As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
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…
Welcome to a special lo-fi, lowlight edition of Moving Pictures, featuring the Swayback, who literally played in the dark at Bender’s on Friday night, which seemed to call for grainy black and white treatment. Lighting was equally as tricky at the Meadowlark on Saturday night, as you’ll see from the…
Tonight at the hi-dive Cowboy Curse is set to return to the stage with Bad Luck City and Overcasters, which should make for a truly extraordinary show. The outfit has finally recorded some new music (we say finally because we’ve seriously been jonezin’ for some new stuff) that it shared…
Yesterday, we posted a Q&A with the members of Ideal Fathers, who are releasing their debut disc tonight at the Larimer Lounge. We’ve had this disc for a while and have been digging the utter shit out of it. Before heading out to the show tomorrow night, check out the…
It’s hard to say what’s more impressive, the fact that the Swayback is working with Andy Johns, that it had the opportunity to record with him at the legendary Capitol Studios, or the amazing photos that the unbelievably gifted photographer and recent Los Angeles denizen Laurie Scavo shot. Seriously fantastic…
Update: Yes, we know we posted this last week, but we thought we’d bring it back to the forefront to remind you about the show tonight at the hi-dive and to provide a link to Tom Murphy’s Rough Mixes feature running in this week’s paper. Let’s hear it for more…
Tonight at the Marquis, the wunderkinds of Havok, profiled in this week’s paper, will be making their debut long player available to the lucky metal heads in their hometown. The album, Burn, which will be issued on the Candlelight imprint, isn’t slated to be released officially until Tuesday, June 2…
Gregory Alan Isakov’s new record, This Empty Northern Hemisphere, is the talk of the town this week, and for damn good reason. We’ve had it for a while now, and let’s just say, three records in, he’s delivered his finest work to date. And that’s saying a lot, because his…
Welcome to a special edition of Moving Pictures. We got a head start on the weekend last night, and oh, man, what a night we had! We’re still recovering from it, in fact, as we write this, trying to replenish our electrolytes and all that. We finally experienced the night…
Looks like we’ve got dueling fliers in this week’s pole position. Not that the one picked by our esteemed colleague this week isn’t completely worthy, because it most certainly is; it’s just that this particular one, hyping a Sunday, May 24, date at 3 Kings featuring Yerkish, Burn Sand Burn…
As if this wasn’t already painfully apparent, Andy and I are hopelessly devoted to music, particularly the music made here. Exhibit A: Last night, instead of pounding beers and watching the Nuggets trounce the Mavericks like the other bandwagoneers in this city (my co-hort being the exception — A to…
Gojira, Krallice and Wolves in the Throne Room Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Marquis Theater, Denver Better Than: A nationalist rather than socially conscious black metal show. Krallice opened the show. A four-piece whose membership includes Mick Barr, one of Marnie Stern’s primary influences, the outfit at first sounded like a…
I can’t even drink yet,” notes Havok frontman Dave Sanchez. “But I’ve probably played and been inside more bars than people who are 25 years old.” One look at Sanchez, whose baby face is framed by long, dark, wispy curls, and his vintage is unmistakable — which makes the thrash…
Welcome to an abbreviated edition of Moving Pictures. With yet another soggy-ass weekend (seriously, what’s up with the weather in Denver this spring — picture perfect during the week and wet miserable on the weekends?!), some later-than-advertised start times and other miscellaneous stuff we won’t get into here, we didn’t…
Tori Amos’s new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, is set to drop next Tuesday, and we just her that her Sinful Attraction tour, which kicks of in Seattle at the beginning of July, will be making a stop in Denver on Tuesday, July 21, at the Paramount Theatre. No word…
Tonight at the Oriental Theater, Eric Shiveley’s excellent film Everyone But You will be screened for the very first time in Denver. The movie, as I assessed several years ago, serves as an exceptional portrait of a struggling artist. Written, filmed and edited entirely by Shiveley with little to no…
As you can see from the other benefit-related item we posted just a bit ago, musicians with benefits are, unfortunately, a rare commodity. Unlike most folks who have at least some level of coverage and can thus seek medical attention when required, without having to mortgage their house and part…
This Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at Herman’s Hideaway, more than a dozen local acts will take the stage to perform at the Hand That Bleeds benefit for Horse drummer Steve Patt, who was recently involved in a power saw accident that has rendered him unable to work for at…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
In a little over a month, Meese’s major label debut is slated to drop. At a listening party a few months ago at the Larimer Lounge, we learned that the album would be titled Broadcast and would feature “The Start of It,” a song well familiar to all of the…
So we heard a rumor as we were closing up shop last week from a very reliable source that Tickle Me Pink had reached the end of the line. Well, TMP fans can rest easy. We’re happy to report that the rumor is indeed just that. Just got off the…
