This week was possibly one of the most difficult weeks we’ve ever had choosing a flier of the week. There were a few really noteworthy, awesome fliers out there, but it was this Hot Congress Label Night one that really left a lasting impression…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week. On the concert front: The Fox Theatre and Boulder Theater are hosting the first annual Boulder Blues and Roots Summit. Bad Brains is coming to the Summit Music Hall in August and Blues Traveler is coming back to Red Rocks…
Cafe Europa’s general manager, Adam Azeris, is bringing a little piece of Brooklyn right here into Denver. The coffee shop at Penn and Bayaud has been respectfully dubbed “Wu-Ropa,” in honor of one of the most legendary rap groups of all time…
Oh dear Lord, brace yourselves: Charlie Sheen is bringing his winning ways to Denver. His Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not An Option tour — or as we like to call it, his “Holy Shit! I Really Fucked Myself there But Good, Didn’t I? Better Come Up with a Cheap…
Psst! We just heard from a little birdy that So What! is having a reunion. What is SoWhat!, you ask? Only one of the most popular, longest-running, progressive, influential nights in town. Not to mention resilient. Let’s talk about resiliency. Think the Solution has thrived despite enduring its share of…
You know what was awesome about 1985? It marked the first year we ever saw a Garbage Pail Kids trading card, which helped spawn an era of disgusting children’s toys. From Madballs to Ren and Stimpy, kids in the ’80s and ’90s had plenty of gross stuff to choose from…
Casselman’s Bar & Venue, a live-music venue in the Ballpark neighborhood that’s been open almost two years, is slated to reopen tomorrow, Wednesday, March 16, after getting slapped with a suspension notice for violating the Colorado liquor code. The spot, which has been closed since Saturday, will reopen just in…
Okay, so we know it’s not next Wednesday yet and we’ve already picked a flier of the week for this week. Regardless, we just peeped the flier for Pure Sunshine, the Rick Kulwicki benefit coming up two weekends from now at the Bluebird, and we though it was so rad,…
Noise shows seem to happen in spurts in Denver. One weekend there will be seventeen different shows going on and then there won’t any for a month and half. Thankfully, Backwards Records has decided to resurrect the monthly series first started by Jonathan Canady and Matt Jones in 1997. Night…
Purple: Perhaps the least popular color in the Crayola box next to taupe and coral. Save for fans of Prince, the Minnesota Vikings, the Fluid and Grimace, it’s not exactly the most enticing color in the world. Amazingly, however, the Uncertain Sea has combined purple with a sort of sea…
Psst. What do you have planned for Saturday, April 23? Too far ahead? We know what we’re doing. We just circled that date on our calendar in bright-red ink. From what we hear, that’s the day the lovely and talented Ms. Lauryn Hill will finally make her way back to…
As reported last week, the Avett Brothers will be at Red Rocks in July, while Warren Haynes and Cake are due at the Ogden in May and June respectively. Also, Arctic Monkeys, who have been working on their fourth album, make their way back to the Ogden again on Monday,…
Mark your calendars: We’ve just heard that the Avett Brothers are due at Red Rocks on Saturday, July 9, with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. Presale begins on Tuesday, March 8. Tickets officially on sale next Saturday. Don’t snooze. How quickly do you think that bad boy is going to…
Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…
Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…
Denver Noise Fest may very well be the loudest, most chaotic event that Denver sees on a yearly basis. It can give you tinnitus in the span of four minutes, cause an upset stomach in ten and rupture your bowels in twenty. That is to say, it’s the most fun…
Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on…
You know what’s awesome about dream catchers? They catch your dreams and turn them into reality. Well, that’s how we’ve always understood it — though we’ve never actually researched it. Anyway, this flier for the Bonnie & the Beard release party might just be a dream come true, as releasing…
Country superstar Toby Keith says he used to play in Colorado quite a bit, including five-night stints at the Grizzly Rose, and so it made sense to open his ninth and largest Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Denver. Keith stopped by his 22,000 square-foot Northfield Stapleton…
Having just won a Grammy for Album of the Year for The Suburbs, the Arcade Fire kicks off its North American tour at the 1STBANK Center on Saturday, April 9, a week before the Montreal-based band headlines Coachella. Local Natives opens the show. General-admission tickets ($40) go on sale this…
While this year’s line-up for the the 8th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival is still being solidified and won’t be announced until April, we do know legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller will headlines this year’s fest, which is Saturday, May 21 at venues along Welton Street in historic Five Points. Fuller,…
Not very often are we won over by a flier that lacks the essential flier things like typography, solid design and a good color choice — but every once and a while one slips through that’s filled with so much damn heart and soul it’s impossible not to love. That’s…
