a rundown of what you have in store tomorrow afternoon/evening on the main stage. Be sure to check out…
Colin Stranahan (due with Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato at Dazzle for the Westword Music Showcase tomorrow and on Sunday, June 24) isn’t comfortable with labels. Since launching his professional career as a jazz musician at the age of seventeen, Stranahan has earned critical acclaim and professional kudos for his explosive and nuanced skill…
Black Joe Lewis (due tomorrow at the Westword Music Showcase on the mainstage) isn’t one to make fancy comparisons to the musical legacies of blues giants and soul progenitors. Lewis and his band, formerly known as the Honeybears, have earned comparisons to everyone from Howlin’ Wolf to Muddy Waters, and…
Looks like props are due Rachel James & the Kings (due at this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase), who have been named as the winner of Ford’s second annual Gimme the Gig competition. The outfit, which recently added Tickle Me Pink vets Joey Barba and Stefan Runstrom to the fold, and…
Update, June 20: Congrats to Antonia Rivas, winner of the final round of this year’s VIP upgrade contest. We’ll see you at Westword Music Showcase this Saturday — if you haven’t bought your ticket, yet can you do so here: Buy Westword Music Showcase tickets. Welcome to the ninth and…
In honor of our annual Westword Music Showcase this weekend, we tapped Backbeat’s resident genius, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, to consult the vast empirical recesses of his memory banks to assemble this helpful taxonomy. Prepare to be enlightened, astounded and perhaps, if you’re a little sensitive, even a little miffed…
Each and every Thursday, DJ Tower (aka Tim Alexander) and his friends turn The Church into a haven for electro and retro music for Electrobot Thursdays. DJ Tower has been cultivating the night for quite some time and has been working with other like-minded electronic minds like boyhollow (aka Michael…
The Swayback has been together for a decade, but you’d hardly know it from speaking with the guys. The way they talk and the way they interact with one another, they genuinely sound like members of a freshly minted high-school band getting ready to play their first gig. “I have…
Game time! Are you ready for the hottest party of the summer? We are! Of course, we’ve been planning, laboring and looking forward to the 2012 Westword Music Showcase since the final strains of Chromeo’s set faded last year. Maybe you have, too. If so, well, let’s just say your…
Welcome to the eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase! Our baby is finally old enough to vote and buy cigarettes and porn — though who really buys that anymore? How things have changed since the Showcase was born way back in 1995. Bill Clinton was in his first term as president,…
This past Friday night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, West Metro Fire Rescue was called to the venue’s upper north parking lot during a show featuring Ghostland Observatory to aid a woman who reportedly fell from the rocks. The woman, 27-year-old Alicia Brauer, later died from the injuries she sustained from…
Denver’s summer concert season is proving to be every bit as hot as anticipated, and the fall is shaping up to be just as heated with new dates from Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and E-40, who are due back in town at the end of August, followed by Rascal Flatts…
BREATHE CAROLINA @ SPORTS AUTHORITY AT MILE HIGH | 6/17/12 It was fun to watch the crowd go nuts for Breathe Carolina on the Kia stage just after 4 p.m. As soon as the first few notes of “Hello Fascination” hit, everyone was in synch and knew all the words…
The Vans Warped Tour made its stop in Denver on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos for Westword. See also: – People of Warped Tour 2012 – People of Warped Tour 2011 – Day in the Life: Andrew W.K.’s…
Some of the stereotypes are true: Pretty much everyone is in all black, many are wearing dark and heavy eye make-up and every now and then, the DJ stops a tune with a vertebrae-shattering guitar riff for chants of, “Kill! Kill! Kill!” But it’s not some cartoon-like parody like you…
Karl Denson (due on the main stage at this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase) is hard to pin down. The saxophonist and bandleader may have strong roots in the traditional jazz of giants like John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, but that hasn’t stopped him from exploring funk, R&B, hip-hop and myriad…
FAB MORVAN @ DENVER PRIDEFEST 2012 at CIVIC CENTER | 6.16.12 Denver PrideFest 2012 played host to the first solo American appearance of Fab Morvan — better known as the brown-eyed one in the pop group Milli Vanilli, a group that was scandalized with the 1990 discovery that Morvan and…
MINISTRY @ OGDEN THEATRE | 6.17.12 When the ominous chorus of “Psalm 69” rang out during the first song of Ministry’s encore, everyone cheered louder than they had the rest of the night. The chilling music, the sort of thing you’d expect to hear in a movie about a misguided…
GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 6.16.12 As if the signs plastered all over the Red Rocks weren’t enough forewarning, Ghostland Observatory drove the point home of exactly what kind of show they put on, and let’s just say it involves lights. Lots of lights. From the beginning to…
After an eight-year run at La Rumba, Lipgloss, one of the city’s longest running dance nights, just moved to to Beauty Bar. But before Lipgloss moved into La Rumba, the spot was home to Oxygen, which was awarded the Best Gay Bar for Gay Men in 2003 in Westword’s Best…
