“Yeti in the City,” this album’s opener, sounds like its authors have been listening to a lot of dubstep, experimental electronic music and underground hip-hop while scoring a really weird episode of Monk. The production might be a bit slick for some, but there’s nothing wrong with technological competence, and…
While some people can bang out an album in a weekend, it took singer-songwriter John McVey a decade to make his third solo effort, Unpredictable. In between producing and engineering hundreds of other people’s albums at Boulder’s Coupe Studios, he took his time crafting the songs and recording them. Not…
In this postmodern age, it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference between a brilliant, faithfully executed parody and the real thing (see: Die Antwoord) — and that’s exactly the case with Bad’s self-titled debut. What is certain is that the album packs such a broad range of rock clichés into…
Lust-Cats of the Gutters is a band whose roots are planted firmly in the same fertile soil as acts like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and the Frumpies. Fiercely independent, the band has found itself being touted by Courtney Love and purportedly being courted by a certain Seattle-based record label. Even though…
The band calls its music “dread rock,” and while the act does pay fairly direct homage to Brad Nowell in the occasional punk-rock breakdown or Big-Muff-shredding guitar solo, Desciples, at its core, really plays straight-up reggae. And from the downbeat, percussion-heavy grooves to the dub-influenced, liberal use of delay, you’d…
Back in the days before anyone had ever spoken the word “dubstep,” when the nascent genre was little more than a weird trend cropping up on the B-sides of two-step singles, Hatcha was there. As a buyer and, later, A&R man for Big Apple Records, he put some of the…
This week’s top flier inspires a sense of delicate, earthy mysticism that recalls classic children’s books. You know, the kind that hold eternal wisdom among their bright illustrations and simple stories, the ones you return to again and again as you grow older and can’t wait to introduce your own…
Colorado hip-hop is serious right now, and there’s a bunch of cats making moves. Hot on the heels of his runner-up finish to back-to-back winner Boonie Mayfield in the recent Red Bull Big Tune battle, Xperiment is the latest addition to the Humble Beast roster. Based in Portland, Oregon, the…
Well how do you like that? As we post this, yet another Colorado-based act is getting prime exposure on Pitchfork. That’s what we’re talking about. Within the past month, no less than four local artists — including Pictureplane, Woodsman, Tennis and Candy Claws — have been prominently featured on the…
Between fronting 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand, David Eugene Edwards has spent a fair amount of time touring Europe. Before opening for Tool recently on seven dates, including Red Rocks last week, Wovenhand was in Europe once again, where Edwards was interviewed on Radio Waves in Prague, Czech Republic…
As it happens, we don’t have a spare $700 or so laying around. Boy, if we did, though, you wouldn’t really have to be the betting type to wager where we’d be on Friday, October 1 through Sunday, October 3. No contest: Matador at 21 in Las Vegas. Have you…
Today’s a pretty big day for Danielle Anderson. Not only is the YouTube darling featured on the front page of, well, YouTube (see the clip being touted after the jump), but today marks the release of her brand new record, Two Bedroom Apartment. Oh and she’s celebrating by playing some…
Oh, and speaking of reunions, we’ve received word that these dudes are getting back together one more time for old time’s sake. In case you don’t recognize the faces in the above clip or you haven’t deduced from the handy headline: We’re speaking of Crestfallen, featuring our own Jason Heller…
At one of his shows recently, Dan Craig invited his old Hearts of Palm/Nathan & Stephen bandmate Nathan McGarvey onstage for an acoustic rendition of “Happier.” McGarvey’s better half, the lovely and talented Emily DeRousse was there and happened the captured the moment on film. She shared the footage with…
Electro-pop legend Gary Numan is making a short sixteen-date trek across North America this fall, which is slated to include a stop at the Gothic Theatre on Thursday, October 28. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of his debut, The Pleasure Principle, Numan will perform the album in its entirety, as…
Nine years ago … trying to think of what the world was like nine years ago. Hmm … let’s see … that would’ve been back before we documented our every movement, breath, thought and whereabouts on Facebook and Twitter, back when the notion of a Smartphone was still pretty foreign,…
Are you already lamenting the loss of beloved weirdo pop outfit Six Months to Live? Well, do we have good news for you! In just a few weeks, you’ll be able to enjoy some of the same zesty pop/rock flavor with former Six Months to Live frontman’s new act, the…
Monotonix July 4th, 2010 Glob Glob was at partial capacity by the time Expiation opened the show with a set of fairly straight-ahead hardcore. You couldn’t fault the musicianship, and the frontman at least seemed as genuinely menacing as he was confrontational: At the end of the set, he threw…
There’s nothing like experiencing 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…
Remember Tennis, the great new band we introduced you to last week? What are we saying? Of course you do. Tennis is now your new favorite sport, eh. Well, tonight at the Meadowlark you’ll have a chance to catch the group in person and determine if the husband and wife…
While Jonas Brothers released a new world tour schedule today that includes additional shows in Latin American and Europe, the band also removed a number of American dates from the current routing, including including their September 11 show at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre. “The Jonas Brothers remain committed to their fans…
Kate Lesta of Boulder-based Communikey and JT Root of Aeon Child, who curated The Nature of Things music series with some help from MUTEK’s director Alain Mongeau, have put together what looks like an insanely great and eclectic line-up of thirty artists from around the world performing throughout the month…
