LOCALS ONLY Since releasing their debut album, Til Then… last year, ManeLine, which consists of Mane Rok, InkLine and DeeJay Tense, have been on a tear locally doing show after show and even helping get monthly local hip-hop nights going at Herb’s Hideout (Everybody Eats) and the Marquis Theater (Boombox)…
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Blintzen Trapper Thursday, November 6, 2008 The Gothic Theater, Englewood Better Than: A musical legend falling back on past glory. Opening the show was Blintzen Trapper. I have to admit I wasn’t too much into the band before the show or even afterward but it…
Tonight at the hi-dive, the esteemed members of Rabbit Is a Sphere are unleashing their latest opus, Hope Is a Cinder that Blinks Quietly Until You Die, in the company of Joshua Novak and the Ocean Bed. A dependably engaging batch of atmospheric tunes, the four-song EP, recorded, mixed and…
New York City practically sweats innovative bands, but it has produced few as utterly otherworldly as Gang Gang Dance (due at the Larimer Lounge on Friday, November 7, with Marnie Stern). Bandmembers Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian DeGraw, Tim DeWit and Josh Diamond utilize all manner of percussion, keyboards and electronics to…
The author’s inspiration. Given all that has happened this week, it’s easy to forget that Halloween was just last Friday. But I haven’t forgotten. Sure, there was some kind of election this week that might just change the face of America, and even the world, but we’re talking about Halloween…
The Fray has announced a release date for the follow-up to its triple-platinum debut, How to Save a Life. A year to the day of when the act first previewed songs from the as-yet-titled album live at the Bluebird at a trio of intimate shows, the disc is slated to…
We first noticed the change in the mammoth LED billboard on I-25 near 50th Avenue during an afternoon rush hour in late October. The marquee, which normally just lists the time and the temperature, was now offering an opinion on which way the political winds were blowing, flashing a McCain/Palin…
Horse has spent the better part of the past few months holed up in Dave Otero’s Flatline Studio putting the finishing touches on its new album, U.S. Metal, which is due to drop after the first of the year. In anticipation of its release, the outfit, fronted by KPBI’s Uncle…
Metallica Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Pepsi Center To appreciate Metallica 3.0, you have to make peace with a few things: For starters, you have to reconcile the fact that the Cliff Burton-era lasted only three albums and ended over two decades ago. The surviving members moved on, and that’s okay…
As the Killer would say, goodness gracious, great God almighty! Sooner or later, you’d think this 3OH!3 craze would begin to wane, right? Yah. Guess again. It seems the boys have gone supernova. After two (yes, that’s two, folks) back-to-back sold out nights at the Gothic on Halloween weekend, the…
In an indie-rock world dominated by males in their twenties and often choked with irony and self-consciousness, Marnie Stern is most assuredly an outlier. A 32-year-old woman with serious guitar chops and songwriting skills that are quickly growing to match them, Stern is unabashedly earnest about playing what she calls…
It’s been a while since we’ve come across a flier that struck us as cool enough to post in Pole Position. That said, we think this one touting the Overcaster’s CD release party this Saturday night at the Falcon more than qualifies. And while we’re on the subject of the…
Umphrey’s McGee returns to Colorado for a three-show run in January. Umphrey’s McGee has played here so many times over the last few years that you’d almost think the guys were from here rather than from Chicago. The band revisits our state right after its new studio album, Mantis ,…
Alright, so it’s a day of reckoning, a day a great many of us have been anticipating for quite a while now — and no, I’m not talking about the election. I’m talking about fucking Metallica at the Pepsi Center, dudes. Tonight we’ll see if the cats still got it…
The 2008 Presidential Election Campaign told as a ’70s Rock Opera…..
Photo: Bryce Boyer When he penned “How It Ends,” it’s a safe bet that Nick Urata’s artful inclinations far exceeded any commercial aspirations he might have had. All the same, the members of DeVotchKa, whose contributions to the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack earned the act reams of acclaim, have gotten…
Just stumbled across a pair of great interviews with two former Denverites who are pursuing music careers on opposite coasts. The first article features Andy Butler from Hercules and Love Affair, who got his start here as an underground dance DJ, while the other interview focuses on Patrick Park, who…
Photo: Aaron Thackeray TV on the Radio Sunday, November 2 Ogden Theater Better Than: The band’s rushed, abbreviated set at Monolith (which wasn’t really the band’s fault). Detroit riff-rock veterans the Dirtbombs opened last night’s show at the Ogden. I was a bit disappointed to see that their two-drummer setup…
Pete Tong October 31, 2008 Beta Better than: Sitting at home rewatching horror movies I’ve seen a dozen times. Ah, Halloween. It’s a night for the freaks to come out, for normally buttoned-up folk to indulge in wild fantasies, wear too little clothing and get way, way drunker than normal…
Received a rather alarming tip this afternoon that El Chapultepec, a bona fide Denver institution, was drastically scaling back its jazz programming. The thought of the ‘Pec without jazz is like, well, like Denver without the mountains. So we put in a call to Angela Krantz, whose father, Jerry, still…
Ice Cube signs up for NBC cop show Ice Cube sure has come a long way from his jheri curl days in NWA. He’s got platinum albums and hit movies, and now he’s going to take another shot at television. According to Sohh.com rapper has signed on to write and…
Experience Hendrix Paramount Theatre Thursday, October 30, 2008 Jimi Hendrix once said, “Music is my religion,” and the Paramount Theater essentially became the Church of Hendrix for three hours while some extraordinary guitarists paid tribute to who many consider the ultimate guitar god…
