When it comes to the subject of drugs, King FOE’s new EP, Junkie, is about as viciously honest and descriptive as it gets. The second EP in the BLKHRTS trilogy, Junkie is all about the reality of drug use and the ills that go along with using. FOE drew from…
See also: *”What My Spirit Hood Means To Me”: Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella: The Black Lips’ Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They’ll employ almost anything in this quest — but mostly…
Eighties dance nights are a tradition stretching all the way back…well, to the ’80s. Whether you’re a 21-year-old feeling nostalgic for a time you never lived through, or a crimp-haired, stone-washed new-waver who never got over the Talking Heads breaking up, the music of the 1980s spans cultures and generations…
Tons of new shows this week: Dispatch is playing a two-night stand at 1STBANK in September, Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis and the News are headlining this year’s KOOL Concert, Thievery Corporation and Beats Antique are due at Red Rocks and Esperanza Spalding is slated for shows at the Boulder Theater and the Ogden. We’ve also got the full summer lineups for both Chautauqua and the Arvada Center, and as always, we’ve got the playlist for the local special shows and a rundown of this week’s top album sales. Page down to see what’s hot in music this week in the Mile High City.
Oh, man, our West Coast counterparts at the LA Weekly and OC Weekly were on the ground reporting from Coachella all weekend, and they brought back some really great stuff, giving a chance for land-locked music lovers like us who watched the stream on YouTube to live vicariously: • “What…
Talib Kweli got all hip-hop scholarly this past Friday as the keynote speaker for the spring Sankofa Lecture Series at Metropolitan State College of Denver. The event was designed to focus on the anthropology of hip-hop, and Kweli, who was succinct and clear with his message, was absolutely dynamic on…
MOJO NIXON @ LION’S LAIR | 4/14/12 “Rick Santorum can suck my dick!” was the chorus Mojo Nixon got the crowd to chant as a line in an extended version of “You Can’t Kill Me.” But everything was an extended version out of an eleven song set. With just his…
By now you’ve seen Tupac’s performance with Snoop Dogg last night at Coachella. The legendary rapper was brought back to life by Dr. Dre’s production company, in collaboration with Digital Domain, James Cameron’s digital production company, and AV Concepts, a company based in Tempe, Arizona, using a Musion Eyeyliner projection…
Update: Read about how Tupac was brought back to life last night at Coachella and check out our Q&A with Nick Smith, co-founder of AV Concepts, the company that helped consult on the technology for the project. Tupac at Coachella. While there were plenty of memorable performances and an equal…
SLEIGH BELLS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.13.12 Ever heard of the loudness wars? Doesn’t matter. War’s over. Sleigh Bells wins. Decisively. Right now, there’s a roomful of people banging their heads in unison, in the kind of scene that makes dollar signs appear in the eyes of chiropractors. It’s so…
KS107.5’s Summer Jam: Tickets for the 2012 edition of the aptly titled hip-hop extravaganza at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre go on sale to the general public tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. LiveNation is holding a special pre-sale right now (password: Boss), if you wanna get a jump. In case you haven’t…
Furthur is making its way back to Colorado for a three-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheater that kicks off on Friday, September 21. Pre-sale tickets ($55-$60) go on sale this Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. through Furthur’s fan page and will be available until 4 p.m. on Thursday, April…
Feel like cutting loose this weekend? Good news, you will lack for nothing when comes to things to do, whether you feel like losing your inhibitions and partying like a rock star or losing your mind to some killer dance music. Our own Ru Johnson will be at Milk Bar…
TGIF! You’ve worked hard all week, now it’s time to coast into weekend. Plenty of great music on tap to help you unwind — or get wound-up, as the case may be. Tonight at the Ogden, Sleigh Bells assaults the senses, Mojo Nixon kicks off a two-night stand at the…
It’s the off-season. Do you know where your Broncos are — uh, we mean, the ones who aren’t huddled around fawning over their fearless new leader? We know where one of them is, or was, rather, earlier this week. Broncos running back Willis McGahee was in Miami, his old stomping…
One Direction is at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, July 24…2013! You read that right — next summer. Wow! Talk about getting a jump on things. Hot on the heels of its mind-changing performance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, the U.K.-based neo-boy band (the hottest thing to cross…
DOM KENNEDY @ THE BLUEBIRD THEATER | 4.11.12 Maybe it was the monitors and he couldn’t hear himself, maybe it was excitement at rocking his tracks to an adoring packed crowd at the Bluebird, maybe he was trying to scourge our memory of the awful performance by Tommy Hilfiger’s son…
With the new EP Arroyo, Mariposa has delivered an emotionally mature record with rich, expansive instrumentation. Although previous releases contained a great deal of sensitivity and beauty, those elements were locked away inside a fragile song structure. Now performing with a few new musicians, Madeline Johnston has blossomed, and her…
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA @ 1STBANK CENTER | 4.10.12 Although Rodrigo y Gabriela are performing with a full band on their current tour, the most memorable moments of the act’s set still come when the two are playing by themselves. About half a dozen songs into their set last night, with…
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE @ ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE | 4.10.12 Is there a science to picking a day to start a tour, or is it all some big random coincidence? Last night’s Death Cab for Cutie show at the Ellie Caulkins was sold out, and it had been for…
Mojo Nixon (due Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14, at the Lion’s Lair) gained notoriety in the mid- to late ’80s for his irreverent songs informed by an absurdist humor with partner Skid Roper. Nixon’s exuberant, unapologetic persona won over audiences because even as Nixon would make seemingly over-the-top,…
The party most surprised to learn that City Councilwoman Judy Montero harbors a soft spot for the Flobots might actually be the Flobots. According to the District 9 rep, they are her “very favorite band,” which explains why she referenced two of their songs — but, alas, did not sing…
