The lineup for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase is pretty extensive. In fact, if you’re unprepared it can be overwhelming. With this notion in mind, we put ourselves through a practice run for Showcase and hit every show we could last night. From Funky Buddha, where the work-out started, to…
Sk8Bit was supposed to take place this weekend in Ft. Collins, but the event has been cancelled due to a series of unfortunate and mostly unrelated events. Event promoter Marty Kraham notes that he’s working to reschedule a date in August at Rollerland with the bulk of the local bands…
Trolling the web, we recently came across a series of videos featuring a juggalo named MrTmzfan. We can’t quite place the face, but it looks slightly familiar, like another mister so and so we know. Maybe it’s just the face paint. Anyhow, judging from the comments made by said juggalo…
It’s safe to say that we’ve got you covered on live music for the weekend, but in case you are looking to start the party early, we’ve got you there, too. The Westword Music Showcase is days — pfft…mere hours — away, and what better way to kick start the…
As Gabriel & Dresden (throwing down tonight at Beta Nightclub with Kostas and Marshall Monica), Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden form the powerful union of DJ and producer. Creating trance and house-oriented remixes for big names like New Order, the Killers, Britney Spears and Madonna, the duo also finds the…
MUMFORD & SONS at the FILLMORE | 06.15.11″Mumford and his mates certainly did their best to show the crowd one of the greatest shows they have seen in recent memory.”…
YELLOWCARD at SUMMIT | 06.15.11″Key talked with the audience quite a bit between songs, like he was catching up old friends on the band’s life over the last few lost years.”…
Long Island pop-punk band Taking Back Sunday headlined a nearly sold out show last night at Summit, boasting its original line-up. Also on the bill were Thursday and Colour Revolt. All photos by Aaron Thackeray for Westword…
Although the ascension of Mumford & Sons (playing the first of two shows at the Fillmore Auditorium tonight with Nathaniel Rateliff & Fairchildren and Matthew and the Atlas) may seem rather fast, the English dudes have been making gorgeous folk rock together for almost five years. The act’s first and…
Yesterday, we wrangled up totally adorable photos (look at those fat cheeks! eeek!) of an assortment of musicians performing at Saturday’s Westword Music Showcase. We’ve got three pairs of tickets that we’re giving away to anyone who can correctly match the photos to the musicians — at least one of…
Just in time for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, Spoke In Wordz (due at La Rumba from 5:30 – 6 p.m.) has finally given us a gander at his brand new video. Directed by Eric Heights and shot on location in SoCal — we presume, unless the Mile High City…
Cannons will be joined by Glass Hits and Sleeping with In Gethesemene at Illegal Pete’s this Thursday, June 16 for a free show, and to celebrate the occasion, Cause Medic Ink dropped a lovely silkscreened flier off. The flier comes in a variety of colors to boot, which makes it…
PETER GABRIEL at RED ROCKS | 06/13/11 The scope of Peter Gabriel’s set Monday night seemed entirely appropriate for the size and majesty of Red Rocks. Gabriel showed up in Morrison with a full orchestra and an elaborate set of visual effects, forgoing his usual art-rock approach for a sound…
With a career that spans over six decades, Mavis Staples (appearing tonight with Dr. John & the Lower 911 at the Botanic Gardens) doesn’t need much of an introduction. The Rock And Roll Hall of Famer began her gospel-influenced singing career as part of the Staple Singers family institution in…
We were all kids once, even cool dudes in bands. So in celebration of all things juvenile and fun, we’re giving you a chance to win a pair of tickets to this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase. Guess which Showcase performers are pictured from the childhood photos below. Leave your answers…
MILLIONAIRES at MARQUIS | 06.13.11″Wobbling between the monitors, the Green sisters continued to talk more about being drunk and the desire to fuck before going into the Madonna ‘Dress You Up’ rip-off, ‘Stay the Night.'”…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, the Avett Brothers announced another Colorado date on July 8 at the Boulder Theater the night before their sold-out Red Rocks show, the FMQB Triple A Conference is returning to the Fox, Diana Ross is due at…
Today is Flag Day, which is an opportunity to raise the Stars and Stripes, drink a Budweiser, crank the A/C and leave the windows wide open. The flag is often the go-to symbol for musicians who want to make a political statement — from Johnny Cash to Miley Cyrus –…
The sarcastic comments and dirty looks came almost immediately when Nathaniel Hammond asked to plug in his synthesizers. Soon the scrutiny became a familiar rite for the Epilogues’ keyboard player after the band started playing live in Denver around 2006. “They’d be like, ‘What am I supposed to do with…
Who are you excited about seeing at this year’s Westword Music Showcase? Kind of a loaded question, isn’t it? Depends on what time you ask, right? The lineup is pretty insane from top to bottom, even if we do say so ourselves. In addition to hosting the hottest acts in…
As partners in Strong Survive Promotionz for the past five years, independent concert promoters Travis Ragan and Ivan Ovchinnikov have booked shows at a number of venues around Denver, but they’ve never gotten a cut of the bar sales. So when they found out that the Roxy Theater, an old…
In 1984, Jesse Saunders released “On and On,” the track widely credited as the very first house music in existence. Saunders used old-school funk, disco, early pop, hip-hop and R&B to create the template for what would grow into a worldwide phenomenon. Now, almost three decades later, he’s still making…
