Denver-rooted songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff is recording a live album at the Mercury Cafe, he announced on his website today.

PHOTOS and review of Prudence Mabhena at the Mercury Cafe in Denver, Colorado

Chamber pop group Fairchildren are playing a benefit Tuesday for a Haitian music school that has remained open in the earthquake’s aftermath.

Tonight: Mother Folkers

The Mile High Makeout: DeVotchKa gives its hometown a New Year’s present

[insertReverbPhoto id="85713" photo="1"] Sardines are nice on pizza, but you don’t necessarily want to feel like one on New Year’s Eve. Photo by Brian Carney. Take one big Denver band. Add a National Day of Drinking/excellent party excuse. Subtract the space the band would normally command. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know it adds up to “crowded as hell.” DeVotchKa’s New Year’s Eve show at the relatively small (300-person capacity) Mercury Cafe was marred by the sardine-packed, standing-room only nature of the crowd [...]

[photopress:de.JPG,full,pp_image] How young is too young to see Denver mariachi-gypsy-punks DeVotchKa play live? Think “womb.” Photo by Julio Enriquez. Local music titans DeVotchKa have stayed true to their roots by keeping them firmly planted in the blooming Denver musical landscape. It’s tradition for the quartet to play the intimate (capacity: 300 people) Mercury Cafe over a two-day period to commemorate a hard year’s work and reward their fans for their dedication by sticking through the years. However, this year was a bit different. View a [...]

[photopress:joe_1.jpg,full,pp_image] Joseph Pope (pictured), the Wheel and Ian Cooke performed at the Mercury Cafe on Saturday. Photos by Brian Carney. It was a special night at the Mercury Cafe. Denver’s three-day virtual monsoon had just ended and an appropriately entertainment-starved crowd had ventured out last Saturday evening. There was a regal feeling in the room, brought on by all the well-dressed performers and soft lighting, glimmering light strings hanging from the rafters. And most unusual? The entire crowd was SEATED — no standing folks on [...]