As you’ve undoubtedly gathered by now if you’ve read this week’s items on Tim Pourbaix, in Rough Mixes and the extended companion piece on the blog, tonight will mark one of the singer-songwriter’s last local performances as a resident of Denver. Pourbaix has made quite a mark on this town…
If you read the profile of the Rouge in this week’s issue, you know that the band blanches at the prospect of being considered a pop band. Nonetheless, one listen to Joshua Vaught’s instantly memorable melodies couched in the beyond tuneful framework of the compositions, and it seems glaringly remiss…
Last month, the Fort Collins Music Association hosted the area’s first ever all local music festival, dubbed the Fort Collins Music Experiment (FoCoMx for short). As hard to believe as it is that such an event never existed until this year, it’s not difficult to see that the supply definitely…
Early on in its career, Camera Obscura endured endless comparisons to revered fellow Glaswegians Belle & Sebastian. At this point, however, any comparison threatens to make the latter look bad: Among scholars of the heartache and growing pains of bookish, precocious youth, Stuart Murdoch’s got nothing on Camera Obscura vocalist/guitarist…
A little over a month ago, we came up with this crazy — and some now say ill-conceived — idea that we would give ourselves a mulligan in terms of the bands that were overlooked when the nominees for this year’s ballot were revealed and add five acts to this…
Last month, in advance of its headlining show at the Gothic Theater celebrating the release of its major label debut, Common Struggles, we profiled Single File. We also reviewed the show that night and posted some pictures the following Monday morning. Well leave it to those guys, the quintessential do-it-yourself-even-though-they’re-on-a-major-label-now…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190’s long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is…
Y’all remember that old school jam by Timex Social Club? How do rumors get started…? It’s got to be more than, what, two decades since the group recorded that song, and that ponderous sentiment remains. How do these rumors get started? A few weeks ago, there was scuttlebutt that Tickle…
Stella Luce, one of more interesting acts to emerge from Ft. Collins recently, is issuing a brand new disc, Zugenruhe, this evening at home show at Avogadro’s Number. In honor of the occasion, the outfit — which is in the midst of performing on KRFC’s Live at Lunch right now…
Ancient Mith is currently wrapping up a European tour, and tonight — actually, in about ten minutes, which makes it this afternoon here in the Mountain time zone — he’s slated to perform at the Olympic Cafe Motionless CD release party with Buck 65, Erik Truffaz, Abd Al Malik, Demune,…
Wow! Thanks to the astute observational skills of our homie Castro at A Walking Disaster, we just came across a tweet from DJ AM, in which he asserts that Chris Andersen “looks like an ed hardy model that listens to smashmouth vs linkin park mash ups.” Really, dude? Well, if…
Just received word that Immortal Dominion, the subject of a recent extended Q&A, has begun the search for a new drummer. Evidently, at the behest of Sterling Winfield, the producer of Primortal, the band’s latest platter, the outfit enlisted a studio drummer named Matt Thompson for the sessions. From the…
All right, so if you’re racking your brain trying to think of things to get us for our birthday or whatever, stop. Here’s what we want. Floorside seats to the Nuggets on Monday night? Naw. A 1987 Honda CRX? Eh-eh. We want a toy, this toy, in fact, a GG…
Well, what do you know? Here’s another reason this week to ditch out on work early. Who, us? Yeah, we know. We just couldn’t, right? Uh, yeah we could. Pffth! What are you talking about? You know how we roll. After we give you drop, in fact, we’re outta here…
So before its show last night with the Freeze and Pitch Invasion at 3 Kings Tavern, Nardcore legends Dr. Know played an especially sweaty, late afternoon, show gratis in the back room of Wax Trax. We stopped by and as you can see from the picture above of Brian Hagman…
For those of you that managed to catch the show last night, apologies for the train wreck that was the segue (ahem, read dead-air) between the first and second song and the second and third song. Evidently, there was some button on the board that wasn’t engaged, which caused us…
Are you a reggae ambassador or do you just play one on TV? We’ve got great news for you then, mon. Our pal Byron Shaw, the ever affable frontman of Judge Roughneck and the Byron Shaw Projex (and the Jonez, if you’re old school), just informed us that the 3-D…
If your ear’s to the streets, by now you’ve heard that the esteemed Jason Heller has resigned his current post (though he’ll still be freelancing for the national section of that paper) and will be returning home to this fishwrap in just two weeks. We’re beyond stoked, as I’m sure…
If the date on the band’s MySpace page and the press release we received from the publicist of one of the supporting acts is to be believed, blink-182’s much ballyhooed reunion tour is slated to make a stop at Fiddler’s Green on Sunday, September 6, with Weezer and Taking Back…
A Week ago this evening, the members of Ghost Buffalo played what was presumably their last show ever, at 3 Kings Tavern. While it’s barely been even a week, it’s safe to say that we already miss them. If you feel like we do, then you’ll love this week’s edition…
What is it with all these lowlife jerks preying on hardworking, hapless musicians? It has been our great displeasure to report on a series of heists over the past year or so involving a number of local minstels. Off the top of our head, last fall, Epilogues had a laptop…
This past weekend, the b-boys were out in full effect and getting down for this year’s Mighty 4 Colorado hip-hop confab. We were there and Chad Fahnestock took a grip of pictures for us that you can sort through here. Alex Johnson also shot some great video footage, which you can…
