Aside from touring as a solo act under the VibeSquaD moniker, Aaron Holstein has found the perfect balance between being a highly sought-after EDM producer and his duties as a father. Following a successful stint on Bassnectar’s Vava Voom tour, Holstein has settled in for 2013 by touring with electro-jam…
Aside from touring as a solo act under the VibeSquaD moniker, Aaron Holstein has found the perfect balance between his duties as a highly sought-after EDM producer and those of being a father. Following a successful stint on Bassnectar’s VaVaVoom tour, Holstein has settled in for 2013 by touring with…
It’s been almost a week now since the whole Harlem Shake phenomenon began to reach critical mass. Before shit got completely ridiculous and ubiquitous, Chris McGuire of Schlepp Films in New York made a video and posted it online. Sensing a viral trend taking shape, the filmmaker and his friends…
LIFE IN COLOR // BORGORE @ BALCH FIELDHOUSE | 2/16/13 Life in Color: Rebirth is new name for the former DayGlow touring party, and the name pretty much sums up just what this party is about. A mostly white-clad crowd piled into the Balch Fieldhouse to see what all the…
Border Patrol, the third album from this Denver-based trio, features famed trumpeter Andre Mali, who wastes no time in showcasing his talent. The album’s opener, “Tumbleweeds,” immediately sets the theme and mood for the whole piece: road-tripping across the country, soaking up the intricacies and details of the landscape, keeping…
With a recent chart-topping house banger on Beatport, Israeli producer Asaf Borger, aka Borgore, has a new record on the horizon. Aside from enjoying other recent success with Miley Cyrus on the collaborative chart topper “Decisions,” Borgore is mainly focused on finishing his forthcoming album at an L.A.-based studio when…
FEED ME WITH TEETH @ OGDEN THEATRE | 2/12/13 As the stage-sized curtain dropped, the lights went down, the entire Ogden erupted with glee, and the place immediately lit back up — with cell phones. Nearly everyone in the theater was holding a phone up. While we’ve certainly seen this…
Producing music since high school, Eliot Lipp found his own voice in hip-hop beats and instrumentals. One of the most recent additions to the Pretty Lights Music roster, Lipp has been notably prolific in cranking out new tracks and mixes. In advance of his three-night Colorado run, which kicks off…
My disdain for American football knows no bounds, and I don’t believe in wasting my Sundays watching testosterone-addled meatheads run up and down a field with the hopes of placing a ball. In honor of yesterday’s Super Bowl game — as well as all the attendant hoopla — I created…
Do you remember last year when Atmosphere and Common brought the heat to Red Rocks in the dead of winter for Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks? We do. We also remember the dusting of snow, the visible breath of awe struck onlookers and the rambunctious nature of the entire night…
For nearly three years now, Ellie Goulding has steadily been taking over the airwaves. Whether it’s vocal features on the hottest new EDM tracks, dominating on her own with singles from one of her two platinum albums, or appearing on remixed tracks from the world’s biggest producers, the pop starlet…
Six years ago, Ana Sia was hustling around a kitchen preparing delicious recipes for a living; cooking up grimy bass music was merely a hobby. After being flown out for her first gig, though, she decided it was time to focus her full energy and attention on her music. Playing…
For nearly three years now, Ellie Goulding has been steadily taking over the airwaves. Whether it’s vocal features on the hottest new EDM tracks, dominating on her own with singles from one of her two platinum albums or appearing on remixed tracks from the world’s biggest producers, the pop starlet…
Denver has always been a hotbed for EDM, but that’s even more true these days. With that in mind, Walt White, owner and founder of Global DJ Academy (formerly Colorado DJ Academy), saw an opportunity to engage the eager fans who want to move from spectators to participants and actually…
Fresh off their Mayan Holidaze run in Mexico, the Disco Biscuits bring their Winter Inferno to Colorado for three nights of laserific goodness (they’ll be at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, January 24, and at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, January 25). Nearing its second decade of existence, the Philadelphia-based…
This week’s submission comes from local Meta Skateboards rider JJ Jensen, (whom you’ve also seen in the teaser for Meta’s forthcoming video “The Holy Crail” on this blog), and with the video comes a sweet skate swag package from Meta. If can you guess where Jensen is throwing down this…
Steering clear of strict categorization, the tenured musicians in Railroad Earth have managed to merge multiple genres with bluesy riffs, acoustic instrumentation and a mesmerizing live show. We caught up with mandolinist John Skehan while the group was laying down tracks in a private home studio on the western edge…
For the third installment of “Guess where I’m skateboarding…” we reached out to a local skate company that wanted to showcase a few locals shredding a fresh spot. Now, you might have to actually be “in the know” in order to get this spot (if you can’t read, that is),…
Last week we debuted the newest addition to our blog that’s focused on skateboarding. This week, we bring you a new clip with the same chance to win some sweet gear from a local company, Conkwear. We’ve scoured the spots of Colorado and will continue to bring you fresh tricks…
If you haven’t seen it yet on TMZ, the Biebs was evidently caught unaware smoking the doob in a hotel room in Newport Beach last week. OMG, right?! Lucky for the teen heartthrob — in town tonight with his protege Carly Rae Jepsen for a sold-out show at the Pepsi…
Despite its friendly approach to photo-sharing, Instagram has brought out the true photographer in all of us — and might have scared that photographer away with its updated terms of use. As if Twitter and Facebook weren’t enough to keep us entertained between thumb-swiping refresh rates, Instagram gave us one…
If you attended Decadence at the Colorado Convention Center this past weekend, you may have overheard a mention of Global Dub Festival’s return to Red Rocks. If you didn’t, then, well, guess you’re hearing it here first. Mark your calendars: On Friday, May 17, Global Dub Fest returns to the…
