Hot Rod Rock & Rumble is the Rocky Mountain Region’s premier Kustom Kulture festival. Kustom Kulture is the name for the art, vehicles, and fashions of people who drove and built custom cars, trucks and motorcycles in the US from the 50’s through today.
Taking place this weekend (August 27, 28, 29) Hot Rod Rock & Rumble is Colorado’s premier Rockabilly and Kustom Kulture festival. Pikes Peak Hot Rod Rock & Rumble celebrates the art, vehicles, hairstyles, and fashions of those who drove and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. Since no celebration would be complete without music, Pikes Peak Hot Rod Rock & Rumble is bringing 20+ bands, revues, DJ’S & emcees to 4 different stages throughout the weekend.
Punk Rock Saves Lives is a non-profit organization helping focus on health concerns, equal rights, human rights, and more. Knowing how difficult the deafening silence of this pandemic is PRSL organized a musical livestream last weekend. Rob Rushing and PRSL brought Reno Divorce live from an empty EastFax Tap straight into our homes!
The Santa Cruz, California band Good Riddance returned to Denver after a mere thirteen years and were welcomed by joyous fans. The band has been around since 1986, but broke up for five years, reuniting in 2012. The band decided to do a two-city tour and luckily Denver was on of the cities on this great Political Punk bands’ itinerary. The band came onstage to Old West theme music, fans crowded the stage, fists in the air, while a moshpit raged behind them.
The Walnut Room was packed for an acoustic night of music played by some of Punk Rock’s greatest doing a full night of acoustic performances. Several drunks were shushed during the show as it was a quiet room and at times hard to hear the performers over them. Despite the annoyance, the laid-back audience didn’t seem to care too much, they were just happy to see the Punk Rock superstar Joey Cape live in a piano bar or singer/songwriter type of setting rather than a raucous Punk club.
On August 16th, droves of Denverites came out for the Punk/Ska/Rock extravaganza that is the SummerGrind festival. The one day event, featuring 25 bands spread across three venues on S. Broadway in Englewood, was jam-packed with great acts – including big names like Morning Glory, Reno Divorce and The Suicide Machines, and a whole deluge of amazing local acts, creating a perfect storm of musical mayhem. Though it was hot at the outdoor stage, the AC in the Gothic offered a welcome retreat into a whole other world of madness.
Aging punk rockers gathered at the Bluebird Theater last Friday for a night packed with great music. In addition to seeing The Queers performing their highest-selling record, “Love Songs for the Retarded,” fans enjoyed the influential band Angry Samoans, Denver-local band Reno Divorce, as well as the surprise hit of the night, Stabbed In Back.
Reverend Horton Heat brought their high-energy Psychobilly sound to The Ogden Theatre last weekend and delivered a rowdy show that had every toe in the place tapping along with highlights from all of their studio albums and some choice covers that ranged from Chuck Berry to The Dead Kennedys. The straight forward punk and complex melodies of local boys, Reno Divorce, opened the show and set the stage for fast and furious night on Colfax.