Live Review: The New Year, Houses, Fell at Larimer Lounge

Photo: Allison Smith The New Year, Houses, Fell Monday, September 29, 2008 Larimer Lounge Better than: Most bands playing today. Playing together since before who knows when, the Brothers Kadane (Matt & Bubba) have made music that is both intelligent and intensely moving. Whether it was in mid-‘90s slow-core band…

Live Review: Summit Jazz Weekend at Four Points Sheraton

Summit Jazz Weekend Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September. 24 Four Points Sheraton Hotel Better than: Crashing a smooth jazz party. Walking into the ballroom at the Four Points Sheraton on the first night of this year’s Summit Jazz Foundation festival, I felt a bit like an interloper at some…

Live Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at Ogden Theatre

Photo: Jon Solomon Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Friday, September 26, 2008 Ogden Theatre Better than: Anything that has ever come out of Australia. Nick Cave handily disproved the notion that rock and roll is a young man’s game this past Friday night at the Ogden Theatre. Taking the…

Breathe Carolina checks in on Billboard charts

Looks like big ups are due Breathe Carolina, whose debut disc, It’s Classy, Not Classic, released in mid-September on the Rise Records imprint, claimed the sixth spot on Billboard’s Heat Seeker chart and #186 on the magazine’s Top 200 chart. Not a bad first outing for a band that many…

Friday Rap-Up: Scribble Jam, Run-DMC, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z

LOCALS ONLY Scribble Jam is an annual hip-hop festival hosted in Cincinnati, Ohio. So why are so many Colorado hip-hop artists excited about it? Well, on October 1 at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, a Scribble Jam preliminary event is being held to determine the best rapper and best producer…

Scratch and Dent Sale: My WOIC.

I just heard that flossing your teeth reduces your risk of heart disease. Think about that. Holy shit. FLOSSING YOUR TEETH REDUCES YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE. When did this happen? It kind of sounded like a joke to me… but I looked it up. It’s true. I’m not writing…

Update: Sharon Rawles placed in hospice

Photo: David Barber Update: Sharon Rawles has passed away. Click here for details of her memorial service or to share your thoughts on Sharon’s defacto memorial page, where we’ve centralized all the comments. ———-Original Post———- Man, this has been an absolutely brutal year for the local music community. Just received…

No Plot Kill is killing it, critics be damned

Dave Bartz and I are best friends. We grew up in the same ‘hood, went to the same high school (Bartz a few years behind me), share the same values. In the mid-’90s, we even played together in a band. We spent six months in a drafty Eastlake garage —…

Q&A with Georg Holm from Sigur Ros

Sigur Ros’s brand of musical minimalism eschews conventional structures, familiar formulas and lyrical language, resulting in an emotive form of ambient dream pop, which relies on fluid textures, open-ended forms and an invented idiom of gibberish, branded Vonlenska by the band, for its surreal effect. The band’s latest studio album,…

Live Review: Common, N.E.R.D. and Chester French at Fillmore Auditorium

Common, N.E.R.D. and Chester French Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Fillmore Auditorium Better Than: Most hip-hop/soul shows you’ll see this year. The Roots included. At about 7:30pm, with the Fillmore not even half full, retro pop/rock/soul act Chester French took the stage. The band, who recently inked to Pharrell Williams Star…

This Just In 9/25-10/1

Chris Cornell and Timbaland team up at the Ogden October 17. It’s been a fairly quiet week with show announcements this week. Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and hip-hop producer Timbaland will join forces at the Ogden Theatre October 17; Staind, Seether and Papa Roach hit the Fillmore December 2…

45-Second Reviews: Obi Best, Bart Millard, Stereolab, Shwayze

Obi Best Capades Social Science 02:00-02:45 of “Nothing Can Come Between Us”: When I first saw this cover and name, I was really, really hoping that it was going to be a sort of Star Wars meets Feist sort of thing. Unfortunately, it’s just a Feist meets Feist kind of…

Fight Like Hell back for more

When Fight Like Hell called it a day this past spring, Denver lost one of its finest and most vital hardcore bands. After the band broke up, the members moved forward, with Memphis going on to play drums in Death Before Dishonor, Jake joining Know the Score, and Matt playing…

Git Some’s latest available at… wait, what? Hot Topic?

Photo: Kat We know, Chuck. We’re a little stunned, too. Not even remotely sure how this happened, as Git Some is one of the last bands you’d expect to be mentioned in the same breath as the off-the-rack, ready-made, vapid, culture-vulture emporium known as Hot Topic. But, yeah, you read…

The Asbestos Tampons want to stick it to you

Looking for new ways to make those that love you cringe in public? Look no further. A group of local punks calling themselves the Asbestos Tampons evidently just received a fresh shipment of stickers that they’re just dying to lay on you. While we don’t know how eyebrow raising the…

The Pirate Signal added as support for 3OH!3 tour

Looks like Michael Roberts wasn’t the only one impressed with the Pirate Signal’s furiously energetic performance at the Fox last month opening for 3OH!3. Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte must’ve been pretty wowed, too, as the pair just tapped Yonnas Abraham and DJ Awhat to reprise that role alongside the…

Live Review: Frantix

Photo: Tom Murphy Git Some The Frantix, Git Some, the Omens and the Purple Fluid Saturday, September 20, 2008 Wax Trax Better Than: Most so-called “punk rock” shows. Wax Trax, long a stalwart of underground music in Denver, celebrated its 30th year anniversary this past Saturday with a full day…

Scratch and Dent Sale: The Lyrics vs. Music Question

A friend recently asked, “Which comes first the lyrics or the music.” It’s a question you hear a lot. It’s kind of like asking a photographer, “Which comes first, the lens or the camera body?” Or asking a painter, “Which comes first, yellow or blue?”…

Live Review: John Digweed at Beta

Slide show John Digweed September 18, 2008 Beta Better than: The sounds his old partner Sasha is spinning these days. I’ve seen John Digweed at raves, I’ve seen him at clubs and I’ve spun his discs until I could hear them in my head. He rarely disappoints and tonight was…