Two Faces West
Small stages.
Big sound.
Rock and blues, up close. Explore Denver’s live-music rooms, Colorado concert culture and the songs that stay with you after the lights come up.
START SOMEWHERE GOOD
Turn it up
For the room, the road and the record collection.
02 · WATCH & LISTEN
Let the music do the talking
Listening notes and a guide to watching live performances.
KEEP EXPLORING
Fresh from the journal
THE JOURNAL · 2 MIN
Red Rocks for First-Timers: How to Plan a Concert Night
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, in the foothills at Morrison, west of Denver, is one of the most famous concert venues in the world. Its stage…
THE JOURNAL · 2 MIN
Denver’s Small Venues for Live Rock and Blues
Arenas are where bands end up; small rooms are where you find them first. Denver has an unusually healthy network of clubs and theatres…
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Music worth getting closer to
Denver has always been a good town for loud guitars. Between the clubs on Colfax, the bars on South Broadway and the stage carved into the rocks at Morrison, there is live rock and blues somewhere in the metro area almost every night of the week.
Two Faces West is a site about that music: the venues, the shows, the bands working their way up, and the practical side of being a fan in Colorado.
What you will find here
- Live music guides – the small rooms where local bands play and where touring acts stop on the way up.
- Red Rocks for first-timers – how to plan a concert night at one of the most famous outdoor venues in the world.
- Videos – what makes a great live video, where to find sessions worth watching, and how bands and fans can film a show properly.
- News – new articles, interviews and scene notes.
Why rock and blues
Blues gave rock its grammar: the twelve-bar form, the call and response between voice and guitar, the bent notes and the shuffle. Some of the most exciting bands in Colorado still play somewhere between the two, with fuzz pedals and slide guitar, big choruses and a rhythm section that swings. That border country is where this site lives.
A scene worth supporting
Local music survives on small things: buying a ticket instead of waiting for the free show, arriving in time for the opener, picking up a record or a shirt at the merch table, telling a friend. If a band you saw on a Tuesday at a 200-capacity club becomes the band everyone talks about two years later, you were part of that.
Have a show, a release or a story you think we should hear about? Get in touch through the contact page.