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Thievery Corporation – June 13th – Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Estimated read time 6 min read

An air of mystical excitement filled Red Rocks on Friday the 13th. The curious date was met with another peculiar happening: a full moon, a combo which won’t be seen again until 2049. All of this made for a fantastic yet somewhat eerie mood within the crowd. Put it together with the enchanting Electronic World Dance music of Thievery Corporation at the world famous venue Red Rocks and what do you get? “It’s going to be spiritual,” I heard one guy say. His prediction was spot-on.

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Burning Man – August 27 – September 3 – Black Rock City, NV

Estimated read time 9 min read

Burning Man is much more than just a temporary community. It’s a city in the desert dedicated to radical self reliance, radical self-expression, and art. Innovative sculpture, art installations, performance art, theme camps, art cars, and costumes all represent forms of artistic expression on the playa. Elements of the abstract and surreal are everywhere as long horned steers and cans of Spam rise from the desert floor that surround the Man and the Temple.

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All Good Funk Alliance – Jacks Of All Trades

Estimated read time 2 min read

After dropping the Rhythm and FX EP and touring in March, All Good Funk Alliance is back with the release of their latest album, Jacks Of All Trades. We have been waiting for this album ever since Jon Horvath of Fort Knox Five and Fort Knox Recordings told us “the All Good Funk Alliance album is one of the best things that we’ve done on the label, thus far.”

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See-I – March 15th – Cervantes’ Ballroom

Estimated read time 3 min read

Proud of their musical heritage in their neighborhood of Five Points, Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and The Other Side book music for Denver’s more adventurous listeners. Looking for the next big thing, they often book artists that are difficult to categorize. Last Thursday’s line-up is a prime example, as a one-man band Zach Deputy, playing his self-proclaimed “Island-Infused Drum n’ Bass Gospel Ninja Soul” opened up for See-I, an equally diverse DC super group that features members of Thievery Corporation.

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All Good Funk Alliance – Rhythm & FX EP

Estimated read time 3 min read

On March 6th, renegade Funk n’ Soul label Fort Knox Recordings dropped All Good Funk Alliance’s Rhythm & FX EP on Beatport. Although no strangers to Fort Knox faithful, having appeared on Fort Knox Five’s Dodge City Rockers EP, this EP is the group’s first on the label and it lays the groundwork for the release of the brand new All Good Funk Alliance full length album Jacks of All Trades which is due out in May.

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See-I Talks Crooning And Dinner With Herb

Estimated read time 9 min read

As the Saturday evening party crowd at Cervantes’ paid their bar tabs and filed out onto Welton Street to find their way home or wherever it is people go at 2 AM, Rootz, Zeebo, Rob, and Frank of See-I were kind enough to sit down and to talk to us at Listen Up Denver! about crooning, Dinner With Herb, and their new Remix Compilation that drops next Tuesday.

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See-I – November 11th – Cervantes’ Ballroom

Estimated read time 4 min read

Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom lies in the middle of Denver’s Five Point Neighborhood, where the thriving music scene in this town was born. Cervantes’ has a long history and on Friday night the room that once hosted the great James Brown was again filled with strains of Funk and Soul. The only difference was that this time those classic sounds were blended with Reggae and Dancehall as See-I brought their signature sound back to Denver.

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See-I – Remix EP

Estimated read time 3 min read

On their debut album, See-I blended roots and dancehall music with funk, dub, and rock, to create a new brand of reggae. On their new 4 track EP, tracks are remixed and taken a step further, expanding the musical limits already pushed by the originals as they invite the mightiest producers and remixers from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary and the USA to record their own unique remixes.

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Fort Knox Five – March 25th – Cervantes

Estimated read time 3 min read

Fort Knox Five brought their live band to Denver for the first time on Friday and it was a night of Funk, Breaks, Reggae, Hip-Hop and they even managed to throw in a cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown” before it was all over.