Concerts

With Cloudless Thunder, the members of Tatanka show how much they’ve grown as a band since 2011’s John Dunbar. The intro track, “Border Run,” is a perfect example of how the act has gotten tighter as a unit since the last record, swinging with a dancehall bass line and playful…

“Well, I’m a pretty funny guy, but I’m not hilarious/I don’t make a lot of sense, but I’m not mysterious/And you know, sometimes I just stare at the wall.” Those are the first lines from “Every Time You’re Near Me,” the opening cut on Ben Hanna’s We Were All Like…

Kid Vegas has generated a great buzz locally, but his latest effort doesn’t match it. The release lacks cohesiveness, and the production and lyrics seem scattered, with overused weed references, particularly on songs like “KeishaMolliMary,” which is difficult to digest: Besides the fact that the content is so predictable, when…

“Repressed Memories,” the lead track on this latest release from former Gang Charger drummer Dan Barnett, sounds like something at the nexus of industrial and IDM. Spectral synths haunt the album’s stridently mechanical beats and textures. “Gate” is more overtly musical, but its dense composition suggests Giorgio Moroder trying his…

Back in 1976, while traveling around northwestern Colorado, composer and musician Bruce Odland was introduced by locals to the Tank, a sixty-foot-tall water tank outside Rangely. Odland used a circular portal to go inside the never-used tank — and immediately knew he’d entered a very special sonic wonderland. Since that…

In an ongoing testament to the generous spirit of the people that make up our local music scene, the number of benefit shows devoted to Mike Marchant, one of our town’s prized songwriters, who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and is in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy, continues to grow…

Update, 10:37 p.m.: Charles Trowbridge spoke with the 22-year-old manager at Jimmy John’s, who declined to give his name. According to the manager, he was indeed trying to clear people away from the front of the store when someone from the crowd began yelling at him. The manager says he…

Last year, Phibstock became the newest addition to the Colorado family of music festivals. One of the more intimate fests, Phibstock drew bluegrass and jam band fans in droves to its off-the-grid location in Hartsel, Colorado. The festival is returning to Hartsel for its second year on Friday, August 2…

Well, another edition of the SnowBall Music Festival is on the books. If you went, hopefully you raged all weekend. If you didn’t go, well, you’re probably wishing you did. Either way, relive the best moments from the festival through the lens of Brandon Marshall, who braved the elements and…

The Ogden. 3/1 (Denver) This is for the guy with the long hair at the Griz show near the bar. I don’t know who you are but the odor that was emitting from your hair was horrendous. I can’t not even begin to explain how bad you smell. This wasn’t…

KEGGS & EGGS @ LODO’S | FRI, 3/15/13 In addition to being a Denver institution at this point, Keggs & Eggs has become a signifier of spring and annual monument to daytime drinking. No matter who’s playing KTCL’s free St. Patrick’s Day shindig, the lines start forming in LoDo just…

If you’ve never seen the Alabama Shakes live, add that to your bucket list immediately. Fuck jumping out of a plane. You’ve just got to see Brittany Howard live before you’re pushing daisies. She’s simply the most magnetic performer I’ve seen in a long time. Unlike other singers who resort…

ALABAMA SHAKES @ OGDEN THEATER | 3/9/13 There were too many musical threads to count during Alabama Shakes’ dynamic and dizzying performance at the Ogden Theatre. During the most heart-rending moments of “Be Mine,” for example, vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard summoned the spirits of James Brown, Etta James and…

Ah, yes, Sunday morning coming down. I believe that’s how Kris Kristofferson once described the tail end of an epic bender, what, with no way to hold his head in a way that didn’t ache and what have you. Hopefully you didn’t go too hard the past two days; there’s…

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…

For those of you lucky enough to be up in the mountains this afternoon for day two of the SnowBall Music Festival gets ready to get underway, you’re probably going over the lineup and hatching a plan for what you’re going to see today. If so, we’ve got you covered…

GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS @ WALNUT ROOM |3/8/13 Despite Victoria Cecilia’s illness, Gliss managed to put in a solid performance at Gathering of the Clouds last night at the Walnut Room. If she indeed needed the cough drop she had half-jokingly solicited from the audience, you couldn’t tell from her…

FUR COAT @ NORAD | SAT, 3/9/13 Fur Coat hit the international scene hard last year after Damian Lazarus signed the act to his illustrious Crosstown Rebels label. Riding that wave of exposure, tracks like “Fall’s Out,” “You and I” and “Space Ballad” garnered hundreds of thousands of spins on…

ALABAMA SHAKES @ OGDEN THEATRE | SAT, 3/9/13 A number of bands are returning to a Southern-rock sound these days, but much of the music they’re making is too derivative to be interesting. Alabama Shakes, fresh off a date warming up for Neil Young, bucks that trend. The group’s members,…

The third edition of the annual SnowBall Music Festival kicks off tomorrow night in Winter Park. Seasoned veterans that we are, we’ve put together an exhaustive survival guide for you to ensure that you have the best possible experience and don’t become a human popsicle. We know what to bring,…