By Jason Roche One year ago, Baroness was touring Europe in support of its critically acclaimed record Yellow & Green. The ambitious double album was generating a strong buzz for the Georgia-based band. The momentum came to a screeching halt, though, on a rainy morning in August, 2012, when the…
Izm White (aka Hayden Laybourn) has been immersed in the local hip-hop scene since the mid-’90s, when he first started heading down from the Western Slope to Denver to compete in MC battles and attend shows. During that time, he’s had some ups and downs, including releasing multiple albums, taking…
If you’re the type of person who don’t see nothin’ wrong with a little bump ‘n’ grind, then gather round: This one’s for you. During the hypersexualized years of the Clinton era, the potent blend of R&B that took hold had a penchant for cliched, over-the-top lyrics about gettin’ busy,…
Okay, let’s set aside for a moment the fact that the forthcoming release from Plastic Sound Supply is the Denver label’s twentieth release. Or even the fact that the platter itself is absolutely brimming with a fresh batch of tunes from some of the finest and most celebrated electronic acts…
As if there weren’t already enough unnerving and terrifying things in everyday life to worry about, now comes word of even more scary shit you can unwittingly come across as you’re minding your own business — stuff like brain-eating amoebas and flesh-eating bacteria. Ask Chris Young about the latter. He…
Metal can’t get any more cold blooded than in Sweden, where you’ll find brain-freezing, below zero temperatures and snow drifts taller than concert halls. Despite having the most frostbitten, blackened and disfigured hands in the metal world, the Swedes rip apart metal like nobody else. As brutal as a ceaseless…
Granted, sometimes invoking a pithy “yeah” in song might seem like token verbalizing just to fill in the gaps when a singer can’t think of anything else to say. No argument there. Sometimes, though, a forceful “yeah” can express all kinds of raw, unbridled emotion (see James Hetfield). Uh-huh. Yeah…
G-Eazy is an up and coming rapper born in Oakland but based in New Orleans. The MC, who stands out thanks to his Dapper Dan appearance, gravely voice and self-made production, broke out somewhat thanks to his Endless Summer mixtape, which featured a remix of Dion’s “Runaround Sue.” His independently…
MY BLOODY VALENTINE @ OGDEN THEATER | 8/19/13 My Bloody Valentine’s show last night at the Ogden Theatre may not have felt as blisteringly loud as its show at the Fillmore a few years ago, but the band didn’t exactly skimp on the volume either this time out. Between the…
Jody Savin and Randall Miller are preparing to release their latest film CBGB in a few months. If those names ring a bell, they should: These are the same filmmakers who announced plans earlier this year to start work on Caribou Records, a movie about the legendary Caribou Ranch recording…
This year’s edition of Channel 93.3’s Not So Silent Night is slated for Sunday, December 1, at 1STBANK Center. Young the Giant and Grouplove, will be joined on the bill by New Politics, Bastille, Saints of Valory and My Body Sings Electric. General admission tickets ($25-$29.95) go on sale this…
BLITZEN TRAPPER @ CULTIVATE FESTIVAL | 8/17/13 By the time Blitzen Trapper made it onto the stage at this year’s Cultivate Festival, it was the hottest point of a scorching ninety-plus degree day — a comical contrast to last year’s soggy and cold affair. It was the kind of day…
FIVE IRON FRENZY @ OGDEN THEATRE | 8/17/13 There were several moments during Five Iron’s set that nodded to the hometown crowd, and all of them were dependably absurd thanks to frontman Reese Roper. “The Broncos are losing forty to seven,” Roper informed us. “I’ve never been more proud to…
PRETTY LIGHTS @ RED ROCKS | 8/16/13 Spirits were high as Pretty Lights took the stage on Friday night, the first night of the act’s annual two-night run at Red Rocks, both of which would feature a live band this year, something that Smith had hinted at in our interview…
SUMMER SLAUGHTER @ OGDEN THEATRE | 8/16/13 Kicking the slaughter off early before work hours ended didn’t prevent fans from sneaking out of work a little early to get the mass-murder body-ripping brutal metal started. Those who were previously in docile work environments quickly acclimated to the carnage of metal…
MY BLOODY VALENTINE @ OGDEN THEATRE | MON, 8/19/13 Few bands of the past two decades have had as profound an influence on as wide a spectrum of artists as My Bloody Valentine. Not only did the landmark 1991 album Loveless have a massive impact on the group’s peers at…
How rad is this: Judge Roughneck got Angelo Moore of Fishbone to sing on its new album. The tune? “Mirror in the Bathroom.” Best part? He’s coming to town to sit in with the guys next Saturday at Reggae on the Rocks. After frontman Byron Shaw literally dreamed up the…
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE @ RED ROCKS | 8/15/13 Drawing liberally from a broad range of its catalog, Queens of the Stone Age planned its Red Rocks set out especially well last night. Everything rolled forward with ample momentum, but the band and the crowd both had plenty time…
KURT VILE @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 8/15/13 Kurt Vile strolled into the Bluebird last night carrying a stack of his CDs. He’s a small man, maybe 5′ 3″ and weighing 130, with shaggy brown hair. Looked awkward. Very awkward. Was he about to steal my wife’s heart with his songs,…
PRETTY LIGHTS @ RED ROCKS | FRI & SAT, 8/16-8/17 Returning to the Mile High City for his now-annual two-night run at Red Rocks, Pretty Lights maestro Derek Vincent Smith is bringing an album’s worth of new music and a talented cast of characters to entertain the hometown crowd. On…
FIVE IRON FRENZY @ OGDEN THEATRE | SAT, 8/17/13 Five Iron Frenzy began life in 1995 as the side project of a long-forgotten thrash-metal-and-industrial band called Exhumator. Ahead of the ska revival of the mid-’90s, Exhumator’s members wanted to play music that was inherently fun, positive and uplifting. Two years…
The Arise Music Festival kicks off today at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland and runs through Sunday. Take one look at the schedule, and you’ll quickly see there are an overwhelming number of acts on the bill. We narrowed it down to the half-dozen acts you must see. Keep reading to…
