As monikers go, Overcasters is a magnificent name for a rock-and-roll band, especially one as noisy, tempestuous and imposing as the outfit that Kurt Ottaway leads. It also happens to be an apt metaphor for the ominous pall that’s hung over the musician’s endeavors from the very beginning. Every significant…

Did you catch Undercover Boss staring Bryan Bedford, the CEO of Frontier Airlines? No? Yeah, can’t say we blame you. The show, which premiered with a fairly promising premise, has quickly devolved into a one-dimensional series with almost Real World-worthy typecasting. Each of the boilerplate vignettes, which seem to center…

Looking for the best place to rock out in Denver? You don’t say. So are we. What a coincidence. Luckily, this morning we happened upon this helpful bing.com billboard, which promises to help make our daunting quest infinitely easier. The hunt, it seems, at least according to Microsoft’s flagship search…

Tommy Metz, the talented maestro behind Iuengliss and one half of the intriguing Yawn Tron duo, has entered into a remix competition sponsored by Warp Records, in which Metz is being pitted against other would-be remixers from around the country. For his part, Metz has remixed a song by Gonjasufi…

In what has to be one of the most natural pairings we’ve heard about in recent memory, we just received word that the estimable Drag the River dudes, currently on tour in Europe with Austin Lucas and Cory Branan, have been tapped to accompany Lucero on at least nine dates…

While the mice were at play down the street at the Fillmore last night, the cats were, well, they were tearing shit up with reckless abandon at the Ogden Theatre. To wit: The Sword brought its ferocious, corrosive brand of metal to the Mile High City in the company of…

Catch Lungs is a bright, emerging MC steadily making a name for himself, both as a member of the Fresh Breath Committee and on his own with a pair of mixtapes, 2008’s Food the Famished and his latest effort, Sleeping Pills Scriptape. Born John Morse in Grand Junction, Catch Lungs…

Feather (slated for release this Saturday, October 9, at Casselman’s) is the first batch of new recordings from Remember May since its debut EP in 2007. Led by the muscular vocals of Amanda Capper, whose voice often recalls Linda Perry, the outfit starts off solid with “Silverplume,” a lumbering rocker…

Alright, so remember a few weeks ago when we told you about Illegal Pete’s Starving Artist program and how they’re feeding touring musicians coming through Denver. The initial response was like, “Wow, that’s pretty cool, but what about the musicians that live here?” — a very reasonable question, if you…

If you tune in to Dancing With the Stars tonight, chances are good that if you pay close attention, you’ll see a familiar face (no, not the Situation). By familiar, we mean none other than Joe Ginsberg from Single File. Ginsberg’s on the set right now, rehearsing and preparing to…

Last night at Red Rocks, Mastodon, the Deftones and Alice In Chains got it on for a one-of-a-kind mountain metal sandwich, the kind of awesome threesome you usually only hear about, rarely experience and talk about for years to come. We sent our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray up the hill…

MUSE With Passion Pit 10.02.10 | Pepsi Center View a slideshow of Muse and Passion Pit at the Pepsi Center Pinpointing Muse’s primary, uh, muse is neither difficult — if you said Bends/OK Computer-era Radiohead, give yourself a gold star — nor particularly insightful to point out at this stage…

Received a heartening update from Rebecca Folsom, whose plight we first shared during the devastating Fourmile Canyon fire a few weeks ago. Folsom and her family, as you might recall, faced moments of uncertainty during the fire when early word seemed to indicate that her home was destroyed by the…