Goodbye Yerkish. Hello Lexigram!

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…

Peering into A Day in the Life of DJ Chonz

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…

2011 Westword Music Showcase Local Lineup

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…

Win tickets to see U2 at Invesco Field

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 coming to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on August 30

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…

More free music from Mike Marchant

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,…

Lineup for 5 Points Jazz Festival announced

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…

Matt Morris’s music gets an extreme makeover

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…

A first listen to “Forecasts” by the Epilogues

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…

Matt Morris has a brand-new sound

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…

Win a VIP upgrade to this year’s Westword Music Showcase!

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…