Although Lyrics Born has already amassed a resumé that any MC would envy — founding member of Quannum Projects; collaborator with Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, KRS-One and many others, just to name a handful of credentials — he believes the best is yet to come. “I see…
The Deadbeat Club has been revived. But this new Deadbeat Club is not the iconic venue that Regas Christou ran at 4040 East Evans Avenue in the ’90s. After he gave up the venue in the early 2000s, it went through several owners and incarnations. When Steve Lyons and his…
Trees pushes a lot of air when it gets on stage with its bank of nearly wall-to-wall amps issuing forth colossal, crushing, menacing, loping sounds that recall Neurosis circa The Eye of Every Storm without that band’s essential weirdness, or Wolves in the Throne Room minus the more ridiculous black-metal…
Early on in jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson’s career, he listened to a lot of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. While Terrasson says he doesn’t listen to the three pianists as much as he did two decades ago, when he was starting out, he’s taken what they’ve given him…
San Diego’s Crocodiles aren’t from New Zealand, but they seem to share an aesthetic kinship with a number of the classic Flying Nun bands of the ’80s and ’90s like Straightjacket Fits and the Clean. But the members of Crocodiles have also clearly absorbed their share of sunny psychedelia by…
The product of an unholy coupling of technical death metal and guttural grindcore, Engage the Mechanicality — the second and latest release by Kansas’s Diskreet — is less concerned with genre purity and more obsessed with snapping necks. That said, there’s a sinister cerebration to the group’s necro-centric onslaught. Steeped…
Guitarist George Lynch auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne before hooking up with Don Dokken to form Dokken in 1980. Throughout that decade, the band’s output was lumped in with the kind of hook-laden hard rock that some derisively called “hair metal.” However you viewed that musical milieu or the songs of…
With Son of the Crack Era, Mr. Midas, with his gravelly flow and bouncy cadence, has created an album from the perspective of a hustler that would make Jay-Z proud. The second track, “Talking Bout Me,” immediately draws on the paranoia and insatiable appetite for survival found in Jay’s “Can…
Much as Brian Eno’s Apollo was the breathtaking soundtrack to the visual grandeur of the film For All Mankind, Decay may have been conceived as music for the current state of American society and its power and influence in the world. “Mayflies (for strings and pedals)” is an eerie mesh…
BLKHRTS’ six-song debut is impressive upon first listen and continually rewarding and compelling upon additional spins. While all of the MCs involved (Yonnas Abraham of The Pirate Signal, FOE, Karma, Catch Lungs, Haven) are in dependably top form here as they trade verses with one another and add shading with…
The name of this recording (and of the band) perfectly fits the music found on it. Frontman Al Trout, whose deep baritone at times recalls a murky Lee Hazlewood, sings about ghosts, vampires, devils and outlaws. The EP’s dusty tunes are steeped in sinister Americana. “Lonesome River” and “Inky Wine”…
Spoke in Wordz, a master of wordplay, has returned with a new compilation and collaborative album, Power of Wordz. Essentially, the record is a gathering of his favorite MCs and a showcase of their individual talents — a collection of dope verses from veterans and more than one new kid…
For the past few years, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk has traversed the country on multiple tours, often from its base of operations at a house called The Bandit Teeth in Lawrence, Kansas. Without making a conscious effort to do so, Baby Birds helped to build a loosely defined regional…
Up-and-coming San-Francisco-based artist Ana Sia describes her sound as “lots of low-end love featuring deep, grimy dubstep, big and beautiful wonky whomp, and glitch-infused global-slut psy-hop.” If you caught her at the Global Dance Festival in ’09, then you know this translates into ass-shaking grooves designed to get as many…
Yesterday, while Lil Wayne was presumably not diligently monitoring his Twitter account, it was compromised by an unknown Tweeter. Surely the Internet break-in sucked for Weezy once he was alerted, but the bigger problem lay in followers’ laps: The faux LilTunechi was a blathering idiot, subjecting us to 140-character spurts…
WOVENHAND With Git Some 01.15.11 | Marquis Theater On the cusp of its tour with Wovenhand, Git Some seemed in high form to win over at least a few people in the audience on Saturday night at the Marquis Theater. Less chaotic than earlier incarnations of the band, one thing…
Nielsen just dropped some stats about music consumer behavior that will probably make record labels a bit more nervous. The study uses a bunch of futuristic sounding terms like “hyper-fragmentation” and “digital natives,” but when it boils down to it, reveals what we already know: People are consuming media in…
The largest musical collective in Fort Collins will be coming to Denver for a trio of shows in February. Act So Big Forest becomes the second group to curate a residency series at the Meadowlark after Hot Congress did it in November…
Tonight, stalwart local DJ Nutmeg presents “Off the Wagon” at Funky Buddha. Nutmeg and guest DJs encourage you to fall off the wagon and “ditch those pesky New Year’s resolutions for a night of rug cutting techno.” Sounds like our kind of party. (No cover, 21+)…
Trish Keenan, singer for British band Broadcast, died from complications of pneumonia this morning. She was 42. Forming in 1995, the group produced a handful of singles and full-lengths over the years, but had remained fairly dormant until Keenan and bandmate James Cargill brought Broadcast out as just a duo…
This summer, Lipgloss will be celebrating its tenth birthday, and for a dance night, that’s some pretty serious commitment. Michael Trundle, a founding member of the Denver3 — the dudes who started the now-Friday-night institution back in 2001 — knows what it takes to keep the masses rolling back to…
Wovenhand (due at The Marquis Theater tomorrow night with Git Some) is the current musical project of David Eugene Edwards. In his early bands, Bloodflower and The Denver Gentlemen, Edwards was developing an aesthetic that some consider synonymous with all the significant music to have come out of Denver…
