Concerts

After releasing a short run of independently released cassettes titled Girly Sound in the early ’90s, Liz Phair quickly garnered critical acclaim for her offbeat sense of humor and knack for quirky, inventive pop songs. On the strength of those releases, Phair signed to Matador Records, which released her debut…

Whether or not you dig the heavily trance-influenced livetronica group the Disco Biscuits, you should give the Biscuits’ side project, Conspirator, a fighting chance: Instead of trance-jam-band fusion, Conspirator draws heavily from trance, downtempo and drum-and-bass, creating soundscapes that are eerier, subtler and more interesting to the trained electronica ear…

For some bands, touring is a natural state of being. This is absolutely true for Louisiana’s Cowboy Mouth, as the quartet comes through Denver tonight on it’s 16th annual “Mardi Gras tour.” Making country-twinged pop-rock since 1990, the band pulls from influences like The Clash — heard loud and clear…

Hey, what do you know? Performing at the Showcase can actually be beneficial to your career. Well, so to speak. In a roundabout way, playing at the Showcase helped the men of Boldtype land an opening slot on the upcoming Guttermouth tour. Well, it sealed the deal, anyway. We’ll let…

Ah, here we are again, a new year. You know what that means? Yep. Time to start the South by Southwest countdown. The first bands have been announced, and although there will likely be a bazillion more announced, of the groups announced so far, three local bands have received official…

Call it a hunch, but we’re going to venture a guess that the members of Churchill are falling more on the happy end of the Happy/Sad spectrum these days now that their like-named, fan-funded full-length is under wraps…

We’ll have whatever these folks are having, and make ours a double. Seriously. Having suffered through what was, without question, one of the worst Broncos seasons in our lifetime, we were simply hoping that the team would just go gently into that good night against the Chargers. Not so with…

Even if Dave Aude’s name isn’t immediately recognizable, it is impossible to have missed his work over the past two decades. The prolific DJ and producer has worked with Katy Perry, Mary J. Blige and Lady Gaga on Billboard-charting remixes this year alone, and put his precise ear to task…

After graduating high school in Boulder and obtaining a bachelor’s degree in music from UNC in Greeley, where she honed her piano and vocal skills, songwriter Shenandoah Davis moved to Seattle. That was nearly four years ago, and she’s done anything but sit still since…

Dispatch is back together, and it’s playing its first show in four years at Red Rocks. That’s a pretty big deal. Dispatch, in case the name isn’t immediately familiar, is arguably one of the most successful independent bands of all time. To wit: The band played what was then thought…

When Hideous Men had its van broken into last summer, the husband-and-wife duo was forced to re-evaluate how they made music. Along with losing equipment, they lost several new songs that were on their MacBook, which was stolen. Almost six months later, the two are still making music…

Earlier today, as we were trolling the crevices of the Internet, we came across this resolved question in Yahoo! Answers about 3OH!3’s hit song, “Starstrukk,” from Want, the act’s Photo Finish debut in 2008…

Living through the third-wave ska movement of the mid-’90s and still keeping an admirably visible profile in 2011, the Slackers are a musical anomaly. Like labelmates Hepcat and Stubborn All Stars, the Slackers’ success hinges on a penchant for the swing of blue beat while ditching the silliness made popular…

You know,” confides Sherie Cole, “it’s not the biggest part of it, but I definitely had a breast reduction because of the names I used to get called — they would call me ‘Big Titty Rie Rie.'” While music in general has always been a male-dominated field, hip-hop, in particular,…

When you hear death metal or any of its offshoots, you either appreciate its technical precision or you hate it. Ashes of Ruin (due this Saturday, January 8, at Cervantes’ Other Side) combines elements of that kind of metal with more melodic guitar leads, yet the rhythms are no less…

House heavyweight Dave Aude’s credentials read like an impressive who’s who of both pop and electronic music. He’s produced tracks for Barenaked Ladies, Korn, Britney Spears, the Pussycat Dolls, Faith No More and Madonna, and back in the ’90s, he formed Lunatic Fringe with Steve Levy, a partnership that eventually…

Since its inception in 1990, New Orleans-based Cowboy Mouth — named after Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s play about misfits musing on the foibles of the American Dream — has produced the kind of eclectic sound that defines most of the music coming out of that town. The group delivers…

Thin White Rope and Green on Red may have been some of the early artists in what became known as “alt-country,” but Uncle Tupelo took that style to much greater prominence. Along with his friend Jay Farrar, Tweedy led that band for seven years before the former left to form…

Two of the most visible figures in West Coast techno, Drumcell and Audio Injection rose to prominence during the past decade as promoters of Southern California’s infamous Interface warehouse parties. Occasionally performing together as Cell Injection, the Los Angeles-based DJ/producers champion a distinctive style of the genre that is more…

These two singles represent a further shift from even the boundary-pushing material heard on 2007’s Necrogeister. “Bicycle Tropics” sounds like a Can tune pulled apart to its basic components and reworked into an IDM pop song. “Savage Orb,” meanwhile, seemingly dispenses with all connection to conventional rock instrumentation. A chillingly…