Concerts

RODRIGO y GABRIELA Xavier Rudd 08.20.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO On the drive up to Red Rocks my brother and I alternated discussing how you could describe Rodrigo y Gabriela’s music to a neophyte and speculating what the crowd would look like. When we rolled up around 7:45,…

Montreal electro duo Chromeo played to a sold-out audience on Friday night at the Ogden Theatre, performing songs from its three-album catalog. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos: Chromeo slideshow. And read our interview with P-Thugg about Chromeo’s upcoming, fourth album, Business Casual…

SFTSTPS • Pollination Population Hideous Men • No Funeral • Married in Berdichev 08.20.10 | Rhinoceropolis, Denver For this show, Kate Ersing, who performs under the name Pollination Population, draped a string of tiny red lights along the edges of her performance area, around the myriad tape machines and other…

All right, so this doesn’t happen every day: We just received word that local songstress Wendy Woo is going to be getting hitched next Saturday to Charles Snynder, whom she met a decade ago and reconnected with last year. The way we understand it, Snyder initially hired her to perform…

What a difference a year makes — well, give or take a few months. While it hasn’t quite been a year yet, when it launched its online tour last winter, Candy Claws was still something of an unknown quantity outside of Denver and its home of Fort Collins. And now,…

Have you seen the cover of the latest Rolling Stone, the one with the True Blood cast members splattered with blood Jackson Pollack style in their birthday suits? It’s attracting quite a bit of attention — and why not? It’s sexy, bloody and, well, it’s sexy and bloody. But it’s…

SCREECHING WEASEL L.A.M.F’s • King Rat 08.18.10 | Gothic Theatre You can’t accuse Screeching Weasel of breaking any new ground, musically speaking. But talk about the soundtrack to my young life growing up. Considering how I wore out cassette tapes of the band’s songs solidly throughout the early to mid-’90s…

Roughly one year ago, Dan Craig started working on his fourth full-length, Alchemy. He had just married fellow songwriter Jessica Sonner and was a year and a half into a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from medical school. “I kept pushing myself to these big crossroads,” he says, “these sort of shaping moments.”…

Getting a liquor license in Montana can run into six figures. That’s one of the reasons that Mike Hayter and his business partner, Mike Refling, left Bozeman and moved to Denver to open their new sports bar, Hayter’s, in the former Lizard’s Bar & Grill space, at 1920 Blake Street…

It seems inevitable that these guys are going to be compared to Animal Collective more often than is warranted. But really, the sound and overall aesthetic of Gauntlet Hair is far closer to that of Deerhunter. We’ve heard plenty of bands recently whose ghostly vocals sit indistinguishably in the mix…

San Francisco’s Ty Segall is garage rock in the same sense that Thee Oh Sees and the Coachwhips are — meaning that its show is as disorienting for its weirdness and intensity as the music is. Woven into the stripped-down, ebulliently delivered rock and roll are warped sounds, straightahead noise,…

The Chicago-bred outfit Fruit Bats has been making records for ten years now, most of them for Sub Pop. And yet Eric D. Johnson, who forms the core of Fruit Bats, has evaded the radar of much of the indie-rock world, mostly for being a consummate, unflashy songwriter adrift in…

Atlanta, Georgia, is a locus of some of the most interesting music coming out of the United States at the moment. It’s known for its flourishing hip-hop as well as its experimental rock, so it’s no surprise that an act like Listener would emerge from the place. Dan Smith and…

Rakim Allah (born William Michael Griffin Jr.) is the father of lyrical finesse and the king of emceeing. His emergence onto the hip-hop scene in 1987 arguably changed the theatrics in rhyme scheme, impacting the future flow of cats like Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Wu-Tang’s Raek-won and a host of others…

Chris Fogal has a message for fellow musicians. On the song “Delusional,” Fogal tells his starry-eyed peers: “You will never know fame/You will never get signed.” Considering Fogal’s previous close calls with success, it would behoove up-and-comers to pay attention. The Gamits’ last record, 2004’s Antidote, was a highly touted…

The Broomfield-based post-hardcore quintet Honor the Fallen trekked to Phoenix to record its new, self-titled EP with producer Cory Spotts, who’s worked with Fearless Records acts like the Maine and Blessthefall. It’s clear that Honor would be more than happy to follow the same career path as those two bands…

This latest offering from Lucio Duran, formerly of long-running experimental electronic outfit Blackcell, immediately recalls late-era Future Sound of London with its electro-organic sound. “The Machinist” is, roughly, a 140 bpm equivalent of jogging through darkened and deserted city streets with only sparking electrical wires lighting your way. “Infused With…

For a band that met in an evangelical church, Candy Claws sure is Eastern in its approach. For one thing, all the lyrics on this album were constructed by sending phrases from Richard M. Ketchum’s The Secret Life of the Forest through a website that translates things into Japanese and…