Did you wake up a little earlier than usual yesterday hoping to get your hands on some Radiohead tickets during that special W.A.S.T.E. presale only to be disappointed? We started getting frustrated WTF?! emails and comments around 7 a.m. So apparently you were not alone. Not everybody, it seems, however,…
After finishing this year out in its home town of Atlanta with five shows at the Tabernacle, STS9 will be returning to Colorado (the act’s home away from home) for a pair of shows at the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14. The Denver dates, which…
“Get your affairs in order. You have a couple months.” Those are words you never want to hear, especially when you’re barely in the prime of your life, just 37 years young. That’s the kind of talk that takes your legs out from under you right where you stand. Faced…
Hear that? That’s the comforting sound of pure, undistilled, unbridled jubilance emitting from kids everywhere across the vast expanses of the frozen Front Range this morning. The reason for their glee? Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! is back in town at 1STBANK Center tonight, almost exactly a year after the last…
By now you’ve heard the news that Radiohead is coming back to town. Everybody, it seems, is just as excited as we are for the show. Few, however, were as creative when it came to expressing their excitement as Kelsey W, who posted our comment of the day, cleverly invoking…
This past Friday, Daytotter.com posted the session John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light recorded at their studios in Rock Island, Illinois, over the summer while the band was in the midst of its Midwest tour. If you’re not already a member of Daytrotter, it’s totally worth signing up for…
Update 3/14/12: Radiohead at 1STBANK Center review posted with photos and setlist. Oh, my! Christmas has come early this year! Mark your calendar now: We’ve just received word that Thom Yorke and company are coming back to Colorado. On Tuesday, March 13, in fact, Radiohead will be setting up shop…
By now, you’ve probably heard about the death of Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot (aka Flattus Maximus), who was found dead on the band’s tour bus at a truckstop in Pembina, North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. After performing at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, the outfit…
BOUNCING SOULS at MARQUIS THEATER | 11/03/11Last night at the Marquis, Bouncing Souls played the second night of their four-night stand with Anchor Point and Tim Barry. The band has two more sold-out shows at the Marquis, tonight with Broadway Calls, the Architects and Luther, and tomorrow night with Teenage…
To celebrate the release of its new, self-titled record, Gauntlet Hair (confirmed as the headliner for the Larimer Lounge’s New Years Eve show) has dropped a video for the album’s lead track, “Keep Time,” and despite Halloween having come and gone, this sucker will still scare the bejeesus out of…
Nearly two years after she charmed the world as an American Idol contender on the ninth season of the Fox flagship, Lilly Scott is thriving creatively in Denver, fronting her own band, Varlet. The group has completed its debut effort, The Drifter, and set a release date for Saturday, November…
So the chorus of dissent continues against OpenAir 1340 AM — if only here on our blog; everyone else seems to love the new station. Yesterday, Kirk Wilde asserted that it’s a “it’s a cocophonous mess,” as he put it, adding “Its audience will be limited to Dadaists.” Jenny B,…
It’s somewhat befuddling that the song that brought Jeffrey Gaines the most notoriety in his career is one that he didn’t even write, nor was it even really meant to be released. But when a radio station latched onto a live version of “In Your Eyes” — a Peter Gabriel…
Holy crap! If we didn’t see it with our own eyes, we would’ve never believed it. If you haven’t heard yet, brace yourself: We’ve just received word that one of the best concerts we’ve ever seen in our lifetime (and we’ve seen a great many, to be sure) is coming…
KVOQ, Colorado Public Radio’s new music-driven station, soon to be much more well known by the OpenAir 1340 AM handle, made its broadcast debut yesterday. To our ears, it sounded like a slightly more accessible version of Radio 1190, which makes sense considering that OpenAir is being programmed by Mike…
NIGHTMARE ON BLAKE ST. AT SUMMIT | 10/29/11This past Saturday night, the Summit Music Hall was transformed into a literal haunted house for the Nightmare on Blake Street bill, which featured My Body Sings Electric, The Pirate Signal, Eldren, Shoot To Please and Valedictorian. Aaron Thackeray, one of our resident…
If you missed the Bloody Scallywags at 3 Kings Tavern over the weekend, it looks like you missed quite an entertaining show. Although the dudes were officially tasked with channeling Echo and the Bunnymen for last night’s Bands In Disguise bill, which also featured Choke the Word doing the Cure…
Bad news if you had your heart set on seeing Diggy, the precocious progeny of the legendary Rev. Run, perform on the Denver date of the Scream Tour: The show, originally slated for November 8, at the Paramount Theatre, has been canceled. No reason has been given for the cancellation…
DEVOTCHKA at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/28/11This past Friday night at the Ogden Theatre, DeVotchKa kicked off Halloween weekend with its annual scary soiree (the band played a sold out show the following night at the Boulder Theater). We were on hand at the Ogden show, and as you’ll see from…
Update (10/31/11): OpenAir 1340 made its broadcast debut this morning, and the signal sounds pretty strong from where we’re at. Appropriately, the station hit the airwaves this morning at 5:59 a.m. with “Colorado” by Paper Bird. And the playlist thus far has been pretty standard indie fare from the likes…
When Dane Wolf came to Denver on October 19 with Death Angel for the Earth On Hell Tour featuring Anthrax, Testament, the guitar tech probably had no idea that he’d end up hospitalized as the victim of a brutal altercation. Before the bands left town, Wolf apparently headed over to…
How was Portishead’s show last week at 1STBANK Center? Well, guess that depends on who you ask and where they were sitting, apparently. Tom Murphy called it “one of the finest performances anyone is likely to see this year or any year.” And while one commenter who was sitting in…
