Originally from outside of Nashville, Thomas Rutherford has lived in Colorado for over 13 years with eight of those spent living in the heart of Denver. In that time, he’s fallen in love with the music, the food, the art and most of all the people that call the Front Range home. When he’s not writing, he can usually be found going to shows all across town, playing music with friends, enjoying a nice cold beer, reading as much as he can get his hands on and chilling with his cat, Ripley. Bringing along a celebrated history as a music journalist in Denver, Thomas believes that now is the perfect time for a new voice for the city. Welcome to Denver Dive.
If you've been anywhere near the local Denver music scene in the last year or so, you've heard whispers of this band Chroma Lips. The whispers have grown louder with each passing month as the young psych-rock/pop band has released single after single while sharing the...
Local psych-rock project Tarantula Bill absolutely rips. With their new album Norm — releasing on June 12th — the band tears a hole in spacetime, ripping reality to shreds with each heart-pounding riff. The album represents the band at their best, a confident...
Banshee Tree makes music to wander to. It sounds like getting lost in the woods with those you love most as a summer storm rolls in, fading sunlight bouncing between raindrops and turning everything gold for just a few moments. It helps you realize that home is not a...
Outside Days has come and gone leaving behind only sweet memories of a weekend well spent dancing in the sunshine in the heart of Denver. The festival formerly known as Outside Festival moved from its original home at Civic Center Park to the Auraria campus this year...
Local indie gothic pop band Dollpile makes music that conjures ghosts, inviting them to step out from behind the veil and return to the mortal plane to dance in a macabre reverie not meant for the likes of the living. Yet, still you join in — propelled by lead singer...
Local punk band Toxic Authority makes music that hearkens back to the early days of punk, its chaos and brutality but also its necessity within a society in which many — young people especially — feel increasingly disillusioned. It's a direct response to the times we...
Denver's newest music festival, Blucifer's First Rodeo, is set to take over South Broadway from July 23rd to July 26th. If you've been anywhere near the local Denver music scene for the past few months, you've heard the rumblings shaking the city streets. Something...
UK artist MT Jones makes music that feels like it exists outside of time, sounds from eras past converging with modern sensibilities. It evokes soul and R&B from the 60s and 70s coupled with tangible elements of the heydays of Motown. It feels rich, warm,...
The world needs people like Andy Frasco these days. With all the chaos and carnage and overall depressing shit people are being constantly inundated with on a day to day basis, Frasco cuts through the noise by making a whole hell of a lot of noise himself. While he's...
Denver’s music scene is such a beautiful space to exist within. Vibrant and collaborative, edgy but never uninviting, the scene here feels so powerfully alive, always changing and growing, refusing easy classification based on genre or style. Reflecting the eclectic...