Concerts

FOODCHAIN Mr. Midas, Pries, Rockie, LKeys 03.25.11 | Rockstar Lounge Last night at Rockstar Lounge, there was a plethora of rappers, instruments and singers on hand for a free show being touted as “history in the making” and featuring LKeys, Pries, Rockie, Midas and the Foodchain, who all brought the…

THERAPY DJ AArta, Brett Starr, Rescue, Sami Tee and Styles Davis 03.25.11 | 2200 Brett Starr and Rescue’s new residency at 2200 (look for them on the last Friday of each month) kicked off with a bang last night; the two rooms housed a spectrum of excellent electronica, with Rescue…

Last night at the Bluebird was night one of Pure Sunshine, the aptly named Rick Kulwicki celebration and benefit. Among Kulwicki’s family, friends, fans and many admirers (with Rick, it seems, none of those terms are mutually exclusive), all of the remaining members of the Fluid were of course on…

A little more than a month ago, I attended the memorial service for a Rick Kulwicki at Fairmount Cemetary, the same place where my grandparents and my favorite aunt happen to be laid to rest. The place doesn’t really hold a lot of fond memories for me. Barely ten years…

Full Flavor Music will host an event the last Friday of each month at Appaloosa Grill, starting this week with West Coast/Detroit techno artist Monty Luke. Luke started producing techno in the early 2000s and made a name for himself by the end of the decade with the tracks “Paranoid”…

Kostas, Trajikk and Jontron provided the music for the Spring Break Beach Party on Thursday night, March 24, 2011 at Beta. Nightlife photographer Jonathan Shoup brings back these photos from the party and says: “A very energetic crowd and a progressive house soundtrack. Many ladies sported bikinis in spirit of…

Pulling a page from the Shania Twain handbook on pop country, The JaneDear Girls create glossy, hook-heavy songs with an underlying flavor of Bluegrass. As an accomplished fiddle and electric mandolin player, Susie Brown brings the the hoedown feel to guitarist Danelle Leverett’s traditional rock style, while the duo’s similar…

Tonight after the Nuggets put a beatdown on the Washington Wizards, fans are in for a treat. A crew of local hip-hoppers (The Dendrites, Jane Doed, King FOE, Whygee, 1984, Lamp! and Acezi) will be throwing down at the Pepsi Center during the “5th Quarter.” The show tonight will also…

On the heels of last fall’s thrilling battle at Beta, judged by ?uestlove and DJ Jazzy Jeff and featuring DJ magMANimous (DJ Vajra) against DJs from across the country, the Red Bull Thre3Style is making its way back to Colorado with the legendary DJ Craze in tow. If you haven’t…

Hot on the heels of SXSW and in the midst of spring break, Sara Century and Tom Murphy hit us up with the idea of sending them out on the town for a week of shows and then reporting back to us what they saw/heard, with Sara drawing all of…

You’re not going to see the Bad Brains of thirty years ago, so go ahead and just get that idea out of your head right now. The ferocious, manic energy of eccentric lead singer H.R. has been all but muted by years of drug use and seeming mental instability. But…

Sammy. Sammy. Sammy. It must be difficult for a rock star in a rad band like Van Halen to be constantly competing with his predecessor, but this who’s-better nonsense has gone on too long and now… too far. Sammy Hagar has just released his autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in…

Pink Floyd is a band that is often imitated. The San Diego sextet known as The Pink Floyd Experience, led by vocalist and guitarist Tom Quinn, takes its version of the seminal band to the next level, as it regurgitates the Floyd catalog with expert precision, while the accompanying video…

The White House has publically stated it’s going to start cracking down on piracy and enforcing IP law, but other than some crackdowns last year, we haven’t seen much in the way of a cohesive strategy. Well, until Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel delivered this twenty page document of…

Before they formed the Purple Fluid, Richard and Roman Kulwicki had rock and roll in their blood. Their father, of course, is the late, great Ricky Kulwicki, of Denver’s greatest rock-and-roll band, the Fluid. The two brothers hooked up with Orie Bender, Henry Solomon and Danny L’Episcopo and formed a…

Just received some pretty major news on the concert promotions front: Peter Ore (pictured right), former Vice President of Booking for Live Nation, has joined the Soda Jerk Presents family. “Working with Peter is going to be a huge step as we continue to grow the company,” says Soda Jerk…

There’s no denying that electronic music is particularly glitch- and dub-heavy these days — and, in an announcement that will no doubt thrill fans of that sound, SubSynthesis and GlitchDrop have released a new compilation album, Bass From Above – Vol. 1…

Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what we are allowed to desire and aspire…

Metal has gone in some diverse directions in the past few decades, and Knoxville’s Whitechapel grows from the harsh and speedy thread of deathcore. The band pulls from an artillery of three guitarists to underlay vocalist Ben Savage’s deep and throaty screams, which come in several tonal layers on Whitechapel’s…