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Review – Grandoozy Pulled It Off
With a slight hangover and a second-hand high, Denver closed down the inaugural Grandoozy festival Sunday night. Years…
Denver’s Music Industry Pros Talk Best of 2017
I think we can all agree that 2017 wasn’t what we thought it would be, for better or…
10 Things We Know About the “Super Festival” Coming to Denver
So far there has been very little to go off of regarding the “super festival” allegedly coming to Denver…
Brain Pickin’: Phoenix Brings French Revolution to the Mile High City
Tomorrow night, the French invade the Mile High City, as Parisian powerhouse, indie-rock band, Phoenix, returns to Denver…
Hindsight: Mile High Music Festival
Colorado deserves its own Coachella. Commerce City's Mile High Music Festival isn't quite there yet, but we had to start somewhere. The third installment of Denver's biggest aural smorgasbord definitely featured its most diverse lineup to date. Case and point? Day two Bison Tent headliners Bassnectar and Z-Trip--not to mention the mostly local Beta Beach stage—ramped up the event's electronica edge in a major way. Mootown—as Westword's Dave Herrera would say—ate it up.
Cannabytes: Cypress Hill
Although I've witnessed more than one 4/20 rally since, the first time I'd ever seen anyone openly and defiantly smoke pot in public was at Lollapalooza. Members of Cypress Hill were the perpetrators of the civil disobedience in question. Fiddler's Green security guards looked the other way, probably because greenbacks put their bosses in the black. Simple as that. Mile High Music Festival staff will likely follow similar protocol (“potocol�) this weekend when the hip hop outfit blazes into Dick's Sporting Goods Park.