This Sunday, May 29, City Hall is slated to kick off its new weekly Rockers, Rollers & Riders concert series with the Mighty 18 Wheeler and Hotgun, which features members of the Informants, Railbenders and GT & the Sidewinders. If you haven’t heard about it yet, the weekly shows, Rockers,…
There’s a brand new festival coming to Snowmass Village over the Fourth of July weekend, and Leftover Salmon (pictured) is among the acts slated to headline. Sharing the bill at the inaugural Eco Music Festival, taking place June 30 through July3, is Perpetual Groove, Tea Leaf Green, the New Mastersounds,…
If you read the act’s self-penned bio, it sounds like School Knights was born out of two guys hijacking an established band. The truth of that story may never be known. But what is known is that drummer Zack Roif and guitarist Michael Stein don’t seem to overthink the music…
It’s virtually impossible to utter the words “alt-country” without mentioning Old 97’s. It’s hard to say who was first, but Old 97’s were clearly at the forefront of the movement that managed to revive the rock-infused country of the ’60s while imparting it with a DIY aesthetic. Eighteen years later,…
Although she got her start in her home town of Kansas City, Kansas, Janelle Monáe gained a much wider audience after she relocated to Atlanta. There she met OutKast’s Big Boi and struck up a mutually beneficial creative friendship. In the wake of the release of her inventive 2010 recording,…
Yeasayer likes to float between the lines of genre convention enough that its music is often mischaracterized as “experimental.” In some respects, it’s true — the group does sound different from other bands — but when it comes down to it, Yeasayer is a pop act making music for people…
GG Allin gets most of the cred for being the most offensive punk-rocker of all time. But the scum-rock crown could probably now be claimed, at least lyrically, by British Columbia hardcore crossover act Day-Glo Abortions. In trouble with the law for the lyrical content of their songs as well…
It’s been a tough week for Katy Perry. First off, there’s the upcoming release of her mother’s memoir, which her father told Star magazine last week “has caused quite a bit of tension.” That would be because Katy Perry’s mom is an evangelical Christian who would not let Katy Perry…
Remember when you were in high school, and your friends were in that weird funk-rock crossover band? They played, like, every weekend, and even though the band wasn’t really your thing, they were good at what they did, so you went to their shows? Be the Ant could be that…
One of the state’s top reggae acts, Lion SoulJahs have been spreading their conscious roots reggae and dancehall tunes around these parts for years, opening for legends like the Wailers, Jimmy Cliff and Burning Spear, as well as backing up Ky-Mani Marley and Frankie Paul. Zion Bound is one of…
Instead of appropriating an early-punk-rock singles aesthetic, these bands apparently decided to go further back and dispense with the artwork entirely for a visual result akin to an old garage-rock 45. Which is fitting, considering that the nervy power pop of “I Buried My Heart Under Bar Bar (Then Burned…
Jane Doed is the “pierced, badass bitch” alter ego of Della frontwoman Amanda Hawkins, who makes her presence known — and then some — on her solo debut. Straight away, the disc’s most captivating feature is Hawkins’s voice. Her vocals nearly sear with pitch perfection, and when it comes to…
Kicking off Memorial Day weekend in Colorado for the third year in a row, the Disco Biscuits will once again set the Mile High City on fire with two back-to-back shows at the Ogden, culminating at Red Rocks with their annual Bisco Inferno. Nearly two decades into their career, the…
As one half of the brains behind the underground house label Juiced Music, J.Caprice has been spinning records since 1996 and has built his name on funky, soulful house beats. Now hailing from Dallas, J.Caprice has performed all over the country, and in 2008 formed High Maintenance with fellow DJ/producer…
In commemoration of it’s third consecutive year of Denver being the host city for their famed Bisco Inferno kick-off, the Disco Biscuits are opening up pop-up shop on south Broadway. The store will be JAM-packed with Biscuits merch and there’s a meet-and-greet with the band scheduled for tomorrow when the…
THE UNSANE With Holly 750 and Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire 05.23.11 | Marquis Theater With very little fanfare, The Unsane took stage and immediately played one of its best songs, “Against the Grain,” with that great doleful neck-and-body bend in the beginning that is one of…
While its members had been playing together long before Orgone (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with Liebermonster) was born, the Los Angeles funk band officially formed in 1999. Not long after its inception, the band added vocalist Fanny Franklin to augment its ornate instrumentation — the standard guitar, bass…
What a difference 30 years makes. Below: the $3.20 ticket to see U2 in Denver in 1981, side-to-side with the $58 nosebleed ticket to see U2 this past Saturday at Invesco Field. To put this in perspective, if we counted for inflation, that $3.20 ticket would be about $7.58 today,…
Once upon a time, MTV played music videos, and a whole generation was introduced to Unsane (playing the Marquis Theater tonight with Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire) through “Scrape,” the trio’s film tribute to brutal skateboard take downs. Forming in 1988 and taking a short break in…
CURREN$Y Trademark da Skydiver • Young Roddy • Smoke DZA Fiend • Corner Boy P • Monstabeatz 05.21.11 | Summit Music Hall View Curren$y at Summit Music Hall slideshow To paraphrase Katt Williams: “If you don’t mess with Jet Life because you don’t like rap, that’s cool. Go on and…
When Bandcamp launched in 2008, it didn’t take long for the free service to take off. That’s partially because of the fact it offers bands a chance to have a free, minimalist website and store with nearly no setup options, and also because it offers an easy to share audio…
This Tuesday, May 24, Bob Dylan will be turning seventy years old. To celebrate his 70th birthday, the members of Dylan66 and their friends — like they’ve done every year for the past half-dozen years — are getting together tomorrow night for a tribute show at Cervantes’ featuring Dylan66, the…
