John Bear
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Longmont, CO, United States
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Denver Nonprofit Punk Rock Saves Lives Raises Mental Health Awareness Across the U.S.
Rob Rushing raises mental health and harm reduction awareness through his nonprofit. → Read More
Deer Creek's Menticide Is a Slab of Doom
Deer Creek has been playing doom in Denver for twenty years. → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: Ska Covers of Country Classics, and More New Releases From Colorado Bands
You never know what you might find when you listen to a cross-section of Colorado music, because the state has so many flavors to sample — and this week's lineup is no exception. There's a two-tone ska band playing country classics, along with snotty hardcore, a twangy Christmas remix, post-rock guitar instrumentals, post-metal experimentation and intriguing indie rock. → Read More
The Man Cubs Would Love to Talk About Bruno
The Man Cubs cover Disney songs in a pop-punk style, and its latest is "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto. → Read More
Drag Race's Alaska Thunderfuck on Red 4 Filth and the Club Q Tragedy
Alaska Thunderfuck plays the Bluebird Theater in Denver on Sunday, December 18. → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: Blues Rock, Indie Pop and More New Music Releases From Denver
This week's offerings include some fuzzed-out blues rock, acoustic indie, reverb-heavy Americana and melancholy Americana, indie pop, and more. → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: Classic Hip-Hop, Industrial Metal and More New Music Released in Denver
This week's releases include industrial metal madness, classic hip-hop, genre-punching use of Auto-Tune, virtuosic violin coupled with bass music, metal-adjacent instrumentals and dub magic. → Read More
OFF!'s Keith Morris on Free LSD, the Band's New Album and Upcoming Conspiracy Theory Movie
OFF!'s Keith Morris discusses the band's latest album, Free LSD, and a conspiracy theory movie of the same name. → Read More
Old Crow Medicine Show Raising Money for Take Note Colorado at Mission Ballroom
Old Crow Medicine Show plays the Mission Ballroom to raise funds for Take Note Colorado on Thursday, December 6. → Read More
The Timberline's Music Is 'Somewhere Between American Pie and Requiem for a Dream'
“If your music were a movie, what movie would it be?” → Read More
Neon the Bishop's Kendall James on Horror Influences and 'A Damn Good First Impression'
When Neon the Bishop’s Kendall James wrote the lyrics to the band's latest single, “A Damn Good First Impression,” he thought about his tendency to put his best self forward. → Read More
Record Thieves' 'Dark Hearts' Offers a New Sound From the Denver Punk Band
Record Thieves' Jim Wilcox speaks about the Denver punk band's latest single, "Dark Hearts." → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: The Best New Music Released From Denver
This week, trash. bombs your brain with three tracks of angsty alternative, and Talia Hoit, who is in at least three symphonic metal bands, delivers a surprisingly somber release. → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: New Music Released From Denver and Beyond
This week we’ve got shoegazing and hip hop hanging out, noisy blues rock, obscure early 1980s post punk, lo-fi indie instrumentals and soul-infused rock and roll. → Read More
New Music Podcast Mile High Stash Asks: What Five Records Will Score Your Zombie Apocalypse?
Denver musician and writer Adam Perry’s podcast, Mile High Stash, asks musicians what albums they would listen to during a zombie apocalypse. → Read More
Denver Irish Band Avourneen to Cover the "Best Breakup Record," Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
Irish music and Bob Dylan have a lot in common, says Adam Goldstein of Denver-based Irish band Avourneen, which plays Swallow Hill Music on Sunday, November 20. → Read More
The Murlocs' Sixth Record Tells the Story of Rapscallion
The Murlocs’ frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith was a bit of a wild child growing up in southern Australia, skateboarding and roaming the streets with his pals. → Read More
Put It on Your Playlist: The Best New Music Released in Denver and Beyond
BTTRFLY Quintet releases its debut album, the Runaway Grooms drop a single and more. → Read More
Reno Divorce Remembers Bass Player With Benefit for His Family
Reno Divorce frontman Brent Loveday considered bassist Johnny Crow a brother, and took to calling him “Junior” when he joined the band in 2011. → Read More
The Salt Lick Denver Moved to Little Saigon for Sunnier Digs
Jason Edelstein and Andrea Hoang co-founded the Salt Lick Denver collective in 2020 with a recording studio and music video production studio → Read More