Just scoped the new video for “She Wants Me” by American Trash Republic’s Concept Oner featuring Chuck $teaks and Pilot Touhill. Before we tell you any more, though, we should probably let you know that this clip comes with a big old NSFW disclaimer attached to it. If your employer…
Okay, we’ll just go ahead and admit it: We’re simpletons, easily amused. A few Christmases ago, when former Dork frontman Bryan Knoebel rigged his Arvada house with lights that illuminated in-synch with “Welcome to the Jungle,” we were endlessly fascinated, and fantasied about one-upping him by outfitting our house with…
More than three years after releasing their self-titled debut, the Trampolines return with Between the Lines, a solid album that finds the band completely reinvigorated. The seamless vocals of Chris Stakes and Mark Sundermeier again take center stage, but this time around, the Tramps inject a little more jangle into…
The Twittervese has become one of the most entertaining and insightful places to catch a glimpse inside the lives of some of the most outspoken members of our local music community — 140 characters at a time, of course. We never ceased to be entertained by the tweets of various…
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…
The power of suggestion? Nah. We’re no where near deluded enough to think that we wield that kind of power — well, not when we’re sober anyway. Remember last week when we bemoaned the fact that there hasn’t been any new holiday songs of note? Obviously, we spoke a little…
Update: So much for getting a sneak peek of Vices I Admire’s new album by merely sampling a single track. This morning, the band posted the entire album for free download on its site. Better get while the gettin’s good, though. It’s only going to be up for grabs for…
Suspicions confirmed: From the looks of this tour video shot by the Pretty Lights crew on a FLIP graciously furnished by Spin Earth, Derek Vincent Smith and Cory Eberhard are enjoying the, um, pretty side of life on the road. From performing in front of stupidly packed auditoriums full of…
Perhaps inspired by the fact that we’re in the process of putting together our annual year-end lists and thus reflecting on our favorite releases from the past twelve months, we’ve been going through all the albums we reviewed in 2009 in an effort to stir our memories just in case…
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re all about local music. Surely, that’s no huge revelation to anyone. After all, we do spend the bulk of our lives immersed in the sounds and vibrations being created here, absorbing the music and offering up our take — good and bad. Beyond the…
Question: Although we all know that most bands are not actually playing (well, unless it’s a live clip and they are actually, you know, playing) when being filmed for the live sequence of a video, does it detract from the impact it has on you if you can clearly see…
Strange happenings: We’ve received word that frontman Ryan Malloy has parted ways with Strange Condition, which signed a development deal with Universal Records this past summer. The outfit is keeping the reason for Malloy’s exodus quiet, but has confirmed that his slot is now being filled by Matthew Furlong, who…
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*, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…
Today marks yet another bittersweet day for the scene, a day when we bring you word that Tommy Nahulu, a tireless champion of Denver music over the years, is picking up stakes and moving back to his native Hawaii. To commemorate the occasion, the Toad Tavern is hosting the second…
Although Moore has been together for over a decade, it has garnered very little press, mainstream or otherwise, despite being something of an institution in the local metal scene and having put out a handful of albums during its time together. In the last year and a half or so,…
If you’re a fan of the String Cheese Incident, Kyle Hollingsworth needs no introduction. Earlier this week, we posted an in-depth interview with the keyboardist in which he discusses his new solo album, Then There’s Now, how it’s a departure from his work with SCI and the challenges of building…
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…
From the outside looking in, things still look incredibly grim for the Monolith Festival and its prospects for the future. Organizers set up a Kickstarter account a few weeks ago in response to an overwhelming outcry from fans, who offered to pitch in when word first leaked that the festival…
Thanks to a YouTube user named ProblematicAndroid, who posted this unbelievably awesome video of his seventeen-month old son Caddock singing along with Cephalic Carnage’s “Let Them Hate So Long As They Fear,” we now need a new keyboard and monitor. Just seeing the grimaces on the little dude’s face as…
Have you noticed there haven’t been too many new holiday tunes made in recent years? We were talking about that the other day as we were in some store that had the obligatory archetypal Christmas tunes being piped in over the speakers. So what gives? Are any new songs that…
Wowzers! Air Dubai, which began life as a hip-hop duo, has made an absolutely stunning transformation. To our ears, the act already showed tons of potential right out of the gate with the release of its debut long player, last year’s The Early October. But from the sounds of the…
Kegan Warner has some big shoes to fill. Next month, he’ll be taking over the reins as host of Radio 1190’s long running Local Shakedown program, the weekly hour-long show devoted strictly to the best independent music coming out of Colorado. Warner replaces the outgoing and ever popular Katherine Peterson,…
