Umphrey’s McGee at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, 9/14/12. Photos and review of the concert in Morrison, Colorado.

Umphrey’s McGee returns to Colorado for two-night run this weekend with shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the Boulder Theater

String Cheese Incident at Red Rocks: To go or not to go? A case for diversity in Colorado music

Photos and review of Umphrey’s McGee at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado

Album reviews: Superchunk, “Foolish,” Umphrey’s McGee, “Death By Stereo,” T.J. Miller, “The Extended Play E.P.”

Sunday night, for the second year in a row, seasoned rockers Umphrey’s McGee headlined Red Rocks Amphitheatre as the first half of their Red Rocks & Blue event – topped off at the Boulder Theater on Monday. In addition to two action-packed sets by Umphrey’s, the night featured guest performances by the New Mastersounds and the Easy Star All-Stars.

A look at the Red Rocks summer concert calendar for 2011 in Morrison, Colorado

Umphrey’s McGee offers tight instrumentation at the Fillmore

Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas played a crowd-pleasing set at Jazz Aspen Snowmass that departed from the heritage rockers’ previous sets. Photos by Lewis Cooper. Aging rockers and electrifying hip-hop made odd bedfellows on Labor Day weekend at Jazz Aspen Snowmass, the three-day summer-closing music festival set at the base of Snowmass Village. Performances over the weekend were uniformly strong, but the truth is even mediocre performances might get a pass given the spectacular mountain views and the relaxed vibe.

[photopress:mule4.jpg,full,pp_image] Whether on covers or his own songs, Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes hit all the right notes at Red Rocks on Sunday. Photos and text by Candace Horgan. I worship guitarists in general, and have ever since I fell in love with rock ‘n’ roll after hearing Led Zeppelin when I was 10. However, there are guitarists and there is Warren Haynes, one of the hardest working artists in rock. The night after Haynes played with the Allman Brothers, he was back at Red Rocks [...]