Psst. So are you excited about Showcase yet? We are. In fact, we’re giddier than a bunch of fat kids turned loose in the Twinkie factory after hours. Seriously, we can hardly stand it. Ghostland Observatory! Superchunk! Dirty Projectors! Neon Indian! Single File! Oh My Stars! Oh and over eighty…
Okay, once more with feeling this time … er, make that audio, rather. Earlier this week, we posted some crappy version of this video we stumbled across on YouTube, in which the first fifteen or so seconds of audio was muted, with subtitles filling us in on the dialogue between…
Yesterday, somebody downloaded a song from iTunes. Yeah, we know, happens every day, right? What’s new? Happening right now, in fact, as we type this. Sure. But this song was different. It was more significant than any other download in history, except perhaps one other. And this one was worth…
All right, so now this is just getting aggravating. Earlier this morning, we received word that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Thom Yorke had confirmed dates for their respective North American tours. No Denver date listed for either. That news had us bristling a bit. But now, we just…
When we last spoke with Matt Morris for this week’s profile, he was understandably excited that his first headlining gig tonight at the Bluebird tonight was nearly sold out. Since then, of course, the show has actually sold out. Don’t have tickets? No worries. You can still catch Morris tomorrow…
As music critics — and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music — the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to right now?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy…
King Rat has set a date for the release of its new album, Everything Burns. Fifteen years after forming, the longstanding punk act, led by Luke Schmaltz, will issue its sixth full-length at Bender’s Tavern, with White Leather and Suburban Hostage. The outfit plans to unveil the new tunes on…
This time last month, Matt Morris was on stage with Justin Timberlake, performing in front of millions on the Hope for Haiti Telethon. And that was on the heels of appearing on Letterman — a thrilling gig for any artist, much less an unknown one. But right now, the thirty-year-old…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, KBCO’s Local…
All right, so back in December we posted the version of this video that was shot in New York. That clip inspired equal amounts of praise and criticism, with a few folks opining that the transitions weren’t very creative, and worse, that Dent’s female counterpart in the video wasn’t very…
All right, so yesterday, we revealed some of the headliners for this year’s Westword Music Showcase. And now today, we’re revealing another, ahem, super duper headliner that we’re sure is going to make you jump for absolute joy and start counting the days down to June. You know how in…
Just got a look at Fierce Bad Rabbit’s new video for “All I Have Is You.” The clip, directed by Tomas Herrera (no relation) and Brian McCulley, intersperses performance footage of the act, looking dashing as ever in their finest evening wear, with a steady stream of collage photos. There’s…
Mark our words: This year’s Westword Music Showcase is going to be absolutely SICK! — SICK, we tell you! Yesterday on KTCL, as you might have heard, we revealed part of the lineup. The best local acts spread out over ten stages across the Golden Triangle? Of course — that’s…
It’s been nearly three years since Ian Cooke (due tonight at the Larimer Lounge) released The Fall I Fell and proceeded to blow everyone’s minds with his inimitably expressive vocal style, dexterous cello playing and remarkably affecting songs. In the intervening years, he’s quietly gone about his way, guesting on…
Anyone who thinks that deejaying is not an artform has clearly never seen DJ Vajra perform. Dude’s unreal. One of the most revered turntablists in the country, he may not be what purists would consider to be a musician, but he’s most certainly an artist — without question. You know…
We’re not going to even try and lie: We haven’t caught KS-107.5’s morning show in a minute, so we have utterly no idea what in the Sam Hill possessed Larry Ulibarri to try his hand at rapping. But jeez-o-pete if we didn’t get a jolt and a half out of…
We weren’t on hand to witness this, but apparently Jonny 5 and his Flobots kin received the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts on Wednesday at the Westin Tabor Center, and played a song from the new record, Survival Story, called “Good Soldier.” Luckily, Denver Post scribe John Moore…
Finally! On the last Tuesday in April, the rest of the country will finally get a chance to hear the extraordinary songs and expressive vocals of Nathaniel Rateliff, when the celebrated local songwriter’s Rounder Records debut, In Memory of Loss, hits stores on Tuesday, April 27. Rateliff and his bandmates…
Wow! Corpses, the new album from the Foodchain, a group profiled in these pages last week, has been out just over a week now, and it’s already generating a swelling buzz across the nation. The blog 2DopeBoyz posted a track from the new album featuring Talib Kweli, as did XXLMag.com…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats (and kittens) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up…
Meant to mention this in yesterday’s American Idol post, but we ended up being so preoccupied with recounting the respective travails and eventual denouement of Lilly Scott and Haeley Vaughn, the two Colorado ladies ultimately picked to be included in the Top 24, that it completely slipped our minds. Did…
Battling is a fundamental aspect of emceeing, one of the four essential elements of hip-hop. An underground ritual that rappers engage in to develop their wordplay skills and increase their stature, battles are often pressurized situations, in which the rappers ad-lib against other MCs, spitting rhymes off the top of…
