About an hour to the show at Mission Ballroom, The Lumineers’ Wesley Shultz shared with a poignant anecdote. It was about a decade ago that he and drummer Jeremiah Schultz were fine-tuning their first tunes before the bar in the Meadowlark’s open mic nights, a clinic that he likened to listening through others’ ears. On
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Heads up, Billy Joel and Zac Brown Band fans: The upcoming Coors Field concerts by those musicians on Aug. 8 and 9, respectively, will have some different policies than are normally in place at Rockies matches, according to a press release in the group. No bags will be allowed except bags and equipment, and these
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Rock legend Peter Frampton said goodbye to Red Rocks Amphitheatre last night through his farewell tour, capping a 53-year career by playing another sold-out venue. However, before he can make his last stand, the weather needed to chime into show its dismay at his retiring. As Jason Bonham was going to take the stage to
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Don Strasburg recalls the time, about five years back, when he was driving to a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a place that his company books more shows at any other promoter. “I visit a building on both sides of Highway 6 using this large sign that states, ‘For Lease. Contact Tyler,’ and I did
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If there’s anything as laidback professionalism, Flaural has it. Seated across a wooden table at the RiNo pub Pon Pon last week, the members of the Denver rock band — all of fashionably scruffy dudes inside their mid-to-late 20s — sounded relaxed but strategic, sipping on hair-of-the-dog beers and sparkling water below a hot, bright
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There were three strikes against Diana Ross until she even came on stage in Red Rocks Monday night. Her people didn’t allow any media to photograph the show — a pity, really, because Ross’ 75th birthday bash at the prestigious place was a historic moment that had been documented much better than with fuzzy iPhone
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Post Malone Plays Throughout the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 21, 2018 in Indio, California. Even the Texas rapper performs Denver’s Pepsi Center this fall. (Frazer Harrison, Getty Images for Coachella) The founders of among 2018’therefore (and early 2019’s) most well-known songs are coming into the
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New Zealand indie rockers The Beths (from left: Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce and Benjamin Sinclair) will headline Globe Hall on July 17. (Provided by Pitch Perfect PR) A great deal of Americans believe they know New Zealand these days, given how the island country has increased in global consciousness because the dawn of the 21st
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Blue Starlite sparkles in Minturn Friday-Aug. 3. Few satisfy as a drive-in film If it regards throwback delights. And theyrsquo;re harder and tougher to get these days, making the Blue Starlite Mountain Drive-In that considerably more precious. For the fourth summer in Colorado, the small-format, Austin, Texas-based screen will set up from its stunning mountain
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With so much progress made toward sex and sexual equity — both legal and cultural — because the dawn of the #MeToo movement in overdue 2017, I was disappointed last week to see promoter Live Nation touting convicted domestic-violence felon Chris Brown because the headliner for KS 107.5’s annual Summer Jam concert. Isn ’t even the
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