Photos: Royal & the Serpent Featuring: Royal & the Serpent The Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO 10/3/22 Photos by: Shannon Shumaker
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Anticipation for My Chemical Romance’s return to Denver had been building for two and a half years by the time the band finally took the stage at Ball Arena on Friday night. After multiple postponed and rescheduled shows due to the global pandemic, it came as no surprise to find fans literally wrapped around the building, lining up long before the doors opened. The die-hards were donning homemade Helena-themed dresses, Party Poison and Fun Ghoul jackets, X’s across their eyes or even just classic red eye shadow, proving that, even nine years since their breakup, My Chem still has the…
Photos: My Chemical Romance Featuring: My Chemical Romance Ball Arena – Denver, CO 9/30/22 Photos by: Shannon Shumaker
There’s only one word that can perfectly describe Jagwar Twin’s latest album, 33: Brilliant. From beginning to end, Jagwar Twin – the brainchild of singer, songwriter, producer, and storyteller Roy English – waste absolute no real estate, making the most of all ten genre-bending songs, cumulating in something that feels absolutely epic. From songs like the massive, time-warping “Online” to the disco-tinged “Pay Attention” to hip-hop leaning tracks like “I Like To Party” and “Down To You” all the way to the stunning, theatrical closer, “The Circle”, Jagwar Twin proves again and again that they’re capable of just about anything…
Some of the best albums are the ones that arrive exactly when you need to hear them, and Armor For Sleep’s long-awaited album, The Rain Museum is exactly that. Originally created as a concept album that paints the picture of a post-apocalyptic world where weather no longer exists on earth and people go to a mysterious museum in the middle of the desert to look back on what life used to be like, the devastatingly beautiful twelve track album arrived exactly when it was needed – as many people are looking back and reflecting on what life used to be…
Following the release of their new album, Heroes earlier this month, The Midnight kicked off the highly anticipated Change Your Heart tour last week, making their triumphant return to Denver on the third night of the run. Just one night after performing at the intimate Belly Up in Aspen, and almost a year since their sold-out two-night stint at The Gothic Theatre, it only felt like a natural progression for The Midnight to finally play the much larger Mission Ballroom. Early on in their set, vocalist Tyler Lyle mentioned that it was their largest headlining North American performance yet, and…
Photos: The Midnight Featuring: The Midnight & Nightly Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO 9/24/22 Photos by: Shannon Shumaker The Midnight Nightly
“Just in case we don’t live forever, let’s get the band back together,” vocalist Brian Logan Dales of The Summer Set sings on the final track of Blossom, the band’s first release in six years. It’s a perfectly fitting finale to a long-awaited release that marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for The Summer Set, who are back and better than ever. Comprised of eight genre-spanning, exciting and catchy as hell songs, the aptly-titled Blossom finds the band truly blooming into the best versions of themselves. There isn’t a single second of dead space or filler on the…
Photos: Silverstein & The Amity Affliction Featuring: Silverstein, The Amity Affliction, Holding Absence & UnityTX Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO 9/4/22 Photos by: Shannon Shumaker Silverstein The Amity Affliction Holding Absence UnityTX
After five studio albums, six EP’s, a mixtape and more, blackbear continues to change the game with each new release, and his sixth full-length album, in loving memory is no different. While he has never been afraid to merge genres, ranging from emo and pop-punk to rap and R&B in the past, in loving memory finds blackbear embracing his roots more than ever before, leaning into a heavier, guitar-driven sound and enlisting some musical heroes along the way. Sonically, the twelve-track album serves as a bit of an ode to the music that he grew up listening to, while lyrically,…