Over the Weekend…Ichiban, F.O.E., Dent, Spoke In Wordz, Debajo Del Agua, Infinite Mindz, 3 the Hardway, ManeLine, Umconscious, DJ Cysko Rokwel and DJ Quote @ Westword Music Showcase

Photos by Aaron Thackeray and Dave Herrera Westword Music Showcase Saturday, June 14, 2008 DC10 The feel for most of the day at DC10 was a sense of community. Hip-Hop fans and artists alike mingled in and around the venue shaking hands, giving pounds and enjoying the Colorado hip-hop vibe…

Showcase LiveSemi-Live Blog

Click here to view the Showcase slide show. 2:30 p.m. As long as the laptop battery holds up and the connection stays live, we’ll be live blogging from the Showcase all afternoon. The Chain Gang of 1974 is just finishing its last song at the outdoor stage — Kam and…

Matthew Moon Lands Song on Budweiser’s Olympic Promo

All right, hands up: Who’s eagerly awaiting the Olympics this August? [cue crickets] Yep. That’s about what we figured. For the non-sportos — and we’re figuring that’s you, otherwise, you’d be reading the Sports Guy or The Life of Reily right now — the Olympics are about as riveting as…

Q&A with d.biddle

hi-dive photo booth shots shamelessly pilfered from Lisa G’s myspace. d. biddle began as Duncan Barlow’s sad, quiet solo project – a reaction against all the metal and hardcore he’d played for most of his life, with bands like Endpoint, Guilt and By the Grace of God. The original incarnation…

Mile High Makeout: My Best Friend’s Wedding

I like to think I have a pretty well-developed values system. I know what’s important to me, the kind of person I want to be, and I try to act in accordance with that knowledge, most of the time. I guess that’s what “integrity” means to me. But it isn’t…

Show Business

Flobots were on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. And Last Call With Carson Daly before that. Yeah, I know — old news now, right? But five years ago, when I first started writing about local music for this paper, such an event wouldn’t have been treated like…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: (die) Pilot

(DIE) PILOT NOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK Performing 4:15-4:45 PM SUTRA Personnel: Eugene Brown; Paul Jansen; Jeremiah Jones; Chris Durant; Dan Sullivan Discography: Mutiny (2008); Radiation, Weather, Art (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: U.S. Pipe

US PIPE NOMINATED IN FUNK Personnel: Chris Sauthoff; Kurt Rosenbecker; Chris Murphy; Mike Chiesa; Scott Osborne; Missy Gutreuter; Azma Holiday Discography: United Sound Pipe due out later this summer (2008); Party With the Pipe (2007); Pipe Dreams (EP) (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: The Autumn Film

THE AUTUMN FILM NOMINATED IN POP Performing 3:30-4:00 PM at MILK BAR (SOLO SET FROM TIFAH) Personnel: Tifah-Al-Attas; Reid Phillips; Aubrea Alford; Dann Stockton Discography: Safe and Sound (2007); Tifah (EP) (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: Meniskus

MENISKUS NOMINATED IN MODERN ROCK Performing 3:30-4 PM at LA RUMBA Personnel: Bryan Bardusco; Eric Ostberg; Chris Wright Discography: Foreign Beyond (2007); The Wall of Sound (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: Kinetix

KINETIX NOMINATED IN JAM/ IMPROV Performing 8-8:30 PM at LA RUMBA Personnel: Adam Lufkin; Eric Blumenfeld; Jordan Linit; Josh Fairman; Jack Gargan Discography: Talking to Faces (2007); Kinetix (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…