Denver Noise Fest re-launched on October 24-25, 2025, at DIY space The Denver Music Venue (aka the DMV) after around a decade of being dormant. The DMV has become the de facto place to see noise in Denver in the last year or so, as well as some of the improvisational and experimental music performances that have become a more active facet in the music scene of the Mile High after a bit of a dip in the wake of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival represented a kind of capstone to a year that saw an unmistakable and marked increase in activity in the city’s more left-field noisemaking. The summer saw the fifth edition of the ambient/experimental electronic music outdoor mini-festival, Listening Lawn, put together by the people of the digital label Multidim. Dean Inman curated the Tiny Blanket series on select Sundays in City Park in the spring and summer. Caracol Productions organized many concerts in an attempt to revitalize the classic Aztlan Theater, with shows from Martin Rev of …
