Concerts

#COHipHop Unity Concert 2 08.05.10 | Quixote’s True Blue A strong hip-hop vibe permeated the air at Quioxte’s last night — fitting, since we were all there for the #COHipHop Unity Concert 2. Before everything got going in earnest, a cluster of performers and beat battle contestants chopped it up…

They were always the band I thought should have been really big,” declares Dale Crover of the Warlock Pinchers. “Certainly they were doing metal mixed with rap before it became popular, and they were also a lot better than a lot of those later bands. More like if rap was…

In April, Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst after six years and moving the concept to Playa del Carmen. Over the next week, he remodeled the space at 1512 Larimer Street, reopening it as Dive on Fifteenth. But now Dive has taken a dive, and the spot turned…

Spilling Over Every Side — that’s the name of Pretty Lights’ latest release, and what a perfectly fitting title. Derek Vincent Smith simply doesn’t stop. When we checked in with the Pretty Lights mastermind this past spring, he had just released his new EP, Making Up a Changing Mind, had…

Like a thermometer crammed up the rectum of punk rock, the Warped Tour has been taking the temperature of teenage rebellion for fifteen years now. This year’s prognosis: typically cold-blooded. As usual, though, the day-long festival has a couple of hot spots on its gazillion-band bill, and one of them…

Too mathy and precise for a lot of hardcore fans and too weird and noisy for a lot of metalheads, the Dillinger Escape Plan has nonetheless carved a niche for itself in both realms. Starting in Morris Plains, New Jersey, the Plan quickly made a name for itself with frenetically…

Way back in 2006, patchy duo Crystal Castles began a rise to high-art infamy based mostly on the negative hype of its supposed 8-bit plagiarism. Along with getting slammed for stealing artist Trevor Brown’s “Bruised Madonna” imagery for unauthorized merchandise (not to mention unsanctioned use of the Chanel logo), the…

George and Caplin’s latest release is one of a dying breed — an album that demands to be listened to as an album. Yes, there are some fine songs on it that can stand alone (particularly “Wilderness Eyes” and “Wanderin'”), but when taken as a whole, the disc really shows…

If Lou Reed had lived in the ’30s and had an affinity for moonshine instead of heroin, he would sound dangerously close to the delicate rootsiness of what Chris Jeffries is creating. Combining the swagger of Mr. Reed with the bad-luck living and roaring fingerpicking of folk stalwarts like Lead…

On Bobby Walker’s tenth album, 2008’s Git It, the whiskey-rasped singer proved that he definitely still had it after four decades of being in the biz. On his new EP, Way Back When, Walker digs into the past and lays down five cuts he grew up with. He and his…

Starting out with a subtle drone of cycling sounds, like time-lapse clouds streaming across the night sky, side one of this album slowly evolves into darker territory, conjuring a rainy weather pattern moving in with the summer breeze. Textured low end later in the mix suggests the sound of helicopters…

Everything about Air Dubai is ironic. While not strictly hip-hop-based, there is a good amount of cadence in the dueling vocals of Jon Shockness and Julian Thomas. There is a melody and harmony that drives the band’s tunes, and its latest effort, Wonder Age, an album about nothing, has evolved…

Austin’s Woven Bones is serious about rock and roll, and makes no bones about its love affair with the more primitive aspects of drums, bass and guitar. Taking cues from the lo-fi aesthetic of the garage underground and post-punk pantheon, the band runs its cacophonous brand of minimalist hip-shake through…

You can hear the influence of growing up in a musical family (drummer father, singer mother) in pretty much every one of Swedish electro/progressive house producer/DJ John Dahlbäck’s tracks. Presumably, his dad’s penchant for pounding the skins led him to dance music, where he could keep insistent rhythms pumping constantly…

There was a time when pop punk wasn’t just a fashion statement, musical or otherwise, despite bands like Green Day and NOFX making the style known to people who couldn’t tell you anything about 924 Gilman Street. The Gamits emerged in 1996 as an energetic trio that didn’t just play…

Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like: A compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. Where does…

Behold nine-year-old Ezra Lux, possibly the world’s first (and greatest) pre-teen metal blogger. Over at his barely a month old metal blog Crud Wizard (which is also the best name for a metal blog we’ve heard in a long, long time), Ezra is dropping some serious wisdom, such as this…