If you missed American Idol tonight, well, let’s just say you missed a hell of a lot. We’ll have a full recap in the morning, but for now, we just had to give massive props to the one and only Magic Cyclops, the Mile High City’s most prized export, who…
Before Snoop Dogg heads for the hills for his Saturday evening headlining set at Snowball 2012 on Saturday, March 3, he’ll be making a stop in the Mile High City for a show at the Fillmore Auditorium the night before on Friday, March 2. Tickets for the concert are $37.50…
Holy hip-hop nirvana! Why can’t it be SIA week all year around? This week is straight bananas. So get this, as if there weren’t already too many crazy good shows to choose from, here’s one more: Tomorrow night at Casselman’s, we’re hearing that the one and only Raekwon is set…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All has announced its upcoming North American tour dates. The act is returning to the scene of the crime, as it were, on Sunday, March 11, to the Fox Theatre in Boulder, which as you might remember, was the first place the act played…
Is it just us, or does November seem like a lifetime ago? Okay, maybe it’s just us. Anyhow, remember way back in November when we told you how the Overcasters had wrapped up the new album, Curses//Prayers, and set a release date for the second annual Gathering of the Clouds?…
Gotye. Name ring a bell? Surely you’ve heard the tune “Somebody I Used to Know,” or at least seen the video. The clip is all sorts of artsy, with the Aussie-by-way-of-Belgium singer and Kimbra, his collaborator, chilling in their birthday suits and then painted in time-lapse to blend in seamlessly…
Last month, Kris Sieger told us that future of Rockaway Tavern was up in the air, and that he was looking for potential investors and might even be up for selling the place. Looks like Sieger, who opened the bar in July 2010 with former 15th Street Tavern owner Myke…
Remember that mixtape you made for your high-school sweetheart? Or that time you taped a movie off cable? Turns out you were breaking the law, pirating copyrighted materials without permission. While the statute of limitations has probably long passed on your crimes of teenage passion, entertainment industry representatives are arguing…
Since the guys in Bad Weather California each have busy lives and work at different times, it’s hard enough for them to find time to get together for an hour to practice, let alone make a music video. That said, making grandiose videos was just out of the picture for…
Sean Daley is family man. He’s got a cat, a wife, two children and a house, and he just took his first family vacation, to a small island in the Gulf of Mexico. The music world, of course, knows Daley better as Slug from the Minneapolis-based rap group Atmosphere, an…
Rob Lanphier split off from B.U.F.F. Brothers, which owns several taverns in the metro area, and started a new company last fall: Pour Kids. Noonan’s Tavern (13521 East Iliff Avenue in Aurora), which B.U.F.F. had opened in March 2011, is part of the Pour Kids group; so is Boone’s Tavern,…
ZetaKaye House has been curating a series of compilations for the past couple of years featuring some of the best music created in Denver. The latest in the series, This Ain’t No Cowtown Volume III Kings, is being released as a fundraiser for 3 Kings Tavern co-owner and longtime supporter…
Reggae legend Anthony B. has been singing revolutionary and political-leaning songs since he emerged onto the scene with his 1996 debut, Real Revolutionary. Shying away from songs that were degrading to women (against the popular tide of music), Anthony B. chose instead to focus on his Afrocentric pride, using the influence…
With the release of 1981’s Fat EP, the Descendents became one of a steadily growing stream of hardcore bands from Southern California. And, as was the case with many of those early acts, their music was a youthful catharsis informed by a wickedly absurdist sense of humor. Until Napalm Death…
A rite of passage in some Native American cultures, Visionquest is also the name of the breakout record label and DJ collective that became one of the biggest acts in underground dance music last year by combining house and techno with catchy, pop-influenced vocals. The band comprises four Detroit-area natives…
There is something admirable about the desire of the twee torch-bearers in Los Campesinos! to keep trudging along, even after honesty in lyrics has fallen by the wayside. But primary songwriter and bandleader Gareth Campesinos! and his brood of BFFs revel in making the most of a bloody heart-on-sleeve approach,…
Point of fact: I am a hipster and a poseur. Initially, I was skeptical. True, I wear tight pants, ride a fixed-gear bicycle and listen to a lot of “underground music,” but there’s a reason for that: I wear tight pants because they highlight my ripped butt cheeks, which resemble…
The creative evolution heard on Hindershot’s sophomore release, Curse Us All (slated for release this Friday, January 27, at 3 Kings Tavern), goes deeper than the catchy lead riffs or dynamic song structures. While the band has made considerable musical strides since last year’s debut, It’s Only Blood, the most…
Lokon and Spellbinder make a formidable team on their latest effort, the fittingly titled Unity Iz Strength. There aren’t nearly enough reggae-and-rap collaborations — local or otherwise — out there right now, and this pair makes an utterly compelling case for more like-minded partnerships. Spellbinder’s perfectly pitched vocals, set against Lokon’s…
The eleven minutes and six seconds of this single track sound as if Tom Nelsen watched The Last Temptation of Christ and Kingdom of Heaven simultaneously and then did storyboards for a graphic-novel version of Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. It is ambient in the same sense that the most abstract…
Even though Lola Black’s lineup includes former members of Blister 66, Snapstick Dynomite and the Eight Bucks Experiment, the band’s new six-song EP, Día de los Borrachos, isn’t entirely a punk affair. Sure, there’s a punk spirit in revved-up cuts like “Hit the Road” and “Take Back,” but the rest…
Visitors to Sven Weisemann’s website or Soundcloud page will notice one thing immediately: This DJ/producer dabbles in more than just electronic music. He’s also a self-taught pianist, percussionist and guitar player who composes jazz tracks along with his beloved house music. Perhaps most astonishing, Weisemann, who’s been mixing records since…
