Giving DeVotchKa an unfavorable review is a rarity on par with seeing Haley’s Comet. Chris Barton from the LA Times, however, is clearly impervious to the band’s charms. In his critique of the act’s show a few nights ago at the El Rey in Los Angeles, he gave the band…

Just stumbled across this little gem and thought we’d share: Presumably in an effort to help youngsters to stave off dreaded STDs and unwanted pregnancies, Trojan Brand Condoms enlisted a number of Warped tour acts to film 30-second public service announcements for them earlier this summer. The lady killers of…

Watching DeVotchKa take the stage at Monolith on Saturday night in front of a half-empty Red Rocks Amphitheatre was a bit deflating. But by the third or fourth song, my disappointment had turned into indignation, and I felt like I’d gotten a brass knuckle junk punch from my best friend…

The Chain Gang of 1974, who’s getting ready to embark on a massive two-month long tour supporting 3OH!3, debuted its new video for “We At the Disco.” The retro-leaning clip features departing drummer Adam Halferty and a cardboard robot toting around a vintage jambox interspersed with full on Missy Elliott…

Fresh off of an energetic performance at Monolith this past weekend, the Swayback dudes sent over some more photos of their time in LA with Andy Johns, which we’ve posted after the jump. And if you’ll be anywhere near the radio in the next hour or so, be sure to…

This past Monday, Dan Craig joined the ranks of Reed Foehl, the Trampolines, Redline Defiance, Angie Stevens and a handful of other local acts who’ve had their music licensed to various shows on the small screen. Craig’s song, “Further to Fall” appeared on the latest episode of One Tree Hill…

Four years after forming, Ten Cent Redemption has come to a rest. According to frontman Rhett Lee, who formed the band shortly after the demise of Carolyn’s Mother, his previous outfit, Ten Cent had simply run its course. “I just haven’t been feeling it, and we’ve become so busy with…

Yellow Elephants, Adventure, Future Islands, Ssion and Pictureplane Sunday, September 14, 2008 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: Just another dance party. Of all the dance parties disguised as a show at Rhinoceropolis, this one may have been the best. Things got started off with the experimental act Yellow Elephants from Denver. The…

LOCALS ONLY For the last year and a half, Infinite Mindz has been on a tear locally. Since the release of its debut album, Monkey Rebellion Musik, last year, the group has been in demand for shows, as well as being nominated in the Best Hip-Hop Group category at this…

Richie Hawtin September 11, 2008 Beta Better than: anything else you can do with your body besides sex. There are no words. Reviewing a DJ performance is difficult, at best. There aren’t exactly “songs” to point out, and even if I could catalog every track played, it wouldn’t mean anything…

Portugal. The Man was born in Alaska, but it might as well be a Denver band, with how often it seems like the cats come through here, how much we’ve embraced them and how bro’d down they are with locals like the Photo Atlas, whom they toured with last year…

So you’ve seen the shirts and hats all around Denver and in various parts of the country — they’re pretty identifiable, particularly the hats, whose brim is emblazoned with DSP (Denver Skate Punk) in large white letters. Well, now, thanks to Ben Owens over at Super Screenprint, we can see…

Although we suspected this last week when we spoke with David Marion and later when we received the advance of his band’s new album, we got confirmation from Marion at the group’s show at the Marquis this past Friday: The band heretofore known as Fear Before the March of Flames…

For the bulk of their band’s career, the members of DeVotchKa have been viewed as curious outsiders because of their unorthodox instrumentation and their deliberate, unlikely melding of disparate styles. In searching for ways to describe the act’s unique, rapturous sound, ambitious music scribes across the country have crafted effusive…

What are you doing this weekend? If you’re a music fan, I’m guessing you’ll be at Red Rocks for Monolith. And if you’re not planning on heading up there, you should: This year’s lineup is simply murderous. There are so many killer acts playing, I’m getting a migraine just trying…

Monolith is this weekend, as you’re undoubtedly already aware. And while there’s a palpable sense of excitement surrounding this year’s edition, there’s also an underlying sense of dread attached to the proceedings for the portly, woefully out of shape, chain-smoking acolytes among us, spurred by the thought of trudging up…

As if selling out multiple nights at the Gothic and the Fox Theatre, killing it on the Warped tour and dominating airplay on most — if not all — of the modern rock stations in the country weren’t already evidence enough, 3OH!3 is edging closer and closer to ubiquity. In…

If you’ve been to Rockbar the past few Wednesdays, you might’ve noticed something missing, namely the affable hosts of Jinxed! There’s a good reason for that. Your hosts, Eric Halborg and William Murphy from the Swayback, have been holed up in L.A. for the past week recording with legendary knob…