From the right, guitarist Tom Morello and singer Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine and Flobots MC Jamie Laurie, a.k.a. Jonny 5, lead a march after an anti-war concert at the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
The music event that was characterized as having the largest potential this week for violence between activists and police went off Wednesday more like a mass training in peaceful resistance.
Joined by like-minded anti-war rockers State Radio, the Coup, Flobots, Jello Biafra and Wayne Kramer from [...]

“Hello, Denver! Meet the… er… Beatles!” Text and photos by Lisa Gedgaudas.
1964 was a big year in music history and the Beatles led the way when they jogged across the Atlantic from Liverpool. The Fab Four appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show followed by concerts in over 25 states, including Colorado at the beloved Red Rocks Amphitheatre. On Saturday, and over 44 years later, that night was honored by one of the biggest and most critically acclaimed Beatles tribute bands, 1964.
The 1964 The Tribute has [...]

“Does anyone remember ‘Degrassi Junior High’? Anyone?” Photos by Joe McCabe.
Mike Park, the founder of Asian Man Records played an intimate acoustic set at the Marquis Theater on Friday night. Co-headlining was Sundowner, Chris McCaughan’s Chicago-based acoustic side project from the Lawrence Arms.
Chris and Mike traded various tour stories throughout the night (which included Mike Park’s attempt to find Spike, from the late ’80s television show Degrassi High, in the middle of Toronto). Supporting the two headlining acts were the Quiet Ones from Seattle and [...]

The Apples in Stereo returned to the land of their birth on Monday night. Photo from Post-Rockist.
Amid all the hype and hoopla surrounding the Democratic National Convention this week, Red Rocks and the Denver Film Society hosted the first Cinemocracy Rocks! show on Monday, one of the few events open to the general public related (albeit loosely) to the convention.
The evening was anchored around an online film festival by cinemocracy.org, wherein filmmakers were invited to upload short films answering the question, “What is democracy?”

Robert Randolph and his Family Band were so smoking Monday night at the Head Count party at the Ogden Theater, firemen stormed the building ready to beat back the flames.
OK, that’s a cheesy cliché. But it’s true. Some nitwit pulled the fire alarm halfway through Randolph’s first encore. The ever-grinning and head-bobbing Randolph played along, even seemingly tweaking his rhythm to merge with the wah-wahing alarm and flashing lights.
So the show ended a tad early, but Ogdenites left undeniably sated after a solid two hours [...]

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Slim (left) and Munly Munly preached to the punk choir at the Bluebird Theater on Saturday. Photos by Joe McCabe.
Colorado’s in the blood of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. It’s an essential part of the band’s DNA, a fiber of its being. Its dreary Southern Gothic alt-country is as much of a reminder of Denver’s cow town days as an updated, urbanized reminder of the city’s place playing host to the Democratic National Convention.
Its religious bent whirls the fundamentalism of Marilyn Musgrave’s constituents in Northern Colorado [...]

NOFX are still jerks — thank God. Photo from the band’s MySpace profile.
If I were to correctly recount all of what was said, done, and insinuated by NOFX at the Punk Rocks show at Red Rocks Friday night, a passerby of this article could snap up my words, stray them from context, and accuse me of being a racist, a pervert and a bad writer. But I can only write the truth, and what would a NOFX show be without talk of lesbians feeling each [...]

Politicians’ appearances often eclipsed the entertainment on stage at the Colorado Convention Center on Sunday. Photos and text by Jason Blevins.
A small army of German Sherpherds sniffed every inch of the Colorado Convention Center’s grand hall before the delegates swarmed stations of steaming gumbo, red beans and rice and loads of crawfish. Officially a welcome party for delegates, it served as a sort-of preliminary party for tonight’s Cajun cranking festival at the Fillmore.
The night began with the Wild Chapatulas, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and his [...]