MySpace? More Like OurSpace, Suckas. Denver Music Represents.

Whoa! Did y’all happen to catch a glimpse of who’s being touted on MySpace’s music page today? Both 3OH!3 and Flobots are featured prominently: The former is previewing tracks from its forthcoming album, Want, while the latter is the subject of the site’s Who Knew feature. To paraphrase Pete Wentz…

Tonight: 2008 Westword Music Showcase Awards!

After months of polling, tonight is the big night, when we’ll announce the winners of the 2008 Westword Music Showcase. Please join us at at the Bluebird Theater this evening at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!…

Last Night…Wolf Eyes and Aenka @ hi-dive

Photos by Chris Velarde Wolf Eyes and Aenka Tuesday, June 25, 2008 Hi-Dive Better Than: Soft-rock Wolf Eyes are hard to describe without superlatives. They’re one of the loudest, heaviest, most intense onstage and most approachable offstage bands out there. Phrases like “from the primordial ooze, they emerge” or “like…

Rock Band: Denver Dream Team

So Jason Hayes from the Last Seen and I were standing around smoking outside the Atomic Cowboy this past Friday night before the Fluid show, when he presented me with a hypothetical proposition: If I were to form and front a band right now and could choose any musicians in…

Rose Hill Drive’s New Album and Video

Rose Hill Drive’s new record, Moon Is the New Earth, which we reviewed in last week’s issue and which earned three stars in the latest issue of Spin, hits stores today. After the jump, check out the outfit’s rad new video for “Sneak Out,” directed by former Boulderite Mendel Rabinovitch…

Flobots’ eMusic… Uh…Conversion?

Flobots’s music has been characterized as a lot of things. Socially conscious? Check. Political? Sure. Insurgent? Sure. Incisive? Most definitely. But Spirtual? Perhaps to some, I guess. Christian? Uh… really? That’s a new one. Nonetheless, that’s exactly how eMusic — or somebody, CD Baby maybe? — has classified Platypus, the…

Over the Weekend…Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Red Rocks

Photos by Soren McCarty. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Red Rocks Amphitheater Saturday, June 21, 2008 Better Than: Being at Stonehenge for summer solstice. As the electrifying frontman of Led Zeppelin nearly three decades ago, Robert Plant was the epitome of the über-rockstar. But Saturday’s show with bluegrass queen Alison…

Mile High Makeout: Missing In Action

Lately, a lot of people have been asking me where I’ve been. Once a fixture of the scene – whatever that might mean to you or your mom – I seem to have disappeared. A Facebook friend – yes, I’m over thirty, and I Facebook (I also verb) – recently…

Last Night…Creative Music Works @ the DAM

Photos by James Mitchell Evans. Creative Music Works Thursday, June 20, 2008 Denver Art Museum Better than: A typical Thursday night at the DAM Last night, I walked into what has to be one of the strangest events that the two-year old Hamilton Building in the Denver Art Museum has…

Last Night…Tom Waits @ Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix

Tom Waits played a extraordinary show in Phoenix at the Orpheum Theatre this past Wednesday night as part of his twelve-city “Glitter and Doom” tour. As far as we’re concerned, Waits is a god among men. The guy doesn’t tour a lot and his shows have taken on the holy…

Ours

There are a handful of male vocalists in the modern era who possess truly breathtaking voices: Andrea Bocelli, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Luciano Pavarotti immediately come to mind. There are fewer still with that kind of otherworldly talent in the rock arena: Jeff Buckley, Chris Cornell and, some would…

MP3 Freeloader: Ours Tonight at the Toad Tavern

There’s a handful of male vocalists in the modern era who possess truly breathtaking voices: Andrea Bochelli, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Luciano Pavoroti immediately come to mind. There are fewer still with that kind of otherworldly talent in the rock arena: Jeff Buckley, Chris Cornell and, some would argue,…

Westword Spiral Podcast: Mustangs & Madras

On this week’s Spiral, the fellas catch up with three-fifths of Mustangs & Madras and find out how the band hooked up with the Latest Flame imprint, how it got screwed over on a pair of ill-fated European tours that fell apart thanks to a flakey band that didn’t keep…

Over the Weekend…Paid Dues Festival @ Fillmore Auditorium

Paid Dues Festival featuring De La Soul Friday, June 13, 2008 Fillmore Auditorium Better than: The wack hip-hop at KS107.5’s Summer Jam Eleven hip-hop artists in six hours: Could you ask for a better night? Not to mention, Denver is only one of four cities slated to get the Festival…

Over the Weekend…the Chain Gang of 1974, the Heyday, Laylights, Swayback, Born in the Flood, Ra Ra Riot and Drive-By Truckers @ Westword Music Showcase

Photos by James Mitchell Evans, Soren McCarty and Bert Ross. Westword Music Showcase Saturday, June 14, 2008 Outdoor Stage Better Than: For the cost, any show in Colorado this summer On a blisteringly hot summer day, the outdoor stage at Westword’s 2008 Music Showcase reverberated with a consistently blisteringly hot…