This was not taken at the hi-dive Dosh, Anathallo, L’elan Vital Saturday, June 7, 2008 hi-dive Better than: A makeshift drum circle. Martin Dosh is one of the more interesting artists to come out of Anticon’s multi-colored stable of artists. Over the course of four albums, he’s created a stream…
Dugout Canoe, Milton Melvin Croissant III, Fissure Mystic, Slight Harp and Vivian Girls Friday, June 6, 2008 Rhinoceropolis, Denver Better Than: A line-up of music that’s pretty much the same throughout. Fissure Mystic’s set at Rhinoceropolis this past Friday was only its second since taking a nine-month hiatus following Simon…
Wow. We had a considerably more difficult time tracking down a clip of Flobots performing on Leno last night than we did when they played on Last Call with Carson Daly. In fact, after trolling You Tube and refreshing our Google search every ten minutes or so, we came up…
Slideshow by Jon Solomon Maceo Parker Thursday, June 5, 2008 Boulder Theatre Better Than: Seeing a gal wearing hot pants in a cold sweat doing it doing to death. It’s been more than a decade since the last time I saw Maceo Parker perform, and the 65-year-old funk sax master…
Flobots continue their swift march upwards tonight with an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. From all indicators, the band hasn’t lost any momentum. Fight with Tools is continuing to sell briskly (the album is once again Twist & Shout’s top seller), and “Handlebars” is still doing quite…
Is there anything as heady as those early days of a relationship? All you can see, hear, smell, taste and think about is your beloved. The friends who’ve stuck by your side through those long, lonely dark nights of the soul are forgotten. Work responsibilities suffer. Sleep is forsaken for…
Photo by G. Wigler Twenty-five years ago today, on a unseasonably dreary June day presumably a lot like the one we’re experiencing right now in the Mile High City, a marginally known band from Ireland played a now legendary set at Red Rocks. The gig essentially turned Bono and his…
Photos by James Mitchell Evans The Dead Science, Physics of Meaning and Dan Kaufman Superstar Eruption Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Hi-Dive Better Than: Playing Indie-metal free jazz by yourself In any “movement,” there are going to be the moderates and the radicals. Both groups have equal claim on the direction…
If writing obscenely accessible pop is a crime, Set Forth should get the chair. Radio-friendly? Hell, these guys might as well send BFF pendants to program directors with copies of their four-song debut. Figures that the group formed at the behest of a radiohead. Shortly after catching Steve Melton and…
Driving eastbound on I-70, Ellison Park has one hand on the wheel while the other navigates an iPod mounted to his dash. Scrolling through the songs, Park makes his way to the batch of demos he recorded on his MacBook and pushes play. As his voice pours from the speakers…
You know when your mom sometimes goes on and on about how handsome you are, or how talented you are and whatnot, and you’re all like, “Ah, ma’, you’re supposed to say that crap. You’re my mom”? Keep that sentiment in mind right now as we tell you just how…
R.E.M., the National and Modest Mouse Tuesday, May 30, 2008 Red Rocks Better Than: Every large-scale rock show I’ve seen for ten years. Last night was a perfect night for a concert at Red Rocks. What more could you ask for to complement a night of great music besides a…
Slide show by Jon Solomon Return to Forever Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Paramount Theatre Better Than: Going back to the future. When it comes to chops, Lenny White, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola and Stanley Clarke are heavyweights. Just seeing one of these guys on his own would be a…
It’s one thing to record an album that you hope is going to take you places. It’s another thing to have that record shelved and not see the light of day until thirty years later. In this extended Q&A, Bettye LaVette talks about going back to Muscle Shoals and working…
Jamie Lidell w/ James Pants Bluebird Theater Monday June 2, 2008 Better than: Any Monday night show in my personal history. From the moment Jamie Lidell and his band take the stage, it’s apparent that something weird is afoot. It’s the clothes. Three of the five are in costume. Lidell…
Who: Sarah Marcogliese Dossier: Former member of Drop the Fear. In Her Words: “Fun… sometimes…. pain sometimes. Forgiveness, hope, love, distruction, reconstruction, connection… music for the feelings you feel that felt sometimes like feely… really.”…
Photo by Anna Hrnjak Thrones, Epileptinomicon, 19ADD and Munimula Friday, May 30, 2008 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Any other doom rock show I’ve ever seen. The incarnation of Epileptinomicon that performed this night included Mike Reisinger (ex-Motheater) and Pat Keck (artist behind Bogwitch and Ghetto Dogs). Reisinger had set…
White Rabbits, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Blue Million Miles, Pop Wreck Saturday, May 31, 2008 Bluebird Theater Better than: A Jefferson Airplane cover band. When I stepped up to the Bluebird I was a little confused – there wasn’t anybody outside, there was music coming from the stage and the…
George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic Saturday, May 31 Fillmore Auditorium Better than: getting up for the downstroke. For years, George Clinton and P-Funk have been delivering marathon sets of uncut funk where four –hour shows seem to be the norm. While Saturday’s Fillmore shore was just under four hours, it really…
All right, since this is presumably on the super DL, you didn’t hear this from us, but supposedly, those crazy Machine Gun Blues bastards are playing a show in — are you ready for this?! — Globeville. (The quaint little neighborhood just north of I-70 and just east of I-25)…
Choosing a flyer to highlight in this week’s Pole Position was an absolute no-brainer. As you may be aware, d.biddle is one our favorite bands, so naturally, we have no qualms about hyping the act’s CD release show on Friday, June 13 at the hi-dive. Regardless, even if we didn’t…
LOCALS ONLY The name Frank E may not ring bells in the local hip-hop scene, but the DJ/producer is working like a mad man to help put the Colorado hip-hop scene on the map — by going outside the scene…
