Concerts

LEFTOVER SALMON With Great American Taxi 10.31.10 | Fillmore Auditorium Read interview with Vince Herman Boulder’s Leftover Salmon doesn’t play together very often these days — but when they do, Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt, Greg Garrison, Bill McKay and Jeff Sipe are guaranteed to deliver a good time. The guys…

THE GLITCH MOB With Beats Antique & Prefuse 73 10.31.10 | Fillmore Auditorium LA’s Glitch Mob comprises three members — DJs edIT, Boreta and Ooah (founding member Kraddy left last year) — who use laptops and MIDI controllers to create the hip-hop influenced, bass-driven electro that keeps bodies movin’ on…

THE COOL KIDS With Air Dubai • DJ Wushu • Shor-T • CobraConda 10.30.10 | Bar Standard On Saturday night, Bar Standard hosted a parade of ghouls, Gagas, rock stars and Cool Kids — er, make that The Cool Kids. The doors opened at Bar Standard just as the line…

WEEN 10.31.10 | 1STBANK Center The scene captured the sheer surrealism of Ween’s Halloween show at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield: Toward the end of the band’s three-hour performance, Mickey Melchiondo — aka Dean Ween — belted out “The Blarney Stone” with gusto, his vocals unencumbered by the massive bunny…

TRANSCONTINENTAL/INTER-DIMENSIONAL HAUNTEDEST HOUSE With Page 27 • No Funeral • Solypsis • Syndrome of a Down Hardcore Teenage Vampire Pussy 10.30.10 | Rhinoceropolis “Are they playing in there?” commented some random person next to me at Rhinoceropolis last night. Yes, they’re playing. Someone is anyone. “Who” is anyone’s guess. But…

Yonnas Abraham of The Pirate Signal has been busy revamping the look and feel of his group, adding a new DJ and guitarist, along with a ton of new material. A new album titled, You’re Always Leaving Me, is in the works and due out sometime after the first of…

Even though Travis Egedy (aka Pictureplane), the dude behind the heady party Real is a Feeling is currently on tour with Sleigh Bells (who came through last Saturday), the show — or dance party, rather — must go on. So, as a “pre-pre” event to the Halloween weekend, resident DJs…

FUTURE SIMPLE PROJECT With Shiba, Marcus Whaley, Omega 10.28.10 | The Other Side Typically, Thursday night shows tend to be hit-or-miss. Sometimes you get so-so acts that are not quite ready to headline on the weekend, and sometimes you get lucky and catch a show like the one last night…

GARY NUMAN With Blackcell 10.28.10 | Gothic Theatre, Denver, CO Local IDM/experimental electronic duo Blackcell kicked off this show with synths and maybe drum machines and computers as sequencers. As deeply textured percussion filled the room, various other generated noises created a techno-organic melody occasionally punctuated by mechanistic vocals. Visually,…

GODSMACK With Five Finger Death Punch • Drowning Pool 10.27.10 | 1STBANK Center Last night at 1STBANK Center, we sent Eric Gruneisen, one our resident shutterbugs into the belly of the beast, a stacked triple-bill headlined by Godsmack, featuring Drowning Pool and Five Finger Death Punch, lead by Denver native…

GOGOL BORDELLO Forro in the Dark 10.27.10 | Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO In some regards, a Gogol Bordello show is kind of like sex: It’s a sweaty and exhausting experience, one that you can’t really fully comprehend until you’re balls-deep in it. Sure, you can sneak peeks at your dad’s…

Gary Numan may best be remembered by the masses for “Cars,” — a song that was once swept into those inaccurate time capsules known as generic “Greatest Hits of The ’80s” compilations that used to be sold on television. But the truth is, the song came from an entire album…

Hollywood has been fascinated with the idea of punk rockers since the word was originally coined in the ’70s. It’s a rare case that they get it right, and it’s even more amazing that nobody has devoted any significant time looking at the ways Hollywood has destroyed, showcased, revered and…

Looking for WMAs of Third Eye Blind? You’re going to have to look elsewhere. Effective immediately, LimeWire, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing service, has gone the way of pagers, pay phones and the Walkman. In 2006, the music industry filed a suit against the service for a “massive scale of infringement”…

Houses primary songwriter Andy Hamilton has a lot more where that came from. And he’s feeling generous. Yesterday he announced plans to start giving away music. “Well, I’ve got a hundred songs doing nothing but taking up space on my external hard drive,” he tells us. “They aren’t doing me…

MUMFORD & SONS King Charles • Cadillac Sky 10.27.10 | Ogden Theatre What happens when a band plays a concert at a venue that’s smaller than what it theoretically could sell out? Well, for starters, you can scalp your $20 ticket for 75 bucks, no questions asked. And for another,…

Alejandro Ocana, who performs as 2MEX, also performs in the politically conscious hip-hop group the Visionaries and the similarly minded Look Daggers, with Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta. In all of his projects, solo and otherwise, Ocana’s beats bring a heightened sense of atmosphere to the songs that, on…

The modern bluegrass revival might not have happened if not for Hot Rize, the members of whom met each other through the Denver Folklore Center in the mid-’70s. Kindred spirits in their appreciation for the folk music they were exposed to as kids, the members of Hot Rize made bluegrass…

It was perhaps a more altruistic time, or maybe one that just relied on telvision more. The era of after-school specials, from 1972 to 1997, was a time when these shows caused so many awkward moments at the dinner-table, but admittedly were also the teacher of life lessons mom and/or…

Halloween weekend is just a few days away, and Denver is overflowing with ghostly activities. We know it’s a daunting to keep track of all the events, so we’ve compiled a handy list of two-dozen ways for you to get your Halloween on. Whether you’re interested in dance parties, rock…