Concerts

Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray’s new album. Remember that scene in La Bamba when Richie Valens shows up at a fan’s house with a bunch of pizzas for private pizza party. More than two decades after that event…

Lee Foss is finally making it to 2200 tonight; the underground darling will be supported by Devious D, Danny Marin and MyQuill for his first-ever Denver appearance. (9 p.m., $10-$15) Chicago-house pioneer Justin Long will headline Full Flavor Fridays at Bar Standard this week for your dancing pleasure; locals Khalib,…

Update (12/2/11): The Head and the Heart and BoomBox named as additional headliners this morning. If you haven’t been keeping track, the lineup for this year’s Snowball Music Festival is pretty impressive so far. Moments ago, organizers made the Big announcement we alluded to earlier this week when they revealed…

Update (2/12/12): Winner! Congrats to OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, who won a Grammy tonight for his contribution to Adele’s 21, which snagged an award for Album of the Year — well, and a slew of other nods, as suspected. While Ryan Tedder has garnered his share of acclaim fronting his band,…

Ah, yes, after months and months of fevered anticipation, the date is finally upon us. Fellow metal fans, rejoice! This Saturday, December 3, at the Larimer Lounge, Denver Doomfest kicks off to the most joyest of seasons, the time when we all gather together to bask in the thunderous, deafening…

Looking to gift something different this holiday season, say, something local, maybe, not off the rack, that you can’t buy at the mall? Yeah? Mark your calender: This Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., you can get your hands on some rare band merch at the Denver Band…

Update (11/30/11): Bassnectar, making a return engagement at Snowball, and Elephant Revival were both announced this morning. So if you missed it yesterday, Snowball Festival, the cold weather, mountain-based event, which is now entering into its second year, announced its first two headliners, Rusko and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Organizers are…

PETER MURPHY at BLUEBIRD | 11/28/11The highlight of last night’s show came during the encore, when Peter Murphy came back on stage wearing a short fuzzy hat that looked like a Fez, playing a twelve-string acoustic. After creating an impressionistic soundscape, all four members of the band went into a…

The members of Vices I Admire noticed something odd about the bass player as soon as he showed up to audition. It was early 2009. Vocalist Dave Curtis, lead guitarist Mickey Dollar and drummer Mark Towne had been looking for a replacement for departed bassist Robert Marston for eight months…

Tiki bars such as Trader Vic’s and Don the Beachcomber enjoyed a long run in Denver from the ’60s into the ’80s, but except for a few sputters like Tiki Boyd’s in the Ramada Inn on Colfax and the Tiki Torch in Edgewater, this city’s tiki action was largely extinguished…

Founded by David Thomas Bailey of FaceMan, the Colorado Composers Collective includes incredibly accomplished musicians who believe that music born of formal training need not be exclusive to symphony orchestras and the like. This week, the Collective (due at the Walnut Room on Saturday, December 3) will be performing what…

Lee Foss seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the hottest DJs of the last couple of years. In truth, he came out of Chicago, where a lifelong love of house music — as well as a passion for Detroit techno, ’80s electro and ’90s hip-hop — shaped…

Mike Ness has been the only constant member in Social Distortion’s rotating cast for more than thirty years (with a few breaks in between) — although some fans might argue that Ness essentially is Social Distortion. Ness has aged well. He and the band still tear through material with reckless…

As a vocalist and guitarist in the foundational experimental metal band Neurosis, Scott Kelly’s influence has been deep and far-reaching, even outside the realm of heavy music, and that’s probably because Neurosis wasn’t originally part of a metal scene. The band’s members came up through hardcore and pushed that sound…

These guys didn’t invent melodic hardcore; they spent their early years releasing albums on Fat Wreck Chords. This included 2003’s Revolutions Per Minute, recorded at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins — where the band has recorded most of its subsequent albums, like its 2011 offering, Endgame. The foursome’s anthemic,…

Somewhere around the second or third time you watch “More Cowbell” — possibly the greatest role of Christopher Walken’s career — you will notice it: Jimmy Fallon, filling out a non-role as the drummer in the background, flubbing his one line and spending the whole time trying not to crack…

This is the rare album that bucks expectations from beginning to end. Although “Circles!” employs that normally grating nu-metal screaming vocal break, and “Wageslave” makes extensive use of a Pantera-esque trudging groove, both songs transcend genre limitations, with a curiously moody yet fitting outro in the former and strong guitar…

It’s not surprising that the guys in Truckasaurus looked to the truck/dinosaur in The Simpsons for inspiration when choosing the band’s moniker. There’s enough humor in the lyrics to know that they don’t take themselves too seriously, with lines about doing lots of blow with hookers on the go, feeding…