Who do we talk to about changing the state slogan on the border entrance signs? Instead of the staid “Welcome to Colorful Colorado,” how about we change it to “Welcome to Colorado, Home of the Grammys”? Got a nice ring to it, yeah? What’s that? Oh sure, we’re well aware…
Matt Morris’s star continues to rise. While appearances on Letterman and Ellen certainly gave him some great exposure, his duet with Justin Timberlake on last weekend’s Hope for Haiti Telethon did wonders for him in terms of introducing him to the wider mainstream audience. Morris and Timberlake’s version of “Hallelujah”…
File this item under awesome: Just received word that the Overcasters will be heading to Hollywood this May to record their next record with Rick Parker, whose impressive resume includes production on albums by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Von Bondies and GLISS, among others. The Overcasters frontman Kurt…
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…
Holy hell! Anyone who saw these guy at Monolith last year had to have seen this coming sooner or later. We’ve just heard from our friends in South Florida that Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg last night at a gig in West Palm Beach. Given the unpredictable and…
Anvil (due this Sunday, January 31 at the Gothic Theatre) wasn’t exactly a household name until this past year, despite having exerted considerable influence on bands like Metallica, Guns ‘N’ Roses and Slayer. In the early ’80s, Anvil developed a sound that was faster and more aggressive than most of…
Okay Fraysayers, sounds like the moment that you’ve been clamoring for all these years may finally be upon us. Just watched an interview that Sir Isaac Slade gave last week at Sundance in which he utttered the magic words so many detractors who have dismissed the band as being boring…
There’s not much appealing about the plain-Jane cover art that adorns Megan Burtt’s debut, which might prompt less-discerning listeners to pass this one up — and how wrong that would be. Over the course of a dozen tracks, Burtt shows off a stellar voice that splits the difference between Linda…
Haven’t had a chance to watch the Apple keynote yet and kind of wondering if we need to at this point. From the sounds of it, the ingenuously named iPad (killed a lot of brain cells there, eh, Apple?) sounds like a enlarged, glorified iTouch. We gleened this notion, of…
Bad news for those hoping to relive the ’90s this weekend at the Ogden Theatre. We’ve just received word that Open Wings and Broken Strings, the traveling time capsule tour featuring Eddie Kowalczyk of Live, Art Alexakis of Everclear and Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer, slated for a…
We’re going to go out on a limb here and guess that the budget ($25) for I Am the Dot’s new video was far less than what it cost Meese to create its fancy new video. Just the same, the clip “Love Song for Camus” is no less enthralling visually,…
On its Just So You Know music blog yesterday, AOL had the exclusive premiere of Meese’s brand-new video for “Tell Me It’s Over,” the unabashedly sugary single previously known as “The Start of It.” We’d embed it here for you, but that would seem to invalidate the whole notion of…
No doubt capitalizing on Joe King’s recent collaboration on “Undertow,” from Shock Value II, his latest effort, and the fact that the band happens to be in town that day, Timbaland has evidently invited the Fray to make a cameo at his show at the Gothic on Tuesday, January 26…
As you may have heard, Fred Phelps and his cheerful band of hate mongers failed to show up at the University of Colorado campus last night as threatened for the same-sex marriage debate sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. Pity. From what we hear, the students were all geared up…
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…
The South By Southwest countdown begins. Yes, we know it’s still two months away. Regardless, we’re started to get geeked. And it looks like Colorado music is once again going to be well represented with not one but two parties showcasing the most desirable of our exports. Habana Calle 6…
Ah, yeah! Another Monday, another killer free download. A few weeks ago, we posted the “Holding On” video from Mr.J Medeiros and mentioned how the Procussions MC has emerged as an intriguing artist in his own right. He’s certainly won us over. And dude’s still on our radar. We just…
Brace yourself: We just learned that Nick Jonas — he of the Jonas Brothers fame — has canceled his show this evening at the Paramount. Jonas is reportedly under the weather. If you purchased tix through TicketHorse on your credit card, you can sit tight. An automatic refund is headed…
Is the world ready for blood splattering, zombies-eat-your-face type carnage delivered with a Pixar-like flair? We can’t speak for the world, obviously, but, um, hell yeah, dude. And after seeing this unforgivably short teaser of A.D., the latest project penned by our old pal Haylar Garcia, Hippie Werewolves frontman turned…
One more in-case-you-missed-it moment from the weekend, this one local: Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake performing “Hallelujah” last night on the Hope For Haiti Telethon. Not quite as haunting as Buckley’s version, but the two kill it in their own right. Update: The rest of the country was clearly moved…
Now this is what you call going out on a high note. In case you missed it, Conan O’Brien ended his stint at NBC on Friday night by strapping on a Les Paul and playing “Freebird” with Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top’s Bill Gibbons. Ferrell actually does…
Is it too late to add the song supposedly written by Prince for the Minnesota Vikings called “Purple and Gold” to the list of NFL Final Four horrible tribute smackdown? Holy hell. It sounds like some paleontological gospel tune that you happen upon during a late night broadcast while scanning…
