UMS Travelogue, Day Three 7.24.10, Baker District/South Broadway I decided to change my pattern for my third crawl along Broadway for the UMS. I’d started late on Thursday and Friday nights, checking out the first venues at 10 p.m. at the earliest. I wanted to get a head start for…
UMS Travelogue, Night Thee 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway There’s been no shortage of buzz surrounding Air Dubai: Though it has yet to hit the national stage, round these parts we’ve already as good as coronated the band successor to Flobots. Though the acoustics were terrible in the Import Warehouse,…
UMS Travelogue, Night Thee 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway It’s said that love and hate are two sides of the same coin. I can’t say if that’s true in all cases, but it certainly sums up my feelings about music festivals. All the things I love about them are also…
String Cheese Incident 07.23.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheater There’s probably nothing anyone could say or write that would convince someone who doesn’t appreciate jamband music to change their mind about String Cheese Incident. Regardless, in terms of concert tickets sold, String Cheese Incident is perhaps the most popular band ever…
A couple quick notes about today’s UMS lineup — but first a post-script to the travelogues we’ve already posted from Jef Otte and Tom Murphy: Heard bits of Papa Bear from the sidewalk outside the Rover, and it was quite lovely. Very eager to hear more. Caught part of the…
UMS Travelogue, Night Two 7.23.10 | Baker District/South Broadway I started my tour of South Broadway relatively late in the evening, heading south from the 404 Lounge at around 9:45 p.m. Turns out I still had plenty of time to catch a wide variety of acts in a wealth of…
Mark Farina with Pillowfight, DJ Rootz and AA 07.23.10|Fox Theatre There’s a covenant involved when listening to live music: You give your attention and energy to the musician, and in exchange, they provide you with some kind of experience that (IMO) should be crafted to capture that attention and suspend…
UMS Travelogue, Day Two 7.23.10 / Baker District, South Broadway Well away from the densest cluster of the festival was a place called Fentress Architects Materials Garden on 4th and Broadway, and when you walked through the glass doors, there was a large room with these odd glass-encased displays that…
UMS Travelogue, Night Two 7.23.10 | Baker District, South Broadway I started out with Papa Bear at the Irish Rover, where the band’s uber sincere Neutral Milk Hotel vibe proved a good start to the evening. The band boasts a small horn section, and I happened to be right in…
There’s nothing like the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are worth…
In April, Tryst owner Paul Piciocchi closed Tryst for a week, did some remodeling and opened Dive on Fifteenth in its place. Turns out that a lot of people who had been coming to Tryst since it opened six years ago, wanted their old spot back. So Piciocchi’s giving the…
UMS Travelogue, Night One 07.22.10 | Baker District, South Broadway A guy with a pint of hooch in his back pocket was stumbling and struggling to make it across street toward Famous Pizza. After he made it across the street, he paused for a moment and leaned up against pizza…
UMS Travelogue, Night One 07.22.10 | Baker District, South Broadway The first day of the UMS festival, a Thursday, was what you might expect in terms of attendees — mostly other people in bands or those who are clued into the fact that there is plenty of great music coming…
Freeway & Jake One • Mane Rok 07.22.10 | Bluebird Theater The evening began with a soulful performance by longtime LIFE Crew ambassadors, Mane Rok and DJ Tense, who performed tracks off of Mane’s first solo effort, The Ugly Truth, as well as a few throwback tracks from his earlier…
Lords of Acid • My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult • Blownload 07.21.10 | Ogden Theatre These days, it would be easy to dismiss a band like Blownload, whose music sounds like so much of that late ’90s industrial metal and its ilk. But instead of trying to prove…
Ween usually puts on the some wacky shows, but we’re guessing things might get super nutty when the band comes to the 1STBANK Center on Halloween. General admission seats ($38.50-$42.50) go on sale this Saturday, July 24 at 10 a.m. at the TicketHorse website or at its kiosks. Ween is…
Okay, so apparently we need to buy a 2010 calendar or something. In an effort to be all proactive and whatnot yesterday, we updated our recent 3OH!3/Walmart blog item, alerting you to the fact that the act would be on Leno last night. Uh, yeah, check that, dudes are actually…
Alright, get an eyeful of this picture. Take it all in. Notice anything wrong? Look closer. What about now? Right. Exactly. There’s nothing wrong. In fact, the building in this photo has ample curb appeal, wouldn’t you say? Precisely. And that’s what has us dismayed…
Mark Mallman is a completely different person on stage and off. “I always say there’s two of me,” he explains. “There’s him and there’s me.” The “him” Mallman is referring to is an on-stage character that he’s been developing for the past fifteen years. As those who’ve seen him perform…
After his days at New York’s famed Limelight in the ’90s, Superstar DJ Keoki went on to spin around the world. But now, after a stint in Los Angeles, he’s returned to his home town of Denver. And when John Bogard heard that Keoki was coming back, he quickly recruited…
In an era where most of us are scrambling just to get by and otherwise conditioned by modern life to warp our psyches to fit into the dictates of commercial efficiency, the music of Pollination Population is a gentle reminder to derail the madness. At least for a little while…
Ten years ago, it would have been just about impossible to fathom a successful collaboration between Rhymesayers, the Minneapolis-based, backpacker-fed label, and a former Cash Money and Roc-a-Fella rap star. But that’s exactly what’s happening here with Jake One, an indie veteran who can be considered hip-hop’s golden child, with…
