Update: Congrats to Chris Gary. He and a guest will be our guests at the show this evening. Tonight, in support of his just released album, Us, Brother Ali hits the Ogden Theatre in the company of Evidence, Toki Wright and BK One. We’ve got tickets to the show. Wanna…
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…
Update: Congratulations, Mike Long. You and a guest will be our guest at the show this evening. Have a great time!Tonight, in support of its latest release, the Steve Albini-produced Journal for Plague Lovers, Manic Street Preachers stop by the Bluebird Theater in the company of Nico Vega. Wanna go?…
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…
As mentioned earlier today, this weekend marks the third annual Vendetta Festival, slated to take place over the course of three days in three different venues. There’s still time to enter for your chance to win a weekend pass if you haven’t already. In the meantime, as promised, to get…
Yes, we know. That’s a loaded question and also an unreasonable query. Best of anything is relative. Music is subjective. It isn’t and shouldn’t be a competition. While we tend to agree with all that, we feel compelled to inform you that the folks at KBPI are once again in…
Platinum records? A sold-out tour? Countless songs licensed? A female following that presumably rivals Oprah’s? Pffft — all things that time will inevitably erase. Now, a tattoo, on the other hand — that shit’s forever, man. Apparently no one mentioned that to the lovely young lass pictured at left, who’s…
Update: Congratulations Jessica Martinez.You and a guest will be our guests at this weekend’s Vendetta Festival. Check your e-mail for details.Ah, dark days are here again. This weekend, Denver is playing host to the Vendetta Festival, the biggest festival of its kind in the United States and the third largest…
Hill Country Revue, which features Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of the North Mississippi All Stars, hits the Bluebird Theater tomorrow night with local openers Rosalie, and we’ve got a pair of tickets. If you dig the All Stars, your sure to dig Hill Country, who offers up a similar…
Update: Congratulations Nicole Bushhouse. A pair of tickets awaits you for this show tomorrow night at the Larimer Lounge. Although our preview in this week’s paper focuses on the Entrance Band, Amazing Baby, which stopped by Denver earlier this year warming up for Phoenix at the Bluebird and who headlines…
TGIFF. It’s Freeloader Friday, kids. You know what that means, right? Free stuff. And lots of it. Your favorite music blog (we are your favorite music blog, right?) has a bunch of tickets for you for a number of great shows and events this weekend, and later today as always,…
Everybody wants to be in a band. From the outside, it all looks so glamorous, doesn’t it, all the sex and drugs that go along with the rock and roll? If only they knew… Fact: In real life, the sex only leaves you with regrets or worse. The drugs don’t…
Driving eastbound on I-70, Ellison Park has one hand on the wheel while the other navigates an iPod mounted to his dash. Scrolling through the songs, Park makes his way to the batch of demos he recorded on his MacBook and pushes play. As his voice pours from the speakers…
Goth is dying in Denver, some fans complain. Charles Russell, aka One Skinny DJ, and Dave Vendetta, two prominent proponents of the scene, don’t disagree. But when they say they think goth deserves to be put to rest, they’re not talking about the music, which they feel is as relevant…
Update: Congrats Mike Shapiro and Courtney Ozaki. Both are going to see Mayer Hawthorne at the Larimer Lounge tonight. Have a good time!It’s fitting that Mayer Hawthorne originally hails from Michigan, the sacred soil that birthed Motown, as his throwback sound evokes the trademark brand of soul that iconic imprint…
Timothy Chase McCartney bears a striking resemblance to his father. He’s bigger and has a stronger arm, but otherwise it’s “like seeing his ghost,” LSU football coach Les Miles tells ESPN.com in a story about McCartney and his late father, Sal Aunese. Miles should know. More than two decades before…
All right, better be careful what we say about this one, lest we get sued by one of these litigious bastards. Tonight at La Rumba five bands — with criminally underwhelming monikers as the Hip Replacements, the Propane Daisies, Togad, Not Mona Lisa and the Downtown Girls — made up…
Ah, a fitting end to a dour day that was once again saved by music. Just got blessed with a brand new track from Tauntaun that the dudes literally just finished recording at frontman Chris Fogal’s studio, Black In Bluhm. Tune’s called “Murderauder,” and right now, it’s not available anywhere…
Wow. Ran into Kam from Chain Gang several times since he returned from tour with 3OH!3 and he said that he’d been writing new material and that it was different from the old stuff. And how, daddio. On the brand new track that he just premiered a bit ago on…
Update: Congrats Ted Alvarez and Carly Billings. Both are going to see Autolux at the Bluebird tonight. Have a good time!The Los Angeles trio known as Autolux hits the Bluebird tonight in the company of Mini Mansions and Gangcharger. Should be a rad show. Wanna go? We’ve got two pairs…
Life is completely kicking my ass at the moment. My bank account is overdrawn, I’ve been dragging ass all day from staying out way too late on a Monday night, drinking whiskey at Sancho’s after the Sunny Day show, talking up random strangers. The weather sucks … eh, you get…
With the annual CMJ fest kicking off in just a little less than a month, Brooklyn Vegan has announced plans to have Nathaniel Rateliff & the Wheel — one of the Denver acts slated to make the trek; the Photo Atlas, the Knew and Jim McTurnan and the Kids That…
