Without Japan, there would be no Japanese animation, so local fans of the art form have come together to create the Rave to Save Japan, a massive benefit and dance party that will raise money to help people affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami. “We will match everything we…
Between The Buried And Me (playing tonight at Summit Music Hall with Job For A Cowboy, Cephalic Carnage and The Ocean) are seasoned veterans of the metalcore genre. Forming in 2000, the post-hardcore leaning band’s prog-rock tendencies are what really sets it apart from a scene now saturated with screaming…
Beat-man Tomas Fec (aka Tobacco, who performs tonight with Beans and Shapers at the Larimer Lounge) is not only a sound manipulator, but has the warped visuals to match. Tobacco’s musical creations are best experienced live for this reason, as he projects pop- and consumer-culture collages while creating his live…
The Twitter format seems like it was made for comedians: By limiting a user’s output to 140-character spurts of information, jokes can be crafted and tested instantly. Sandra Bernhard is one of the comics who get this, but as a seasoned professional, her tweets are even better than jokes: She…
This self-titled EP from Bare Bones feels a lot like fall, which could be a generic seasonal connotation that comes along with the sawing and shuffling sounds typical of Western Americana and alt-country. But the sense of an inevitable autumn isn’t a bad thing at all: The quartet’s founders, Blake…
This Friday, April 29, Bicycle Colorado hosts its annual Gala celebration and fundraiser for bicycle awareness and advocacy at The Denver Post building (101 W. Colfax Ave). The non-profit organization aims to educate the public on bicycle safety, road-sharing and bike lanes, while being a voice for both city and…
Scottish-born singer KT Tunstall (who plays the Bluebird Theater tonight with Robert Francis and Miggs) is, essentially, a one-woman band. Utilizing her own voice and a looping pedal, Tunstall creates layers of sound and faux-instrumentation to back her powerful crooning…
Celebrating the celebrity in everybody, Paparazzi For The People is back at Beauty Bar once again, for a Saturday night throwdown of bright lights and plenty of opportunities to smile for the camera. DJs Amen and El Supremo will be tag-teaming the decks, running four turntables together for the entire…
Self-described “funkabilly” duo LoCash Cowboys definitely have that typical Top 40 country swagger in their singing, but it is an observational sense of humor that sets them just a bit a part. Both former dancers and choreographers, Chris Lucas and Preston Brust have the kind of stage presence that made…
Portland duo Hillstomp (playing the hi-dive tonight with Legendary River Drifters) is a definite throwback, but the band delves deeper than most contemporary Americana-styled groups with a porch-rattling sound. Henry Christian and John Johnson’s less-than-modern approach is about creating loud and rowdy shows based on the simplicity of two voices,…
Tonight’s after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go beyond permanent body…
Today, a handful of luthiers — those who build and repair string instruments — will converge on South Broadway’s Acoustic Music Revival for the Colorado Custom Guitar Showcase, an all-day display of their finest instruments. For guitar buffs, this mini-convention is a free, one-of-a-kind ax heaven, as luthiers from around…
Artist Shelley Irish-Smith spent a year creating Chakra Rainbow, a self-portrait project detailing the imbalance and subsequent healing of her body’s energy systems. Through fifteen oil paintings, Irish-Smith explores various stages of the seven chakras. “I used these paintings to speak to my own archetypes,” explains the certified Reiki master…
It’s pretty evident from the headline, but the Ladies Laugh-In monthly comedy showcase has moved from the third Wednesday of every month to the third Thursday. Comedian and Laugh-In coordinator Heather Snow says it was a simple matter of the new night freeing up, and a desire to not compete…
Now that winter recording sessions are over and the mixing and mastering has begun, some pretty rad releases have started to surface. This week, the dudes from Safe Boating is No Accident sent over two new tracks from their upcoming Buckingham Pie Group release, due out in June…
Knoxville’s Royal Bangs (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Hindershot and Spires) knows the power of a three-piece. Beginning as one, growing into a quintet, and now back to band life as trio, the dudes still manage to create plenty of electronic-infused punkishness on its latest release, Flux Outside…
Like a snarky, self-aware Angela Chase, Liz Lee of MTV’s My Life As Liz doesn’t know how to not be herself — which is, of course, what makes her the most lovable thing to grace the former music channel’s digital airwaves since Daria or Kennedy. Though many of her tweets…
Not that there needs to be an excuse for a 420-style celebration in Colorado, but tonight at the Fox Theatre, weed enthusiasts the Supervillains (along with Tatanka and Bop Skizzum) get the party started, just a day ahead of the annual blowout. Rising up alongside similar acts like Slightly Stoopid…
A feeling of terror dominates Modern Witch’s latest release, Unknown Domain, in a way that sonically captures what it must be like to watch the avant-art duo of Mario Zoots and Kristy Foom at work as collage artists. Their shared eyes and ears fashion tracks like “Hollywood Babylon” and “Julia…
You can’t help but love Travis Egedy. The Pictureplane maestro is always up to something. He’s always got a smile on his face and doesn’t seem to care what anyone thinks. His latest hijinks involve him going door to door at a hotel inviting unsuspecting guests to a concert. In…
Normally we wouldn’t highlight a video depicting violence, but this Youtube gem appropriately titled “Taco Shop Drag Queen Tranny Brawl” is just that — a fight among some gentlemanly ladies over who gets to order first. The tiff seems less like a caught-in-the-act clip of actual violence, and more like…
Born a year after MTV’s inception and surviving the Headbanger’s Ball-era, Death Angel (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Four Horsemen and Steel Blades of Vengeance) is an integral part of thrash metal’s history. The band members were in their early teens when the 1986 demo, Kill As One,…
