TJUTJUNA Woodsman • Married In Berdichev • DJ Peter Black 11.19.10 | Larimer Lounge For his set, Peter Black used an iPad to control and trigger some of the sounds he was weaving into his live remixes. This set of songs had kind of a raw, percussion heavy sound and…
NOSAJ THING With Jogger • Toro Y Moi 11.20.10 | Bluebird Theater This is not a diatribe dedicated to hating on electronic music, music made via laptop, patchy synths or anything else that involves playing instrumentation off of a card table. This is simply a timeline of Saturday night’s Nosaj…
MAC LETHAL with JDirty • Input • F. Stokes 11.20.10 | Marquis Theater Mac Lethal’s “Keep It Irish Tour” descended upon the Marquis Theater last night and brought a friendly crew of poets and rappers with it. The Midwest rapper obviously harboring a serious grudge against his ex-wife made it…
Ludacris, Carmelo Anthony, his wife, Lala Vasquez, and Sway Calloway from MTV surprised 1400 students at George Washington High School on Friday afternoon for the Get Schooled national challenge and tour, aimed at engaging students and their families to help improve high school graduation rates. GW was chosen because it…
DAS RACIST With Pictureplane • Hollagramz • DJ Synergy • Kentdub • DJ Nikka T 11.19.10 • Casselman’s Bar & Venue It really seemed like the whole thing might fall apart. It was well past midnight. Travis Egedy as Pictureplane, who followed two hours worth of dubstep, started his set…
SWOLLEN MEMBERS With Saigon • City Real • Prime Element 11.10.10 | Marquis Theatre Originally scheduled to take place the Summit Music Hall, last night’s Swollen Members show was moved to the Marquis Theater. The dichotomy of confused Christian rock fans hoping to see Red and the vodka-drunk, skull-faced soldiers…
After several delays, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill has finally opened in Northfield/Stapleton. The massive 22,000-square-foot bar/restaurant, named after Keith’s hit country single “I Love This Bar,” is headed by Charly Barnett, who was general manager at the Grizzly Rose for thirteen years. The place sports an…
Last night’s Remedy Relief event, headlined by Das Racist and Pictureplane, got a little ridiculous. Das Racist didn’t even take the stage until 1:15 a.m., and the booze had been flowing freely for roughly five hours at that point. The venue shouted everyone into the street after the show because…
Alas, the agonizing wait is over: This weekend at Northfield, I Love This Bar & Grill — Toby Keith’s, well, bar and grill — is celebrating its grand opening. Near as we can tell, there’s only four of these bad boys in the world, and somehow we got one. Yay…
Attention, ladies (or, uh, gents?), if you woke up this morning and noticed that you happened to be missing a pair of purple heels, we know where they’re at — well, or at least where they were at last we checked on our way into office this morning. As you…
Finally, Tjutjuna will be giving its debut LP a proper celebratory release tonight, with a show at the Larimer Lounge. The self-titled, ten-song LP — which became available for a a listening preview in September and was physically released in October — is finally getting its own psychedelic party, with…
BRANDON FLOWERS With Fran Healy 11.18.10 | Ogden Theatre It’s almost not fair to call Fran Healy an opener. The Scottish front man of acoustic indie rock band Travis has plenty of experience headlining shows. He’s got an engaging stage presence — and the star power to pack the house…
RED BULL BIG TUNE FINALS 11.18.10 | Metro, Chicago First there were eighteen. Then there was one. Last night at the Metro in Chicago where the 2010 Red Bull Big Tune finals took place, aspiring producers from around the country competed against each other in the hopes of receiving the…
J. COLE With K. Michelle • CJ Hilton • J Blev • Pries • KDJ Above 11.17.10 • Fox Theatre, Boulder While J. Cole brought the house down at the Fox Theater in Boulder for the BET Music Matters tour, the real comedy took place long before he hit the…
Brandon Flowers has grown up quite a bit in the past eight or so years — vocally speaking. The Killers’ run across the mainstream radar was a mere three-album jaunt (the band is currently on hiatus), but in that short time, Flowers’ has gone from an overstated, showy rock singer…
RRIICCEE 11.17.10 | Larimer Lounge Vincent Gallo: Not an asshole. First of all, assholes, especially assholes who have starred in movies, do not play music at places like the Larimer Lounge. And they definitely don’t express gratitude when 38 people show up to watch them. There was a certain distance…
Pink Floyd’s The Wall has sold over 19 million copies. In scope, sound and cultural impact, it is practically without peer in the history of American music. Its primary writer, Roger Waters, hasn’t made the cleanest of breaks from his old band: There was a nasty legal battle over the…
Boulder Acoustic Society’s sixth release takes roots music places it might not have gone before. Champion opens with “Shelter,” featuring a slow, plucky banjo and mournful, old-timey harmonies; it’s pure bluegrass until the drum kit enters the mix. “Where Have the Good Ones Gone” introduces soft piano and heavy organ…
This debut full-length is a collection of fairly straightforward Americana songs — that is, if your idea of straightforward Americana songs involves running into the Devil on the roads of the high plains. “Ballad From Below” embodies the half-acoustic, half-electric sound most of these tunes use as they explore the…
Poor and in love is a deep vein for singer-songwriter types, and the Oak Creek Band does it particularly well. The opening song on the outfit’s debut EP, “1934,” is touching and sincere, beautifully sung by Arizona natives Jenna Cunningham and Daniel Watters. The two moved to Denver in July…
The Way Low Down might employ your typical bluegrass instrumentation — mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and upright bass — and borrow a few things from the old-time music of the Appalachians, but the Denver-based quartet isn’t playing your traditional bluegrass music. The outfit, which has been together nearly a year,…
The song that put Das Racist on the map was “Combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut,” which could not be simpler, and the generally accepted story is that the band made it up while performing it at a show. Yet the ensuing online analysis would have us believe that Das…
