Tonight: Lisa Shaw at Jet Hotel

Lisa Shaw’s smooth, sultry voice is utterly unmistakable. Arguably the most noteworthy singer in contemporary house music, the modern-day diva has worked extensively with the one-and-only Miguel Migs on numerous tracks for Naked Music and Migs’ newer label, Salted. Shaw’s ubiquitous vocals are practically synonymous with deep, soulful house. Fans…

Tonight: Jeff Austin & Friends

Jeff Austin is an integral part of the worldwide jam and contemporary bluegrass community — the staple mandolin player is a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band, and over the years, he has played with the likes of Keller Williams and members of String Cheese Incident and North Mississippi…

Hindershot

It’s Only Blood, the debut release from six familiar faces led by Stuart Confer, is about apathy. All four songs address not feeling when you should, and let’s just say the perspective isn’t exactly hindsight. The title track starts the seven-inch out quietly, building to a pop about halfway through…

Innerstate Ike’s Moolah Water flows

In the independent hustle of hip-hop, the mantra is: Get in where you fit in. It’s all about expansion, new business ventures and more compelling promotion of the music. Under this guise — and similar to the quarter-water-turned-multi-million-dollar-business-venture of 50 Cent — Innerstate Ike is launching his own brand of…

Rhapsody, Spotify headed for showdown

Music streaming services look more and more like they’ll eventually do to MP3s what MP3s did to CDs, and what CDs did to tapes, and so on. We’re still a long way from a paradigm shift, but as the popular European streaming service Spotify makes headway in its mission to…

Stingray Lounge set to open next week in former Boston Fish Shack

Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…

Tuaca hosts “Drinks & Inks” competition tonight at 3 Kings Tavern

Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…

Bar and Club roll call for January/February

The next incarnation of Brewski’s Pub & Grill opened at 2100 East 104th Avenue in Northglenn. Chuck Persichetti — who ran the old Brewski’s at Highway 36 and Pecos Street for a decade, as well as several other spots during his 45-year run in the bar business — opened the…

Remix Jackson 5 in your pants

Look, we’ll be the first to admit iOS is a treasure-trove of useless crap, but every once and while one of those pieces of useless crap steps outside the boundary and does something remarkably cool. Case in point, this Jackson 5 remix app called Musicshake that lets you completely reconfigure…

Josh Radin at the Boulder Theater, 2/28/11

JOSH RADINWith Laura Jansen and Cary BrothersBoulder Theater | February 28, 2011 “The Radin audience is an audience that loves music,” said Laura Jansen in the middle of her opening set. And, I would add, chick flicks, even if, like me, they’d vehemently deny that under oath. But only the…

Mile High Music Festival not happening

In case you’ve noticed that the Mile High Music Festival hasn’t announced its lineup yet for this year and you’ve wondered why — first of all, congratulations on being astute, but secondly, the lineup hasn’t been revealed because, well, there is no lineup this year. There is no festival. After…

Catch Lungs is a breath of fresh air for Denver

When I lived there, I saw a dead person after he was shot,” recalls Catch Lungs of living in Phoenix as a kid. “There was blood dripping all over. I was a kid, and seeing a dead body like that up close was crazy. It was a weird perception to…

3014 is a bar that doesn’t need a DJ — it has a jukebox

“We’ve got a jukebox here, and we’re just kind of keeping it more of a neighborhood bar,” says David Senger, the owner of 3014, which last year took over the space at 3014 East Colfax Avenue previously occupied by Senger’s on the Fax. He recently laid off the guys who’d…