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…
While there have been some fine alt-country acts to come out of Fort Collins (namely Drag the River and Arliss Nancy), there hasn’t been a whole lot of fresh talent working in the genre as of late. But Mosey West, which has been together for almost a year, might give…
Renowned DJ and producer Pete Tong (aka “Lord of the Dance”) has had quite a year: He celebrated twenty years of hosting a show on the renowned BBC Radio 1 by taking the station over for twelve hours; he returned to Ibiza’s legendary Pacha; he relaunched his FFRR label under…
Italian DJ Donato Dozzy doesn’t plan his sets in advance. While he sometimes selects a theme based on a mood, he utlimately reads the crowd and responds accordingly, throwing down exactly the right track at exactly the right time. His dark, psychedelic techno meanders from ambient to dance-driven, and he’s…
Update (10/10/11): So evidently, there’s more to the new wrought-iron fencing at the Fillmore than meets the eye. It’s not just an aesthetic enhancement. According to Live Nation Colorado and Rocky Mountain Region president Eric Pirritt, the liquor license has also been extended, meaning that your drink can now accompany…
JD Samson of MEN (due Thursday, October 13, at the Bluebird Theater) was once a member of Le Tigre, a band that became synonymous with the electroclash genre. For nearly a decade, Le Tigre wrote some of the most exciting, politically charged music of all time. After that band split,…
ODD FUTURE at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/9/11Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All does not give a fuck. Clearly. These cats are out to pillage, plunder and wreak mass hysteria and mayhem. Judging from the crowd’s frenzied reaction at the Ogden last night, which included some kids flinging themselves from…
FOO FIGHTERS AT PEPSI CENTER | 10/9/11″You guys ready for a long fucking rock show tonight?” Foo Fighters frontman Dave asked the Pepsi Center crowd early in Sunday night’s set. “You ready for that shit? Foo Fighters don’t fuck around. We don’t fuck around. We don’t play those eensy-weensy one-hour-and-forty-five-minute…
MISFITS at SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 10/9/11There’s a reason why people go to a Misfits show. It’s the same reason at least half of those people spend the show in the moshpit. At this point, the number of former Misfits members could triple the roster of Arcade Fire, and the…
They don’t call it Rocktober for nothing. There was no shortage of options this past weekend: Foo Fighters at the Pepsi Center, Odd Future at the Fox and at the Ogden Theatre, X at the Summit Music Hall, OFF! at the Marquis Theater, Melt Banana at the Larimer Lounge, Misfits…
CHROMEO at the OGDEN THEATRE | 10/7/11On a technical basis, nothing about Chromeo should really work. The rhythm half uses a talk box, and their genre of music is most often classified, without irony, as “electrofunk.” The singer is the hypothetical result of the Fonz and Potsie immaculately conceiving a…
MELT BANANA at the LARIMER LOUNGE | 10/8/11Nothing can fully prepare you for the sounds coming off stage at a Melt Banana show unless you’ve seen the band before. Between the breakneck rhythms, Yasuko Onuki’s demented and rapid-fire vocal delivery and Ichirou Agata’s ability to meld noise with experimental guitar…
Sweet Jesus! He did it! This afternoon in London, DJ Vajra competed in the 2011 DMC World Final against thirty other turntablists from all over the globe. If you haven’t heard yet, he bested all of the other contenders to be crowned the 2011 DMC World Champion, meaning he can…
Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago everyman rapper scheduled to play the Fillmore tonight, made an early stop on his tour of the city to support the Occupy Denver gathering in front of the state capitol earlier this afternoon. Fiasco has maintained an increasingly public profile about his support of the Occupy…
While we know you’re still busy trying to nail down what you’re doing for Halloween and you probably haven’t even really given much thought to where you’ll be celebrating New Year’s yet, we’ve just received word that Pretty Lights is setting up shop at 1STBANK Center for a pair of…
Rocktober is living up to its name so far, especially this weekend: On Friday, Chromeo electrifies the Ogden, while Frank Turner throws down at the Marquis and Lupe Fiasco raps at the Fillmore. On Saturday, there’s some agonizing decisions to make between seeing OFF!, which features Circle Jerks frontman Keith…
Due to a re-route of its tour, Wavves played a short-notice show last night at Moe’s Original BBQ in Englewood. Below is a video of the penultimate song, “So Bored” (the band ended with “No Hope Kids”), and a look at some creative merch for Wavves weed-heads…
There are some changes brewing in the local underground scene when it comes to residencies: First, House Revival has been moved from the every-so-often fifth Saturday of the month to the more frequent second-Saturday slot; and Beta’s Beatport Lounge and P.U.N.C.H.I.S. are launching PM/AM, a new event concept that starts…
Belly dancing, heavy drums, performance artists and live music create the environment surrounding Beats Antique, who we’ve just learned will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, December 3. Talk about making moves: Around this time last year, the act was opening for the Glitch Mob on Halloween, but this…
While the Grizzly Rose has been bringing in country acts since the 1989, the venue has had a lot of success bringing in ’80s-centric rock bands like Dokken and Brett Michaels. So it makes sense that the same folks behind the Grizzly Rose plan to open their own rock club…
The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, October 7. “This is its own little entity to promote the festival,” says…
The most intriguing rumor we’ve heard lately is that Houses frontman Andy Hamilton may be putting together a project with Eric Halborg, long-time frontman and bassist of the Swayback, and Chuck French, lead shredder for Git Some and one-time member of the now-mythic Planes Mistaken for stars. Hamilton confirms that…
