Next summer, you can expect the above scene to be replicated across the country if kids outside our area code take to the tomfoolery of Nathaniel Motte and Sean Foreman like the ones here have. The pair, known in these parts as 3Oh!3 (and due tomorrow night at the Gothic…
The past couple of weeks have certainly been eventful for the members of the Photo Atlas. Late last month, the band parted ways with drummer Devon Shirley in the middle of an East Coast tour. And this past Monday, word came down that Rob Stevenson, the head of Stolen Transmission,…
Looks like this may turn out to be a jolly season after all. Late last week, I got word that one of my all-time favorite hometown bands is getting back together. Sure, it’s just for a few nights, but I’ll take whatever I can get. When Drag the River was…
Huh. What do you know? Looks like this may truly be the season to be jolly after all. Just received word that one of my all-time favorite hometown bands is getting back together. Sure, it’s just for a few nights, but, hey, I’ll take whatever I can get…
The most isolated prisoner in America has some new friends at the University of Denver. Student lawyers at the Sturm College of Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at ADX, the federal supermax prison in Florence, claiming that his solitary confinement for the past…
This past July, when Anti- Records announced it would be issuing DeVotchKa’s How It Ends in Europe, it almost seemed like a forgone conclusion that the imprint would also end up working with the outfit here in the States. (Uh, let’s see… DeVotchKa… Grammy-nominated, universally lauded by fans and critically…
Jonathan Bitz has an unbridled enthusiasm for the music produced here, and a genuine passion for the musicians creating that music. That’s evident just from talking to him at shows or reading his pieces in Syntax, the ad-free literary-arts magazine that he’s been publishing on his own dime since 2004…
Eryc Eyl’s November 22 profile on Buck 65 was based on the following interview with the high-profile indie rapper. In it, Buck 65, also known as Rich Terfry, discusses — with very little prompting — his love for Colorado, his new disc, Situation, and his intensely personal artistic process…
Some quick newsy and observational items culled from a weekend out on the town: Friday night, dbiddle turned in another beautifully shambolic performance at the hi-dive. Even minus the Dia de los Muertos-esque face paint the group sported a few weeks back on the same stage (see clip above filmed…
Chris Fogal is a closet shredder. You wouldn’t guess that, though, if you only knew him from his time fronting the Gamits. But those who’ve had the great fortune of working with him in the studio tell tales of Fogal plugging in their guitars to check for tones and then…
I didn’t know Bob Dooney. But judging from the slew of messages that started flooding my e-mail box last week, the guy somehow knew me. The missives weren’t identical, but they all had one thing in common: Bob Dooney. “Hey, Dave, this is such and such from such and such,”…
The November 8 Rough Mixes piece on Rakim was taken from the following Q&A. James Mayo spoke with the legendary framer just prior to his performance at Las Vegas’ Vegoose festival about his new record, his aborted project with Dr. Dre and some of the rhyming techniques he’s utilized to…
Signing to a major label these days is a dubious proposition. Yesterday’s kingmakers no longer have exclusive control of the dissemination of new music and appear to be completely rudderless as they attempt to navigate the digital waters. Last month, Radiohead put itself in the vanguard of the digital revolution…
Update: Click here and here for live blog coverage of the entire event. Chuck Morris is an icon. His legacy in this town has already been firmly established, and he’s really got nothing left to prove to anyone — except, perhaps, himself. And since he’s successfully promoted concerts here for…
Nick Hutchinson recently had the chance to chat with legendary bluegrass purveyor Pete Wernick about his influences, how he got his nickname and the difference between playing with Hot Rize and with Flexigrass. We ran a few highlights from their conversation in the November 1 issue, and here, in the…
On her current single, “So Small,” from her latest effort, Carnival Ride — out this week on the Arista imprint — Carrie Underwood sings the lines: “Go ahead and let the light shine through/I know it’s hard on a rainy day/You wanna shut the world out and just be left…
More than a decade ago, Michael Roberts wrote a piece on the intricacies of the Colorado Rockies’ in-game entertainment, including how the music was selected at Coors Field. While it sometimes seems like there’s no rhyme or reason to what’s being played — seriously, Huey freaking Lewis?! — turns out…
As promised in this week’s Beatdown, the following is a breakdown of entrance music for many of your favorite Rockies players. The songs are reportedly chosen by the players themselves, and while some of the selections make total sense (Todd Helton and Josh Fogg’s picks are no-brainers), others are a…
I love hardcore. I love the intensity, directness and simplicity of the music. Although the sound has evolved stylistically over the years, the groups that rule today aren’t that far removed from the bands I loved growing up. While so much of the music industry is influenced by trends and…
Hardcore is one of the purest forms of expression in music. More visceral than cerebral, the music is simple, direct and explosive. There’s no pretense or subtext — nothing to analyze. And, refeshingly, its practioners and enthusiasts are generally as straight-forward and no-nonsense as the music, which means they’re unaffected…
Eric Shiveley just took a shot at me. “These look like a couple of music critics,” he said, looking into the camera, holding a Luke Skywalker action figure in one hand and a big, colorful, plastic coffee-mug toy of some sort in the other. “They’re the journalistic equivalent of the…
Eric Shiveley is quite the character. Several years ago, a week or so after he’d appeared in my column with a brief one-line mention of how I’d dug his music and everything he’d had a hand in producing at that point, he sent me a note (which I still have…
