NIPSEY HUSSLE KDJAbove • Mr. Midas • TC Crook Tytanik • Mid Wes T • Nyke Nitti • EC3 04.14.11 | Casselman’s Bar & Venue The people got down last night at Casselmans for the Nipsey Hussle show, and not only did the West Coast performer bring out damn near…
Man, what a difference seven months makes. After being completely glossed over last fall along with all of the other record stores on the Front Range, Twist & Shout got a nod this morning from Rolling Stone as one of the Best Record Stores in the U.S.A. Not sure what…
Now that the dust has settled from the first half of the week, we wanted to provide you with some good ways to get started on your weekend. If you want to go drink for cheap, we’ve got that in here. If you want to get down with some bass,…
Black hole sun, won’t you come and wash away the rain? What an absolutely perfect sentiment for a soggy day like today. Well, except for the black hole part — not even sure what that means exactly, black hole sun. Do you know? Anyhow, just got word that Soundgarden, authors…
Fort Collins-born Candy Claws (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with Gardens & Villa and Flashlights) is like a vacation unto itself. The family-style band creates soundscapes fit for traveling from the forest to the sea with ethereal layers of vocals, bells, and traditional instrumentation. Last year’s Hidden Lands was a…
On Friday, April 29 at Beta, seven DJs will get twelve minutes to rock the crowd in SkullCandy’s Throwdown A DJ Challenge Experience. Up for grabs? A thousand bucks in cold, hard cash. The DJs (Amen, Sick, Bedz, Nick Skeet, Digi, Large Child and Wushu) will be judged on their…
Every year, the Denver Botantic Gardens typically have a lively concert calender, and this year doesn’t seem to be the exception. The season kicks off this summer on Sunday, June 1, with a show from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and culminates on Sunday, August 21 with B.B. King…
Record Store Day is coming up this Saturday, and stores around town have been preparing for the epic event in a variety of ways. The exclusive release list is huge, but so far, most stores aren’t confirming or denying their inventory. The owner of Twist & Shout Records, Paul Epstein,…
Seventeen years! It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago…
There is no denying that Madeleine Peyroux (who plays the Boulder Theater tonight with Sunny War) bears an uncanny resemblance to Billie Holiday. But while the inspiration and gilded jazz vocal similarities are there, the pain is not — Peyroux brings her own whimsical style to the genre with a…
Triple-A fans, rejoice! Chautauqua just announced the lineup for its upcoming summer season, which kicks off on May 21 and runs through the end of August, and with the exception of the odd comedian and pair of indie acts, you can look forward to the type of world-class rock that…
The hip-hop scene has been buzzing with a slew of local rap releases and videos recently. The most compelling of these features Input, with some help from DJ Ear Attent and Caleb Slade, giving a thematic performance on “Gods of Misfortune,” while LKeys draws on the club element for his…
We’re not going to lie and tell you we haven’t been spending an unhealthy amount of time at the newly opened 1UP recently, because we have, and we’re not ashamed of it at all. So when we saw this flier for the mythical Magic Cyclops arcade cabinet, we couldn’t help…
Of Mice & Men (playing this evening at the Marquis Theater with I Set My Friends on Fire, Sleeping With Sirens and Woe Is Me) has had a tumultuous three-year run as a band. The group’s backstory reads like a daytime drama. Vocalist and founder Austin Carlile was kicked out…
COLD CAVE With Force Publique 04.11.11 | Larimer Lounge My companion’s flowery dress was almost comically out of place amid all the black at the Larimer last night, as local and national representatives of the darkwave revival took the stage for some synth-heavy brooding. It’d be hard to think of…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week. On the concert front: Alison Krauss is coming to Red Rocks, while Godsmack, Megadeth and Disturbed are due at Comfort Dental for the The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival and Wiz Khalifa brings his Rolling Papers World Tour to the…
Kate Lesta and Matthew Krall are crazy-busy trying to juggle their day jobs while ensuring that their labor of love, the Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts, goes off without a hitch. “It’s a challenge to continue doing something you love so much on a volunteer level,” says Krall, the festival’s…
Traveling from bar to bar on a fifteen-seat, pedal-powered vehicle with a sober driver steering sounds like a concept that could go far in Denver, a city where both the beer and bicycling scenes are in high gear. That’s what Nick Vannucci will be counting on when his Denver Pedal…
If you grew up in the Midwest during the ’80s and ’90s and you were a little different, chances are you had a brush with all that groundbreaking electronic and experimental music that came out on Wax Trax Records. Mingo — due at Art Network (878 Santa Fe Drive) on…
At first listen, Cave Singers doesn’t sound like a band that came out of the ashes of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Hint Hint or Cobra High. But considering that it features Derek Fudesco, who made a name for himself in the whiskey-swigging garage-rock band Murder City Devils before doing time…
Chamber pop is one of those rare musical forms that doesn’t seem like it should work in the indie scene. After all, it takes a small army just to get the sound right, but Dark Dark Dark is up to the challenge. The Minneapolis sextet hasn’t been shy about putting…
The main man behind the highly influential German techno act Monolake, Robert Henke is one of electronic music’s greatest innovators. Emerging from the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction label group in the mid-1990s, Monolake’s minimal, dub-inspired techno helped provide the blueprint for the Berlin sound that remains dominant today. Henke co-founded the…
