Concerts

Backbeat’s nightlife photographer Aaron Thackeray hit up the Rockbar on East Colfax at the strike of midnight Sunday morning and brought back these photos. To see the full slide show, go here: Midnight at Rockbar…

As S. Carey (performing tonight at the Hi-Dive with Other Lives), vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey’s solo material is definitely in line with the work he did as a part of a part of Bon Iver’s back-up band — and his voice is also a sweet but resilient focal point…

Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens has kept busy over the past few years playing his part in George and Caplin and Wentworth Kersey, which both released records last year. Somewhere in between, he’s found the time to write and record not just one solo album, but two (due out on July 13)…

AN EVENING WITH THE CARS 05.15.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Within the pantheon of rock and roll, there are relics, and there living legends. Last night at the Fillmore, on the fourth show of its current tour, the Cars proved that they are far from antiquity. In fact, the quartet blew…

MIDDAY VEIL With Décollage • Tjutjuna • Mike Zorman Nightshark • Night of Joy 05.13.11 | Rhinoceropolis This was one of those Rhino shows that started early. Opening the proceedings was a group calling itself Décollage, a sort of five-piece, with a guitarist, a drummer, a bassist, a singer/keys player…

Legendary local concert promoter Barry Fey, who retired in 1997, is back in the game. We just received word from the Denver County Fair owners, Dana Cain and Tracy Weil, that Fey has been tapped as musical director. The Rockfather will be booking the talent for Saturday night’s concert and…

Are your dance shoes ready to go for the weekend yet? We hope so, because we’ve got tons of places where you can lace up those shoes and shake that ass this weekend, including a Deeper reunion, a Sex Panther resurrection and much more. Keep reading for what’s hot:…

This weekend, the Unity Gain Reunion show will be taking over 2200, with special guest (and former Colorado resident) Liondub playing a reggae and dancehall set, along with guests Mr. Anonymous and Psychonaut, and house/slomo stylings by Patricia Hertz, Ejay and Ivy. We caught up with Liondub to ask about…

The Donkeys (due tonight at the Hi-Dive) from San Diego often get lumped in with anyone inspired by the country rock of the ’60s and ’70s. But even a casual listen to its latest release, Born With Stripes, reveals a band not beholden to a specific aesthetic of times past,…

Grammy Award-winner and ultimate musical collaborator Lucinda Williams (playing tonight at the Boulder Theater with Lionel Young) shouldn’t need an introduction. The rough-voiced storyteller has been making records since 1979, intertwining blues and rock n’ roll with her own salty version of Americana country…

Hip-hop lyrics often get lost amongst the bass, snare and 808-drenched beats and production of a song. That’s why, when a rap artist — like Jay-Z, for example — decides to take on MTV’s famous Unplugged series, the outcome can be amazing, as was the case with Jigga, and hopefully…

VIVIAN GIRLS No Joy * School Knights 05.12.11 | Larimer Lounge It isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you when you’re on stage, but breaking a string without having an immediate replacement or a back-up guitar can induce the kind of red-faced anxiety that throws a show into…

You know what the best part of waking up is? For Jered Lish, Zac Crider and Chris Stuberg of the Sunshine House (due at this year’s Westword Music Showcase), we’re betting it was waking up to find that they’re one of five finalists in the Folgers Jingle Contest. Although, curiously,…

The Library of Congress has just turned on its new streaming audio service, which includes a large piece of the national archives totaling around 10,000 titles. The joint venture of Sony and the Library of Congress gives users access to many Sony-controlled recordings that have long been out of circulation…

At the risk of alienating and outraging vast swaths of music fans, there’s really no polite way to refer to bands with a career spanning fifteen years plus as a whole. So here are ten “oldster” bands — written by a self-proclaimed oldster — that kept making great records long…

To say that Joe Purdy (due this evening at the Bluebird Theater with The Milk Carton Kids) is prolific would be, well, exactly accurate — the singer-songwriter has released ten albums in ten years, all while touring. His workman like approach has paid off in the form of devoted fans,…

Looks like Big Gigantic has gotten quite a bit bigger than anyone realized. Yesterday around lunchtime, the Boulder-based music blog THISSONGISSICK posted a new track from Big Gigantic, and within minutes, literally, the server crashed. Bam! Just like that. “I posted the link at 12:00 p.m.,” says THISSONGISSICK’s Nick Guarino,…

So the band formerly known as Yerkish will heretofore be known as Lexigram. If you’re just joining us, last week, Sprint, the behemoth telecommunications titan, signed on to help Yerkish come up with a new name as part of the company’s All. Together. Now. campaign. More than 54,000 suggestions were…