Moments ago, KBPI announced the finalist for its annual Best Band in Denver competition. According to Matt Need, who just revealed the contenders on the air, 17,000 people weighed in, with the top nominee receiving more than 2,000 votes. The top fifteen contenders, which are slated to face off each…
Must suck to be a rock star, eh? Getting paid to do something you’d do for free anyway, not to mention all the food, all the fans, all the chicks (unless, ahem, you’re married, of course) and all the other random perks — you know, like joy riding in race…
Time, aka Chris Steele, has been involved in the Denver hip-hop scene for over a decade, and his current and future collaborators include Sole of the Anticon collective, Talib Kweli, Drake, Kool Keith and C-Rayz Walz. The snarkier hip-hop aficionados refer to the form Time writes and performs as “alternative…
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…
All right, anybody feel like turning this Monday into Funday? How’s about it? Thought so. With that in mind, we’ve got a pair of tickets up for grabs to catch Daedelus tonight at the Bluebird with Musa and CacheFlowe. Daedelus? Who’s that, you say? Ah, glad you asked. Last time…
Churchill is a yet another newer Denver act that has arrived on the scene seemingly fully formed. The outfit came together from the collaboration of a pair of college chums, Tim Bruns and Michael Morter, when the former moved back to Denver after a stint in Nashville trying his hand…
All right, who’s getting hyped for the Pretty Lights show tomorrow night at the Ogden, which has now evidently sold out? Yeah, us, too. Should be completely stupid. Three back-to-back sell outs in Boulder, Fort Collins and Denver? Not to shabby. If the name Pretty Lights still has you drawing…
With the Rockies clinching its playoff birth yesterday and this being Rocktober and all, it seems only fitting to post the “Rockies Anthem,” penned by 3OH!3 for the boys of summer and captured live at the Ogden, to get everybody all fired up. If you haven’t caught the clip yet…
As the Rouge’s star continues to rise, the fellas are steadily writing new material, including this track, “Prodigal,” taken from one of its recent sessions. With the ink barely dry on the act’s latest effort, Heat and Light, which was just released this past May, the outfit is wisely building…
All right, have y’all heard about this one yet? Beck’s record club? Just stumbled upon this one ourselves. Evidently, El Guero Loco and his cronies — an ever shifting lineup which includes Nigel Godrich, Devendra Banhart, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden from MGMT, Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother, Binki Shapiro…
Ah, now here’s an idea we can co-sign. Just received word from Mike Marchant (Widowers, Houses) alerting us to a rad new idea he’s about to execute, a songwriter’s workshop at the Meadowlark. Dubbed as “Dissecting and Perfecting the Pop Song – A Songwriter’s Workshop,” the sessions are slated to…
Update: Congrats to Laura McGaughey! She and a guest will be our guest at tonight’s show. Tonight at the Bluebird, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions are headlining what should be an absolutely dreamy bill featuring Dirt Blue Gene and Brightblack Morning Light. Key words in that sentence: should be…
Update: Drag just added another show at the Triple Nickle in Colorado Springs (JJ Nobody’s place) on Thursday, October 8. This one appears to be without Slim Cessna, though.This one has all the makings of a Mile High classic. Two stellar bands, each a headliner on its own, on the…
Jeremy Gregory had some innovative ideas for this weekend’s endOtrend Festival — such as silk-screening T-shirts for admission rather than issuing hard tickets. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a little while longer for some of those ideas to take flight. Just a week before the event — billed as the…
Trying to decide which is more noteworthy — Chad Price playing ten breweries in one day, or Chad Price, clean shaven? (Seriously. We didn’t know dude came without a beard. Cleans up pretty nicely, doesn’t he?) We’re guessing you’re more interested in the latter. To that end, on Saturday, October…
Got a massive pile of loot burning a hole in your pocket? Yeah, neither do we. If you do happen to scrape some nickels together, however, Flobots are conducting a pair of auctions on eBay right now that might interest you. In an effort to raise funds for their non-profit,…
Have you always wanted to be b-boy? Here’s your chance. No more faking the funk! This Saturday at Cherry Creek Dance on Third and Clayton, three bona fied floor wreckers — Visa from Dance2Live, Mattlock from the Groproject and BREAKERONE9 from Lordz of Finesse — will be on hand to…
VENDETTA FESTIVAL Saturday, September 26, 2009 Bar Standard Sunday, September 27, 2009 Exdo Events Center This past weekend marked the third annual Vendetta Festival, a gathering of some of the best industrial and dark dance acts from around the world. We made it to two out of three days of…
Tap, tap, tap. Ahem, attention: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important message about free beer. We’ve just received word that the band Synthetic Elements is shooting a music video this evening at LoDos in, well, uh, LoDo. And evidently, the shoot, which is happening at…
It’s been a few years since Katie Herzig hung her hat here, but we still very much consider the former Newcomers Home singer to be one of our own. The Fort Collins native has made quite a name for herself since moving to Nashville, including having a number of her…
Just in time for the seasons of ghouls and goblins, when kids of all shapes and sizes don scary costumes and cram their faces with every assorted sugary confection they can get their grubby little mitts on, the String Cheese Incident has announced plans to release Trick or Treat, an…
Jeremy Gregory had some innovative ideas for this weekend’s Endotrend Festival – such as silk-screening t-shirts as admission rather than issuing hard-tickets. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a little while longer for some of those ideas to take flight. Just a week before the event, being billed as the country’s…
