Lupe Fiasco has his LASERS trained on Denver. On Friday, October 7, the Chicago-born MC will return to the Mile High City for a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in support of his latest effort, LASERS (an acronym for “Love Always Shines Everytime: Remember to Smile”), with Tinie Tempah and…
Here’s Something to Die For if you’re a fan of a certain lauded Swedish-based indie dance act: We’ve just received word that The Sounds are slated to return to the Mile High City on Wednesday, October 19 for a date at the Gothic Theatre. Tickets for the show are on…
Attention, Juggalos: You might want to position yourself a safe distance from your monitor, for what we’re about to tell you might make you spray Faygo all over that shit, and we can’t be responsible. Dig it: Fresh on the heels of the Gathering, we’ve received word that Insane Clown…
Can’t believe somebody didn’t think of doing this sooner. Oh wait, they did, back in 2009, and we just missed it somehow? Figures. Our bad. My Favorite Bands Festival is more or less what it sounds like: Your favorite bands all playing at the same bill. Well, except it’s not…
On August 31, Danielle de Picciotto, one of the founders of the Love Parade, a huge electronic music festival that went on for over a decade, is coming to the Hinterland Art Space (3254 Walnut Street) to do readings from The Beauty of Transgression, A Berlin Memoir, her personal account…
Every week in an effort to pay tribute to those dedicated to the old-school way of promoting shows by hanging up posters, we make our way around the Mile High City to get a gander of all the eye candy affixed to light posts and such. Here’s the fliers we…
Whoa whoa whoa whoah! Holy ’80s flashback! Howard Jones will be performing his first two albums, Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action, in their entirety at the Summit Music Hall on Saturday, October 15. Even if you’re drawing a blank when HoJo’s name comes up (if you were born around…
Now that most of the graffiti has been scrubbed off the walls, no one is likely to ever mistake the hi-dive for CBGB. Nonetheless, for at least one night, the South Broadway bar will summon the spirit of the legendary NYC institution, with a spate of bands paying tribute to…
Smashing Pumpkins fans, rejoice! Billy Corgan and company are coming back to Denver on Monday, October 10 at the Ogden Theatre. As if the Ogden’s calendar for October wasn’t already stacked enough, the Pumpkins have been added to an impressive lineup that month that includes Ladytron, Cut Copy, Chromeo, Hank…
Every week in an effort to pay tribute to the old-school way of promoting shows by hanging up posters, we make our way around the Mile High City to get a gander of the eye candy. Here’s the fliers we spotted this week across the city on random telephone poles…
Not too long after opening in June of 2010, Wild Ivories dueling piano bar hit a few sour notes when Tim Kirkland, one of the club’s partners, discovered that Caz Bzdek, the club’s founder, was running up a bunch of bills with construction, marketing, advertising and vendors. As a result,…
Smoke ’em if you got ’em: After, ahem, cough, cough, blowing folks away at Summit Music Hall this past spring on his Jet Life Tour, Curren$y is coming back to the Mile High City, with Method Man, on the Smokers Club Tour, with Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA, Fiend, The Pricks,…
Fresh off the heels of a European tour and with a new album in the can, Down, fronted by Phil Anselmo of Pantera and Superjoint Ritual, is coming back to Denver on Tuesday, September 6…
Correction: DMX performs on September 10 at the Gothic. An earlier version of this post had the incorrect date. Fresh out of the clink, DMX is making his way to the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, September 10. After serving most of a year-long parole violation sentence in Yuma, Arizona, the…
So Pitchfork is reporting this morning that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s highly anticipated Watch the Throne tour, which we told you was coming to Denver on Monday, October 10, is no longer coming to town on that date. The tour has apparently being rerouted due to “overwhelming demand,” says Billboard,…
When Pineapple Express was originally scheduled to be screened at Red Rocks a few weeks ago as part of Film on the Rocks, it was canceled due to a lightning storm. Keith Garcia, programming manager for Denver Film Society, said it was the first time the organization had to cancel…
After Kings of Leon’s trainwreck of a show in Dallas over the weekend, it’s not all that surprising to hear that the band has canceled the rest of its current tour, including a two night stand at Red Rocks on August 31 and September 1. “We are so sorry to…
Chloe Mezze Lounge, Lotus Concepts’ latest endeavor, just opened, as and Mike’s Tavern moved into the former Len & Bill’s space on South Broadway, and there were a string of closures in the month of July, including Twisted Olive, Mind Benders and more. Click through for a full run down…
One of the best parts about living in America is freedom. The freedom to sing, dance, play in the streets, wear duct-tape skirts, paint your face for televised events and, most importantly, worship false idols. That’s right, American Idol has invaded Denver yet again in search of that one voice,…
The Fixx’s show with with Naked Eyes at the Summit on Saturday, August 6 has been canceled. The outfit had to cancel seven dates on the tour between July 23 and August 6, including Denver. While there’s no official word on why the shows were canceled, there were reports that…
Doom metal is alive and well in Denver. And what better time to bask in the realm of doom as we enter into the thick of holiday season than to have an entire evening devoted to downtuned guitars? Precisely. Needless to say, our little hearts were brimming with inextinguishable glee…
It’s hard to believe that Suburban Home Records has been around nearly two decades now. Seriously. Where does the time go? The label — home to heralded bands like the Gamits and Drag the River over the years — has weathered a lot of storms and this coming September, it…
