Mark Knopfler grabs top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar

Mark Knopfler’s sixth studio album Get Lucky, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar in Boulder while Muse’s latest effort, The Resistance, debuted at the second slot for the week ending September 20. The String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth grabbed the number…

Raekwon top seller at Wax Trax

Raekwon’s latest effort, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2, grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax while HEALTH’s Get Color came in second for the week ending September 20. Muse’s The Resistance, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the third spot while Pearl Jam’s Backspacer and Polvo’s In Prism…

Notiq Rupture wins Hpnotiq Bartender Competition

Vince Martinez of Maloney’s Tavern nabbed first place at the Hpnotiq bartender competition Tuesday night at Suite Two Hundred, beating out eight other local bartenders. Each had to create a drink that featured Hpnotiq, a liqueur made from a blend of vodka, cognac and tropical fruit juices.  Martinez got top…

The Summit stakes its claim on the Cabin Bar

The Summit, a longtime steakhouse that knows how to sell the sizzle as well as the steak (it puts a pat of butter on the steak sizzling on a hot, hot platter) has redecorated and renamed the bar portion of its space at 2700 South Havana Street in Aurora. The…

Bemused

Christian Seith moved to Denver from Washington, D.C., two years ago. After playing on his own for a bit, he teamed up with several Lamont School of Music cohorts to form Bemused. Seith, who wrote all of the songs on the act’s debut, is a decent writer and has a…

Have yourself a good ol’ time at Ristau’s Roadhouse

A woman cradling a little black dog like a baby, its head on her shoulder, danced alone at Ristau’s Roadhouse (2035 South Sheridan Boulevard), while another woman, a middle-aged blonde, sang a karaoke version of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy.” (Yeah, I know that Willie Nelson wrote the song early in his…

Steely Dan, Mark Knopfler, Rob Zombie, Puscifer shows announced

It’s been an insanely busy week of concert announcements that run the gamut from King Kahn & BBQ Show and Melt-Banana, Wolfmother and Ghostland Observatory to Stone Temple Pilots, Insane Clown Posse and Kevin Smith (yep, Silent Bob himself will speak). Steely Dan fans might get a bit giddy to…

Phish top seller at Bart’s CD Cellar

Joy, Phish’s eleventh studio album and first release in five years, nabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar while six Beatles re-issues (including Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s and the Stereo Box Set) dominated the store’s top ten for the week ending September 13. Yo La Tengo’s latest, effor, Popular…

Jay-Z grabs top spot at Independent Records

Blueprint 3, Jay-Z’s highly anticipated follow-up to his two previous Blueprint albums, grabbed the top spot at Independent Records while Raekwon’s latest effort, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 came in second for the week ending September 13. Insane Clown Posse’s Bang! Pow! Boom!, which was the top seller last,…

Beatles albums dominate top sellers at Twist and Shout

There was a whole a Beatles mania happening at Twist & Shout last Wednesday when the remastered versions of the Fab Four’s catalog were released. People lined up before the store was open and the store was sold out of the The Beatles Mono Box Set fifteen minutes after opening…

Pissed Jeans top seller at Wax Trax for fourth week in a row

Pissed Jeans latest effort, King of Jeans, continues to dominate the Wax Trax’s top sellers list by grabbing the number one for the fourth week in a row while the Local Anesthetic and Rocky Mountain Low compilations moved up to the second and third slots respectively for the week ending…

Monolith Q&A: Monotonix

Know for some insanely explosive shows, Israeli rock monsters Mononotix often move their shows into the crowd, creating sweaty pits of madness. On Where Were You When It Happened?, the band’s first full-length, released this week on Drag City, guitarist Yonatan Gat says the band captured some of the energy…

Monolith Q&A: Cymbals Eat Guitars

According to Cymbals Eat Guitars 20-year-old frontman Joseph D’Agostino, Lou Reed didn’t want a lot of cymbals on the first three Velvet Underground albums because “cymbals eat guitars,” which explains the copious amounts of floor toms on those early discs. While that might have inspired the band’s moniker, there’s still…

Dreaming Machines

On the Dreaming Machines’ self-titled debut, Arnie Swenson and Kurt Bauer use various instruments from around the world to create some intriguing tempo-less excursions. Their second effort, Speed of Flying Creatures, covers similar territory, with the two musicians using worldly instruments such as the shakuhachi flute and the Chinese san…

Pixies, Bob Dylan, Yonder Mountain String Band shows announced

As we reported in July, the Pixies will visit the Fillmore Auditorium Monday, November 16 as part of a nine-city US tour celebrating the twentieth anniversary of act’s 1989 watershed album Doolittle. The original line-up of Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering will play Doolittle in its…

Insane Clown Posse top seller at Independent Records

Insane Clown Posse’s Bang! Pow! Boom!, released last week on Psychopath, grabbed the top spot on Independent’s charts while new releases from Trey Songz and Whitney Houston came in second and third for the week ending September 6. Twista’s Category F5 was knocked down to the fourth slot after hanging…

Cross Canadian Ragweed grabs top spot at Twist and Shout

Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Happiness and All Other Things, released last week on Universal South, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout while the Black Crowes latest effort, Before the Frost came in second for the week ending September 6. Drive-By Truckers’ The Fine Print, Whitney Houston’s I Look to…

Pissed Jeans top seller at Wax Trax for third week in a row

Pissed Jeans nabbed the top slot at Wax Trax for the third week in a row while Pictureplane’s Dark Rift moved up to the second slot from the seventh spot last week. The Fine Print, Drive-By Truckers new collection of oddities and rarites, debuted at number three, Apples in Stereo’s…

The Photo Atlas, the Knew and Jim McTurnan to play at CMJ

For almost three decades, the CMJ Music Marathon has grown into a monster of a music outing, right up there with South By Southwest. Started in 1980 as a way for industry folks to discover bands on the college radio charts, the CMJ Music Marathon went from just a few…

$99 two-day Monolith Festival passes released

If you haven’t yet scored tickets for the Monolith Festival, which is just over a week off, now might be the ideal time to get them and save a few bucks. Esurance, one of the festivals sponsors, just released a block of 400 $99 two-day passes (no service fees) that…