We sincerely hope you got in some recovery time and beauty sleep last weekend and this week, because this weekend’s Dance Card is out-of-control. Between the Electric Daisy Carnival, Inception and the first Full Moon Gathering of the summer, you’ll have plenty of options for booty-shaking good times…
We just received word on the lineup and dates for this year’s FMQB Triple A Conference taking place this fall. This year’s summit is slated to kick off on Wednesday, August 10 and culiminate on Friday, August 12, with performances at the Fox Theatre by Brett Dennen, Matt Nathanson, DeVotchka,…
The summer concert season is in full-swing, and it seems that every venue in town is booked though the weekend. With seemingly endless options, we’ve put together a list of shows we think are worth checking out, starting with A Place To Bury Strangers, back in Denver at the Bluebird…
There have been a lot of projects in recent memory searching for help with funding, from bands to films to films about bands. But few have had the historical importance of Style Wars, the seminal 1982 documentary about New York’s ’80s hip-hop scene. The film is available on DVD, but…
As partners in Strong Survive Promotionz for the past five years, independent concert promoters Travis Ragan and Ivan Ovchinnikov have booked shows at a number of venues around Denver, but they’ve never gotten a cut of the bar sales. So when they found out that the Roxy Theatre, an old…
Whether you’re a fan of the whomp or not, Dubstep is here to stay. Borgore (performing this evening at the Bluebird Theater with Thorazine, ServOne and Seeda) is definitely on the newer end of movement, but the Tel Aviv-born producer and DJ has already carved out his own style within…
Remember a few months ago when we told you about the upcoming Grateful Dead online game? Well, that’s finally coming to fruition in August, but it looks like it will have a little competition from everyone’s favorite party-man Jimmy Buffett. That’s right, if there was ever a song we wanted…
No, we don’t have our guitar plugged into our Smokey Amp again. Why do you ask? Oh that. Yeah, no, we’re just screwing around with our Google Doodle in honor of Les Paul, who would’ve been 96 today. Easy, tiger. It only sounds dirty — uh, the Google Doodle, that…
An acclaimed DJ, producer and remixer, Hastings, England’s native son Danny Howells earned his bones warming up for John Digweed at the legendary Bedrock club nights during the ’90s. Howells maintained that opening gig for almost ten years and earned a dedicated British following before blowing up worldwide in 2000…
Avery Sunshine (due tonight at the Soiled Dove as part of the road to the Vail Soul Series) will bring her signature smile, style and grace to the stage this evening. A soul-stirring force, the Pennsylvania native is a whirling ball of energy and, well, sunshine, who is sure to…
Langhorne Slim (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder with Samantha Crain and Jonah Wisneski) could easily fit under the folk or alt-country label, but the Pennsylvania native is truly a gospel singer by nature. Slim’s vocals nod to Dylan, too, but it is the soulful reverie in his…
As the Colorado Symphony Orchestra continues on without a music director, Austrian Christian Arming is slated to guest-conduct the season finale concerts this weekend. The all-Wagner greatest-hits program includes selections from Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger, and Die Walkure, which is part of the Ring Cycle…
Last night, the Sub.Mission crew kicked off its Electronic Tuesdays series, and for the next three weeks, it will be packing the Other Side full of electronic music from nearly two dozen different DJs. Generally speaking, when you have that many artists spread over a series of dates, it’s difficult…
Although Kings of Leon practically re-institutionalized Southern rock as an aesthetic, Alberta Cross (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Boys) has taken it all to the next level, both visually and sonically. The NYC-by-way-of-London quintet effectively creates its own dirty, melancholic white-man blues. Guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee’s voice bears…
Update: We just received word that tickets for Devo’s performance on July 30 at the first annual Denver County Fair go on sale this morning at 10 a.m. So that’s what Barry Fey was working on. In news that’s sure to inspire the nerdiest of our pals to spontaneously bust…
The first show was petrifying,” Ira Kaplan confides of Yo La Tengo’s live debut. “We had a party and played at it, and we learned — not that quickly — that it’s much easier to play for strangers than it is for your friends.” When they formed Yo La Tengo…
In August 2009, Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson rode 49cc Pocketbikes from south of Denver to Sturgis, South Dakota, covering 445 miles at an average of 20 miles per hour. Over three days, the two set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey on a mini-motorcycle. “We’re overly motivated…
Few people not close to the band would ever have suspected that four of the guys from the pop band Fellow Citizens would do music like this. Not because Fellow Citizens doesn’t have an experimental edge in its songwriting; it does. No, it’s because Kevin Costner Suicide Pact (due Friday,…
With early-’90s bar-room memoirs both funny (“Bubba Shot the Jukebox”) and not so funny (“Too Cold at Home”), Mark Chesnutt was one of the last in the George Jones line of bona fide honky-tonkers to find real major-label success (Chesnutt’s dad was actually one of Jones’s running buddies). These days,…
While the influences of Prince and New Order are more than apparent in Miami Horror’s work, the Australian four-piece has built its own sturdy electronic legs on which to stand — as evidenced by its debut effort, last year’s Illumination. Instead of regurgitating the ghosts of electronic music’s past, the band…
If artists like England’s Mumford and Sons continue to produce some of the best music of the genre, the term “Americana” may eventually have to be replaced. Using classic American folk-rock ingredients like banjo, dobro and good old-fashioned misery, the band has become an increasingly growing musical phenomenon. Its debut…
The sales pitch for cell phones that do a ton of other shit has always been about connection: Buy this phone and be connected to everything all the time, because you are a social animal and this will make you happy. That’s partly true: For you, the user of the…
