Concerts

Global Dance Festival Friday, July 16, 2010 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre Every year, the Global Dance Festival brings some of the best in electronic music to the best outdoor venue on the planet, and Friday night’s sold-out show was no exception. Judging from the proliferation of Deadmau5 T-shirts, hats and…

Record high temperatures had nothing on the heat being generated by the b-boys/b-girls, MCs, DJs and graffiti artist gathered at La Raza park yesterday for the Spirit of Hip-Hop Park Jam, hosted by Hip-Hop Congress — a multi-collegiate college group geared towards bringing hip-hop culture into communities. View a full…

Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the second and final day of Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks…

Last night photographer Aaron Thackeray was among the fans of electronic music for Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks. Here’s what the scene looked like. More photos coming tomorrow and look for a Best Of Gallery on Monday…

There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…

For many people, 4:20 is a time that holds some significance. For those of us not down with the hippie lettuce, 4:20 comes and goes every day with no fanfare. Fact is, that time of day is no more noteworthy than, say, 1:15, 2:35 or 3:10. (Yes, the irony is…

Paul McCartney Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Pepsi Center After kick-starting a set with a couple of Wings songs and the Beatles’ hit “All My Loving,” Paul McCartney stood at the middle of the stage and said, “Let me just take a moment to take it all in” just before…

Okay, metal, death metal and/or punk bands, if you’ve ever wanted to put a song in a film — and really, who hasn’t? — opportunity is knocking. Pueblo-based Bloody Rose Productions is currently shooting a short entitled Bone Digger Jones and readying another, called Curse of the Hunter’s Moon, and…

Anyone who’s ever been in a band,” notes Teresita Hinojosa, “where you rehearse and rehearse and rehearse, and you have these tight, organized songs —the guitar solo’s here, the vocal solo’s here, and everything is so tight — knows how great it feels to let go of that for a…

Andrew’s on Lincoln closed last summer for a quick remodel that split the space into two areas, one with a brand-new stage. But that transformation wasn’t enough to save Andrew’s, which closed in May. Now the venue, at 1111 Lincoln Street, is being transformed into an entirely new spot: Stoney’s…

As Reverend Dead Eye, Brent Burkhart is a bit of an itinerant spirit these days, seeing as how he’s almost always on tour somewhere. But between tours, he’s made time for his first full band since making dark post-punk with the Bedraggled. Joining Burkhart in Broken Spirits (due at Old…

Back in 2005, when Ke$ha was just a glimmer in the eye of the reality-TV wave, her random appearance on The Simple Life proved a harbinger: Like Paris Hilton back then, Ke$ha rose earlier this year, seemingly out of nowhere, to startling ubiquity. By combining hard-house-appropriated dance pop with singsong-couplet…

Starting with the humble aim of putting out a seven-inch record, the Dead Weather realized at its initial recording sessions that its members had real chemistry together, and they ended up recording far more material than could fit on one record. Often referred to as a “supergroup,” the Dead Weather…

Fans still feeling let down by the anemic, ho-hum ninth season of American Idol love to predict the show’s demise, especially now that Simon Cowell is departing. But those people have short memories. You only have to look back to the previous season to witness one of the most bizarre…

From the title of their last EP, Bright, Bright, Bright, it’s clear that the members of Dark, Dark, Dark have a sense of humor. However, the lyrical content of that disc is no laughing matter, as vocalist Nona Marie Invie sings party-stopping lines like “You always cared for me, but…

Dualistics may have found the key to longevity. The only way to stay, as Tyler Despres points out on the aptly titled “Only Way to Stay,” is to “fan out,” which means leaving your options open without having to directly commit to anything. On Crimson, the band’s latest effort and…

Back in 2007, 3OH!3 hit on a potent formula by appropriating the snarl and swagger of crunk for the white suburban set. With 2008’s Want, the band retained the swagger but angled its sound toward a type of electro-pop-punk expertly calibrated for mass appeal. Though Streets of Gold edges slightly…

The hypnotic harmonium drone of “In a Thousand Years” lets you know you’re in store for something not entirely familiar unless you’ve been traveling — literally or otherwise — in the musical circles of northern India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey or Tuva. None of the instruments used on this album are…

It’s fun to be miserable — and when that’s translated into music, it can come out like Morrissey or it can come out like the Platte River Killers. The quartet has become a staple of the local metal scene, mostly because of its blend of hearty, technically intricate metalcore and…

Even among the many dance-music superstars slated to play this year’s Global Dance Fest, Kaskade stands out as something special. The Utah-born DJ has crafted his own signature sound out of an unusual blend of disco-kissed deep house and big-room trance. Somehow he manages to balance these two disparate genres…

In 2007, Eric Peterson and Patrick Kelly started Roger, Roll with some mutual friends. At the act’s earliest shows, songs were split between atmospherically immersive space rock and lush, pastoral numbers of a meditative transcendence that could alternately be described as abstract Americana and dream pop. At the same time,…