On his last album, 2009’s Animals in the Dark, William Elliott Whitmore sang about the pulse of strange eyes glowing outside his Iowa farm and how closely they connected with the “malicious politicians with nefarious schemes” making his life hell in Washington. No matter what he sings about, it’s understood…
You might not have heard of the Colombia-based Bomba Estéreo, but chances are you’ve heard of a few of its collaborators, who in recent years have included DJ Rupture, Ben Frost and Brian Eno. The group’s new album, the Ponte Bomb EP, is essentially Colombia’s answer to the freaked-out electro…
The culture wars: Conservative versus liberal, pro-life versus pro-choice, anti-gay versus pro-gay, Glenn Beck versus, uh, My Chemical Romance, apparently. As further evidence that not even the most banal pop-cultural crap escapes the bitter divide of partisan politics, the aforementioned pundit and pop-punkers are currently involved in one of the…
On his latest mixtape, 24, Julox stars as Black Bauer, an obvious throw to the Fox television show of the same name. Chronicled like a long day filled with violence, drugs, getting random pussy and throwing up middle fingers to the law, 24 finds Julox spitting lyrics with convincing realism…
As founder of the Boulder Acoustic Society, Aaron Keim clearly knows his way around acoustic music. While BAS fans will probably have an immediate affinity for Keim’s solo act, the Quiet American, they may find a lot of the folk cuts on The Quiet American Vol. II (due for release…
Admittedly, not much has changed about Boldtype’s music since the band formed in 2002. It’s still pop-punk in its purest form, borrowing heavily from influences like Millencolin and Good Riddance while not really splicing in other genres. Luckily, Boldtype has gotten very, very good at this style. The group’s latest…
You have to give credit to a band writing relatively dark music that leads off its album with a song called “Clown Car Suicide.” Amid sometimes biting, melodic guitar rhythms, string filigrees and Melati Olivia’s classically inflected vocals, the music of Choke the Word often recalls Loreena McKennitt if she…
Started by childhood friends Yuzo Nieto and Mike Neff in early 2007, Pink Hawks initially explored an nearly pure jazz-improv musical route. Those early shows incorporated performance-art elements that tried to engage multiple senses, with cohorts of the band passing out items frozen in ice cubes, or live painting, or…
Bass-centric music seems to have taken center stage in the electronic world recently as dubstep has increased in popularity and DJs who used to specialize in drum-and-bass have shifted gears. Liondub is definitely a bass specialist, but he hasn’t turned his back on jungle and reggae, the genres that helped…
Making its second stop in Colorado in the last year, Broken Water (playing tonight at Rhinoceropolis with Gem Trails and MJOLNIIRDXP) is a trio that seems born to blow minds. Based out of Olympia, Washington, the group has been playing together for a little less than three years but has…
Lil Wayne: Love him or hate him, it’s almost impossible to ignore the Young Money Mastermind. If you haven’t heard yet, Weezy F Baby is bringing his I Am Still Music tour to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 30, with the Boss Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement…
The lineup for the 8th Annual 5 Points Jazz Festival, slated to take place at various points along Welton Street on Saturday, May 21, has been announced. In addition to a discussion with Jake Adam York on jazz standards and covers at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, artists ranging…
YACHT (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater, with Light Asylum, Jeffrey Jerusalem and Bad Weather California) has existed over the last decade in many forms. Electro-mastermind Jona Bechtolt ran the show himself for several years before being joined by creative partner Claire L. Evans in 2008…
This fall, Carlos Santana and George Lopez are hitting the road together on a tour they’ve dubbed Divine Rascals. The co-headliners will each offer sets doing what he does best; the former will be playing the hell out of the guitar, while the latter gets his funny on. The Divine…
DR. DOG Paper Bird • Boulder Acoustic Society 05.07.11 | Boulder Theater View photo slideshow from last night For a band that sounds like it’s drawing from a diverse pool of influences that spans from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Mott the Hoople to Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips and…
BIG BANG MASSIVE – NIGHT 1 Denver Coliseum | 5/6/11 View our Big Bang slideshowIf Friday night’s Big Bang massive is any indication as to how much Denver loves dubstep music, then we are in for a rocky and up-hill climb toward building the reputation of being the best in…
HUNX AND HIS PUNX Lust-Cats of the Gutters • Thee Goochi Boiz • Shannon and the Clams 05.07.11 | hi-dive Almost literally straight off of a roughly sixteen-day of tour, Lust-Cats of the Gutters would have been excused for showing some of that fatigue in its set. But, instead, Alex…
Ah, what a pleasant way to end the week: How about a brand spanking new track from The Epilogues? Thank you, sir. Don’t mind if I do. Still hot to the touch, the song was just posted minutes ago, and offers an interesting side of the band that we don’t…
In the two decades since Macy Sound Studios opened, the place has seen its share of the city’s finest musicians, in addition to prominent national acts like Los Lobos. As anyone who’s been there can tell you, the place is loaded with some sweet gear…
Music Gear Guys, hailed as Denver’s largest boutique pedal dealer, is bringing Black Label Society’s bassist J.D. DeServio, who’s also toured with Lita Ford, Vinnie Moore and Pride & Glory, to the 3 Kings Tavern (60 South Broadway) to host a clinic and Hartke product demo on Thursday, May 12…
Tonight and tomorrow night at the Denver Coliseum, the Big Bang dance music massive will be going off representing pretty much every genre of electronic music. Given the size and scope of the show (four stages per night) – along with the massive investment in the lighting and sound for…
Hunx and His Punx (due at the hi-dive this Saturday, May 7, with Shannon & the Clams, Thee Goochi Boiz and Lust-Cats of the Gutters) started in the Bay Area in 2008 when Seth “Hunx” Bogart of Gravy Train!!!! decided to do something very different from the band he had…
