Todd Snider’s Americana is a far cry from punk rock, yet the singer-songwriter embodies a punk attitude, especially on his latest release, Peace Queer. Channeling Dylan with the balls of, say, Jello Biafra, Snider rails with his trademark dry wit against the war and George W. Bush. The eight-song, half-hour-long…
The Dreaming Machines’ debut is a compilation of live tunes that displays the vast scope of Kurt Bauer and Arnie Swenson. It starts off with a few somewhat tame guitar/banjo duos, but as the album progresses, the two dig into various worldly excursions using instruments like the Vietnamese dan tinh,…
Three years ago, Big Timber got its start playing punk. The band then tried its hand at alt-country before settling on its current sound — indie rock infused with a ’60s garage flair. On its latest EP, Midnight on the Mainland, the group plays to both sides of its personality…
A couple years back, I stopped by Club Boca on one of its weekly goth nights, which always looked like a high-school makeout party — only darker. Soon after I walked in, I spotted this dude wearing a ponytail and a wife beater entangled in the arms of a goth…
So what are you doing tonight? What? Watching TV and then going to bed? Lame. Yes, we know it’s Tuesday, but there’s some pretty cool stuff going on tonight. First Andy Tanner of Laymen’s Terms is playing a show tonight at the Larimer Lounge that will serve as his solo…
Modest Mouse visits CU’s Balch Fieldhouse February 28. As we reported earlier today, Bruce Springsteen’s April 10 Pepsi Center show was announced today, but it’s also been a busy week for other concert announcements, including Modest Mouse’s February 28 gig at CU’s Balch Fieldhouse, Conor Oberst’s April 10 Ogden Theatre…
Ludacris’s latest release, Theater of the Mind, which was third on Independent’s Jan. 12-18 top seller list, moves up to first for the week of Jan. 19-25. (hed) p.e. made a strong showing last week as well. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
Animal Collective’s latest album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, which was released last Tuesday on Domino, tops last week’s seller list at Twist & Shout. The band’s June 2 Boulder Theater concert was announced last week as well. Paper Bird, which has been on store’s top sellers list for the last few…
Three of the five members of the Strokes have capitalized on the band’s success with side projects. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. released a pair of solo albums, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti’s band Little Joy released a stellar self-titled album last year. Most recently, bassist Nikolai Fraiture formed the band Nickel…
Bassist Matt Skellenger pulls double duty on Parentheticals, simultaneously laying down the pulse and the lead, taking cues from Victor Wooten and Michael Manring (both masters of two-hand tapping) on a bulk of the songs, which are steeped in funk, jazz and world. Trumpeter Ron Miles lends his gorgeous tone…
Jimi Hendrix once said that the blues are easy to play but hard to feel. And how right he was. Technically, the blues can be broken down into a simple formula: twelve measures, three chords and a five-note pentatonic scale for soloing. Guitar players basically just need to know a…
Touring again for the first time in four years, the Dead will stop at the Pepsi Center May 7. The lineup features original members Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, as well as guitarist Warren Haynes and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.A number of other shows were announced…
(hed) p.e.’s concets in Denver and Colorado Springs last week must’ve fueled sales of the band’s latest album, New World Orphans, which was released January 13, on Suburban Noize Records. Kanye West and Ludacris also made strong showings, as did the Notorious soundtrack, which features cuts by Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Faith…
The Derek Trucks Band’s Already Free, released January 13, on RCA Victor, tops last week’s top seller list at Twist & Shout, while Paper Bird’s Anything Nameless and Joymaking comes in at number three again. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
We were hesitant about writing about Harpoontang’s show at the Lion’s Lair last Friday, lest we taint the young, impressionable minds of a certain unnamed band’s fans. I mean, imagine seeing a group of gals who normally sing songs your grandparents would adore, crooning words, with such sweet and pure…
Since its inception in 1939, Blue Note has released some of the greatest albums in the history of jazz. Over the past seven decades, that blue and white logo on the sleeve has signaled some serious music etched into vinyl or CD, be it that of McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk,…
It would be really strange for a guy to spend a lot of money and time overhauling the 18,000-square-foot club at 2301 Blake Street that was once Polly Esther’s — only to give up a few days before the new club’s grand opening. So it raised a few eyebrows —…
Right before Solar Bear headed into the studio to record its new album, there was quite a bit of simmering tension among its members. Between trying to raise money to record and having to replace a player mid-stride, things became increasingly heated until one day they just erupted between frontman…
Les Claypool visits the Fillmore March 14 as part of the Oddity Faire Tour with the Yard Dogs Road Show, Saul Williams and Secret Chiefs 3. After a slow holiday season of show announcements, things are starting to pick back up with a lot of spring concerts announced this week…
Neil Young’s live recording from 1968, when he was just 22, tops Twist & Shout’s bestsellers list, with a strong showing from local acts Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) and Paper Bird. Also good to see Tom Waits in the Top 10 with an album he released just…
This was very active week for music in the three-oh-three. Hell of a lot of stuff going on. Put it this way, we feel like we earned that cold one we’re about crack by blogging our backsides off. No really. I have no ass. Ask around. I’m all front, no…
Joanna Krupa, voted the sexiest top model in the world, hosts Club 303 grand opening Jan. 10. On Wednesday night, a bulletin from Club 303’s MySpace page was sent out stating that the club was closing. Turns out, that was the work of the club’s former marketing director, who was…
