Ghost Canyon Fest, Denver’s DIY music fest showcasing left field music of various stripes, runs August 21-24, 2025 at venues in Colorado Springs in Denver and here is our modest rundown of what’s in store each day. For more information and to purchase tickets please visit ghostcanyonfest.com.
Th 08/21/25 What’s Left Records doors 7 PM
Scorplings
Noise rock jazz post-punk collage post-pop. If you’re into both Yo La Tengo and Shellac you’ve come to the right band.
Silver West
Tender cosmic folk avant-country psychedelia.
Viewfinder
Indie emogaze tapped into healing the bruised psyche of those crushed under wheels of the failed American dream.
Church Fire
“Equal parts industrial synth pop, hyperkinetic dance punk and dreamlike ambient 8-bit EDM doom.” Also with the new lighting rig like a revolutionary dance party every show.
F 08/22/25 Wax Trax 3 PM (free show)
The Destructor’s Club
New York dub post-punk aimed at rattling Babylon to dust.
Denver Vintage Reggae Society
Veteran DJ crew bringing the legit reggae sides to liven up a late summer sidewalk.
F 08/22/25 Skylark Lounge doors 7 PM
Safekeeper
Maximalist lo-fi slacker rock from Fort Collins for fans of early Built to Spill and Jonathan Donohue-era Flaming Lips.
Honduh Daze
Where harsh noise, post-punk and Situationist-esque anti-commercial culture humor intersect.
The Milk Blossoms
Dream folk indie pop poetic portraits of collages of dreams, heartfelt memories and aspirational futures yet manifest.
Pink Lady Monster
Retro-futurist No Wave funk disco post-punk performance art like a soundtrack to a Pat Cadigan cyberpunk novel filled with a playful joy and sly culture jamming.
S 08/23/25 Mutiny Information Cafe doors 1 PM
Flesh Tape
Swirling emogaze as noisy exorcisms of isolation and heartache.
Progmistress
The solo stylings of Dreadnought and BleakHeart vocalist and keyboard wizard Kelly Schilling.
Nguyen, Prymek, Shiroishi
Free jazz Zen mystics with a gift for creating transcendent spaces of expansive textures.
Flowting Clowds
A cause of celebration because Jeff Mueller and Sean Meadows of June of 44 fame performing the new they’ve been working on for over a decade.
S 8/23/25 Hi-Dive doors 6 PM
El Welk
Psychedelic garage Americana punk from former members of country post-punk band Snakes.
Cougars
Atonal mutant sleaze rock like the musical equivalent of early 80s National Lampoon and Mad Magazine.
Suicide Cages
Seething post-hardcore exorcisms of our internalized collective social nightmares.
Latter
Deeply personal, raging songs scorching civilizational neglect and the abuses it spawns.
MJ Guider
Abstract shoegaze drone emanating from the primeval places in the dreamtime.
Still House Plants
Iterative, cinematic guitar and soulful-vocal-driven avant-post-punk and R&B fusion.
Black Eyes
The equally weird and wonderfully disorienting, Can-esque DC cousin to The Rapture.
Su 8/24/25 Wax Trax 1 PM free show
Moon Pussy
Electo-convulsive noise rock and absurdist-conscious poetry set to broken jackhammer beats.
Big’N
Jagged shocks of despair survived and carved into seething stabbing sounds pushed through a groove.
Su 8/24/25 Hi-Dive doors 4 PM
American Motors
Navigating gritty distortion and dreamlike shimmery melodies this band catalogs the haunted corridors of America’s decaying empire and fractured dreams.
Precocious Neophyte
Bittersweet bedroom shoegaze awash in fading neon lights and lingering nostalgic warmth.
Museum of Light
The new incarnation of the band indulges its gift for crushing heaviness alongside exquisitely transcendent atmospheric ambient explorations into inner space.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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