We’re not big sportos around here. We know, right? Hard to imagine. Folks who spend all of their time writing about, talking about, listening to, thinking about and making music, you’d think we’d all be big jocks, especially since we live in such a huge sports town. That in mind,…
Beer is great motivator. Who knew. Remember last month, we when told you about Synthetic Elements filming a video at LoDos, plying folks to come out with the offer of free beer? Yeah, seems to have worked out just fine. We just screened the resulting clip, and it looks like…
The Slippery Nipple — isn’t that a great name for the space soon-to-be formally known as Quixotes? Whaddya think? No? How about the Almighty Righteous Room? Not so much? What, you have a better idea? Then let your fingers do the walking, bigshot, and drop the new owners a line…
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…
Update: Just received word that U2 will be bringing its 360° tour to Denver on Saturday, June 12, at Invesco Field. Oh happy day! No word yet on when tickets will go on sale, but they Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 6, and will reportedly range from $55…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats 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 to them…
Did you see this yet? We just caught a link to this on Twitter (thanks, MyBodySings), a list of artists whose music was used “during the detention and interrogation of” to torture “prisoners at Guantanamo and other US facilities”? The list, published by the National Security Archive and reportedly culled…
Ever wonder what it was like for Glass Delirium to make its new album, Thanks To a Monster’s Many Heads? Wonder no more, friends. In what appears to becoming a trend, the progressive metal act captured the entire studio process on film, presumably for the sake of inquiring minds like…
More Freeloader tickets. Today: The Dodos at the Bluebird. Heard of ’em? They’re great. If you haven’t, here’s what Jason Heller had to say about them in this week’s issue: Unlike their sonic brethren the Animal Collective on the East Coast, San Francisco’s the Dodos keep it simple — but…
From the sounds of it, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel isn’t the only Denver outfit wowing folks in New York. We just received the link to this clip of Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man’s performance last night at the Alphabet Lounge. Evidently, McTurnan really digs Gotham,…
Evidently, Nathaniel Rateliff’s trip to the Big Apple for CMJ has proven to be very fruitful. According to Brooklyn Vegan, who covered the show, Rateliff wowed the crowd last night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The showing should give Rateliff and his Wheel bandmates, who have reportedly inked a…
Happy Wednesday. Yes, we’ve looked outside and know there’s not much happy about this dreary day. Winter, it seems, is eager to rear it’s ugly head. Nonetheless, we’ve got a bunch of tickets for some shows tonight that will hopefully help ease some of the pre-winter blues. First up, is…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
Just received word that the Damned, slated to appear at the Bluebird Theater with Danko Jones and the Nicotine Fits on Wednesday, October 28, has been forced to cancel all of the dates on its upcoming American tour. According to a post on the band’s site, the cancellation stems from…
Don’t know how we managed to miss this, the Fray’s video for its version of “Heartless,” the Kanye West cover, but we just came across it earlier today, and you know what? It’s a pretty swell video. Directed by Hiro Murai (Bloc Party) and produced by Ross Girard, featuring animation…
What a compelling night of music in the Mile High City tonight, amigos. At the Bluebird, The Future of the Left, a promising U.K. trio on the 4AD imprint, shares a bill with Mumiy Troll, one of Russia’s most esteemed exports, and Austin’s finest, …And You Will Know Us By…
Update: Charles Hughes and Cherie C will be our guests at the show tonight. Thanks to them and to everyone else who responded with the correct answer (“Don’t Dream It’s Over” and The Stand). We’ll have more tix up for grabs later this week.Yes, we know it’s a Monday. And…
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…
A few weeks ago, we offered up a list of our dream reunions. You responded by offering up dream lists of your own. And as we’ve been out an about and the subject has been broached over beers, one local name keeps coming up — the Warlock Pinchers, a now…
This must just be the week for seemingly inactive bands to unceremoniously jump back into the fold. Earlier this week, we posted an item about the Titan Courageous, who’s been off the grid for a while, making new music. Now we’ve received confirmation that Three Miles West, an outfit led…
After six weeks off the road spent working on new music and revamping its live show, Meese is back on tour. The outfit is kicking off its upcoming series of shows tonight with a gig at the Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, followed by nearly two dozen dates…
Update: Congratulations to David Fender! He and a guest will be our guests at the show tomorrow night.Gregory Alan Isakov has made quite a name for himself since first making his way down from the People’s Republic some years back. Although he’s been headlining rooms like the Boulder Theater and…
