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…
Remember earlier this week when we gave you a chance to win tickets to this year’s edition of Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks concert featuring Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Major Lazer and Grouch and Eligh, and we made mention of the note on Ticketmaster’s site that some tickets would…
Denver has always been a hotbed for EDM, but that’s even more true these days. With that in mind, Walt White, owner and founder of Global DJ Academy (formerly Colorado DJ Academy), saw an opportunity to engage the eager fans who want to move from spectators to participants and actually…
I really thought I was going to be a songwriter,” says Rachel James, the pianist, vocalist and namesake of Rachel & the Kings. “I was writing for other artists, and I was co-writing with a lot of other songwriters. I mean, a year ago, this is not where I thought…
Anyone who saw Dances With Wolves probably recognizes that tatanka is the Lakota word for “bison.” The like-named Denver-based band adopted that imagery for the cover of its latest release, Cloudless Thunder. You might expect a band that named itself after the largest animal to roam the plains since the…
Putatively named after Dan O’Bannon’s character in John Carpenter’s shlocky 1974 science-fiction film Dark Star, this band was started in San Diego in 1998 by Three Mile Pilot’s Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow, who had been involved in various experimental bands of the time, including Heavy Vegetable. While…
Down got together in 1991, when Pantera’s Phil Anselmo teamed up with Corrosion of Conformity’s Pepper Keenan, Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange and Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod. United by a mutual love of doom and sludge metal, Down has to be considered one of the early pioneers of the…
Fresh off their Mayan Holidaze run in Mexico, the Disco Biscuits bring their Winter Inferno to Colorado for three nights of laserific goodness (they’ll be at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, January 24, and at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, January 25). Nearing its second decade of existence, the Philadelphia-based…
Amid instances of erratic behavior, substance abuse, mental breakdowns and health problems, the singer known as Cat Power has been making matchless records and equally searing gossip-column fodder since the early ’90s. But as is often the case, the most tumultuous rock-and-roll stories can lead to the best catalogues —…
Nearly four years after local Americana act Ten Cent Redemption called it quits, bassist Tony Burke and guitarist Johnny Waggoner rounded up singer and guitarist John T. Nething (formerly of Panhandler Down) and drummer Jason McGinnis of L.I.E. to form Carmelita’s Lovers. While some dusty Ten Cent echoes can be…
On Joshua Novak’s latest release, the talented songwriter appears to have gotten a bit too comfortable within his own sound. Ephemeron has its moments of tranquil beauty, and as an introduction to Novak’s work, it stands up as an intriguing record. But the emotional tone of this album is consistent…
Each member of electronic-music collective/label Dirty//Clean contributes a tune to its newest sampler comp, Visions, showcasing the individuality of each as well as the sonic tendencies that bind the crew together. A celebration of bass-music iconoclasm ensues. Amor, Est.’s “Amnesia Wreck” is intense, morphing from total cacophony into a listener-friendly…
On songs like “Honey Wine,” from If by Fire, Eye & the Arrow’s latest effort, Paul Dehaven’s vocal cadence and the synthesis of sounds created by the band evoke the country-blues rock of the Grateful Dead on albums like Workingman’s Dead. But as Fire progresses, the music more closely resembles…
Formed in 2008, Anchorage initially cultivated the metalcore sound heard on its first album, 2010’s I Have Seen Further, and a follow-up EP, 2011’s Truth in Adversity. But the limitations of the style didn’t fully suit singer and founding member Kevin Gentry as he developed musically. So last year, Gentry…
If you caught Rrose at the 2012 Great American Techno Festival, then you’ve got some idea of what to expect when the artist returns for an intimate, boundary-pushing DJ set this weekend (and have no doubt already bought your tickets). If not, then perhaps the Sandwell District imprint will ring a…
The Summit Music Hall officially opened its main room in July 2010. A couple of months prior to that, however, the folks over at Soda Jerk began hosting smaller local shows in the front part of the venue. Since then, while there have been some shows in that front room,…
THE WALKMEN @ THE OGDEN THEATRE | 01/21/13 Like a punk band scoring a gothic Western, the Walkmen delivered a set at the Ogden last night that came off as a unique chemistry of contrasts. Blending all the feverish energy of rockabilly inside a tightly controlled package of casual style,…
Ready for another solid week of shows? Good. There’s plenty to look forward to this week, a diverse batch of offerings from the jammier side of things with the Disco Biscuits, who are setting up shop in Colorado for three nights, to the long- and eagerly awaited Denver appearance of…
This past weekend, So What! The Club celebrated its twentieth anniversary, and as always, Denver’s longest-running club night attracted a diverse and sophisticated crowd. Our roving nightlife photographer, Brandon Marshall, was on hand to capture the scene, and he brought us back a bunch of photos. Keep reading for a…
This past weekend, Glo took over the Fillmore Auditorium. The massive dance extravaganza attracted a throng of excited EDM fans from all over the Front Range who all danced the night away. Photographer Jim Wills was on hand to capture the scene and brought us back a ton of photos…
CALEXICO @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 1/19/13 Since Calexico and DeVotchKa share a few musical sensibilities and they’ve both worked with producer Craig Schumacher at his Tuscon-based WaveLab Studio, it’s not surprising DeVotchKa’s singer Nick Urata and drummer Shawn King joined Calexico for a few songs during the band’s sprawling hour…
RAILROAD EARTH @ OGDEN THEATRE | 1/18/13 It started with a slow, purposeful beat from drummer Carey Harmon, followed by a careful fiddle line from Tim Carbone and a rapid round of banjo picking by Andy Goessling. And then mandolinist John Skehan had his turn in the solo spotlight, and…
