July 2014

Steely Dan ‘Jamalot—[a Lot!]—Ever After’: The Show Biz Kids Are Still Pioneering Music on the New Frontier

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world~ Percy Shelley

Following an already action-packed summer that has included both Summer Camp Music Festival and Wakarusa Music Festival, Mountain Standard Time begins their July residency at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom Other Side as part of the venue’s weekly bluegrass concert series, “Grass For That Ass.” The band will perform four consecutive Thursdays at Cervantes’ Other Side featuring a towering list of supporting artists including Yarn, The Drunken Hearts, Caribou Mountain Collective and many more, plus additional artists join the

Today, progressive funk collective The Motet announce their annual Halloween shows along Colorado’s Front Range, and unveil this year’s always-anticipated theme for the legendary parties:  “Mixtape 1975.”  The Motet’s “Mixtape 1975” Halloween run makes stops at Vilar PAC in Beaver Creek, the Boulder Theater, and Denver’s Ogden Theatre, with an additional Colorado show still to be announced.  Tickets go on sale Friday, July 11 at 10am MDT at

Leftover Salmon is excited to announce their 2014 Fall Tour featuring Bill Payne of Little Feat for the majority of the shows. This September Leftover Salmon performs a couple of shows in Michigan before heading to Phases of the Moon Music and Arts Festival in Illinois.

For the first time since they started headlining Red Rocks, Umphrey’s McGee achieved a sellout on Saturday night at the famed amphitheater. They proceeded to demonstrate over the course of two fiery sets exactly why it was such a hot ticket.

Lotus announces the new album, Gilded Age, to be self released digitally and on vinyl on July 22nd. It includes six new, rock focused tracks and four down-tempo electronic remixes. Relix premieres the album video preview offering insights into the making of the album (view).