EOTO and more at City Hall, 12/31/10

EOTO • HEYOKA • DIESELBOY With Project Aspect • NitGrit • Ishe • SPECTRE J.Wail and Chuck Morris of Lotus • Fresh2Death • Freddy Todd • Jantsen NastyNasty • Liquid Stranger • RumbleJunkie • Larva Ink City Hall Amphitheatre | 12.31.10 City Hall Amphitheatre recently renovated their outdoor stage by…

A New Year Underground at Theory + Practice

A NEW YEAR UNDERGROUND With Hence * Eli D * BeeKay * Travis Press * Uriah West * Brick Lee 12.31.10 | Theory + Practice The only sign that the Theory + Practice gallery, 738 Santa Fe Drive, was hosting an epic New Year’s Eve party was the pounding bass…

Here’s to the lasting kiss of Smooch Records

After over a decade of Colorado-centric album releases, Smooch Records has called it quits. The California-based label released music from over a dozen Mile High City bands with a dark country twinge, putting out music by the likes of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand…

Photos: STS9 at the Fillmore, 12/30/10

Sound Tribe Sector 9 opened up the first of a three-night residency at the Fillmore Auditorium last night, selling out the venue. If you don’t get tickets for tonight’s show, you can’t blame us! (New Year’s Eve is sold-out.) Photographer Aaron Thackeray was at the Fillmore last night and brings…

Kevin Kain is very much alive and well!

Y’all can cancel the Amber Alert. Kevin Kain is alive and well. Very much so. Last night, the local Twitterverse was buzzing with word that promoter Kevin Kain had allegedly been killed in a car accident at the Southlands Mall. Turns out the erroneous rumor was just that. Talk about…

KDJ Above joins KS-107.5 roster of mixers

KDJ Above, a resident in the club rocking scene, is joining the KS-1075 team in a move that has set Denver’s hip-hop world ablaze. This past year, KDJ has been a regular at Gallery 22, as well as the prominent DJ causing a ruckus at Club Sutra’s wild weekly Friday…

The Flaming Lips at Belly Up Aspen, 12/27/10

THE FLAMING LIPS With Vitamins 12.27.10 | Belly Up Aspen A few weeks ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne stopped by the Belly Up to scope out the 450-seat venue. “I wanted to see how much of a Flaming Lips show [we can do] in this small spot here,” Coyne…

Our 55 favorite musical releases of 2010

At the end of each year, after everyone’s weighed in on their favorite releases, the overall critical consensus is always interesting. Invariably, a number of titles consistently crop up on countless lists (ahem, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). But while you’ll find many of those acclaimed albums represented in our…

Moovers & Shakers 2010: More of our picks

As we compiled our annual Moovers and Shakers issue this year — a rundown of our favorite local releases from the past year — we found, once again, that there were simply more albums that we dug than we had space to devote to in the paper. Thankfully, no such…

Nü Metal quilt will keep you warm with ’90s nostalgia

Memorable Christmas gifts are made with love, and in the case of this gent, his Christmas gift is infused with a rap-metal logos of the ’90s and early 2000s. Many of the classic T-shirts are there: the Korn Adidas rip-off and 40 ounces, the Coal Chamber ice cream truck, the…