You read that right. You can see Blackalicious at the Fillmore this Friday, January 27, for just $10 (well, plus the applicable service fees). Tickets are on-sale right now at LiveNation.com or you can pick them up directly at the Fillmore box office. Oh, we should also let you know…
Bad news: Familiar with that expression, “You snooze, you lose”? Yes? Well, it applies here. If you slept on getting your tickets to see the Black Keys at 1STBANK Center on April 30, you blew it. Show’s sold out. D’oh! Luckily for you, though, you’ll have another chance to see…
Grab your party shoes, kids. Andrew W.K. is coming back to Denver. In honor of the ten year anniversary of I Get Wet (hands up if you can believe it’s already been a decade since dude first hit the scene), Mr. Party Hard is bringing his party to the Bluebird…
Update 1/25/12: Low, which played in Denver at the Bluebird Theater last fall, has been added to the bill. Death Cab for Cutie is kicking off its upcoming North American tour in Denver on Tuesday, April 10, at Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The band will return to the Mile High…
Korn is coming to the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, February 27, with Kill the Noise. Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Wednesday on the band’s website, and regular tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. Gotta hand it to the dudes: Who thought…
Ah, yes, girls, we love them. Who doesn’t, right? Mötley Crüe wrote an entire song about them. Actually, so did Jay-Z, come to think of it. But we digress. Where were we again? Oh, right, girls, we love them. So you can only imagine the overwhelming sense of joy we…
The initial acts for this year’s CMKY festival have been announced. The fifth annual edition of the festival is slated to kick off with a performance by Laurie Anderson on Wednesday, April 25, at the Boulder Theater, and will run through Sunday, April 29, at various venues across Boulder, which…
Next Friday, January 20, Oak Tavern is launching All Access Fridays, a new weekly live music series in which bands will be filmed for PBS/Free Speech TV’s show 303 All Access. The show will focus on up-and-coming rock, reggae, hip-hop, alt-rock and acoustic acts, who will each be interviewed and…
By early June, Denver will long be in the rearview for the Black Keys dudes, who’ll play here on Monday, April 30. Too bad. It would’ve been sweet-ass sweet to witness a good old-fashioned battle royale for ultimate supremacy between them and the Nickelback dudes to settle this whole “rock…
Well, this should be nothing short of amazing: If you haven’t heard, on Saturday, March 24, Wovenhand, led by the masterful David Eugene Edwards, is sharing a bill with Michael Gira at the Oriental Theater. Every time the former 16 Horsepower frontman plays, it’s a completely noteworthy occasion, but with…
While earlier rumors of DJ Z-Trip being in town at the end of January proved to be just that, it turns out that he will be in town this month after all — just not at Red Rocks. Instead, he’ll be performing at City Hall for the final night of…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from Van Halen, the Black Keys and Snow Patrol were announced; ManCub, Fingers of the Sun, Places and J.Carey got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys and Young Jeezy…
Music Bar, a Denver landmark of sorts that opened in 1937, has closed. Jeffery Laws, of Universal Lending Corporation, says the owner of the bar for the past nine years didn’t renew the lease. Renowned for its karaoke nights, which earned a Best of Denver nod last year, Music Bar…
We’ve just received word that the Black Keys, on the heels of their highly enjoyable new record, El Camino (we seriously can’t pry it from our playlist), are coming to the 1STBANK Center on Monday, April 30, with the Arctic Monkeys. Tickets ($55.00-$59.50, plus service fees) for the show, which…
It’s that time again: time to start making your festival plans for the coming year. Specifically, Burning Man, as tickets for the largest desert gathering since Moses led people to the Promised Land go on sale in about an hour (11 a.m. local time, to be exact). The festival, which…
Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It’s really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It’s confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear…
Oh, man! Maybe the Mayans are right after all, and we really are doomed. Here we are, a mere four days into the New Year, and already we have the first sign of the pending apocalypse: We’ve just learned that on Saturday, May 19, Creed is coming to the Paramount…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from the Ting Tings and Wale were announced; Dressy Bessy, Oh Starling and John Common got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys, Young Jeezy and Sunn 0))) were among…
Long in development, the Miles Davis feature film that Don Cheadle plans to star in and direct has a studio offer, the actor said in interview with the Wall Street Journal that was published today. Cheadle, who graduated from East High School, says in the interview that “the movie isn’t…
Denver’s all vocal hip-hop group Urban Method, who made it to the final three on NBC’s The Sing-Off, and Boulder-based all vocal rock band FACE, who was on the show in 2009, team up for a night of a cappella at the Paramount on Saturday, February 25. Tickets ($15/$25) are…
Last July, Austin-based singer-songwriter Darden Smith gathered a team of other professional musicians to lead a songwriting retreat for nine servicemen and women. Songs written during the retreat were performed at the Faces of Freedom concert on September 11 at the World Arena in Colorado Springs. As a follow-up to…
A few years ago, Slim Cessna made CDs of old cassette recordings and sold them to help make ends meet. Now he’s offering those two volumes of rare recordings again, but as download only. Some of the cuts date back to the ’80s, some include his brother Whiff, some were…
