Well, the first review is in. Two stars. In the brand-new issue of Rolling Stone, which just hit stands over the weekend, the mag gives the Fray’s forthcoming full-length, the hotly anticipated, self-titled followup to How to Save a Life, due in stores next Tuesday, two stars out of five…
On the heels of the Fluid invading NYC the weekend prior, DeVotchKa, another Denver act, played a show on Saturday night at Webster Hall in New York. Evidently, the set was quite well received, according to this pair of blog posts we came across — the latter of which contains…
From Leftover Salmon’s Bill McKay being arrested to Swayback adding Adam Tymn from Vaux to its line-up to Frontside Five and 29th St. Disciples landing record deals, there was tons happening this week. The biggest and perhaps most stunning item of the week, however, has to be news of the…
Skate punk kingpins, Frontside Five, recently profiled in Thasher magazine, has joined the roster of DC-Jam Records. The Missouri-based imprint, which is also home to legendary skate punks JFA and McRad, will release the band’s upcoming full-length, Resurrection Cemetary, in early March, and to commemorate the album’s release, the Frontside…
John Common is kind of a weird dude. Not in the creepy guy mumbling to himself and rocking back and forth on the bus sort of way, mind you, but weird, nonetheless. Actually, I take that back. A better word for him is probably quirky or eccentric. (The guy’s a…
Update: Wednesday night’s show has been posted after the jump.Well, we made it through another show. What are we at, like, seven now? Kind of lost count. Somebody’s keeping track, right? Anyhow, it was a good one, but like I said at the beginning of the show, you’d hardly expect…
Update (1/23/09): We’ve just learned that Common Struggles, Single File’s full-length debut, is slated for release on Tuesday, April 7. “Girlfriend,” the first single from the album, which was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All-American Rejects) and mixed by Tom Lord-Alge (Stones, Weezer), is being serviced to Denver…
All right, so what are the chances of this: Last week, we reported seeing the Fray on the inside cover of Rolling Stone. Last night, I cracked open the new issue of Spin, and right there on page 86 is the smiling faces of Meese staring back at me. As…
Not quite sure how we managed to miss this one, but Bill McKay, who sings and plays keys in Leftover Salmon, was arrested at his home on Tuesday morning by Eagle County Sheriff. The musician, who also leads the Bill McKay Band and Double Parked, is accused of drugging and…
Just attended a private screening at Starz FilmCenter of Fair Fight, a brand-new documentary focusing on the Fray that chronicles the making of the act’s forthcoming album. The film was directed by Rod Blackhurst, a onetime merch guy who’s been trailing the band for the better part of three years, essentially…
This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin — not during South By Southwest, surprisingly — back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturday,…
Photo: Kirsten AalandYou know your group is catching fire when you’ve manage to generate a truckload of interest before you’ve even had a chance to set up a website. Such is the case with the much-buzzed-about Fresh Breath Committee, which, we’re happy to report, finally has a MySpace page. The…
photo: blkmtnstudio.comAre you sitting down? You should probably be sitting down for this. Really. Brace yourself. Although it pains us greatly to report that one of the most promising bands to come out of Denver in the past five years or so has stopped breathing, we figured it was best…
What are you doing this weekend? Really? Again? How do you feel about heading up Aspen? The X-Games are going on up there, you know? And check this out: We’ve got a pair of tickets to go see A Place to Bury Strangers at the Belly Up. If you said,…
Boulder singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom, also one half of the duo known as Rhythm Angels, whose disc was reviewed in last week’s issue, is slated to appear on the February cover of Women’s Magazine, a publication based in the People’s Republic that focuses on — you guessed it — women. Folsom…
Next week, Jim Dalton, the Railbenders’ affable frontman, is slated to perform a song at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C., hosted by Norman Lear, the man responsible for This Is Spinal Tap and the classic ’70s sitcoms that are now TV Land mainstays, such as All in the Family, Maude, Sanford…
Copyright 2009 NBAE (photo: Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)Just received word that the wisenheimers of 3OH!3…wait…what’s that? Oh, right. Sure. Ahem…it seems we got our, uh, wires crossed there. Evidently, Sean Foreman and Nate Motte didn’t actually get the, er, key to the city. Our bad. But they did…
While we’re not entirely sure we get the symbolism of the imagery attached to this flier — the focal point of which appears to be a figure who looks like Jesus leaning on an inverted hand drum in front of a vague cluster of men of unknown origin? — or…
Dent, a respected elder statesman of hip-hop in Denver, has been toiling in the studio with his ace cohort, Noel Zancanella, putting together a brand-new album, the followup to his last release, the excellent Confi-Dent, which contained the feel good track “Sunshowers.” After the jump, check out a pair of…
While we’ll be posting some pictures and a write up of our own shortly from Tom Murphy, who accompanied the Fluid and the Overcasters to the East Coast for a pair of dates this past weekend, Brooklyn Vegan posted a bunch of a great pics from the show. Unsurprisingly, both…
The Swayback is a quartet once again. After briefly stripping its lineup down to a three-piece late last year with the exodus of Shawn Astrom, the outfit has added Vaux’s Adam Tymn to its ranks. The guitarist, who formed the excellent Ride the Boogie after the dissolution of Vaux and…
While it’s still a bit early, the official list of Denver acts invited to play SXSW seems pretty narrow. Given the extraordinary talent we have here, we’re guessing that the number of artists who submitted this year is down and that this is really more of a reflection of the…
