Stickman

Neil Haverstick is well known for pulling musical experimentation out of the realm of theory into practice. For more than twenty years, the guitarist has explored 19- and 36-tone tuning structures, expanding his instrument’s vocabulary beyond its traditional 12-tone confines. While past releases like 2009’s Spider placed Haverstick’s style in…

The AuntEaters

The name AuntEaters seems apt for a punk band — so when this Pueblo-based quartet opens Marionette with the Ennio Morricone-tinged instrumental “Rabbit Ears Pass,” fit for the opening credits of a spaghetti Western, it’s a little disorienting. But once the disc kicks into gear on the second track with…

Peter Hook revisits Joy Division’s music, September 19 at the Bluebird

Joy Division made an immediate mark on the world of music with its two full-length albums, 1979’s Unknown Pleasures and 1980’s Closer. The desperation, anger and psychic torment of those records is all but unparalleled in the annals of rock music. Singer Ian Curtis’s tragic suicide, two months before the…

Bass Invasion 3 takes over Cervantes’ on September 16

We all know Denver’s got a sick dubstep scene, and the fact that underground players have taken bass into the streets before just serves to prepare dubstep lovers for the two-day Bass Invasion 3 festival at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom — because this time, two stages and four walls won’t be…

Big Sean in Boulder at the Fox on 11/11/11

Big Sean is coming to the Fox Theatre on Friday, November 11. Signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label, Big Sean legitimately poses this question: “Who came first, Big Sean or Drake?” No kidding. If you don’t know Big Sean from “My Last,” his single with Chris Brown, let’s just…

Review: DMX at the Gothic Theatre, 9/10/11

DMX at THE GOTHIC THEATRE | 9/10/11DMX is loud, energetic and, at least for what he gave at the Gothic Theatre last night, in the same shape he was in when he first lifted his voice with the infamous query, “Where my dogs at?” back in 1997. Exploding onto the…

Review: STS9 at Red Rocks, 9/9/11

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 at RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 9/9/11Since this was a sold-out show, there was really no possibility of my seeing the opening act, Up Until Now, as I was trapped on the south staircase in a sea of wookies and wookettes. Granted, there really wasn’t anything I…

Review: The Don’ts and Be Carefuls at Hi-Dive, 9/9/11

THE DON’TS AND BE CAREULS at the HI-DIVE | 9/9/11 The Don’ts and Be Carefuls did something at this “Triple EP Release” show that you just knew the band had in it but you might not expect to see: they fused the exuberance and innocence of its original sound with…

Fluff Bar due to open next month at 1516 Wazee

Watch for Fluff Bar to open in early October at 1516 Wazee Street. Originally slated to be called Fluff Beauty Bar, the combo hair salon, cocktail lounge and champagne bar dropped “beauty” for reasons that should be obvious (if you’ve ever been to the fourteen-month-old Beauty Bar, at least)…