Although it’s a balmy 49 degrees here in the Mile High City right now, apparently it’s not quite as mild on the East Coast. In fact, it’s crummy enough out there to keep the legendary Rev Run grounded, which means his highly anticipated (by us, anyhow) appearance this afternoon at…
The week just got a little sadder: American country and folk icon Charlie Louvin lost his long battle with pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of 83. Louvin’s death marks the passage of a living piece of American music history…
Sitting at the top of the remix game, Jon Pegnato and Daniel LeDisko of LA Riots are definitely the crowned kings. Signed to A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold imprint and endorsed by forefathers MSTRKRFT, the DJ and production duo stretch and mold club bangers by taking the pop out of Ciara and…
As the backing band for Bob Marley during the years that the great man wrote the music that catapulted him to international fame, the Wailers may not have been direct contributors to the reggae giant’s vision of a better world, but they certainly created the sound that made that vision…
Live Nation, an entertainment company with a net worth north of $4 billion, held a contract with Steve Schalk, who owns the Gothic Theatre and Moe’s Original BBQ in Englewood. That contract expired last year on March 1, and Schalk elected not to renew. The venue has been independently booking…
Graffiti Black and his team — Big Mike Smooth and the rest of the crew from the now-defunct Livewire program Your Favorite Show — have decided to change the way local music is heard in Denver and maintain a progressive listening audience by offering a platform for local artists to…
Airwaves, the official name of Nicole Schneit and her rotating cast of musicians, began in Brooklyn in 2007 as a full-band extension of Schneit’s singer-songwriter beginnings. The minimalist folk-punker’s sound didn’t change much with the additional instrumentation, as Air Waves still captures her beautifully androgynous voice and searingly personal lyrics…
Flier design doesn’t have many proven rules, but there is one that is nearly irrefutable: cartoon demon babes are always a good idea. Toss in some fire effects, and it’s next to impossible to resist the urge to stare longingly at our pick this week, which combines some simple lines…
Switchfoot Civic Center Park | 1.25.11 Last night, under the orange sky that blanketed the city, Switchfoot squeezed a quick set in at the Big Air event in Civic Center Park. No opener. No warm-up. Just four guys coming out from San Diego to entertain a frozen mass of skiers,…
Caleb Slade could have chosen an easier field to go into than music. Name sound familiar? What about the face? Even if neither registers, you might recognize the voice, which sounds suspiciously similar to one that sold millions of records around here. That’s because Caleb Slade is the younger brother…
Sudhir Kudva and two business partners have taken over the Orange Cat Studios underground-arts space at 2625 Larimer Street, and hope to reopen it as the very aboveground The Matchbox by the end of February. Kudva, who also owns the Squire Lounge, says the spot — which suffered a fire…
It’s been three years since Red Cloud last graced Denver stages with its inspired mélange of dusky country, sad-bastard rock and vitally unfiltered emotional displays from frontman Ross Etherton. This latest project, Ross Etherton & the Chariots of Judah — due at the Dikeou Collection (1615 California Street) on Friday,…
Leave it to the guy who sang on the Black Flag Nervous Breakdown EP to come up with a name like Circle Jerks. These guys take swipes at authority like any punks would, but they’ve done so with a humorous zeal in songs like “World Up My Ass” and “When…
With all the pomp and drama that never seem to fade from fellow ’90s alt-country survivors like Ryan Adams and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Rhett Miller of Dallas’s Old 97’s tends to get overlooked. Really, though, that’s how it should be. While Miller’s band has never been short on fans, the…
Raekwon, a Brooklyn native and one-ninth of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan, is a gritty-voiced lyricist who sheds light with his distinctive descriptions of ghetto life. Quickly carving out his lane among the rest of the clan as the resident wordsmith and slang ambassador, Raekwon solidified his underground constituency with his…
On its debut, Fingers of the Sun delivers songs that are sunny and upbeat without ever seeming superficial or trite. Lyrically, there is an uncommon level of sensitive observation and deep reflection that’s easy to miss when you’re caught up in the beauty of the album’s three-and-four-part harmonies — not…
Considering all the Denver musicians who have moved to New York lately, it’s refreshing to see someone do the reverse. New Yorker Dustin Edge relocated to Boulder a few months ago, and the songwriter is already releasing a new EP. Unlike Edge’s previous releases — the post-punk-leaning A Forest Through…
Repeated listens to Osiris King’s new album, Hostile Takeover, reveal that the production ultimately outshines the rapping. It’s not that Osiris can’t rap: He does just fine with what he’s got, and both his cadence and his delivery are technically proficient. It’s more that his rhymes seem flat, and the…
To some, Tennis’s whirlwind story sometimes seems just a bit too quaint and fantastical to be true: Boy meets girl, they fall in love, save money, take a sailing trip along the Atlantic Seaboard, hear “Baby It’s You” in a Floridian bar, store the sound and try to re-create it…
Katie Gold and Becky Christian were introduced by a mutual friend and didn’t know much about each other until a few months after they started working together. Their creative chemistry, though, was immediately evident. With a shared background in literature, Gold and Christian wrote songs without making reference to anything…
A founding member of the Glitch Mob, producer/DJ Kraddy is no stranger to the electronic-music scene. He’s the mind behind “Android Porn,” a track sometimes cited as the glitch-hop anthem, and although he began his career with breakbeats back in 2003, Kraddy’s been mixing it up ever since, blending heavy…
Old school metal fans across the country are no doubt peeing themselves right now over The Big 4 (we certainly are). In case you happened to miss the big announcement on Facebook earlier today, four of the metal’s venerable titans are going to be together on the same stage for…
