Sure, we were all exhausted and hungover from Saturday’s Westword Music Showcase (the biggest one to date, and it felt like it in the most awesome way possible) but Hindershot didn’t care. The band took advantage of yesterday’s gorgeous weather, spending most of the afternoon filming a new video for…
Partially reinventing the old garage rock wheel, Oakland’s Bare Wires (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Winter Legends, Six Eyed Snake, The Conjugal Visits and BleachedBlonde) do a damn fine job of adding a pretty shine to the usually clangy genre. Part Buzzcocks, part Kinks, the trio makes effective…
YO LA TENGO at #WMS11 | 06.18.11″After two or three songs, Ira Kaplan said there were notes all over the stage saying not to use profanity and that if that were the case, they had nothing left to play.”…
Man, what a day we had yesterday at the seventeenth annual Westword Music Showcase! The music was exceptional, the weather was beyond agreeable and everywhere you looked in every direction it was a sea of smiling faces. With over 13,000 people in attendance this year, this was certainly the biggest…
DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN @ SHOWCASE | 6/18/11 The fact the Del the Funky Homosapien is still able to get up on stage and command the attention he did ten years ago is a testament to the quality of his music, the production of his beats and the impact of…
Oh no! Those five vodka & Red Bulls gave you the guts to talk to that guy or girl, but not the common sense to actually get their phone number, Facebook, Twitter or even their name. Now here you are in the sobering sun of Sunday morning, wondering how you…
You can’t be everywhere at once, especially during events like Saturday’s Westword Music Showcase, with more than a dozen venues across a few blocks in the Golden Triangle. Thankfully, we’ve got Twitter to read about people complaining and dancing and high-fiving across the festival, which is truly the best use…
CHROMEO at #WMS11 | 06.18.11″Two songs in and it was clear: Dave and P came to party. There wasn’t much in the way of segues or throwaway banter between tunes. Chromeo let the music speak for itself and went straight for the hipbone.”…
All right Showcase is finally here. You excited? We are. If you’re on your way or just getting here, there’s a couple of programming changes we wanted to make you aware of that are different from the printed pocket guides and the downloadable PDFs. Most notably, over at City Hall,…
There’s nothing worse for a pot-smoking music fan than to find your concert joints crumbled into a broken mess at the bottom of your favorite hiding spot. All that work rolling them beforehand, stashing them in your hat and making it through security is gone, and you’ve got to spend…
You can get your chance to be a go-go dancer for Global Dance Festival at the end of June — or, you know, just watch a lot of sexy go-go dancers wile their wares. The Church has Go-Go Auditions tonight, featuring the sounds of Kostas, Trajikk, and Jontron alongside the…
So, the Westword Music Showcase is finally going down tomorrow, and, of course, we’re excited. Along with laundry list of amazing local acts like Kingdom of Magic, Diamond Boiz and Vices I Admire, we’ve got Chromeo, UME and Del the Funky Homosapien rolling through…
The rumors were true: Jens Lekman was in actually in Denver last night. In fact, the Swedish crooner had been in the state for a good 24 hours (and had by all accounts never played here before, as his last show a few years ago was canceled due to inclimate…
Once upon a time, long before Fez Garcia was the drummer for half the bands in Denver (or, at the moment, just Fingers of the Sun, Bury My Bones and Night of Joy), he was a goofy kid with glasses. When we put the call out earlier this week for…
The lineup for this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase is pretty extensive. In fact, if you’re unprepared it can be overwhelming. With this notion in mind, we put ourselves through a practice run for Showcase and hit every show we could last night. From Funky Buddha, where the work-out started, to…
Sk8Bit was supposed to take place this weekend in Ft. Collins, but the event has been cancelled due to a series of unfortunate and mostly unrelated events. Event promoter Marty Kraham notes that he’s working to reschedule a date in August at Rollerland with the bulk of the local bands…
Trolling the web, we recently came across a series of videos featuring a juggalo named MrTmzfan. We can’t quite place the face, but it looks slightly familiar, like another mister so and so we know. Maybe it’s just the face paint. Anyhow, judging from the comments made by said juggalo…
It’s safe to say that we’ve got you covered on live music for the weekend, but in case you are looking to start the party early, we’ve got you there, too. The Westword Music Showcase is days — pfft…mere hours — away, and what better way to kick start the…
As Gabriel & Dresden (throwing down tonight at Beta Nightclub with Kostas and Marshall Monica), Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden form the powerful union of DJ and producer. Creating trance and house-oriented remixes for big names like New Order, the Killers, Britney Spears and Madonna, the duo also finds the…
MUMFORD & SONS at the FILLMORE | 06.15.11″Mumford and his mates certainly did their best to show the crowd one of the greatest shows they have seen in recent memory.”…
YELLOWCARD at SUMMIT | 06.15.11″Key talked with the audience quite a bit between songs, like he was catching up old friends on the band’s life over the last few lost years.”…
Long Island pop-punk band Taking Back Sunday headlined a nearly sold out show last night at Summit, boasting its original line-up. Also on the bill were Thursday and Colour Revolt. All photos by Aaron Thackeray for Westword…
