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Steve Vai

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Low Gravity: "You have to create a desire for people to be there."

    Low Gravity (hosting its dual CD release party tomorrow night at 3 Kings Tavern with Jaded Poet) got together in the summer of 2009 when Jess Ellis -- who used to play in the noteworthy, and unconventionally literary, sludge metal band the Nod, as well as Half of Zero -- started jamming with Austin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom: "Yeah, I broke my shoulder bowling."

    Children of Bodom (due tomorrow night at the Gothic Theater) formed in 1993 in the Finnish town of Espoo. Lead guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho and drummer Jaska Raatikainen formed the band around the age of fourteen under the name Inearthed. By the time the outfit released its debut album, 1997's S ... More >>

  • Music

    July 21, 2011

    Buckethead

    Thursday, July 21, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984.

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Trey Anastasio Band at the Ogden, 03/01/11

    Adam Perry​ TREY ANASTASIO BAND 03.01.11 |Ogden Theatre Whenever I think of Phish singer/guitarist/composer Trey Anastasio's most powerful solo work, my mind always turns to "orchestral funk" -- the term Anthony Keidis used to describe the Talking Heads' large-band era (with Adrian Belew on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Chef and Tell, part two: Geoffrey Groditski on incompetent culinary school grads, pounds of butter and the whole hog

    Lori Midson​ Geoffrey Groditski The Fort 19192 Highway 8, Morrison 303-697-4771 www.thefort.com This is part one of my interview with Geoffrey Groditski, executive chef of The Fort. In part one of that interview, Groditski raps on his $40,000 mistake, raw bull's balls and how pine nuts ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Dweezil Zappa keeps his father's music alive at the Paramount

    ​ Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 06.07.10 | The Paramount Theatre Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday's two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had dissected the original stereo mixes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Joe Satriani stops by Musician's Superstore next month

    ​Not only is Joe Satriani a hell of a shredder on the guitar, early in his career he taught a bunch of guitarists like Steve Vai, Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Now Satriani's giving away free half-hour lessons. Well, the only catch is that you have to buy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Hearsay bits: Mama signs distribution deal with Steve Vai's Digital Nations imprint and more

    ​Mama mia!: Mama, the outfit led by frontman Jeff Leonetti and Jonny Barber (aka Chris Barber, frontman of Spiv and the Velvet Elvis), has signed a distribution deal with Steve Vai's Digital Nations imprint. The label, an offshoot of Vai's Favored Nations, will handle worldwide distribution of Bay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Last Night: Prog Nation at the Buell

    Big Elf​Progressive Nation Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Big Elf, Scale the Summit August 25, 2009 Buell Theater Better than: Reliving high school memories by flipping through a yearbook. Let me admit to a strong bias up front: I spent at least three of my teenage years with a diet almost excl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Q&A with the Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher

    Big Elf​Progressive Nation Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Big Elf, Scale the Summit August 25, 2009 Buell Theater Better than: Reliving high school memories by flipping through a yearbook. Let me admit to a strong bias up front: I spent at least three of my teenage years with a diet almost excl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Live Review: Unearth at Gothic Theatre

    Big Elf​Progressive Nation Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Big Elf, Scale the Summit August 25, 2009 Buell Theater Better than: Reliving high school memories by flipping through a yearbook. Let me admit to a strong bias up front: I spent at least three of my teenage years with a diet almost excl ... More >>

  • Music

    April 19, 2007

    Wild Game

    Larimer Lounge

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    OK Go

    There’s plenty of smarts behind this outfit’s stupidity.

  • Music

    September 21, 2006

    Tommy Emmanuel

    Saturday, September 23, First Church of Divine Science, 303-777-1003.

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Yule's Tide

    Searching for gems in the flood of seasonal discs.

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Retribution Gospel Choir

    Wednesday, August 31, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  • Music

    April 7, 2005

    GasHead

    Knuckles Avec Sombreros (Hapi Skratch Records)

  • Music

    September 2, 2004

    The Beatdown

    All hail the return of royalty.

  • Music

    November 21, 2002

    Folk Explosion

    The Waybacks strike a chord with fans of old-timey music.

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Rock and Roll Is the Question

    With Pearlcopper, guitarist Mark Spiewak is already a legend in his own mind.

  • Music

    December 11, 1997

    Music for the Holidaze

    Digging out from a blizzard of seasonal CD releases.

  • Music

    February 6, 1997

    Feedback

    Digging out from a blizzard of seasonal CD releases.

  • Music

    April 11, 1996

    Feedback

    Digging out from a blizzard of seasonal CD releases.

  • Music

    April 27, 1994

    PLAYING HURT

    STANLEY JORDAN RETURNS AFTER RELEARNING HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR.

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