CHURCHILL @ OGDEN THEATRE | 3/8/13 Outside of its stint at KTCL’s Not So Silent Night back in December, Churchill has kept a rather low profile locally since its pair of headlining shows at the Bluebird back in September. That was right after the band had been picked up by…
TY SEGALL @ HI DIVE | 2/12/13 Ty Segall and his band must have been feeling nostalgic as they performed the final set of what looks like a monster tour. Over the past three months, they’ve been going nonstop between enviable European destinations to the West and East coasts and…
ELLIE GOULDING @ OGDEN THEATRE | 2/1/13 The Halcyon Days Tour that Ellie Goulding’s currently on does not seem to change from night to night. Her set at the Ogden Theatre began with “Don’t Say a Word,” and was followed by “Halcyon,” “Figure 8” and “Salt Skin” — the same…
PINBACK @ GOTHIC THEATRE | 01/27/13 So you’re standing there on the floor of the Gothic, stroking your beard or dancing ever-so-subtly, watching Pinback play in equally subdued fashion. All around you and onstage, folks are so chill that you’re wondering where they hid the bong. And then the guitarist…
CAT POWER @ THE OGDEN THEATRE | 01/24/13 Cat Power — better known as Chan Marshall and a Revolving Cast of Other Folks — played a bizarrely unbalanced show last night at the Ogden. When it was good, it was transformative. When it was bad, it was hard not to…
Like a gnarled old cottonwood that you remember as a kid that now is all shaggy and stately, Pinback has aged well. From early efforts like 2001’s Blue Screen Life — an understated masterpiece that fell somewhere between early Police and stonerfied math rock — on through the albums that…
ASKING ALEXANDRIA @ OGDEN THEATRE | 11/27/12 Last night at the Ogden Theatre, the fist-pumping, black-shirted, skinny jeans-wearing contingent was out in full force. As the England-via-Dubai outfit Asking Alexandria performed for a capacity crowd, mosh pits formed and quickly disappeared. Kids were throwing devil horns in the pit or…
THE HEAD AND THE HEART @ COORS EVENT CENTER | 11/1/12 President Obama’s speech last night at the University of Colorado’s Coors Event Center marked the umpteenth time the Commander in Chief has stopped in the Centennial State this campaign season — just last week, he was touting his record…
KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE @ THE OGDEN THEATRE |10/31/12 Things witnessed last night at the Ogden Theatre, in no particular order: Rosie the Riveter breakdancing with a samurai; a priest making out with Little Orphan Annie; Milli Vanilli’s Rob and Fab sharing a smoke outside; and a drunk monk. On…
WALLFLOWERS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/24/12 Jakob Dylan must be a hell of a poker player. Last night’s show at the Ogden proved that, as the Wallflowers frontman crooned through a couple dozen songs with a stony glare on his face. Clad in black and looking every bit as youthful…
DEFTONES @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 10/19/12 Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has an unmatched intensity on stage. With his trademarked disposition, Moreno hovered commandingly over the crowd, hunched over and screaming until the veins on his head popped out, belting songs like “Tempest,” one of many of the band’s songs that…
Brace yourself: Today marks the triumphant, eagerly awaited return of the Mating Game, a feature we dreamed up once upon a time in which we pit bandmate vs soulmate to see who knows who better. It’s often been said that being in a band is just like being in a…
YELAWOLF @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/16/12 “If you’re over 21, make some noise!…. And if you’re under 21 but you’re still getting fucked up, MAKE SOME NOIIIIIIISE!” implored one Mr. Michael Wayne Atha, otherwise known as Yelawolf, the hip-hop pied piper of a younger, mostly male crowd, who would later,…
CROCODILES @ BLUEBIRD THEATRE | 10/11/12 The Crocodiles’ performance at the Bluebird last night was a how-to guide for aspiring garage rockers everywhere from here to Siam. This was obvious partway through their infectious, deliciously saccharine “Endless Flowers,” as frontman Brandon Welchez clapped to his band’s doo-wop inflected pop. The…
They’re out of their gourds! For the eleventh year in a row, the City of Aurora is hosting its Punkin Chunkin, an event that features pumpkins being catapulted, shot, Gallagher-ized and mutilated in all sorts of ways. Aurorans take their punkin chunkin’ seriously, and the city expects 10,000 people to…
ALANIS MORISSETTE @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | 10/10/12 When Alanis Morissette first appeared at the Paramount last night, she didn’t walk so much as float onto the stage, as if delivered by an invisible chariot. With a backing band that seemed too exuberant to believe, the singer whipped her hair as…
When the University of Denver hosted the 2012 presidential debate last night, there were bound to be some colorful characters hanging around. We had Occupy protesters (including perhaps the world’s only Occupy chihuahua, dressed appropriately in a skull-and-crossbones outfit); pro-Gary Johnson and Jill Stein advocates who were miffed that their…
Some sports fans and barflies are going to be very unhappy tonight. That’s when many of their favorite bars will switch channels from whatever game is on to the first of the three presidential debates, which will be happening right here, at the University of Denver. Those tickets are impossible…
Let the hyperbole fly: Depending on whom you ask, the presidential debate coming to town this Wednesday is either the biggest event of the election season, the biggest-ever boon to the University of Denver’s place in the national spotlight, or the biggest political anything to happen in Denver since the…
History teachers come in all shapes and sizes. Stan Ellsworth’s form just happens to be bigger, scruffier and more charismatic than most. The brawny intellectual is just one of many reasons to check out American Ride, a television series that highlights the best stories you may have missed in high…
On Wednesday, the University of Denver will host this election’s first presidential debate — and the first of its kind in Denver. DU has been getting ready for its close-up for months, and the stakes are high for both the school and the candidates. If the night is a success,…
CHURCHILL @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/30/12 Last night, when Tim Bruns and Bethany Kelly left the stage and sprinted to the Bluebird’s upstairs balcony to sing a couple songs, you could tell this was a special night for Churchill. “We didn’t think anyone would show up if we played a…
