When people classify the music that Cannons is making, they have a tendency to be grossly inaccurate. Boasting members from some of Denver’s most established metal acts, the band often gets a metal designation assigned to it. A closer listen, however, makes it apparent that this is far from an…
As a teenager, Jonathan Tiersten got a taste of fame in the cult horror flick Sleepaway Camp. Since then, he’s gone on to act in more films, including 2008’s Return to Sleepaway Camp, while also working on a music career. With hands in both music and film, it’s not surprising…
Flight Risk is a mixtape of what are essentially leftover joints from Mr. Midas’s album Son of the Crack Era, with several new concept-driven collaborations thrown into the mix. Chock-full of posse cuts and interludes supporting the “flight risk” theme, the rap is exceptional, and not just from Midas. “Make…
Beginning with a sample of waves coming in off the ocean, Curse All Summers conjures the kind of day where low-hanging clouds gray the sky from horizon to horizon. Akin to an even more low-fi Elliott Smith, the Transformations make no bones about their melancholic tone, but there’s less desperation…
You can draw a couple of likely conclusions upon hearing the band name Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. First, that it’s a group of punk-rockers, as punk bands like Abe Vigoda, Burgess Meredith, Ronald Raygun and the Fabulous St. Knicholas Cage have been re-purposing celebrity monikers for years. Also, that the…
When two groups known for throwing epic parties combine their efforts for a summertime series, you can bet it’s going to bring great things to the city lucky enough to host it. That’s exactly what will happen with Inception, a collaboration of Afterhours Anonymous and Mahesh Presents. The two groups…
Anyone who missed Bright Eyes’ show last night at the Fillmore will get another chance to see Conor Oberst and company, as the Boulder Theater just announced a date with the band on Tuesday, August 9. Tickets ($30 in advance and $35 day of show) go on sale this Friday,…
BRIGHT EYES at THE FILLMORE, 6/5/11″It was a bit bittersweet to think that this might be the last time Bright Eyes plays Denver.”…
Now into its third decade as a band, Front Line Assembly (due at Summit Music Hall tonight with Dismantled, Cyanotic, DJ Acucrack and Harwire) has been a group to stick to the confines of its initial industrial label…
DISPATCH at RED ROCKS | 6/3/11″Dispatch fans came for a good time — the first they’ve shared with this band in a while — and let’s just say they got what they came for.”…
SLEIGH BELLS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 6.14.11 As a mid-level band headlining a place the size of the Ogden and charging 25 bucks a head, how do you justify playing a set that’s barely as long as your opener (we’re talking thirty minutes and some change here — it will…
It’s a slower weekend in dance music than this city has seen quite a while, but don’t despair: We still found several options for your booty-shakin’ pleasure this weekend. First up: The ever-dependable Forever Fridays at Beta will feature Zodiac Nights (it’s your turn, Gemini!) with DJ Shares vs. DJ…
Count yourself lucky if you had a chance to catch Adele’s breathtaking performance last weekend. We just heard that she canceled all of the remaining dates on her current tour due to the problems she was having with her voice, problems she mentioned at the onset of her set at…
It was somewhere around 8 o’clock when the woman in front started dancing like crazy. She had to be in her forties, maybe fifties. She was dancing to Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the Walnut Room in front of a collection of VIPs who had been summoned to witness the…
Seven-piece outfit Fitz & The Tantrums (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Ximena) is all about the soul revival, for sure. But band leader Michael Fitzpatrick brings just the slightest hint of Tom Jones-inspired campiness to the group’s cool vintage sound, which works well with co-vocalist Noelle Scaggs’ sweet…
Update: Whoa! Stop the presses. So we were just getting ready to send word via Twitter that tomorrow night’s show had been canceled (see original post below), and we stopped by John Grant’s Twitter page, which led us to his Facebook page and that’s where learned the actual reason his…
Local man-about-town and house-music ambassador, Brett Starr, has found a niche with his fifth-Friday House Revival shows at Funky Buddha; the basic idea is to bring together three DJs with different styles and have them spin a cohesive set together, switching off one-after-another at the decks. It’s proven to be…
After working in the action-sports industry for years and setting a Guinness World Record for longest journey on a mini-motorcycle, Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson have now embarked on a different journey: Cheapskates Action Sports Bar, which opened last week in the former home of Bliss Café at 7501 Grandview…
In case you’ve been working your fingers to the bone all the week and haven’t had a single second to notice, the weekend is just a few hours away. What’s that? Yes, we know it’s only Thursday. But Thursday, as we keep saying, is the new Friday. And as you’ll…
We just glimpsed the lineup for the sixth annual Yonder Mountain String Band’s sixth annual Harvest Music Festival — taking place Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16, at Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas (site of this weekend’s Wakarusa Festival) — and let’s just say it may make you want to,…
Yesterday we were on the set with Manufactured Superstars, who were shooting their new video at Beta with Vista TV. The scene at Beta yesterday was quite different from a typical night at the club with hundreds of people jumping, dancing, sweating and just all-out raging. The vibe was fun,…
Hooray for Gauntlet Hair and congrats to Dead Oceans for having the good sense to add the Lafayette-based duo to its roster. The outfit attracted the attention of the “instantly spellbound” label with a pair of 7-inch releases, one on Mexican Summer and the other on Gorilla Vs Bear’s Forest…
