Happy humpday! Here’s some piping hot, pristine, radio-ready pop for you, hot off the presses and straight out of the Mile High City. The band is called Places, and the tune is titled “Fire,” from the group’s brand-new album, No More Wasted Days. We’ve been enamored with this act for…
See also: “Awesome God,” Tim Tebow, awesomely bad singer Tim Tebow: In case you didn’t know, “He’s a baller, a play maker and a shot caller.” So sayeth Tebowzo Skip Bayles. Skipper has a point. All this Timmy kid does is win. This brilliant meme-in-the-making is the masterwork of DJ…
Crazy how much difference a year can make. This past March, Foster the People was a little-known quantity in the music world making its first trek to Denver for an intimate show at the Walnut Room for a roomful of dialed-in music fans. After returning to the Mile High City…
Just over four years ago, Eric Shiveley self-produced a documentary called Everyone But You. The film, which Shiveley shot, produced and edited himself over the course of two years, did a fine job of capturing the loneliness, isolation and frustration of being a struggling musician from the purview of a…
One of the biggest challenges of making an engaging video — particularly those that don’t follow any sort of discernible, linear plot line or that pivot on some sort of cohesive narrative — is at least coming close to matching the visuals that listeners conjure up on their own when…
Fresh off their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (along with Guns N’ Roses, the Beastie Boys and the Small Faces, among others), the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be making their way to the Pepsi Center on Sunday, March 4. Tickets for this show, which is…
Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks 2012: Okay, so scratch Z-Trip and Yelawolf from the bill (turns out, that was just a rumor), but keep Atmosphere and Grieves and add Common, Budo and Get Cryphy to the first ever wintertime concert at Red Rocks, which is slated for January 27, 2012…
More props are due to Duncan, the Denver-based artist, who recently joined the roster at A&M/Octone Records. He’s already getting some prime national placement. If you haven’t seen it yet, his first single, “Light Up the Sky,” is prominently featured in the trailer for New Year’s Eve, the new movie…
Have you seen the new Tennis video yet? It premiered a few days ago on RollingStone.com, and the lyrics (and accompanying video) are reportedly inspired by a Shirley Jackson novel titled We Have Always Lived in a Castle. You familiar? Neither were we. Luckily, our trusty friend, Wikipedia, has the…
Speaking strictly anecdotally, from Bob Marley and Cypress Hill to Sublime and Wiz Khalifa to an endless parade of musical stoners, it’s always been something of a foregone conclusion that music and mary jane go together swimmingly, like ham and burger, beach and sand. Now, thanks to some enterprising smoketologist…
Here’s a nice little Christmas present. Remember Shag (the club night, not the bar)? It’s returning for one night (two, if you count shhh-ag — more on that in a minute) at Beauty Bar on Friday, December 23. In the mid ’90s before Lipgloss, there was Quid, one of the…
Remember last month when we introduced you to Bop Skizzum’s new singer, Julie Almeria? She made her live debut last month at Cervantes’ when Skizzum warmed up for Fishbone. Shortly after that gig, the band was slated to head up to the Blasting Room to record some of the new…
Fresh off a stint entertaining the President and First Lady at the White House for the annual National Tree Lighting ceremony with Ellie Goulding and Kermit the Frog, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder is back in the Mile High City and ready to ring in the holidays with us. And the dude…
One of the most refreshing things about living in Denver: Despite how incredibly shitty, mindlessly selfish and inexplicably cruel folks we can sometimes be to one another in this town (watch the news for about five minutes), when one of us is in need, you can almost always depend on…
Update (12/14/11): Contest is over. Congratulations to Paul Arterburn and Bailee Jensen, who will each (with a guest) be our guests at the show next summer! Thanks for the entries! Pre-sale tickets for the Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw’s Brothers In the Sun Tour stop at Sports Authority Field at…
Massive props are due to Kalyn Heffernan and Wheelchair Sports Camp, who have earned the rare, career-defining distinction of being on the cover of our sister paper, the Village Voice in New York City. The cover, of course, advances a sprawling feature-length profile penned by Camille Dodero, one of that…
The Swayback dudes have got to be way stoked this morning. Last night, around the time that they were announced as one of the twelve finalists in KTCL’s Hometown for the Holidays, the guys were at Silo Sound Studios (formerly Macy Sound Studios) putting the wraps on their brand-new album…
Terribly sad news to share in case you’re like us and somehow managed to miss this when it happened more than a month ago: On Wednesday, October 19, bluesman John Alex Mason died from complications after a routine surgery. The gifted guitarist, who was just 35 years old, is survived…
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Update (12/18/11): Churchill named winner of KTCL 2011 Hometown for the Holidays promo. See pics from the show at Casselman’s. Have you seen the new Churchill video for “Change” yet? Directed by Tim Twinem of Velare Imaginarium (the same chap responsible for capturing the nuptials of Churchill’s Tim Brun and…
Oh, sweet Caroline! Mark your calendar now. Here’s a midsummer night’s dream if there ever was one: Neil Diamond is coming to the 1STBANK Center on Thursday, July 26. Tickets go on sale at TicketHorse this Monday, December 12, at 10 a.m. Word of the show comes down just as…
Update (12/6/11): Suspicions confirmed. The mighty men of TaunTaun are indeed reconvening to play a show. “I don’t want to call it a reunion,” says Ian O’Dougherty, “because we never broke up. This is just for Jim.” The Jim in question is Jim Norris of 3 Kings Tavern, where TaunTaun…
