Gone is the snow globe-themed display of the past several years at the Cherry Creek Mall. Replacing it is a 30-foot-tall, 22-foot-wide structure made to look like it was made out of ice, complete with constantly falling snow, a technicolor light show and a throne that feels cold to the…
BROTHERS O’HAIR With Weather Maps • The Fling 11.13.10 | Larimer Lounge One year and two months since their first show together, Brothers O’Hair returned to the Larimer Lounge with their first recording in tow. And people noticed. You could not stand within thirty feet of the stage without being…
Denver Arts Week ends tomorrow, but there’s still plenty of time to participate. Especially if your idea of participation in the arts is pantomiming statues while standing in front of them. Worst case, there’s almost certainly free shit in it for you. The Denver Arts Week Scavenger Hunt is pretty…
Last week in Poptimystic, we talked about Taylor Swift and her unparalleled ability to sell albums in the current music industry wasteland. But the album is not what it once was, and the ability to sell singles may actually be a better litmus test of an artist’s influence. It remains…
The best is yet to come for Kal Cahoone. Which is crazy, because her musical resume is already quite impressive. She began writing songs while living in Chile. There, she collaborated with composer Christian Basso (one of their songs appears in the film Dot The I). When she came back…
Entertaining as TLC’s new The Osbournes-style miniseries on the shenanigans of the Palin family in Alaska looks, we feel she could shoot higher/stoop lower. Although before we tell you which TV shows we’d rather see the Mama Grizzly in, it’s worth watching that trailer. Fireworks! Bear Tackling! “This was flippin’…
Savoy, one of the brighter stars to emerge from the Boulder scene in a while, moved to New York a few months ago. The band’s sound, which pairs a live drummer with tightly-knit electronica, found a devout audience here, and by the time the group left, it was regularly selling…
There would appear to be a clear divide between fine art and pop art in music. But singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who performs with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra tonight, doesn’t see one. Taking a cue from her idols Elton John, Patsy Cline and Queen, Carlile has been working with orchestras around…
The Misha May Foundation’s second annual A Moment for Mutts fundraiser at the Mercury Cafe will feature two kinds of dancing entertainment: belly and inter-species. Dahlia the belly dancer will perform a solo routine, while Mile High Musical Tails will present dogs and their owners performing choreographed routines. “I’m taking…
There’s plenty here: ’70s AM gold, big band, new wave, piano ballad, funk. But in forty minutes of run time, nothing especially coherent emerges. The album feels a lot like a room full of shouting people. The standout tracks, by a mile, are a pair of covers for which Meantoad…
In 2010, it’s a good time to be a rapper who doesn’t fit the usual narrative. Needless to say, J. Cole is off to an excellent start. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole took an academic scholarship to go to St. John’s in New York…
KATE NASH With Peggy Sue 11.06.10 | Ogden Theatre Kate Nash, it turns out, is fucking punk rock. Yes, the Kate Nash with a single called “Merry Happy,” the one with the dress-up music videos and glossy studio singles. An understandable first glance might lead you to believe she is…
Lil Wayne sold a million copies of Tha Carter III in one week back in June of 2008. It’s a nearly impossible benchmark in an era of dwindling album sales. And the day Lil Wayne was released from prison, Taylor Swift matched his feat. Actually, she surpassed it. Tha Carter…
If this, her sophomore album, was meant to spark a tour playing snack time at preschools nationwide, then Jenn Cleary hit the nail on the head. She doesn’t sing so much as baby-talk, occasionally to a melody and more often not. And what she’s goofily intoning is the lyrical equivalent…
Houses primary songwriter Andy Hamilton has a lot more where that came from. And he’s feeling generous. Yesterday he announced plans to start giving away music. “Well, I’ve got a hundred songs doing nothing but taking up space on my external hard drive,” he tells us. “They aren’t doing me…
For a band that met in an evangelical church, Candy Claws sure is Eastern in its approach. For one thing, all the lyrics on this album were constructed by sending phrases from Richard M. Ketchum’s The Secret Life of the Forest through a website that translates things into Japanese and…
Roughly one year ago, Dan Craig started working on his fourth full-length, Alchemy. He had just married fellow songwriter Jessica Sonner and was a year and a half into a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from medical school. “I kept pushing myself to these big crossroads,” he says, “these sort of shaping moments.”…
Das Racist got famous by recording a song called “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” which is basically made up of the line “I’m at the Pizza Hut/I’m at the Taco Bell/I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.” There’s also something in the middle there about “pizza butt,”…
It’s been a tough summer for live music. Lilith Fair was ultimately cut by more than a third. The Limp Bizkit reunion tour was canceled entirely (though no one seems too broken up about that one). And here in Denver, there will be no Monolith. Which makes Mile High Music…
It’s been a good week to make fun of Dan Maes. But this whole bikes equal communism, let’s take away jobs circus might not have mattered had it not been for his opponent’s colossal stumble in the polls. Scott McInnis, as you will recall, plagiarized a report on water issues…
Three Denver blogs for the weekend. The Colorado Independent has Michael Bennet defending himself from that New York Times investigation. 5280 says 1990 CU title team family seats were hijacked by Georgia fans. Buffaloes, bulldogs, what’s the diff? Purple Row thinks the Rockies should probably start winning some of these…
The most recent news item on the Denver Broncos’ official website is entitled, “Sacking Negativity.” Nothing breeds optimism like chin-up articles from the team 6 days into training camp! But hey — at least they’ll be sacking something this season. Forget the past. Forget how good this team might have…
