Stop showering now. You may be almost sleazy enough to enjoy Motörhead when the legendary NWBHM band returns to Denver in the February cold for Megadeth’s Gigantour with Volbeat and Lacuna Coil. The show is slated for Tuesday, February 28, at the Fillmore Auditorium. Tickets ($44.50-$57.50) go on sale this…
SKRILLEX at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/31/11Skrillex’s performance last night at 1STBANK is one for the books. Thanks to the live synched projector mapping, coupled with two towering LED screens on both sides, the electronic artist, whose given name is Sonny Moore, demonstrated just how he’s gone from opening shows at…
PAPER BIRD at HI-DIVE | 10/31/11Paper Bird stomped and harmonized its way through a raucous set last night at the hi-dive. The opening song started slowly, but Paper Bird quickly announced that this wasn’t an average show with an effortless and tight cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls.” While horns blared and…
NIGHTMARE ON BLAKE ST. AT SUMMIT | 10/29/11This past Saturday night, the Summit Music Hall was transformed into a literal haunted house for the Nightmare on Blake Street bill, which featured My Body Sings Electric, The Pirate Signal, Eldren, Shoot To Please and Valedictorian. Aaron Thackeray, one of our resident…
Bad news if you had your heart set on seeing Diggy, the precocious progeny of the legendary Rev. Run, perform on the Denver date of the Scream Tour: The show, originally slated for November 8, at the Paramount Theatre, has been canceled. No reason has been given for the cancellation…
DENVER DOES CBGB at HI-DIVE | 10/29/11While the rest of the world celebrated Halloween weekend 2011, down at the hi-dive this past Saturday night it was 1976. Less a Halloween show and more akin to a Civil War reenactment or a Renaissance Festival, the night offered romanticized time travel for…
DEVOTCHKA at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/28/11This past Friday night at the Ogden Theatre, DeVotchKa kicked off Halloween weekend with its annual scary soiree (the band played a sold out show the following night at the Boulder Theater). We were on hand at the Ogden show, and as you’ll see from…
DE LA SOUL at CERVANTES’ | 10/29/11De La Soul brought the noise to Cervantes this past Saturday. There was a notable air of nostalgia for ’90s-era hip-hop, and people simply lost their minds when Posdnuos, Dave and Maseo rocked classic tracks like “Me, Myself and I” and “Stakes Is High,”…
This past Saturday, we were on hand to witness Playing Apart, the performance art piece featuring ninety students from Bear Creek High School’s marching band playing Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It.” The first city-commissioned performance art piece got varied reactions, from students being offered money and having…
MiM0SA at THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 10/29/11Tigran Mimosa celebrated Halloween at the Fill-Morgue with a full venue of ghouls, girl scouts, slutty devils and rabid fans. With openers Sleepyhead, GinZ and Kastle readying the filling the floor, the Fill-Morgue was plenty lively on Saturday night. Page down for a visual…
Update (10/31/11): OpenAir 1340 made its broadcast debut this morning, and the signal sounds pretty strong from where we’re at. Appropriately, the station hit the airwaves this morning at 5:59 a.m. with “Colorado” by Paper Bird. And the playlist thus far has been pretty standard indie fare from the likes…
When Dane Wolf came to Denver on October 19 with Death Angel for the Earth On Hell Tour featuring Anthrax, Testament, the guitar tech probably had no idea that he’d end up hospitalized as the victim of a brutal altercation. Before the bands left town, Wolf apparently headed over to…
The War On Drugs (due Sunday, October 30, at the hi-dive with Purling Hiss and Carter Tanton) started to take shape when Adam Granduciel moved back to the East Coast from Oakland to settle in Philadelphia. Once there, Granduciel began to play music with various people in the area, including…
Sometimes, you just don’t have the cash lying around to splurge on that expensive Halloween costume. Fear not, young heathens! We have compiled a list of costumes for you that cost nearly nothing. In fact, you probably have the materials lying around the house. Click through for some ideas. And,…
Just in time for the annual National Western Stock Show, which will be wrapping up around then, Brad Paisley is slated to return to the Mile High City with the Band Perry and freshly minted American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Tickets for this stop of the Camobunga Tour (don’t ask…
This weekend is huge. It’s one of those, “If you aren’t here, then you aren’t having as much fun as me” kind of weekends. The deck is stacked with amazing things to do, so pick a card — any card. We’ve got some passes to Designer Drugs at Club Vinyl…
PORTISHEAD at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/11For the last show of its tour, Portishead put on one of the finest performances anyone is likely to see this year or any year. The band’s energy, urgency and intensity kept building and building until the end when the instrumentation seemed to collide with…
Update (12/6/11): KTCL Hometown for the Holidays 2011 finalists revealed. Is it that time of year already? Yep. Afraid so. Only 58 days until Christmas, which means that KTCL’s annual Hometown for the Holidays promotion is just around the corner. The station has officially begun accepting submissions to see which…
According to his Twitter page, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack broke his nose last night. The break must’ve been pretty significant, as we received word just a bit ago that the band is putting its remaining tour dates on hold, including a stop on Wednesday, November 16 at the…
Last year’s 5280 Hip-Hop Awards program was a spectacle in so many ways. Every single rapper, producer and videographer in the scene was on hand for the ceremony. This year’s edition of the awards, slated for December 11, promises to be bigger and better than ever. For starters, it’s taking…
PAUL SIMON at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/26/2011It was not late in the evening when Paul Simon began to play. It was exactly 8:22 p.m., in fact — and it’s interesting to note that, when he penned the story of his journey as a musician in that song more than thirty…
Update (10/27/11): If you haven’t seen it yet, a Facebook event page has been established with details of Bryon Woodard’s Celebration of Life service. On Saturday, November 5, a celebration of Bryon Woodard’s life is planned from 1-4 p.m. in the Vogt Center Auditorium at Mile High Church in Lakewood…
