Oh metal heads, rejoice, for your prayers have been answered! You were praying for Anthrax and Testament to embark on a co-headlining tour, right? Of course you were. Well guess what? We just received word that the two metal titans are coming to Summit Music Hall on Wednesday, October 19…
Leftover Salmon for Thanksgiving? Sounds yummy, doesn’t it? Good. Glad you feel that way because we’ve just learned that Leftover Salmon is slated to be back home for a pair of dates at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, November 25 and Saturday, November 26 with Head for the Hills. What…
Every week, in continuing the tradition of promoting concerts by hanging up posters, we make our rounds at various music venues and record stores in the greater Denver area and take a look at the posters hanging up. Here’s our collection of fliers spotted around town this week. If there’s…
After a sold out show in Boulder last night, Gillian Welch (due tonight at the Arvada Center) gifts fans with a second appearance in Colorado, while closing out the season for the outdoor venue. Along with her longtime musical collaborator David Rawlings, Welch brings stories of tragedy and addiction to…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows Tech N9ne, Lucinda Williams and Jimmy Buffet were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Monroe Monroe, Air Dubai, Spires and Popcult all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores, new and recent…
“I actually just got out of jail four hours before that show.” Casey Banker, frontman for the Don’ts and Be Carefuls, is relating the story of how he was arrested last year just before a gig his band played on Halloween at the Skylark. Apparently, three months prior, keyboardist Dane…
Darrell Hammond says that regardless of their status — and after fourteen years on Saturday Night Live, his rep is strong — comics like to play a handful of comedy clubs around the country. Comedy Works, at 1226 15th Street in Larimer Square, is definitely one of them. In fact,…
Anyone who saw experimental pop band Lil Slugger probably wouldn’t have guessed that Ben Martin was a talented R&B singer. Slugger, after all, sometimes sounded like a mash-up of Captain Beefheart, Chrome and the Fall. For King Mob (due at Moe’s on Tuesday, September 13), Martin teamed up with his…
Stephen Kent is a global superstar; the multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with the best of the best world musicians (including this country’s own Steve Roach) across a span of continents and has put out several solo albums and dozens of EPs and LPs as part of one group or another. In…
Having established himself as an in-demand drummer in both jazz and rock circles by working with everyone from Wayne Shorter and Bill Frisell to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, Brian Blade is also a strong leader in his own right — namely, with his Fellowship Band. From a self-titled Blue…
A rapper once posed the question “Where my dogs at?” — and that query, delivered with a fierce, distinctive growl and presented alongside a barrage of charismatic rhymes, catapulted this particular MC, known as Dark Man X (or just DMX, for short) to hip-hop superstardom. If you’ve been following the…
Since forming in Austin in 1999, Explosions in the Sky has had a bit of a charmed career for an instrumental rock band in the wake of critical backlash against post-rock. Ten years ago, Explosions released Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live…
In the pantheon of greatness, there are many assholes. John Lennon. Ludwig von Beethoven. Eddie Van Halen. All of these people make/made undeniably great music; all of these people are/were demonstrably pompous, entitled, demanding asshats who would be unbearable to know. Like anyone else, I like to believe that the…
Boonie Mayfield has done it again! On Black Kool-Aid, he’s crafted a beat tape that’s as perfect as a cloudless sky on a sunny day. Hyperbole? Hardly. Black Kool-Aid is a righteous effort from the rapping producer. Opening up with the sound of ice cubes clinking in a glass and the…
It’s pretty obvious where Wonderlic is coming from musically after a listen to “Sacagawea,” the opening track on the group’s self-titled album. A jam band for sure, Wonderlic steers through different vibes on the track, going from a bouncy, odd-metered rock section that features some Trey Anastasio-inspired guitar work by…
Since forming in 2006, Fort Collins-based Dubskin has established itself as one of the area’s leading reggae acts, having shared the stage with legends like the Barrington Levy, the Itals and Mad Professor. On Release From Fear, its third LP, Dubskin sticks to its roots-reggae foundation for the most part,…
Picking up where Recidivist, the band’s audacious 2010 debut album, left off, this EP from the Raven and the Writing Desk displays an even more fully integrated band adept at making creative use of all the sounds and textures at its disposal. “Tiny” sounds like Danny Elfman got together with…
The music that Blake Brown makes with Bare Bones could be considered a throwback, so it’s only fitting that it all started in a museum. While working at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Brown struck up a conversation with co-worker and current bandmate Freida Stalheim, formerly of Munly and…
If you’ve already got your ticket to see Sound Tribe Sector 9 at Red Rocks this Saturday, September 10, you might want to get there early to catch the opener, too. LTJ Bukem is an intelligent-drum-and-bass god in the U.K., and for good reason. Bukem (aka Danny Williamson) is a…
Tollund Men is no longer just a bunch of poor saps buried in a Danish peat bog from the time before the Roman Republic transitioned to Empire. In Denver, it’s the solo project of Neal Samples, with some help from genius musical chameleon Daniel Bouse when the project plays live…
A virtual supergroup, Down (due tonight at Summit Music Hall with In Solitude and Ponykiller) is spearheaded by none other than the fear-instilling voice of Phil Anselmo, of super heavy legends Pantera. But Down is a band all its own — the group has been making sludgy, devastating metal since…
Early this year, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) decided to ban the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” because of the use of a homophobic slur in the song’s lyrics. In a somewhat surprising move, the Council has reversed the decision, which means Canadian broadcasters can go back to…
