Bangsnap Records will join in tonight’s Gorinto, a weekly avant-garde music and food throwdown at the Mercury Cafe, to raise money for Mission Supports, a nonprofit that Arnie Swenson founded in February to help adults with developmental and cognitive disabilities who are currently on the waitlist for the Medicaid waiver…
It is true. Thanks to Lauren Conrad’s tweet about her new fave dessert recipe “Blueberry Boy Bait,” we were intrigued enough to take a jaunt over to Laurenconrad.com, where we discovered that she’s starting a book club. And what’s even better about this whole books n’ LC thing? She’s taking…
Warren Haynes (playing his second show in a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre) has a résumé that speaks for itself: Picking up the guitar as a preteen, the bluesman began playing with David Allan Coe by the age of twenty and went on to work with the likes of…
Remember when you were in high school, and your friends were in that weird funk-rock crossover band? They played, like, every weekend, and even though the band wasn’t really your thing, they were good at what they did, so you went to their shows? Be the Ant could be that…
The general rule for Twitter Tuesday is that we cannot highlight the account of someone/something unless it is public. Meaning, just because we are friends with a person and can read his or her or its tweets doesn’t mean we can share them with everybody. Basically, we’re just holding out…
While its members had been playing together long before Orgone (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with Liebermonster) was born, the Los Angeles funk band officially formed in 1999. Not long after its inception, the band added vocalist Fanny Franklin to augment its ornate instrumentation — the standard guitar, bass…
So, in utterly stupid American news, Tennessee passed a bill late last week effectively banning teachers from speaking about homosexuality in elementary and middle school classrooms. Because, yes, homophobes, not talking about something is definitely the only reasonable avenue for making it go away. But for parties on both sides…
Once upon a time, MTV played music videos, and a whole generation was introduced to Unsane (playing the Marquis Theater tonight with Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire) through “Scrape,” the trio’s film tribute to brutal skateboard take downs. Forming in 1988 and taking a short break in…
Thank goodness the rain has finally stopped. It was really starting to weigh on our usual summer activities, like texting by the icy waters of our friend’s apartment complex pool and wandering various farmer’s markets looking for raw honey and other stuff white people like. Anyway, the nice weather has…
Earlier on in his career, Curren$y (performing this evening at the Fox Theatre with Trademark, Young Roddy, Fiend and Corner Boy P) ran with the likes of Master P and Lil Wayne, via the rappers’ infamous entourage/record labels, No Limit and Young Money. Now releasing albums on his own through…
Oh, hey guys. What’s up? Your friend MySpace 2006 here, and I want to tell you about a phenomenon I started called “Scene Hair.” Apparently, this internet-memorable fashion statement still exists today (despite the fact that the 2011 version of me has become so slow and confusing even the pornbots…
Greensky Bluegrass (playing tonight at the Bluebird with White Water Ramble) is a band best experienced live. Though the group has put out a handful of records in the last decade, its traditional bluegrass instrumentation and jam-like improvisation comes to life outside of the studio. Greensky is well aware of…
Mortified author in questionTo say that my best friend and I have a unique relationship would be an understatement; what we know about each other goes beyond the basic ramifications of “girl code” and into the uncharted territories of period stains, untimely fart releases and bowel movements…
Columbia’s Bomba Estereo (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with ManCub and Izcalli) began as the mostly electronic solo project of bassist Simon Mejia, but after his first release under the moniker, he expanded the dance project to a full band. Carried by the punchy, bratty vocals of Liliana Saumet,…
If Don Lemon’s recent admission about his sexual orientation via his Twitter account (and through the discussion of his new memoir, Transparent, due out next month) isn’t testament to the power of this micro-social networking site, we don’t know what is. In fact, it was this piece of personal news…
To say that New Orleans collective My Jerusalem (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with Michael Kingcaid and Sour Boy, Bitter Girl) is a supergroup would be a mild understatement. Led by Jeff Klein, the group features members who have played in bands such as Cursive, the Twilight Singers, the Polyphonic…
Judging by this weekend’s Facebook frenzy over the Denver Film Society’s “Bargain Bin” film selection of picks for the 2011 season of Film on the Rocks, there is just no fucking with moviegoers. On Saturday night, Karla Rodriquez, Director of Social Media for the organization and its summer program, dropped…
As S. Carey (performing tonight at the Hi-Dive with Other Lives), vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey’s solo material is definitely in line with the work he did as a part of a part of Bon Iver’s back-up band — and his voice is also a sweet but resilient focal point…
AN EVENING WITH THE CARS 05.15.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Within the pantheon of rock and roll, there are relics, and there living legends. Last night at the Fillmore, on the fourth show of its current tour, the Cars proved that they are far from antiquity. In fact, the quartet blew…
First off, we should thank the Internet for keeping pre-information superhighway pop tchotchke culture alive with its vast Youtube time-capsuled vaults of commercials and Christian rap home videos, Wikipedia archives full of false information about the less-than-famous, and Twitter accounts for dead celebrities — all at our fingertips. But never…
Grammy Award-winner and ultimate musical collaborator Lucinda Williams (playing tonight at the Boulder Theater with Lionel Young) shouldn’t need an introduction. The rough-voiced storyteller has been making records since 1979, intertwining blues and rock n’ roll with her own salty version of Americana country…
VIVIAN GIRLS No Joy * School Knights 05.12.11 | Larimer Lounge It isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you when you’re on stage, but breaking a string without having an immediate replacement or a back-up guitar can induce the kind of red-faced anxiety that throws a show into…
