“Home for New Year’s,” said String Cheese Incident bassist Keith Moseley at the 1stBank Center early Saturday night. Calling it the “Hometown Throwdown,” it is the first time the band has played a Denver-area New Year’s run, and the first time the band has played New Year’s in Colorado since 1996, when they played in Telluride.

“I’m really glad I’m not acid right now,” my friend said during moe.’s dark and frenetic jamming of the song “Ricky Marten” on Saturday night at the Ogden. Indeed, for those who prefer their jam music in the style that another friend of mine described as “happy happy, joy joy,” moe.’s fierce, guitar-driven music might come as a shock.

The Phil Lesh- and Bob Weir-fueled jam powerhouse known as Furthur loves it some Colorado — just as the Grateful Dead favored the Rocky Mountain state before them.

So we’re not totally surprised that the band just announced a big Colorado swing for February 2013.

The New Mastersounds blew up the Other Side Saturday night, churning through an acid-jazz, deep-funk dance lesson that kept the joint jumping ‘til almost 3 a.m.

Trampled By Turtles announces two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre in Denver, Colorado in January 2013. Full details here.

Steve Kimock at the Oriental Theater on Saturday, 10/20/12. Review of the concert in Denver, Colorado.

Steal This Track: Rowdy Americana from the Legendary River Drifters and jazzy funk from In Due Time

=Sleigh Bells will push the limits at the Boulder Theater on Monday

Treasure Island Music Festival photos: Public Enemy, Girl Talk, the XX, M83, Divine Fits, more

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