Concerts

If you plan on nodding your head to the beat of Solar Bear’s newest album, good fucking luck. Time signatures switch suddenly and unexpectedly throughout the six-song EP, creating oceans of frenzied, finger-stretching chaos before melting into beautiful and sprawling half-tempo breakdowns. The band, recently stripped down to a foursome,…

After the sound of crickets ends at the beginning of the opening track, “Delirium Heights,” Glass Hits dives into a savage bit of noise rock that sounds like it was recorded right at the line of pegging the board. Fans of Drive Like Jehu and the VSS will appreciate the…

The ’90s are long gone. But, hey, sixteen-year-old kids are still getting sad, right? So why not throw some pillow-soft vocal melodies about missed opportunities in love over sunrise guitars and piano and puppy-dog drums? This is a band that lists Counting Crows among its chief influences, and it would…

Somewhere in the Netherlands, some scientist has been hard at work genetically engineering dance-music titans. How else can you explain such a large number of top-level dance producers and DJs — Junkie XL, Sander van Doorn, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, just to name a few — coming from a country…

When it opens the weekend of May 21, Boudoir 1434 might be the most expensive place in town. But you’ll get what you pay for, says the bar’s manager, J.C. Granger. “It’s exclusive, has the best decor, the best drinks, the best service, the best everything,” he explains. “We know…

When Greg Harris went into the studio for Glass Gold, his newest record, he literally did not know what was going to be on the album. As in, hadn’t even written the songs yet. “Somehow, a bunch of the tracks on that album, they were all completely free, in the…

Years after moving back to Denver from New York, Emily Frembgen still has a 917 area code. It therefore shouldn’t come as a surprise that the singer-songwriter is packing up her guitar and heading back to the Big Apple at the beginning of June. But she’s not leaving Denver empty-handed:…

Last year, Local Natives battered SXSW with nine shows in three days, ultimately leading to a record deal in the U.K., followed by a tour. This year, the L.A. five-piece is gaining traction stateside, thanks to a debut album stocked with sturdy indie-rock arrangements and a touring schedule that slots…

The complete lineup for Showcase has been finalized, and all that’s left to do now is countdown the days until the sixteenth annual Westword Music Showcase takes place on Saturday, June 19. Nearly a hundred local acts (well over a hundred if you count Single File and Tickle Me Pink)…

In what appears to be the last days of The Treehouse, the downtown warehouse where dozens of bands have formed, practiced, lived and crashed over the years, a few of the last guys are sitting around reminiscing. In six years, some good stories are bound to come out of a…

With the disintegration of Lala coming May 31st, we’ve been left with one less choice for downloading. Lala was one of the best digital music distributors in town, offering full album streaming and low prices for downloading. After the website was gobbled up by Apple in December of last year,…

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cNailed ‘Em – Drive-Through Rappingwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox News If you currently are or have ever been a stupid teenager, chances are you’ve done something dim-witted at a drive-thru. Maybe you mumbled your order to sound like you’re saying “fart,” or perhaps…

In 1972, ListenUp began designing and selling high-quality audio/video systems in Colorado. Thirty-eight years later, the company, which is still going strong, is hosting its annual Music Matters summit this week. Among the speakers are John Atkinson, editor of Stereophile magazine, a man considered one of the preeminent authorities on…

There is one guarantee in life: When a musician dies, we go through their catalog of songs. This is most certainly true in the case of Ronnie James Dio, who passed away on Sunday. As we listened over the course of the last couple of days, we started noticing themes,…

On June 8, just a little late for its 21st birthday, the Cure’s classic album Disintegration is getting the kind of super-deluxe reissue treatment that should make goth kids, ex-goth kids and dudes named Rhett very, very, very happy. In addition to the de rigeur remastered album, Robert Smith has…

Drake • Mike Posner • DJ Chonz05.17.10 | Ogden Theatre First was Denver’s own DJ Chonz, who was assigned with warming up the rapidly-filling Ogden. He performed his task admirably [editor’s note: with one turntable, no less], but as the first-act DJ, the ceiling was pretty low. Next was Mike…

Looks like it’s the end of the road for Meese. Well sort of. This Saturday, May 22, at the Bluebird, the band will be playing its last official show — or delivering its final Broadcast, as it were — as Meese with the Northern Way…

Props to DJ Cysko Rokwell, who qualified for the U.S. Finals of the DMCs this past weekend in New York City, besting fifteen other DJs to earn his spot at this finals this August 7. There he’ll compete against the country’s best turntablists (including DJs Notch and Skip Ripkin, who…

Pictureplane (aka Travis Egedy) got some more love from indie bible Pitchfork last week. The new media titan called Egedy a “Denver house music mastermind” while pimping his latest free mix, a 41-minute mix which includes selections from Crystal Castles and Rihanna and serves as an intro of sorts to…