Concerts

You may have your opinions, but only one person (or group, we suppose) can be awarded Denver’s Biggest Shameless Self-Promoter at Denver Web Awards by Westword on Thursday November 16. Nominate your pick in that category and eight others in the music section of the poll (on page 2.) The…

Howard Jones (due Saturday, October 15, at Summit Music Hall) was one of the most successful and popular synth-pop artists of the 1980s. Jones’s songs were uplifting, but never saccharine, and he had a knack for articulating the concerns and hopes of people regardless of age or background…

Beyonce can’t seem to catch a break this year: Back in May, she was accused of pulling a little more than just a casual homage to Lorella Cuccarini with her VMA performance of “Run the World (Girls),” and now she’s getting called out for copping dance moves from German choreographer…

In third-quarter, year-to-date figures compiled and reported by Pollstar, the industry trade that tracks various clubs and venues across the globe, Denver and Boulder made a very strong showing on Pollstar’s list of Top 100 Clubs Venues, which is ranked order of ticket sales from January 1, 2011, through September…

Update (10/11/11): With eight hours left to go, Wheelchair Sports Camp has reached its $1,200 goal with the graciousness of 47 people who pitched in to help. Brace yourself, NYC: Here come Heffernan and company. Original item (10/6/11, 8 a.m.): This year’s CMJ Music Marathon is less than two weeks…

Update (11:02 a.m.): So what initially appeared to be a unfortunate automobile accident that caused damage to the front of Wax Trax just became even more unfortunate: We’ve learned from Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson that the alcohol-related collision resulted in a fatality. Read the full story: “Man being…

NEON INDIAN at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/10/11In a year of terrible ’80s remakes (Footloose, anyone?), Neon Indian’s show proved that borrowed doesn’t have to be staid. While the ’80s were well and alive in the synth chords and frontman Alan Palomo’s hip-swiveling dance moves, they came out of the mixing…

SMASHING PUMPKINS at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/10/11It took Billy Corgan 21 songs, or until halfway through the encore, to acknowledge his audience last night. It’s unclear whether this is a bad thing or a bad-ass thing — though more than an hour and a half without a direct address is…

Indian summer: the kind of day that makes you keenly aware of time’s steady passing. Overhead, a breeze rustles through a tall tree in the back yard of the Arvada home where the Morning Clouds rehearse, sending a few more leaves down to the lawn. “It’s definitely fall now,” says…

Steve and Thanos Lemonidis were hesitant to take over Teddy T’s, a joint that had stood at 6635 East Evans Avenue for the past three decades, just because of the work it needed. But the space had a special place in their dad’s heart, since he’d leased out the kitchen…

Kyle Harris has lived all over this country and seen the ups and downs of personal, professional and political life. But instead of cultivating a world-weary sound, Harris, who makes music under the name Bearsnail (due at the Meadowlark on Saturday, October 15), seems to have found a certain appreciation…

With rock-star looks and name recognition to match, Matthew Dear has come a long way since his humble origins in Kingsville, Texas. Taking a liking to Detroit techno after moving to Michigan as a teenager, Dear co-founded the electronic-music label Ghostly International (and its dance-floor-oriented offshoot, Spectral Sound) while enrolled…

Within a year of getting his start in the early ’80s, Howard Jones performed on Top of the Pops and subsequently garnered a record deal that resulted in the 1984 release of his debut album, Human’s Lib. While he wasn’t quite an overnight sensation, his career took off quickly, and…

Anyone trying to guess Boris’s influences would have a hard time doing so just from listening to one song off of one album. And it’s not just because of the sheer diversity of the band’s songwriting, but rather the ways in which the trio puts together sounds in what seems…

Check out the influences of just about any bass player going these days, and you’ll find a sworn allegiance to Primus’s Les Claypool, who for seven albums and countless side projects and guest appearances has been warping the fat-stringed minds of rock bass men everywhere. Otherwise jokey in his lyrics,…

Jumping the shark is that moment at which a television show, totally sapped of its former youth and wit and now coasting wearily from episode to episode on the momentum of its own clichés, buckles and collapses, like some bloated turd star, into self-parody. The expression, of course, refers to…

Originally conceived as part of an elaborate presentation that includes a flashing strobe to go along with elements of binaural audio, this group of seven pieces is loosely inspired by Alexander Scriabin’s great unfinished, experimental, synesthetic composition Mysterium. But while Scriabin’s piano work is sampled in the beginning, the music…

On its latest mixtape, the Kool Crue has wrapped all of its influences into one ball of stellar production and creative lyricism. American Dreams is thirteen tracks strong, and each cut is unique and diverse all on its own. From the intro, “Hello, Hello,” through to “10k Watts,” the trio…

Andy Palmer’s bio reads like a character sketch for an action movie: A onetime public defender in Brooklyn, Palmer left the borough for a more rustic life, working as a river raft guide in Colorado and living in a yurt in the wilds of Maine. It’s a rugged resumé that…