Describing the Durham-based Hiss Golden Messenger is like trying to grasp a forgotten word: It’s always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor’s music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbook—the steady, churn ...more details.

Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger

Venue: Globe Hall

Jonathan Richman has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. Jonathan and his drummer Tommy Larkins win fans wherever they play. In the early 1970s, Jonathan formed the noted band The Modern Lovers. Tommy Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular band ...more details.

Artist: Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkins

Venue: Swallow Hill Music / Daniels Hall

Guitarist Bombino is a new voice of the Sahara and Sahel region of Africa, fusing traditional Berber rhythms with the energy of rock and roll and songs about peace. Bombino extols his audience to remember who they are, but also realize who they can be. Known as the "Hendrix of the Sahara," Vieux Far ...more details.

Artist: Bombino and Vieux Farka Toure // Church In The City

Venue: Swallow Hill Music

Rapidgrass embodies the notion that nature, and particularly mountains, can bring out the best in our art, and we have dedicated much of our creative energy into bringing that art back to the people of the mountains. Rapidgrass focuses on travel to mountain towns and inspires mountain people and ath ...more details.

Artist: Rapidgrass and Sam Reider & The Human Hands

Venue: Swallow Hill Music / Daniel's Hall

Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t pretty and neither is Scott H. Biram. The self proclaimed ‘Dirty Old One Man Band’ successfully, and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly and country precariously to raucous punk and godless metal.

Artist: Scott Biram / The Goddamn Gallows

Venue: Bluebird Theater

Citing influences ranging from 16 Horsepower to John Prine to Nick Cave to the Staples Singers, Amigo the Devil helps dark hearts tell their love stories one song at a time.

Artist: Amigo The Devil

Venue: The Marquis Theater

Over the past decade, Cass McCombs has established himself as one of our premier songwriters. It’s a career that’s twisted and turned, from style to subject, both between records and within them.

Artist: Cass McCombs

Venue: Ophelia's Electric Soapbox

This duo of twin sisters add colors of disco, psychedelia, funk and soul to their folk-pop palette. This show is billed as a “Halloween Tribute to Dirty Dancing, w/Special Guest Mama Magnolia.”

Artist: Shook Twins

Venue: Fox Theatre

"Repetition is a form of change," reads one of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. Seth Haley knows the concept well, and his style of technicolour synth-wave takes the mantra as a challenge -- how much emotion can one man convey through his machines?

Artist: Com Truise

Venue: Fox Theatre

There’s a place, deep in the cosmos, where jam bands and electronic dance music intersect with rhythm-driven funk. You’ll feel like you’re floating here but not lost completely to the atmospheric elements. Instead, you’re tethered to an avant-garde spaceship with Colorado-based SunSquabi on the freq ...more details.

Artist: SUNSQUABI

Venue: Boulder Theater

Yung Bae is a DJ out of Portland OR. His combination of vocal samples, funky clips and quick drums come together to make an original yet familiar sound. This force of music makes it impossible to not move your feet.

Artist: Yung Bae

Venue: The Marquis Theater

Policulture is the original mountain reggae band from Boulder, CO. Emanating heavy drum and bass with a roots rhythm, melodic horn section, and conscious lyrics, Policulture’s positive vibes and sound are inspired by the roots reggae tradition, and shaped by their upbringing and environment.

Artist: POLICULTURE & DUBBEST, Fists of the Proletariat

Venue: The Fox Theatre

Cobb's musical style has been described as blue collar country with bluegrass-leaning inclinations. Some have noted that his pure rural, country, soul sound is closer to Americana than contemporary country music, and his voice has been compared to Willie Nelson, Al Green, and Merle Haggard.

Artist: Brent Cobb & Them

Venue: The Bluebird Theater

With driving rhythm and tight three-part vocal harmonies, Bowregard's underpinnings in traditional bluegrass meld with old-time, Americana, and progressive sensibilities to provide the foundation for their fresh original songwriting. Bowregard are reigning winners of the Telluride Bluegrass Band con ...more details.

Artist: BOWREGARD + THE CHARLIE ROSE BAND (OF ELEPHANT REVIVAL)

Venue: Fox Theatre

From their humble beginnings as an acoustic trio, The Drunken Hearts have evolved into an electric five-piece Americana band fearlessly infusing spirited vocals with electric and acoustic instruments, and crafting heartfelt songs that are resonating with crowds everywhere.

Artist: The Drunken Hearts

Venue: The Fox Theatre

As with many of Vetiver's better moments, on his latest album, sunshine is only a chord away from melancholy. An introspective lyric underlies an extroverted chorus. Subtlety tries to be outgoing, loneliness familiar, in an effort to connect the dots of life's ellipsis.

Artist: Vetiver

Venue: Ophelia's Electric Soapbox

Donna the Buffalo offers everything you want in a roots band -- songs that matter, a groove that makes you dance, an audience that spans generations, and a musical voice that evokes a sense of community.

Artist: Donna The Buffalo

Venue: Swallow Hill Music / Daniels Hall

From New Jersey, John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania. Many well known artists have recorded and/or performed John Gorka songs, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Mary Black and Maura O’Connell. John ha ...more details.

Artist: John Gorka

Venue: Swallow Hill Music / Daniels Hall

Soul music pours out of Lee Fields, as free and unstinting as God’s love. It has ever since the 1960s, when he was a teenager in North Carolina sweating it out on juke joint stages, crumpled dollars hailing at his feet. It continues now that the living legend is in his late sixties, ushering in the ...more details.

Artist: Lee Fields & The Expressions

Venue: Globe Hall

KGNU Community Radio and Lion's Lair Quarterly Showcase is back with another one this one is stacked with a wide range of genres and styles. This quarter we are celebrating local Denver and Boulder music from local artists. Artists include The Milk Blossoms, Lady Gang, My New Dad, as well as Joshua ...more details.

Artist: KGNU & Lions Lair Quarterly Showcase February Edition!

Venue: Lion's Lair, Denver CO

Warm, analogue dreamwave; mind-altering glitch; world-infused groove; bass-fueled breaks; sexified down-tempo; electric lullabies; and psy-fi funk are just a few of the genres that have poured from the Polish Ambassador’s soul into earbuds and ghetto-blasters across the galaxy, earning him the title ...more details.

Artist: The Polish Ambassador

Venue: The Boulder Theater

Warm, analogue dreamwave; mind-altering glitch; world-infused groove; bass-fueled breaks; sexified down-tempo; electric lullabies; and psy-fi funk are just a few of the genres that have poured from the Polish Ambassador’s soul into earbuds and ghetto-blasters across the galaxy, earning him the title ...more details.

Artist: The Polish Ambassador

Venue: Boulder Theater

Ring in 2020 with this Brooklyn-based nine-piece that delivers horn-filled funk incorporating elements of R&B, psychedelic pop, gospel, Afro-pop, New Wave, classic rock, and just about any genre that gets people dancing.

Artist: TURKUAZ with SWATKINS & THE POSITIVE AGENDA

Venue: The Boulder Theater

Ardalan is a Tehran-born, San Francisco-based DJ & music producer. In his unique style, genres are fused together and twisted into captivating new takes on house, techno, and beyond.

Artist: Ardalan

Venue: The Fox Theatre