The Grizzly Rock’s ten rowdiest rock fists

See also: – Slideshow: Big hair and glory at Grizzly Rock – Nair today, gone tomorrow: Cinderella canceled Grizzly Rock gig because stage was too small Lakewood’s Grizzly Rock is no stranger to a spectacle. Although it celebrated its grand opening only last month, the venue has welcomed both mainstream…

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival, 8/10/12

Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands festival.NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/10/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks…

The five best concerts in Colorado this weekend

See also: – Dave Gonzalez of Paladins fame on the Stone River Boys and playing country soul – Review: The Reverend Horton Heat at the Odgen, 1/28/12 – Kappa Cell takes over the Lion’s Lair with its dark, dystopian hysteria Welcome to the weekend! As per usual, there’s a gajillion…

The bold and the body-painted: In the parking lot with Skrillex fans

See also: – Slideshow: Skrillex at Red Rocks – Skrillex at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 8/9/12 – Dubstep for Dummies – Dubstep Parking Lot Last night, Skrillex and his fans hit Red Rocks like a shipwreck. Seriously, that’s the metaphor our reviewer, Britt Chester, used for the noisy, dynamic and neon-outfitted…

Skrillex at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 8/9/12

SKRILLEX @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 8.9.12 See also: – Slideshow: Skrillex at Red Rocks – The bold and the body-painted: In the parking lot with Skrillex fans – Dubstep for Dummies – Dubstep Parking Lot – Review: Skrillex at 1STBANK Center, 10/31/11 – Review: Skrillex at Beta, 3/31/11 -…

Jack White at Red Rocks, 8/8/12

JACK WHITE @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 8.8.12 See Also: Jack White played a last-minute show this afternoon on Colfax “There’s not enough oxygen here,” Jack White said about half an hour into his set last night at Red Rocks. “I got to keep telling my lungs to breathe, and…

For Strange Americans, music is A Royal Battle

If you’re a boxer or something,” says Strange Americans frontman Matt Hoffman, “you box because that’s what you do. You go in and you fight every day, and sometimes you get your butt kicked, and sometimes you win.” Being a musician is often like getting in the ring, except sometimes…

Skrillex

Sonny Moore started out as lead vocalist in the California-based hardcore band From First to Last in 2004. But you probably know him better as Skrillex (a handle he adopted a few years back), the masses’ highest-profile ambassador of EDM and essentially the mainstream pioneer of American dubstep. Prior to…

Alabama Shakes

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, who met in high school and forged the…

Loudon Wainwright III

For forty very odd years, Loudon Wainwright III’s lacerating wit, unflinching candor and impish glee have combined to skewer everything in sight, from the near and dear to the feared — which, as it now turns out, is the Grim Reaper. LW3’s favorite protagonist has always been himself, and he’s…

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird was one of the earlier pioneers of modern chamber pop. Growing up in Chicago, Bird — a classical violinist in training at age four — worked with alterna-swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers before firmly establishing a name for himself as a songwriter far beyond the Windy City with…