Since Speakerboxxx/The Love Below showcased Outkast’s individual talents, André 3000 has generally been regarded as the auteur of the duo. And while that might be true — André 3000 does tend to be weirder than his colleague Big Boi — there’s something to be said for consistency, as the latter…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
Lindsay Lohan cried this week in a sentencing hearing when she was ordered to spend ninety-days in jail, followed by probation. Harsh. All the same, with no less than two DUIs under her belt at age 24 — and honestly, it’s not like she couldn’t afford someone to chauffer her…
The band calls its music “dread rock,” and while the act does pay fairly direct homage to Brad Nowell in the occasional punk-rock breakdown or Big-Muff-shredding guitar solo, Desciples, at its core, really plays straight-up reggae. And from the downbeat, percussion-heavy grooves to the dub-influenced, liberal use of delay, you’d…
In this postmodern age, it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference between a brilliant, faithfully executed parody and the real thing (see: Die Antwoord) — and that’s exactly the case with Bad’s self-titled debut. What is certain is that the album packs such a broad range of rock clichés into…
It’s a success story fifteen-year-olds dream of: A big-shot producer randomly clicks on your YouTube demo, and — boom — you’re whisked off to Atlanta to record with Usher. While Justin Bieber’s pairing with R&B moguls might be a little strange — seriously, it’s weird to hear his prepubescent boys’ choir…
I was fifteen when I heard Radiohead’s OK Computer for the first time. This was shortly after seeing “Karma Police” on MTV and knowing I had to have the album right away. Like Pablo Honey, OK Computer was straightforward enough for my undeveloped palette, but the band had also gotten…
If the emphasis on Pulpería (released just a few months ago) was precision, then the focus on the band’s new Before it Ends 7-inch was speed. “Pulpería took about six months start to finish,” says drummer Patrick Bowden. “So long that we ended up writing a few songs during the…
Well, there you have it: The internet is “completely over.” That’s according to Prince, who told the UK’s Daily Mirror in advance of his new album 20TEN (which, incidentally, will only be released only on CD) that the world wide web was “like MTV: At one time, MTV was hip,…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
It’s coming up on the birthday of this great nation, and what better way to celebrate it than to blow shit up, which is basically our M.O. anyway? Aside from the visual spectacle, which these days is starting to get a little esoteric (honestly, what does the Jupiter-burst have to…
One of Denver’s weirdest pop auteurs has dissolved at least one of his various projects: Yuzo Nieto and the Hand that Rocks the Dreidel played its final show this week. The band, led by the eponymous saxophonist Nieto, has been for some years now trafficking in sounds that spanned from…
Once a standup comedian with jokes about a variety of topics, Zane Lamprey is now a comedian who jokes only about drinking. Which is okay with him. Give credit to Lamprey’s TV show, Three Sheets, in which he visits locations all over the world and, you know, drinks. Lamprey says…
Never settle for one taste when you can have two — especially if those two tastes are completely unrelated, but both a treat. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Mixed Taste lecture series, that’s exactly what you get: two lectures on two topics with nothing in common, followed by…
There’s nothing that makes you feel more patriotic than listening to a symphony play that line about “the rockets’ red glare” while the rockets are, well, glaring. Beyond the stirring standards, tonight’s free performance of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Civic Center Park will feature a light show and, yes,…
Add the goofy name to a tag like “jam band,” and you’ve got a band that’s stigmatized right out of the gate. True, Umphrey’s McGee might not be for everyone. In terms of bands that traffic in long-form compositions — and Umphrey’s McGee (playing with Galactic and the Wailers at…
An epic sound somewhere between a jet taking off and the THX theme might be a tad dramatic as far as album openers go, but when SuperSeed blasts off into a blistering blues lick over a driving hi-hat beat on “Dreams,” the first track off its latest, self-titled EP, you…
He looks like a cross between a young Albert Einstein and a biblical prophet. With a wild mustache and a shock of curls bursting from his head, clothed only in shorts so tiny they look more like a loincloth, Monotonix vocalist Ami Shalev gesticulates like a man possessed as the…
Chris Brown is sad, and it’s not because he cried at the BET awards on Sunday. While performing a tribute to Michael Jackson, the singer and alleged Rihanna-beater broke down and wept during a rendition of Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror,” leading many, as noted in the CBS report above,…
Zack de la Rocha’s never been prim about his political leanings. In fact, that’s always been the whole point: Since Rage Against the Machine was named, well, Rage Against the Machine, up to the time De la Rocha left the band to devote more time to pursuing social justice in…
It’s been a few years, and we’ve missed this band. Sure, Cephalic Carnage has held to a fairly steady formula in its now-eighteen-year career, but oh, what a formula it is: Coupling punishing metal jabs that hit like a fat man swinging a blunt object with breakdowns of insane technical…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
