Paleo (performing tonight at the hi-dive with Glowing House and John Davey) is the chosen stage name for David Strackany, a singer-songwriter who once lived out of his car while traveling the country and playing hundreds of shows. There isn’t much to his music in the way of instrumentation or…
There is a point at which, I think, we all start to discover music on our own. I was around twelve or thirteen when the shift from pre-teen radio sex jams to discovering albums I would fawn over (and eventually learn to play) occurred. Up to then, I was listening…
For this week’s print feature, we spoke with Laura Taylor, Vice President of Operations for Guitar Center regarding the company’s recent initiatives to improve the treatment of female customers in the company’s 219 stores across the country. When we spoke with Taylor, she was very candid about the steps the…
The Flaming Lips and Primus co-headline Red Rocks Amphitheatre tonight for a special show. Yes, the Lips are covering Dark Side of The Moon in its entirety, but the band has also asked Denver’s own Lizzie Allen of Vitamins to join them. In fact, the local vocalist has already joined…
Okay, so a woman walks into a Guitar Center… Sound like the perfect setup for a sexist punchline? It’s not, but it very well could be. As long as there’s been a music industry, women have been treated as lesser-thans often viewed as supporters and sideline cheerleaders, not key players…
Simply put, Garfield is our spirit animal. Obsessed with sleeping, averse to Mondays and, like us, addicted to dieting, this cat embodies everything we are in cartoon form. He even has those stoney, medical marijuana eyes and a creepy perma-grin that makes him almost look like a true Colorado native…
Born in the age of MySpace, the Cool Kids (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with 1984 and DJ Low Key) have long outlasted the ill-fated music site’s relevance, as the duo continues to persevere with its smooth style. A big part of this longevity is that the Chicago dudes…
Manhattan duo Cults (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with Guards and Writer) are, essentially, a pop group. At first glance, the band’s name may be far from suggesting this genre idea, but the pair definitely create a warm and sparkling big room sound, with Madeline Follin’s childish vocals set sweetly…
So, this first release from Yo Soy Sauce has been in the works for a while — two years to be exact. The collaborative effort between local electronic guru CacheFlowe and Flobot MC Brer Rabbit officially drops as a single tomorrow, but the duo handed us the video for “Juke…
Once upon a time, before reality TV cheapened television programming as a whole, MTV (thirty years old today) was a bastion of music culture that actually showcased cutting edge artists for the sake of art. Because the network was free to give air time to bands, rappers and interesting figures…
The Denver County Fair went down this weekend, and despite the fact that the schedule was kind of hard to read and the ten pavilions were daunting to navigate at times, we found some pretty cool stuff to look at anyway. Beyond the sights and sounds of a traditional county…
Kicking off last night, Titwrench Fest 2011 is now in full-swing at the Mercury Cafe tonight with bands, dance performances and informational workshops running through the weekend. The four-day festival brings avant-garde, experimental and (mostly) female musicians and performers from across the country front and center for a weekend of…
In this morning’s “yes, people really are that fucked up” news, a mask version of the recently acquitted Casey Anthony sold on eBay for close to one million dollars. The anonymous buyer won out over more than one hundred bids on the scary piece of latex. While mask itself is…
Born in Chicago in 2004 as a duo, Walter Meego (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with ManCub and C.S.Q.) makes the kind of sweet and accessible electronic pop perfect for the television medium — which, as it turns out, is where the now-trio received initial mass exposure…
I have a horrible sense of fashion. Do people have even have senses of fashion anymore? Maybe I’m old for using that phrase, considering I mostly wear whatever I see other people on the Internet wearing. Anyway, I dress like a sixteen-year-old girl. A really trashy one. A trashy teenager…
Culture collector Andrew Novick has been throwing his annual summer “BreakfastBQ” — an outdoor barbeque-style pancake party — for his friends in Denver for over a decade now. But this year, he’s going big. Coined the “Andrew Novick’s X-treme Pancake Breakfast!” by Denver County Fair organizer Dana Cain, the breakfast…
Heading up a laundry list of acts, Norma Jean comes through the Summit Music Hall tonight with Sleeping Giant, the Chariot, War of Ages, Close Your Eyes, Texas in July, I, the Breather, the Great Commision, Sovereign Strength and As Hell Retreats on the Scream The Prayer tour. The post-hardcore…
KATY PERRY at 1STBANK CENTER | 07/26/11The crowd at Katy Perry last night was exactly as expected. Armies of sprayed and glittered bodies evoked every variation of Perry’s persona over the last half-decade: girls from preschool to high school, donning blue Bettie Page cut wigs, candied and bejeweled corsets and…
Katy Perry (performing tonight at 1STBANK Center with Robyn and DJ Skeet Skeet) truly needs no introduction. Whether you’re seven or seventy, you known Perry’s glossy image from somewhere in pop culture — her music is everywhere, and she can be caught on everything from infomercials to MTV. The first…
DRUNK HULK is possibly a one-of-a-kind Twitter profile — the fictional character (created and existing solely for Twitter) uses the 140-character format to take big topics on in a simplistic way, expelling fairly complex thoughts using clunky sentences. He (or creator, writer Christian A. Dumais, rather) also does so in…
In “the Internet is getting more terrifying everyday” news, Google recently bought facial recognition technology company PittPatt. This kind of snappy identification application isn’t new by any means, but the creep factor definitely got kicked up a notch when Google (which has probably farmed and aggregated more personal information about…
INXS (performing tonight at the Ogden Theatre with Monroe Monroe) has had been down a long, triumphant road in its thirty-plus years as a band. The Australian rockers have remained a solid group — weathering the storm of their frontman Michael Hutchence’s passing in the late ’90s — making records…
