While they’re pretty funny for a few weeks every year, there’s very little about an ugly Christmas sweater that’s going to make you seem “cool” to the opposite sex. But God love ’em, a few people donned sweaters last night at Suite 200, perhaps as some strategic holiday peacocking. Jonathan…
What’s the best way to promote a show with a headlining band called Battleship Agenda? Well, you get a big ass battleship and you show it off. Bonus points go to whoever booked this show and made sure to tag Nautical Mile to play as well; it’s a sea-faring trip…
Okay, so not a million, but the Swayback frontman is putting down his bass and picking up the acoustic guitar for the first time in a long time, going solo tonight at the Surfside 7 in Fort Collins and December 23 at 3 Kings Tavern. At the request — or…
December 2010 is not likely to be a month Brad Roulier is going to forget anytime soon. As you might recall, the month started off with Roulier and his nightclub being among those named in lawsuit filed by night club rival Regas Christou in U.S. District Court, and it’s ending…
After hitting South Africa and Australia in December and January, legendary hip-hop act Public Enemy makes its way to the Ogden Theatre for a co-headlining bill with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe on Saturday, February 19. Jurrasic 5’s Chali 2na opens the show. Tickets ($25) for the 16 and over show…
When Meagan Patrick, a former friendly face behind the counter at Pablo’s Coffee on 6th and Washington, got sick, the community within the neighborhood hangout wanted to help. Tomorrow, December 22, longtime Pablo’s employee Jason Cain and longtime Pablo’s customer Sarah Slater are hosting a benefit to help uninsured Patrick…
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sealed his fate as the first rock-and-roller who got too old and joined the Man. The White House meeting between the King and Richard Nixon was the former’s idea — he’d written a six-page letter proposing the visit and asking to be made a…
Whatever your measure of success — whether you define it as adventurous artists making boundary-pushing music and then releasing it themselves, or as acts with commercially attractive songs that get a more mainstream push — you have to agree: A music scene is only as interesting as the music being…
Since it first opened as a movie house eight decades ago, the Roxy Theater (2549 Welton Street) has gone through many incarnations, most recently as a dance club. The building is one of many properties in Five Points acquired by Charles Cousins, who passed away in May 2009. Some of…
It’s a long way from Dallas, Texas, to the United Kingdom, but Gina Star has made the transition with both glamour and aplomb. The DJ/producer has seen several sides of the music business — at one point, she was the director of A&R at Thrive Records, putting her ear for…
The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 years old. Beefheart is survived by his wife of forty years, Jan Van Vliet — and…
LOW With Charlie Parr 12.18.10 | Larimer Lounge Fellow Minnesotan Charlie Parr opened the show and brought a classic blues and folk sensibility to his performance. It was a pretty minimalistic, stripped down set-up but if you paid attention to what Parr was doing on guitar, it was intricate, but…
BUZZOV•EN With Kingdom of Magic • Il Cattivo 12.19.10 | Larimer Lounge We’ll get to that confederate wristband in a bit because Buzzov•en’s Southern hillbilly persona did not define this show at all. Might as well start with first opener Il Cattivo because that set was the most fun of…
BAD LUCK CITY Kal Cahoone & the Dirty Pretty • Death Rides West 12.17.10 | Walnut Room Bad Luck City, Kal Cahoone and Death Rides West each have an affinity for varying degrees of darkness, which is evident both in all three act’s lyrics and music. So it made for…
MARK FARINA With Octopus Nebula • Falty DL • S.P.E.C.T.R.E. 12.16.10 | Gothic Theatre View Mark Farina at the Gothic slideshow Last night’s show at the Gothic Theatre signified Mark Farina’s third trip to the metro area in 2010, and the first weekend-night set of all three shows. Farina did…
CHAD PRICE With Lenny Lashley • Pete Stein 12.17.10 | 3 Kings Tavern Former punks and present cowpunks splayed open their hearts in the tradition of the great singer-songwriters last night at 3 Kings Tavern. Lenny Lashley, former Darkbuster frontman and current frontman of Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys,…
Juggalos celebrate just like the rest of us, only Insane Clown Posse Santa Clauses wield meat cleavers, just because, really. Backbeat received this holiday greeting from the folks at Pscyhopathic Records and we’re sharing it with you. This card could be a collector’s item one day. If you would like…
Peter Black never quits, thankfully. The DJ, producer, party promotor and all-around busy bee is working hard this winter through his creative house, Analog Space — which announced a partnership with Speaker Snacks, that will come to fruition in 2011. But before heading into the new year, Black has a…
It’s Friday and your mind may already be thinking about what to do tonight. To get you in the mood for unworking, you may dig this slideshow — 100 best nightlife photos of 2010 — don’t worry, it’s safe for work. Below are a few highlights…
Tonight, Re:Creation at the Gothic Theatre features San Francisco house DJ Mark Farina performing a Mushroom Jazz set, in the style of his vaunted downtempo mix series for Om Records, currently on its sixth permutation. A longtime Colorado favorite, both Farina and the series remain popular among connoisseurs of chilled-out,…
Aww yeah! Artopia 2011 is shaping up to be the party of spring. As if the bill weren’t already dope enough with Hood Internet and Signal Path, we’ve just confirmed another choice act. Fresh off a tour with Glitch Mob and Beats Antique, Prefuse 73 will be in the building…
SKRILLEX With Pillowfight 12.16.10 | Boulder Theatre Last night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Skrillex showed his fans exactly what creatures can lurk in the hard, dark reaches of dance music and broke the rules for a live DJ gig in surprisingly delightful ways…
