Pries

The Lonely Kid Show, the latest effort from Pries, has four acts, starting with the song “Curtains,” which kicks off with a slowed melody straight from the circus and leads into Pries’s dropping some introspective rhymes about his rise to fame from sleeping on the streets. For the most part,…

VS talks EDM and improv

VS, which stands for Vibration Sequence (originally EVS, the “E” standing for “Eternal”), was formed in 2009 by Cole Hopfenspirger and Tom Moore, who met while working at the Cheesecake Factory. Both started in the hardcore scene but had left that world before meeting each other. They were familiar with…

The Juan MacLean makes tracks at NORAD on Thursday, December 13

John MacLean — better known as his on-stage alter ego The Juan MacLean  — has had a strange journey from guitarist for post-hardcore band Six Finger Satellite to DFA Records superstar. By 2002, the formerly rock-minded artist was fully immersed in the electronic scene, releasing his first major single, “By…

R.I.P., sitar master Ravi Shankar

Sitar icon Ravi Shankar died yesterday at his home near San Diego at the age of 92, according to his wife, Sukanya, and his daughter Anoushka Shankar. Shankar’s heath had been fragile for the last several years, and, according to a statement issued by his family, last week he underwent…

Lamb of God at Fillmore Auditorium, 12/10/12

LAMB OF GOD @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM |12/10/12 The high point of Lamb of God’s set came somewhere around the mid-point, when, after projecting pictures of the band’s fans in the military on the twin screens flanking drummer Chris Adler, Randy Blythe dedicated “Now You’ve Got Something to Die For” to…

The ten best concerts this week: December 10-14

We’re blessed to live here, you know. If you haven’t already come to this conclusion on your own from feeling the ever-present sunshine and observing the wondrous sunset paintings we’re treated to each evening, all you have to do is take a look at the brimming concert calendar. Whereas the…

EOTO at the Fillmore Auditorium, 12/8/12

EOTO @ THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 12/8/12 “Just so you all know,we are EOTO, and we play live,” declared Michael Travis, the act’s keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist. “There are no backing tracks.” Once he got that handy bit of information out of the way, he then made sure to note that…

Public Enemy at the Ogden Theatre, 12/8/12

PUBLIC ENEMY @ OGDEN THEATRE| 2/4/12 Flava Flav was in top form last night at the Ogden Theatre, from hamming it up informing everybody that Manny Pacquaio got knocked out in the sixth round to sharing the story of how he came to wearing the ever-present iconic clock around his…

NOFX at Fillmore Auditorium, 12/7/12

NOFX @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM |12/7/12 The funniest (and definitely the wrongest) moment in NOFX’s show last night at the Fillmore came when Fat Mike prefaced “Arming the Proletariat With Potato Guns” by saying, “This is kind of a racist song, but it’s okay if you’re racist toward the people in…

The ten best concerts this weekend: 12/7-12/9

Welcome to the weekend, y’all. Breathe easy. You made it. Good Friday to you. And, oh, what a good Friday it is. Another stacked weekend of music awaits you. Just like the Broncos win streak continues, so does the steady stream of solid shows, whether you’re hankering for some old-school…

Macklemore at the Ogden Theatre, 12/6/12

MACKLEMORE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 12/6/12 All Macklemore has to do is pose dramatically to induce the same frenzied reaction from an audience that a slightly lesser MC would draw with their signature song. Granted, a very sizable portion of his Denver audience comprised easily riled high school girls, but…

Clear Channel lets Uncle Nasty go from KBPI

Update: We just spoke with Greg Stone as he was taking his son to hockey practice. Understandably, he’s still in shock. Keep reading to see what he has to say. Man, you about need a syllabus to keep track of all the changes in Denver radio lately, from Comedy 103.1…

Flattery Festival slated for February at 3 Kings

Black Flag, Fugazi, Descendents, Sunny Day Real Estate and the Misfits? On the same bill on the same night? Uh, no. Not in this lifetime, even if you’ve got Warren Buffet money and you’re on some Looper shit. Sorry. But, alas, here’s the next best thing, Denver, some of your…

Kreayshawn at the Fox Theatre, 12/5/12

KREAYSHAWN @ FOX THEATRE | 12/5/12 Part of Kreayshawn’s appeal is the pure curiosity and spectacle of what she must be like “in real life.” As a Tumblr princess (her page is currently decked out to look exactly like a Myspace page, circa 2004 — which would have made her…

Twins Kendrick and Sherwyn Nichols mix genres as Two Fresh

There is no ceiling to the game,” declares Sherwyn Nichols. “Even once you made it to the moon, there’s still more.” “When you make your first beat,” adds Kendrick Nichols, Sherwyn’s twin brother, “no matter what it sounds like, you’re like, ‘Damn!’ — and then you just keep going from…

Whitecatpink has nine lives of inspiration

David Jacoby has been performing as Whitecatpink since August 2007. Based in Fort Collins, he makes the occasional foray to Denver to inject a little theater and weirdness into the scene. Part performance art, part electro-lounge pop, Whitecatpink — due this Saturday, December 8, at 7th Circle (2935 West Seventh…

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Macklemore’s latest album, The Heist, is currently resting at number 37 on iTunes, but when it was first released, the record both topped that chart and held down the number-two spot on Billboard on the strength of its first-week sales. While chart rankings are hardly meaningful in this modern era,…

Teenage Bottlerocket

The Ramones blitzkrieg bopped for the last time in 1996, but the iconic punks’ spirit still glows in scores of leather-jacket-clad, hook-smitten underground bands. Laramie-based quartet Teenage Bottlerocket is one of the acts admirably carrying the torch with smart songwriting, whoa-oh choruses and sour-apple-flavored blasts of bubblegum pop. On Freak…