Tyga show at the Ogden tonight postponed

Tyga, best known for his joint, “Rack City,” was supposed to rock the Ogden Theatre tonight, but we’ve just received word that the show has been postponed for a later date. No reason was given for the postponement, but earlier today, Vibe and a number of other news outlets reported…

Ryan McRyhew’s Thug Entrancer, March 22 at the Meadowlark

Over the past few years, Ryan McRyhew has been a perpetrator of innovative electronic music that more people should have heard. As a member of BDRMPPL, he hashed together worldbeat rhythms and dub with experimental electronic music, and as Thundercade, he’s put out albums that explore various edges of electronic…

DVS1

A fixture in Minneapolis’s tightly knit dance-music community, Zak Khutoretsky, who goes by DVS1, has promoted and deejayed at underground events around the Midwest since the mid-’90s. Often forgoing opportunities to tour abroad to promote music he believes in at home, Khutoretsky only recently started to garner national and international…

Radio Slave

Last summer was scheduled to be Radio Slave’s first visit to Colorado in several years, but the act had to cancel at the last minute — which makes this date all the more exciting. Matt Edwards and Serge Santiago were responsible for the Radio Slave concept, issuing bootleg electro-house mixes…

The Hive Dwellers

If you haven’t heard of K Records, you should seek it out immediately. The label’s founder, Calvin Johnson, has embraced the idea of the eternal teenager in all of us as articulated by filmmaker John Cassavetes and run with it from the beginning. The history and catalogues of his bands,…

Sharon Van Etten

Although she grew up in New Jersey, it wasn’t until Sharon Van Etten went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that she became exposed to the music that inspired her to write her own songs. Getting an early boost of encouragement from TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone, Van Etten started writing the…

Is there anything Gene Simmons won’t exploit?

Last time I went to Vegas, I saw the void, and it was Circus Circus. The epiphany I experienced there, next to a mulleted dad explaining to his crying kid that they couldn’t leave yet because “mommy’s on a streak,” is too horrible to describe, but suffice it to say,…

Cobraconda

Don your party hat and get ready to indulge in Spring Break, Cobraconda style. Right off the bat, the music on this joint is bass-thumping, lighthearted and electric. Graham Nation and Spencer Foreman engage listeners with their best party-rap verses and say hilarious things over dance-style rhythms. “Dick Master” is simply…

Kyle James Hauser

Cynics need not apply when considering Kyle James Hauser’s debut solo album, Oh Oh. With its delicate Americana-style banjo picking and soulful, sentimental vocals, it’s the ideal morning record, an unabashedly cheerful collection of expertly crafted songs. Collaborating with singer/cellist Ben Sollee, guitarist Grant Gordy (of the David Grisman quintet)…

Amphibious Jones

You’d think the psychedelic-classic-hard-rock-revival vein would be completely tapped at this point. But Amphibious Jones didn’t target the usual suspects in terms of sounds to appropriate, and that’s what makes this album stand out. You get the sense that these guys watched Heavy Metal dozens of times and contemplated the…

The Ting Tings cycle through the music-industry machine and back

The Ting Tings were one of the first bands to emerge from the Apple iPod commercials in 2008. Thanks to the overnight exposure of “Shut Up and Let Me Go,” the band went from being a blogged-about British import to becoming a major player in American pop music, creating a…

DJ Carlos brings salsa house to the Beauty Bar on March 23

House music lends itself well to worldwide variation and influence, so it’s not entirely unexpected that a subgenre like salsa house would garner a widespread following. And when you’ve got someone as talented as DJ Carlos heading up a movement to bring the style to the forefront, then it’s also…

Review: Kelly Clarkson at 1STBANK Center, with Matt Nathanson, 3/18/12

KELLY CLARKSON @ 1STBANK CENTER | 3.18.12 When Kelly Clarkson opened the night with “Darkside” singing alone behind a stage spanning screen covered in slanderous headlines describing the American Idol’s looks, mistakes and “make-up mis-haps,” it became very apparent that the pop star would not be catering to the media:…

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

You were a little flat at the end of your performance of “Happy Birthday” there, Wolf ViolinistThe last few days, Village Voice Media’s indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we’ve been culling another list: the…