When the Foo Fighters pull into the Pepsi Center on Sunday, they’re expecting Mexican food — and “not just chips, salsa and some microwave burritos.” The dudes are from SoCal, and apparently consider themselves connoisseurs, so the production crew is well advised to be on their toes. So warns the…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All is a group of hard-core hip-hop hooligans who came to pillage, plunder and cause chaos with their rhymes. Led by the enigmatic Tyler, the Creator, the entire crew — Hodgy Beats, Domo Genisis, Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt (whose whereabouts are unknown at…
Andy Monley started playing live music in Denver in 1981, when he was still in high school, with his first band, the Joy Division-inspired Church and State. When that group dissolved, he formed Acid Ranch, a project directly influenced by the Birthday Party. But it wasn’t until the inception of…
For the past few months, Bop Skizzum has been quietly searching for a replacement for Erin Jo Harris, the band’s vocalist, who is departing the group to pursue other projects. While we imagine the prospect had to have been a bit daunting given Harris’s considerable voice and presence, the band…
YELAWOLF at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/4/11Yelawolf put his country grammar on full blast last night at the Bluebird on the first stop of his two day tour through Colorado (Yelawolf’s due tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder). The Alabama MC stalked onto the stage amid deep-blue lighting and tons…
If we know you (and let’s face it — we know you well, probably better than your mom), your plans for Halloween have already begun to take shape. Yes? Well, before you move that entry from pencil to ink on your calendar, there are a few more enticing options to…
CUT COPY at THE OGDEN THEATRE | 10/4/11Dan Whitford, lead vocalist of Cut Copy, is the guy you want at your party. The way he bounces around the stage, you get the sense that he’s the guy bringing the energy on the dance floor, busting some pretty sweet moves whether…
Just in time for the two Colorado dates for OFF! this weekend comes the music video for “Crawl,” one of the best tracks off the band’s First Four EPs collection. It’s ninety seconds of one of the best skateboarders in the world, Leo Romero, eating it, wiping out and scraping…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, a show at the Paramount Theatre featuring Puscifer was announced, along with a Kulwicki Twins Foundation benefit at the Bluebird Theater in January being headlined by Mudhoney and The Fluid. On local radio specialty shows,…
Maybe Jesus wanted it to happen,” says Keith Morris, explaining how his new band, OFF!, was formed. He’s kidding, of course. But somehow a simple question about his band’s formation spirals into a half-dozen tangents: A notorious talker, Morris finds creative ways to answer questions about everything from a band’s…
Brit Chambers, a former Los Angeles stylist, has gone on a lot of house calls where the client invites her girlfriends over and the appointment turns into a party, complete with cocktails and multiple coiffures. These events inspired her to create a similar scene at Fluff (1516 Wazee Street), the…
Cephalic Carnage, Vale of Pnath, To Be Eaten, Swashbuckle and Rainbowdragoneyes are all names that anyone paying attention to the better end of death metal and grind in Denver should recognize immediately. Some of the guys from those bands got together last year and created Collapse, an outfit that demonstrated…
Best known for its abundant cornfields and rich basketball tradition, Indiana might not seem the likeliest place for the emergence of a major dance-music talent until you consider the state’s proximity to Chicago and Detroit, the respective birthplaces of house and techno. Troy Pierce grew up in those Indiana cornfields,…
Though renowned among fans of bizarro punk rock in the West, Melt Banana is still somewhat unknown in its home of Tokyo, where J-pop still reigns supreme. Early in their career, the members of Melt Banana heard the No New York compilation, and it sparked their collective interest in taking…
Michael Monroe made his name as the charismatic frontman of seminal Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks. Before the tragic death of drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley in December 1984, Hanoi Rocks had established itself as a powerful live act. With a look and sound that would be superficially familiar to most…
Since time immemorial, art and politics have been locked, like the world’s most hateful couple, in an awkward embrace: Art subverts political establishments, political establishments ban art, repeat. It’s a phenomenon that’s especially pronounced in music, which can not only provide an explicit message, but also, at its best, inspire…
Although JT Nolan and Paul Mullikin appear to be polar opposites — the former was exposed to music through the Chicago bar and club scene at an early age, and the latter is a multi-instrumentalist who plays for the Boulder Philharmonic — Beats Noir! finds them meeting on common ground…
So far, 2011 has been a big year for Jerry Jay Jaramillo, better known for the music he makes as Project Aspect. A veteran of both the Sonic Bloom and Wakarusa music festivals, Jaramillo teased audiences with songs from this EP during his live sets before dropping them as one…
Cola Divalyrics, a self-described “female rapper from the ‘hood, but educated,” churns out simplistic lyrics with a robotic flow on Making It. Displaying vocals with spicy tones but completely devoid of sweetness, Cola’s music differs from the typical “female MC” rap being peddled these days — no cartoonish antics here…
From the jump, the songs on Mombi’s The Wounded Beat sound like they were written during a transitional time of day. Or perhaps during the change from fall to winter, when the cold has already sunk deep inside, inducing a period of deep reflection. These abstract yet organic tunes blur…
If you listen to house music in Denver, then you’ve heard by now of Brett Starr’s House Revival, the regular Funky Buddha nights that showcase three different DJs trading off at the decks, with no sets, just a continuous blend of dance music. There are a couple of exciting aspects…
Global Dance Festival has become a staple in the Colorado dance music scene since launching in 2002. This year the festival grew to three days, hosting more than forty artists on three stages. In partnership with Triad Dragons, executive producer Taj Nahar and directors Gabriel Rovick and Travis Conklin of…
