Sugaray Rayford headlines this year's highlight on the southern Colorado blues calendar. Jimmy Thackery, the Rockwell Avenue Blues Band and many more round out a full-day's worth of beautiful, blistering blues music.

Artist: Trinidaddio Blues Festival

Venue: Central Park, Trinidad, CO

Scottish post-rockers are back on tour and stopping in Denver. After last year’s soundtrack to the feature film ‘Kin’ they are ready to get back on the road. Mogwai’s music catalogue goes all the way back to 1995 so you’re guaranteed to hear a little bit of everything.

Artist: Mogwai With Papa M

Venue: Summit Music Hall

Born from what was supposed to be a one-night-only star-studded affair in San Francisco in the Fall of 2017, Bone Diggers has evolved into an all-star collective tribute to Paul Simon’s music, performed by some of the nation’s premiere live improvisational musicians. The core group consists of Lebo ...more details.

Artist: Bone Diggers: Paul Simon's Greatest Hits, Explored

Venue: The Fox Theatre

Ritt Momney is the solo project of 19-year-old Salt Lake City native Jack Rutter. Beginning as an indie rock band comprised of high school friends, the project became a personal outlet for Rutter after his bandmates left on Mormon missions and his girlfriend left for college. In his bedroom, he bega ...more details.

Artist: Ritt Momney

Venue: Lost Lake

The music of Wovenhand and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Eugene Edwards has always had an unparalleled intensity. Edwards’ rich, billowing and emotive voice is always the driving force of his music, but it’s catapulted by his spellbinding ability to transform instruments that many people mi ...more details.

Artist: Wovenhand /Jayle Jayle

Venue: Larimer Lounge

Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he’s celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original cr ...more details.

Artist: Mdou Moctar

Venue: Lost Lake

Crumb is the collaboration of Brooklyn-based musicians Lila Ramani (guitar, vocals), Brian Aronow (synth, keys, sax), Jesse Brotter (bass), and Jonathan Gilad (drums). The friends came together in 2016 with the goal of developing and recording a collection of songs Ramani had written in high school ...more details.

Artist: Crumb

Venue: Globe Hall

The blogosphere describes Okey Dokey as "psychedelic doo wop", but if you ask the Nashville duo themselves, they are "just a couple of wizards born to ride". Visual artist Aaron Martin & guitarist Johny Fisher combine the best of psych & soul to send the listener on a nostalgia-laced, dreamland trip ...more details.

Artist: Okey Dokey

Venue: Lost Lake

Tinariwen has become one of the most universal sensations across the entire world. This is the result of the hard work of touring everywhere around the world and churning out eight albums since their genesis. They are still touring with their latest album, Elwan.

Artist: Tinariwen

Venue: The Gothic Theatre

The New Mastersounds are four jazzy, bluesy, funky rockers from Leeds. The last twenty years the band’s recorded catalogue boasts 24 more 7” singles, 13 studio albums, 3 live albums, 1 remix album and 3 compilation albums, released variously in UK, Japan, and USA - where they continue to tour extens ...more details.

Artist: The New Mastersounds - Celebrating 20 Years

Venue: The Fox Theatre

Multi-instrumentalist and singer Random Rab offers a powerful and unique contribution to the West Coast electronic music scene, with his work having diverse influences from ranging from trip-hop, classical, Arabic, jazz, and more.

Artist: Random Rab

Venue: The Fox Theatre

Gwar’s new album, The Blood of Gods, chronicles the rise of humanity against their makers, and the massive battle between GWAR and the forces of all that is uptight and wrong with the world. The legendary metal band challenges a litany of humanities sins, from politics, pollution, and organized reli ...more details.

Artist: Gwar

Venue: Summit Music Hall

FALLING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ROCK, JAZZ AND DYNAMIC ELECTRONIC MAYHEM WE FIND PAPADOSIO. THE ASHEVILLE, NC BASED QUINTET STRIVES TO CREATE MUSIC THAT IS STRANGELY FAMILIAR, AND CALLS ALL WALKS OF HUMANITY TO BASK IN A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE CELEBRATING THE ONE CONSTANT IN AN EVER CHANGING WORLD: MUSIC.

Artist: Papadosio

Venue: Summit Music Hall

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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 + Lion's Lair Quarterly Showcase February Edition!

Venue: Lion's Lair, Denver CO