In 2011, Jammin Joe's moved from Wheat Ridge to its current location in Arvada, a strip-mall spot that was previously home to the Brickhouse Nightclub and the very short-lived Mind Bender's. Since relocating, Jammin' Joe's has brought in a steady parade of local hard-rock acts, as well as '80s hair-metal bands like Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango and Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth. But the spot recently closed to make room for a Walmart that is purportedly being built at that site.

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- Mind Benders closes after a few months
- Blow your mind at Mind Benders
- Smokin' the (karaoke) competition at Smokin' Joe's

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More than fifteen years after the release of Three Dolla Bill, Y'all, Limp Bizkit is back with a brand new album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants, on the Cash Money imprint. In advance of the band's return to Denver in support of that album this weekend, we caught up with Fred Durst yesterday as he was making coffee in Omaha, and we spoke with him a bit about the return of Wes Borland, how Limp Bizkit never died and how the band ended up on Cash Money.

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- Saturday: Limp Bizkit at Fillmore Auditorium, 5/18/13
- The ten best concerts to see in Denver this weekend
- Cash Money signed Limp Bizkit last week. No, really.

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Mike Servito is a New York-based DJ and resident of the monthly Brooklyn techno club night, the Bunker. He came of age in Detroit during the 1990s, and you can hear it in his sound, which pays a substantial debt to many of the legendary mixmasters of that era. Equally inspired by techno heroes Derrick May and Richie Hawtin as he is by house icons Derrick Carter and Ken Collier, Servito has never strayed from his roots.

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- Saturday: Mike Servito at Fusion Factory, 5/18/13
- The best EDM in Denver this weekend
- Why EDM is thriving while other genres aren't

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Brandon Marshall. Slide show: Imagine Dragons and fans at Red Rocks

IMAGINE DRAGONS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 5/16/13
On stage at Red Rocks last night, Dan Reynolds couldn't get over the emotional weight of the moment. "This may be the greatest night of our lives," Reynolds declared after "Round and Round," the band's energetic opener. Later, he marveled, "This is the first time I've ever played a show and been able to see the moon." And then, right before a casual take on "Stand By Me," he thanked the crowd clumsily but sincerely for allowing the band "to do what we love."

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- Slide show: Imagine Dragons and fans at Red Rocks
- Review: Imagine Dragons at Fillmore, 3/23/13
- Slideshow: Imagine Dragons at the Fillmore Auditorium, 3/23/13

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Britt Chester

GLOBAL DUB FESTIVAL @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | FRI, 5/17/13
The music of Excision (due at Red Rocks this weekend with Flux Pavilion, Zomboy, Dirtyphonics and Designer Drugs) is a fitting soundtrack to the desolate, gritty, apocalyptic landscape of a future ruled by homicidal machines. His tunes are warped, stuttering affairs studded with samples from both sci-fi and hip-hop (and probably some sci-fi hip-hop for good measure).

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- Review: Excision at the Ogden Theatre, 2/16/12
- Slideshow: The People of Global Dub Fest, 5/18/12
- Review: Global Dub Festival at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 5/18/12

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Jon Solomon

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & NIGHT SWEATS @ BOULDER THEATER | 5/17
At this stage of his career, particularly in Denver, Nathaniel Rateliff is a man who requires absolutely no preamble. Nonetheless, the limited-edition two-song seven-inch he produced for Record Store Day feels like a fresh and glorious reintroduction to a songwriter. Although Rateliff has one of the most silken voices around, on these vintage-flavored, horn-bolstered soul songs, he sings with a fervent abandon that adds an unexpected but completely gratifying layer of depth and expressiveness. Catch Rateliff tonight when he warms up for the glorious James Hunter Six.

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- Nathaniel Rateliff reinvents himself with the Night Sweats
- Dragonette's Martina Sorbara on writing songs about cheating
- Tech N9NE on being a major artist that's fiercely independent

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These days, South Broadway is a thriving nightlife district that has undergone a cavalcade of changes in the past few years. As much of a makeover as the strip has had, though, not everybody's stoked with the changes. If you've logged on to Facebook, you've no doubt seen posts from some people expressing their displeasure, or if you've been to the area recently, you might've seen how some have taken an even more direct approach to making their point (see the "Keep Lodo Off Broadway" stickers hanging around the Baker neighborhood).

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- Nightlife Scenes From South Broadway
- Midnight on South Broadway
- Ten best pre/post-show eats on South Broadway

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Catch Hickory Project and more than a dozen bluegrass acts at Clear Creek Rapidgrass in July.

Dig your bluegrass? Banjos and mandolins make your heart swell? Great. You're gonna love this shindig: two days of banjo goodness up in the hills. Clear Creek Rapidgrass is slated to go down on the first weekend of July at the Shelly/ Quinn Baseball Fields in Idaho Springs on Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6. Keep reading for the full rundown, including ticket info and this year's lineup.

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- The 2013 Colorado music festival guide
- 2013 Telluride Bluegrass Fest lineup revealed
- Review: Kyle James Hauser - Oh Oh

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Chuck Lettes, man of steel.

When you hear steel guitar in a song, it's usually used as supplemental instrumentation, adding texture to the tunes. You generally don't expect to see the men and women of steel in the forefront, and yet that's the entire impetus for the Denver Steel Guitar Show, the second annual edition of an event dedicated entirely to steel guitar players.

"There's a real resurgence in the steel guitar," says show organizer Chuck Lettes, who's played pedal steel for the past forty years. "It's not just the Nashville sound anymore. A lot of people are using it to create kind of an ambient soundtrack for some different textures and colors. So we think this is a great way to get the word out that the steel guitar is alive and well and featured in Colorado."

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- Denver Steel Guitar Show at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret, 6/30/13
- Casey James Prestwood brings classic country back to life
- Best of Denver 2000: Best Pedal-Steel Guitar Player - "Uncle" Dick Meis

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Seven Fields of Aphelion

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Although Black Moth Super Rainbow's dreamlike, psychedelic melodies sound like they could've been part of those '70s era Sid & Marty Krofft shows, the band actually formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2003 in the wake of earlier projects from the act's singer and multi-instrumentalist, the unimonikered Tobacco (aka Thomas Fec). The group's 2007 album, Dandelion Gum, helped to bring Black Moth to a wider audience, propelled by upliftingly disorienting live shows that were part dance party and part psychedelic affair.

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- Friday: Black Moth Super Rainbow at Bluebird Theater, 5/17/13
- The ten best concerts in Denver this week
- The fifty best concerts of the spring

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