Kurt Ottaway

Il Cattivo on the time frontman Brian Hagman got ran over by some angry dude at a party

Il Cattivo formed when veterans of the punk and metal scenes in Denver came together to form a band that wasn't trying to fit distinctly in an already established rock subgenre. The five piece band sounded like it had been influenced by post-punk crossover bands like the Cult but also the metallic, ... More >>

Singer Brian Hagman on the story behind Il Cattivo's "Damages"

Ten best concerts in Colorado this weekend, Friday, August 24, through Sunday, August 26

Welcome to the weekend! If you haven't made plans yet, there's an unreal number of shows, from five different festivals to several CD release shows to old school hip-hop. Of course, we have them all listed in our massive concert calendar. If you're feeling industrious, print that bad boy out and bre ... More >>

Wymond Miles on his time in Denver, Pinkku and his new album,Under the Pale Moon

See Also: Tonight: Wymond Miles at the hi-dive Wymond Miles is better known to the rest of the world for his scintillating guitar work in the San Francisco psych-garage pop band the Fresh & Onlys. But Miles grew up in Aurora, and during the second half of the '90s and going on for around a decade, ... More >>

#WMS 2012 recap: Bar Standard

Every year, for the Westword Music Showcase, we enlist our army of Backbeat wordsmiths to host various stages, and in addition to their emcee obligations, we ask them to pull double duty (or triple-duty in some cases) and also write up the acts that appear on their individual stages. Tom Murphy host ... More >>

Audio: Michael Gira tells chatty audience members to get off his lawn

Michael Gira's show on Saturday night at the Oriental Theater with Wovenhand included a few chatter-boxes with which the 58-year-old Swans mastermind just couldn't abide. Page down to hear Gira tell the more vocal members of the crowd to "go read Pitchfork," after demanding that they kindly "shut th ... More >>

Overcasters

Curses//Prayers
Self-released

Matt Bischoff of '57 Lesbian: "You need to still enjoy the company of your friends and do stuff you enjoy doing with those people"

'57 Lesbian (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) came about when Matt Bischoff of the Fluid and the Frantix had some downtime and got together with his old friend and former Frantix drummer, Dave Stewart, and started a stripped down rock and roll band with former Twice Wilted bassist Chanin Floyd. ... More >>

Review: Gathering of the Clouds at City Hall, 2/24/12

Gathering of the Clouds Day 2 @ City Hall | 2/24/12One of the main reasons for the festival was the release of the new Overcasters album, Curses/Prayers and as usual, Overcasters delivered a solid set of music. Bathed in various shades and hues of shifting light over the course of the show, with hig ... More >>

Weekend's best live music bets: Overcasters, Glass Hits, T-Pain, Zola Jesus and More

TGIF! We made it to the weekend! Another fine lineup of live music in store for you in the Mile High City over the next couple days. Tonight, Overcasters play the second night of its three-night stand at City Hall. Dubbed Gathering of the Clouds, the second edition of this three-day festival marks t ... More >>

Gathering of the Clouds

Review: Peter Hook & the Light at the Bluebird Theater, 9/19/11

Tom MurphyPeter Hook and The Light​PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT at the BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/19/11It was to be expected that Peter Hook & the Light would be playing Unknown Pleasures in its entirety, and that it wouldn't be a half-hearted and insincere attempt at re-creating that music live. What was ... More >>

Crystal Stilts at the Larimer Lounge, 5/16/11

Kyle Smith CRYSTAL STILTS Overcasters • Force Publique 05.16.11 | Larimer Lounge While it was a bit of an odd choice for Force Publique to open for a reverb-drenched indie pop band, Cassie McNeil and James Wayne's industrial-tinged goth pop sounded as good as it did when we last caught the duo a ... More >>

Pure Sunshine at the Bluebird, 3/16/11

Tom MurphyGit Some PURE SUNSHINE Overcasters • the Buckingham Squares • the Purple Fluid The Omens • The Geniuses • Git Some 03.26.11 | Bluebird Theater Git Some kicked off night two of Pure Sunshine last night at the Bluebird Theater. The act's lyrics are often washed out by the torrent o ... More >>

Pure Sunshine: Celebrate the life of Rick Kulwicki this weekend at the Bluebird Theater

​ A little more than a month ago, I attended the memorial service for a Rick Kulwicki at Fairmount Cemetary, the same place where my grandparents and my favorite aunt happen to be laid to rest. The place doesn't really hold a lot of fond memories for me. Barely ten-years-old, I remember wip ... More >>

Crocodiles at Larimer Lounge, 1/22/11

Tom MurphyCrocodiles​ CROCODILES With Hearts In Space and Overcasters 01.22.11 | Larimer Lounge With the stage bathed in shifting hues provided by Shane Williams, Overcasters opened its set with a new song -- something a little more on the bluesy and noisy side of the band's repertoire. Whil ... More >>

Moovers and Shakers: Our favorite Denver music releases of 2010

The Black Angels at the Bluebird, 12/07/10

Tom Murphy​ THE BLACK ANGELS With Overcasters 12.07.10 | Bluebird Theater For some shows, the vibe is everything -- a mix of the crowd's attention (or a lack there of) the lighting and other air-changing provisions, the quality of the sound and a band's presence, all factor into the success ... More >>

Readers praise Kurt Ottaway and Euclid Hall

Gathering of the Clouds, 10/21/10 - 10/23/10

GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS Overcasters • Swayback • Buckingham Squares • Gangcharger Achille Lauro • Light Travels Faster • Glass Homes • Juliet Mission Action Packed Thrill Ride • Hearts In Space • Anna.Martina.Ross 10.21.10 - 10.23.10 | The Weather Center, Denver, CO Overcasters ... More >>

Overcasters conjure a Gathering of the Clouds this weekend at the Weather Center

Overcasters are one helluva band, and with The Whole Sea is Raging, its latest effort, the outfit has notably kicked things up a few notches. Last night at the Weather Center, their homebase on 14th and Zuni, Kurt Ottaway and company kicked off the Gathering of the Clouds festival, which continues ... More >>

Calmer waters: After a turbulent period, Kurt Ottaway and Overcasters release The Whole Sea Is Raging

Overcasters previews a song from their new album, the Whole Sea is Raging

​As mentioned a few weeks ago, Overcasters have put the finishing touches on their new album, The Whole Sea is Raging, recorded in May with Rick Parker, which they're preparing to introduce it to us at the Gathering of Clouds, a three-day mini-festival and release party slated to take place at ... More >>

UMS Night Four Travelogue: The Conjugal Visits, Constellation of Cars and more

Tom MurphyThe Conjugal Visits on the TS Board Shop stage​ UMS Travelogue, Night Four 7.25.10, Baker District/South Broadway Getting a late start, I got to the TS Board Shop stage in time to catch The Conjugal Visits. Before the show, I saw Pete on the side of the truck, and asked him about t ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase 2010: Backbeat scribes' travelogue

​ Here's our massive, multi-page report/travelogue of the Westword Music Showcase from (in order) Tom Murphy, Cory Casciato, A.H. Goldstein, Jef Otte, Jon Solomon and Brain Frederick. Let us know in the comments what you saw and loved, saw and hated, or missed and hated yourself for missing. ... More >>

Q&A with Sin and Kurt of Primasonic

​Primasonic's frontman Sin says the band's latest effort, Unadorned, could have easily been called No Bullshit. With some help from the Overcasters' Kurt Ottaway acting as co-producer and Module Overload's Jamie Hillyer, Primasonic made a no frills, rock solid album that captures a lot of the ... More >>

Q&A with Sin and Kurt of Primasonic

​Primasonic's frontman Sin says the band's latest effort, Unadorned, could have easily been called No Bullshit. With some help from the Overcasters' Kurt Ottaway acting as co-producer and Module Overload's Jamie Hillyer, Primasonic made a no frills, rock solid album that captures a lot of th ... More >>

Primasonic

Unadorned
Fist Music

Westword Music Showcase: How I saw thirty bands in five hours and lived to tell about it

Photo by Bert Ross For this year's Saturday's Westword Music Showcase, I told myself I was going to take it easy. No running around like an idiot, trying to see as many acts as possible. Instead, I would move at a leisurely pace, sampling and savoring instead of trying to gorge myself on as much mu ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Sutra

Brian Landis FolkinsIdeal Fathers opened the day at Sutra.See more photos from Sutra at westword.com/slideshow.Ideal Fathers, 12 p.m.Ideal Fathers kicked off the Sutra stage with a high-charged set of post-punk that included some keyed up takes on songs from its new brand new EP, A Complete Waste of ... More >>

A band-by-band guide to the 2009 Westword Music Showcase

MP3 Freeloader, Showcase Edition: Overcasters

OVERCASTERSNOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK2:00-2:45 P.M., SUTRAPersonnel: Ed Marshall; Kurt Ottaway; Erin Tidwell; John NicholsDownload or stream "Way of the World" after the jump.

MP3 Freeloader: Tonight, Cowboy Curse at hi-dive

Luke PalmisanoTonight at the hi-dive Cowboy Curse is set to return to the stage with Bad Luck City and Overcasters, which should make for a truly extraordinary show. The outfit has finally recorded some new music (we say finally because we've seriously been jonezin' for some new stuff) that it share ... More >>

Overcasters SXSW tour diary

photo by Erin Tidwell and Kurt Ottaway (click to enlarge)Saturday, March 20: The sun burned off most of the cloud cover as the crowd continued to swell. In the Bat Bar, the Von Bondies tuned up all of their gear for a DirectTV taping, then launched into a near perfect set of fuzzy soul blues mixed i ... More >>

Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 03.11.09

Ah, good to be back. After a week off, Andy and I were back behind the mike once again with two more hours of handpicked local goodness. Unfortunately, the stream was whacked again last night, so we weren't able to record the show, but as always, you'll find the complete playlist after the jump. It' ... More >>

Overcasters survive crash, get added to SXSW lineup

Overcasters, the promising new outfit led by Kurt Ottaway, just returned from a pair of shows on the East Coast with the Fluid. While the shows were awesome, from the sounds of it, the band was fortunate to have made it there in one piece. As the band was passing through Joliet, Illinois, in route t ... More >>

The Fluid at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey

The Fluid, Overcasters and the King Left Friday, January 16th, 2009 Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ Better Than: Missing the Fluid when you have a chance to see it. It was a painfully cold night in northern New Jersey, but the legendary Maxwell's was plenty warm, and any thoughts of harsh weather were eclips ... More >>

When Cafe Cero closed, Open Tap took over

Overcasters

Revolectrocution
Self-released

Overcasters favor exhilarating atmospheres over utter starkness

Live Review: UMS Day One, Baker District

Over the Weekend...A Shoreline Dream, Astrophagus, Overcasters, Widowers, Astra Moveo, Red Orange Yellow, Cat-A-Tac, Hot IQs and Hearts of Palm @ Westword Music Showcase

Tarmints

Thirteen Dead Cats
Denver Coffee Achievers

Westword Music Showcase 2007

Saturday, June 16

Backwash

Scott Campbell moves down the road and away from the 15th Street Tavern.

Backwash

The enthusiasm of the Climax Lounge’s new operators is peaking.

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE