Paper Diamond’s stock just rose significantly. The Boulder-based act led by Alex B. (aka Alex Botwin) of Pnuma Trio and Elm and Oak, has been added to the Outside Lands festival happening a few weekends from now in San Francisco. Have you seen the lineup? He’ll be in some pretty…
It’s hard to believe that Suburban Home Records has been around nearly two decades now. Seriously. Where does the time go? The label — home to heralded bands like the Gamits and Drag the River over the years — has weathered a lot of storms and this coming September, it…
Born in Chicago in 2004 as a duo, Walter Meego (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with ManCub and C.S.Q.) makes the kind of sweet and accessible electronic pop perfect for the television medium — which, as it turns out, is where the now-trio received initial mass exposure…
Leave it to the often brilliant, overstimulated, complicated mind of Yonnas Abraham to come up with something completely creative on the fly that nobody else would even remotely have thought of — much less be able to facilitate — to turn what might otherwise be just another show for any…
You probably don’t generally equate going CD shopping with 7-Eleven, but with record stores disappearing everyday, a direct-seller called Mall Jamz is trying to change the way we think of buying music by selling it at the same place where we buy Slurpees. Some 7-Eleven stores across the metro area…
Update (7/28/11): We just received word from LiveNation that due to an overwhelming demand, additional dates are being added to the Watch the Throne tour, featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West. The tour is slated to hit Denver on Monday, October 10. The additional dates are due be announced on August…
Move over, tryptophan: Thanksgiving has found a much better bedfellow, one that will put you in a trance but won’t necessarily leave you listless, laying on the couch. Behold Otis Taylor’s Trance Blues Jam Festival, featuring Otis Taylor, of course, along with “Steady Rollin” Bob Margolin, Tony Trischka, Don Vappie…
Have you started thinking about New Year’s yet? What? Too soon? Well, yes, now that you mention it, it is only July. Nonetheless, if you’re a fan of Ween, we have a feeling you’re going to want to be at the Fillmore around then to ring in the New Year…
The term “Dad Rock” is something that gets thrown around a lot these days, and no bands breathe the rock of our fathers like Styx and Yes. Last night, both of these classic bands made a stop at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Our resident photographer, Brandon Marshall, was on hand to…
Heading up a laundry list of acts, Norma Jean comes through the Summit Music Hall tonight with Sleeping Giant, the Chariot, War of Ages, Close Your Eyes, Texas in July, I, the Breather, the Great Commision, Sovereign Strength and As Hell Retreats on the Scream The Prayer tour. The post-hardcore…
KATY PERRY at 1STBANK CENTER | 07/26/11The crowd at Katy Perry last night was exactly as expected. Armies of sprayed and glittered bodies evoked every variation of Perry’s persona over the last half-decade: girls from preschool to high school, donning blue Bettie Page cut wigs, candied and bejeweled corsets and…
Here’s some nerdtastic news to help hype up your humpday: “Weird Al” Yankovic, the crown prince of parody, is coming back to Denver. While that’s swell in itself, it gets better. Guess where he’s playing? Ready? The Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Uh-huh. How ’bout them apples? Send the tuxedo shirt…
Colorado brewers love their music, whether they are talking about it, naming beers after it or rocking it in the brewhouse at volumes loud enough to malt barley on its own. Boulder Beer recently worked with String Cheese Incident keyboardist and song writer Kyle Hollingsworth on a beer called Hoopla,…
Late last year, after a European run, former Enemy Reign frontman Sherwood Webber quietly parted ways with the local metal act. His exodus was preceded earlier that year by the departure of bassist Cassie Begay, who split with the group that spring and was subsequently replaced by Phil Turner of…
Katy Perry (performing tonight at 1STBANK Center with Robyn and DJ Skeet Skeet) truly needs no introduction. Whether you’re seven or seventy, you known Perry’s glossy image from somewhere in pop culture — her music is everywhere, and she can be caught on everything from infomercials to MTV. The first…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In September, Zac Brown is due at Red Rocks, followed by Jay-Z and Kanye West at the Pepsi Center and Neon Indian at the Bluebird in October. On local radio, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Flashlights and King…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne often sketches ridiculous doodles while he does phone interviews. They usually start off with naked women, Coyne reveals, and the one he’s working on right now, evidently, has turned into a naked chick riding the back of a giant skull. “Some gushy shit is shooting…
Jim Norris, who’s part of 3 Kings Tavern (60 South Broadway) and Rockaway Tavern (2036 Broadway), knows how to get people into clubs — whether through live music or just lively programming. For example, there’s Panties at the Bar, hosted by some of the members of the Ooh La La…
With the ebb and flow of bands and styles in any musical community, it’s easy to forget or overlook anyone involved in an area of a scene you don’t know. Pam Puente was one-third of the punk-rock band Double-Barreled Slingshots last decade. Even if you weren’t really into the group,…
Cass McCombs is a weird guy. The kind of guy you’d expect to find huddled in the corner at a party, bristling at social interaction. He’s a loner, but a self-inflicted one, choosing to live in a world of his own making rather than the one he finds himself in…
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Coathangers didn’t set out to be torchbearers for any movement — unless mixing some sassy attitude with a healthy sense of humor counts. In tried-and-true garage-rock and punk fashion, most of the members of this group were unseasoned when they formed the Coathangers, but after…
Rarely has a band with such upbeat, accessible music had its identity and origins so shrouded in mystery — initally, anyway. Cults is not, in fact, some witch-house project, or even a black-metal band, as its moniker might suggest. Instead, it’s a New York duo with a knack for post-tropical…
