Although Anti just released “Back in the Crowd,” the second single from Tom Waits’ forthcoming disc, Bad as Me, there’s still close to another month before the album hits the stores. So if you’re looking to your Waits fix in the meantime, Gold Hill Inn in Boulder is hosting a…
Last June, we wrote about Dred Scott, who was homeless and performing R&B covers on 16th Street Mall, and Tyler Ward helped spread the word about Scott through his featured artist series on YouTube as well as helping getting Scott an EP on iTunes. Scott’s cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”…
Guns N’ Roses, who announced last week that it would be coming to Denver (but no venue or date has been confirmed yet), is among the fifteen acts nominated, along with the Cure, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Freddie King, Donovan, Erik B & Rakim and Red Hot Chili Peppers, for…
Since the Oriental Theater had to close this week for repairs after a chunk of its ceiling fell on the stage last Friday, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose latest ensemble melds jazz, electronic and Indian music, will be playing at Quixote’s True Blue instead on Friday, September 30. The show still…
Each time Cut Copy has come through town over the last few years, the Australian indie electronic group has played a bigger venue as its popularity grew, moving up from the Larimer Lounge in 2008 to the Bluebird in 2009 to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, October 4. After the…
This one’s so secret, I don’t even know where it’s at,” admits Gregg Dolan. Starting with 2006’s Hold Your Hour and Have Another, he’s put secret clues about the lyrics of Kissing Party’s final release on each of its four actual albums, including the latest, Wasters Wall. “I buried it…
After years of working in the corporate world, Phil Villotti and Ray Rodriguez took over the former Atrium Bar & Grill at 554 South Broadway, cleaned up the place and are opening it on Thursday, September 29, as The Bar. But it’s a very different bar from the Atrium. “It’s…
(die) Pilot was one of the most promising pop bands of the last decade. Eugene Brown’s almost pastoral lyrics painted vivid images of American life at the dawn of the new century, but managed to avoid making Americana music. But as with so many worthwhile bands, unfortunate timing and internal…
More than most of this country’s musical groups, Insane Clown Posse has an American-dream backstory — but not the kind that makes for typical Hollywood movie material. Joseph Bruce had been involved with gangs; to get out, he became a professional wrestler. Disillusioned with the nonsense of that world, Bruce…
Break out the tie-dye hoodie and slip a pair of socks on with those Birkenstocks: Furthur is closing out the 2011 concert season at Red Rocks with a trio of shows this weekend. Like bottles of wine, guitarist Bob Weir and bass master Phil Lesh seem to get better and…
Olympia, Washington, would seem to be an unlikely home for one of the world’s most inventive black-metal bands. But Wolves in the Throne Room manages to capture the raw and abundant beauty of that land west of the Cascades. Just as Crass turned a sophisticated, leftist critique of modern society…
After a brief love affair with house-music icons Derrick Carter and Mark Farina, Berlin-via-Brooklyn’s Camea turned to classic techno labels such as Perlon, Playhouse and Minus, and those sounds quickly became a big part of her deejaying repertoire. Her distinct techno-house hybrid — not tech-house in the strictest sense, though…
I think it’s safe to say that between the ages of about 11 and 22, I was wrong about somewhere in the neighborhood of 95 percent of everything. And for the most part, I’m okay with that: I’m older and wiser now, plus I hardly ever get inappropriate boners. Still,…
From the opening track of “Dreamsong,” this latest album from A Shoreline Dream transports you back to a time when you’d hear bands like Slowdive, Ride and the early Verve plumb the melancholy depths while other rock acts were trying desperately to be Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Losing Them All…
Since Deadbubbles has established itself as one of the area’s finest garage-rock acts, it’s not surprising that frontman Arlo White was able to round up fourteen local bands to play Deadbubbles material on this release. While tribute albums are usually devoted to more established bands — Deadbubbles formed in 2006…
D.Girl, the hard-rapping, sexy siren, is out to prove that she can run with the boys — and she succeeds on Mascara Music Vol. 1. With several features from rappers and vocalists, as well as comical skits about everything from sex to her desire for the takeover, Mascara Music should…
Known as Biscuitland until a year ago, these musicians (minus guitarist Aaron Reneaux) took a garage-pop/dance-rock direction when they adopted the name One Sun One Moon. Featuring material written over the past three years, the band’s debut, Collisions, draws from ’80s synth-pop and new wave as well as ’90s rock…
John Templeton is one of a growing number of Colorado-based musicians bringing national and international attention to Denver’s burgeoning electronic music scene. A prolific producer, remixer, DJ and live performer, he’s also the man behind the first annual Great American Techno Festival (GATF), which will coincide with the Great American…
DJ Sneak was born in Puerto Rico, but he moved to Chicago in the early 1980s — just in time to become part of the massive house movement that got its start in the Windy City and had spilled across the planet by the late ’90s. He didn’t speak English…
Last June, Colorado Public Radio announced plans to convert 1340 AM, an all-news station, to a new music station, and now CPR plans to roll out a new station, Open Air, on Monday, October 31. “Open Air is a natural extension of CPR’s mission to offer an in-depth exploration of…
Rapper Game hits the the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 2 and the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 3 as part of R.E.D. Tour in support of his fourth album,The R.E.D. Album, which came out in August on Interscope/DGC after almost two years of delays. Game was a recent cover-story…
Boba Fett & the Americans, the fifteen-piece guerrilla-style marching band, will be heading to New York City to play all over Manhattan for three days during the CMJ Music Marathon, which runs from Tuesday October 18 to Saturday, October 22. The band, which includes DeVotchKa’s drummer/trumpeter Shawn King, recently reached…
