So the band formerly known as Yerkish will heretofore be known as Lexigram. If you’re just joining us, last week, Sprint, the behemoth telecommunications titan, signed on to help Yerkish come up with a new name as part of the company’s All. Together. Now. campaign. More than 54,000 suggestions were…
Update, 05/12: We just received word that DeVotchKa will be stopping by eTown at the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, June 1, for a live taping with Joe Purdy, playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater. If you happen upon a bunch of starry-eyed students in caps and gowns this Saturday at…
If reading about the various artistic exploits of Yonnas Abraham has grown somewhat wearisome, you might want to go ahead and stop reading this post right now. Yesterday, we unwittingly stirred the ire of one particularly Concerned Fan with our item about the new BLKHRTS track. We suspect that same…
Last we heard from Ian Cooke, he had extended an invitation to fellow local musicians to remix his song ” The Race.” With that goal in mind, Cooke posted a dozen different parts of the song that folks could download and tweak, twist and manipulate at will. A number of…
Have you noticed that the advent of Facebook and Twitter has turned all from casual observers into voyeuristic interlopers into other people’s lives and instilled us with a seemingly insatiable desire to live vicariously through folks we may or may not know? Yeah? Us, too. Thanks, social media…
Phish heads are undoubtedly doing the dance of joy right now. Long rumored, the Colorado dates were confirmed this morning by the legendary jam purveyors, who gave word that they’ll be wrapping up their summer tour over Labor Day weekend (September 2-4) at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park…
It’s like the universe knows, like it waits patiently for us to go to press and then drops the hammer. The ink is almost literally still drying on the local lineup for the 2011 Westword Music Showcase (see page 45 of this week’s issue), and already, it’s changed: Bad Weather…
It’s a great time to be Billy Bunting. Well, not that there’s ever an especially bad time to make at least part of your living evoking the world’s most iconic living frontman at the prime of his career. But now is a particularly optimal time to be fronting a U2…
Lil Wayne: Love him or hate him, it’s almost impossible to ignore the Young Money Mastermind. If you haven’t heard yet, Weezy F Baby is bringing his I Am Still Music tour to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 30, with the Boss Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement…
If Mike Marchant isn’t the most prolific songwriter in town, he’s pretty damn close. Dude writes songs with a frequency that roughly rivals breathing. This afternoon he posted another set of songs for free download on Bandcamp that he’s titled Lost and Found Sounds (2008-2011). As the title might suggest,…
The lineup for the 8th Annual 5 Points Jazz Festival, slated to take place at various points along Welton Street on Saturday, May 21, has been announced. In addition to a discussion with Jake Adam York on jazz standards and covers at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, artists ranging…
This fall, Carlos Santana and George Lopez are hitting the road together on a tour they’ve dubbed Divine Rascals. The co-headliners will each offer sets doing what he does best; the former will be playing the hell out of the guitar, while the latter gets his funny on. The Divine…
Whatever image you conjure up when we say Matt Morris (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Danielle Ate the Sandwich), forget it. It’s now as obsolete as a Hollywood Video card. You wouldn’t recognize the guy these days. We didn’t. When we stopped by Macy Studios just as he…
Ah, what a pleasant way to end the week: How about a brand spanking new track from The Epilogues? Thank you, sir. Don’t mind if I do. Still hot to the touch, the song was just posted minutes ago, and offers an interesting side of the band that we don’t…
UPDATE (05.06.11 – 2:02 p.m): Just before lunchtime, Martin Anderson discovered another batch of master reels, more than a hundred by his guesstimate. Since then, he’s sent over an updated list of bands, and there’s some very prominent bygone Denver bands on the list, including Pinhead Circus, the Psychedelic Zombiez,…
After reading the above headline, you’re probably thinking: Denver needs another tattoo parlor and art gallery like it needs another dispensary, right? Hold on. This one’s a little different. For starters, it’s being run by Emily Francis, a cherished member of the local music scene…
Weird Turn Prose may be the name of Gene Davis’s main band, but it’s also a pretty fitting description for the music he’s been making lately with a group called the Que Pastas — well, not weird so much as unexpected. When Davis interned here a few years ago before…
Whatever image you conjure up when we say Matt Morris, forget it. It’s now as obsolete as a Hollywood Video card. You wouldn’t recognize the guy these days. We didn’t. When we stopped by Macy Studios just as he was finishing recording songs for his next album (currently untitled and…
Yesterday, we revealed the winners for our VIP upgrade contest from last week (congrats, Gary Peck and Gina Lux). Didn’t win? No sweat. We’ve got a brand-new contest this week, same as the last one, only we’ve sweetened it with some additional perks, including a pair of Showcase T-shirts, two…
One by one, the Smashing Pumpkins have been posting tracks from its 44-song release, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, as they’re being written and recorded. So far, the band is ten songs in on this platter — its eighth — a concept album reportedly inspired by the Tarot. That Billy Corgan. Our…
So here’s a new twist: Danielle Ate the Sandwich has released a new video on YouTube, and from the looks of it, it’s a bit of a departure from the quaint, self-filmed-in-her-apartment shorts from which she initially made her name. No pithy quips, witty repartee or rousing covers on this…
Once upon a time about a decade ago at 60 South — in the space now occupied by the almighty 3 Kings Tavern — a trio of DJs got together and launched a night that happened one Monday a month and was devoted solely to playing their favorite songs, tunes…
