Gangster rappers in South Boulder? Yup, the stone-faced white boys behind local hip-hop outfit 3OH!3 are truly ready to put the “G” in granola town. Just check out the video for their song “Holler Till You Pass Out” filmed at a Boulder elementary school. Favorite lines include: “Youse a punk…
Last Thursday, the Denver Public School board voted unanimously to approve a one-year renewal of Skyland Community High School, the Big Picture charter school located in the former Cole Middle School building first written about here. It was a down-to-the-wire decision, with one committee recommending that the school be shut…
James Wellensiek may be one of the scene’s elder statesmen, but you’d never know it. Granted, today he hardly resembles the lean, sneering punk heartthrob on the inside of Pinhead Circus’s Fall in Love All Over Again (he has, ahem, more facial hair now), but the guy’s got the vigor…
I’m no Mark Pellington or David LaChapelle, so take this for what it’s worth: The new Laylights video looks like a million bucks. “I know,” marvels Laylights frontman Tyler Hayden. “That’s why we were so excited about it.” The Laylights paid the Lockerpartners (Emily and Mary Grace) less than you’d…
The drive into work this morning was a thing of absolute beauty. A heavy fog was draped around the city like a thick winter coat, and Born in the Flood’s latest (specifically “In Debt to the Heart”) was on my iPod. I was staring out the window as the 122x…
The drive into work this morning was a thing of absolute beauty. A heavy fog was draped around the city like a thick winter coat, and Born in the Flood’s latest (specifically “In Debt to the Heart”) was on my iPod. I was staring out the window as the 122x…
In 2005, Born in the Flood created giant expectations with its outstanding six-song EP, The Fear That We May Not Be, and one jaw-dropping performance after another. But the act more than measures up on its followup, If This Thing Should Spill (slated for release this Friday, February 9, at…
If Nathan McGarvey and Stephen Till had had even the slightest inclination that their casual collaboration would morph into a nine-piece band, perhaps they’d have come up with a different name. But forming a group wasn’t part of the plan when the pair first convened in the summer of 2005…
When I started this job almost four years ago, there were only a handful of things you could have told me about my future that would have given me even a moment’s pause. That I’d soon be speaking of my father in the past tense — and eventually getting used…
Doing three hours of stand-up is one thing. But for a comic to be funny for that entire time… well, that’s another thing entirely. While Dave Chappelle offered some truly gut-busting moments of hilarity during his marathon session at Comedy Works last night, there were also some bizarre instances, such…
After her nanosecond turn on The One last summer, I’m sure the last thing in the world that Aubrey Collins wanted to be thought of was a one-trick pony. Funny thing is, if everything pans out with her current endeavor, that’s precisely what she’ll be. In a manner of speaking…
The Heyday is still wet behind the ears. Nine. That’s the number of shows that the Heyday has actually played. In this week’s Beatdown, I speculated that number was fewer than fifty. And before the ink was even dry on that column, I received an e-mail from Heyday bassist Pete…
The Heyday is still wet behind the ears. Nine. That’s the number of shows that the Heyday has actually played. In this week’s Beatdown, I speculated that number was fewer than fifty. And before the ink was even dry on that column, I received an e-mail from Heyday bassist Pete…
Kettle Black may have recently changed its name to Hello Kavita, but its sound remains firmly intact. The band’s earthy vignettes continue to draw from a broad, familiar palette that offers plenty of variety without losing cohesion. Listen closely, and you’ll hear swelling slide guitar lines that recall Mazzy Star…
Oh you broke my heart, but you saved my life that day that you walked right out the door. So just stay away ’cause I just can’t take the thought of you coming back for more. The saline-drenched mewlings of a jilted ex-lover, or a lament to unrequited love torn…
Drunk dialing. C’mon, everyone’s done it at least once. And those who say they haven’t… well, those people are either full of fiction or hardline teetotalers who view abstinence as a virtue. Even if you do happen to fall into the latter category, chances are better than good that you’ve…
Drunk dialing. C’mon, everyone’s done it at least once. And those who say they haven’t… well, those people are either full of fiction or hardline teetotalers who view abstinence as a virtue. Even if you do happen to fall into the latter category, chances are better than good that you’ve…
Sterling Andrews Props to Hot IQs for being featured on Spin.com’s home page. The link, which has now moved below the fold after being front-and-center earlier this afternoon, features a photo of the band along with a short blurb urging visitors to download “Duck and Cover,” from the act’s latest…
Sterling Andrews Props to Hot IQs for being featured on Spin.com’s home page. The link, which has now moved below the fold after being front-and-center earlier this afternoon, features a photo of the band along with a short blurb urging visitors to download “Duck and Cover,” from the act’s latest…
The last time I’d driven by the Blue Corn Lounge, on the corner of 38th and Perry in northwest Denver, it was around 1 a.m. on a Saturday. In the parking lot, a massive dude stood between two maniacally gesturing females. It looked like he was trying to mediate a…
The last time I’d driven by the Blue Corn Lounge, on the corner of 38th and Perry in northwest Denver, it was around 1 a.m. on a Saturday. In the parking lot, a massive dude stood between two maniacally gesturing females. It looked like he was trying to mediate a…
The pull of Denver’s music scene must be very strong for Andrew Murphy. I mean, why else would the guy continue to run a Mile High-centric label from more than 1,200 miles away? Murphy, the proprietor of Smooch Records, says the motivation behind this labor of love hasn’t changed since…
