This week, steal a track from Fort Collins power pop quartet Post Paradise.

Shabazz Palaces and friends brought a showcase of Seattle hip-hop to the Larimer Lounge Monday night.

After a long, hazy 4/20 weekend, Black Mountain proved to be the perfect mind-melting nightcap at the Larimer Lounge on Sunday.

Thursday, Gauntlet Hair announced a follow-up to its 2011 self-titled debut and released a new single called “Human Nature.”

With personnel changes over the past few years, Akron/Family’s sound has evolved from a sort of modernized freak folk into a solid post-rock bulldozer.

One song into her performance at the Larimer Lounge on Wednesday night, someone in the crowd asked Sky Ferreira if her and her four-man backing band had visited Denver’s famous Casa Bonita. They had.

It’s not up for debate. Low’s performance at the Larimer Lounge Friday night in Denver was boring. For most bands, that would mean the show was bad.

Fans had two options for watching Wavves at the Larimer lounge on Tuesday. Just before breaking into “Paranoid” from the Tuesday-released fourth album, “Afraid of Heights,” the band’s late night TV debut on the David Letterman Show rocked across the screens above the bar. Audience members captured video of both the TV program and the live performance happening on stage. It was perfect simulacra – talk about a band with some buzz.

Nathan Williams of Wavves talks about composing his new album without the pressure of a label and his upcoming visit to the newly pot-friendly Colorado.

Here are the best Denver shows this week (March 22-28), including Wavves, Paper Bird, Lord Huron and more.