Danielle Anderson is the latest local artist to take an unconventional approach to financing her new album, joining the Heyday and Choke the Word on the fansourcing bandwagon. To generate funds for her new album, Two Bedroom Apartment, Anderson, whom you know better by her nom de tune of Danielle…
After all the work that went into compiling this year’s Westword Music Showcase ballot, we needed a break last weekend. A break that involved watching Pretty in Pink, a flick we hadn’t seen in a dozen years or more, on VH1. Although it wasn’t quite as good as we’d remembered,…
May 4, 2010: As good a day as any to say that Nathaniel Rateliff has made it. His sparse and powerful In Memory of Loss has been available digitally for a week, but today it appeared in physical form in record stores across the country. Rateliff grew up in Missouri,…
Trent Reznor has revealed How to Destroy Angels, his first post-Nine Inch Nails project. It’s a collaboration with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, formerly the frontwoman of West Indian Girl and it was mixed by Alan Moulder, a name familiar to industrial fans. So what does it sound like?…
The latest release from Zachary Tipton’s I am the Dot project has arrived and, in case you’re keeping track, this makes the fourth release since his first Dot EP last November. The latest release is a three-song called Minimal Love and it may be the best thing he’s released yet…
There’s a clear trend in music right now that makes the oncoming disappearance of LaLa — which has been absorbed by Apple and is subsequently going the way of beepers by the end of the month — all the more unsettling: Music fans, it seems, prefer to preview an entire…
Denver Noise Fest 04.30.10-05.01.10 | Old Curtis St. Friday, April 30, 2010 New Mexico’s Raven Chacon performed with the expected harsh noise soundscaping at first — a combination of pummeling and shrill sounds textured like a nearly intangible sculpture that flooded the room and made the walls and the floor…
As part of The Wall’s thirtieth anniversary, Roger Waters is bringing the Pink Floyd rock opera in all its epic glory to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, November 23 with a new band and a newly-mounted state-of-the-art production. Waters has performed The Wall, which is still among the Top 5…
On June 29, 3OH!3 is slated to release Streets of Gold, the eagerly anticipated and sure to be stupefying follow-up to Want, the act’s 2008 Photo Finish debut. What we know about the record thus far, to wit: It will presumably contain a song called “House Party,” a tune that’s…
DMC Regional Turntable Battle 05.01.10 | The Walnut Room How do you know there’s been a four year gap since the last Disco Mixing Club (DMC) battle? When the valiant effort of a kid from Highlands Ranch is completely eclipsed by the DJ Notch, who breezed through his set with…
Paean • Bad Weather California • Mehko & Ocean Birds 04.31.10 | hi-dive Paean spent eighteen months working on its debut full-length, Songs For Us To Sing. Three of the band’s six members are siblings, and the album was recorded in a studio in their parent’s garage. So there was…
Update: Madson has apologized to Oswalt, and in the process told about 74 different lies about why he stole Oswalt’s and other comics’ material. God we hope this guy’s not our fucking neighbor. Original item: We caught wind of this from our pals at the A.V. Club, who keenly observed…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Take a look at this picture. Not much to see here, right, just a plank of octagon-shaped wood with a few metal straps and some sort of contraption on top? Look closer. This is precisely what they (whoever coined this maxim) had in mind when they urged us not to…
Mark Farina|Miguel Migs 4.29.10 | Gothic Theatre Downtempo guru Mark Farina has been touring with deep house DJ Miguel Migs, but fortunately for Denver, his stop at the Gothic added two local players to the bill. First up was Half Color, a two-man group out of Fort Collins playing downtempo,…
Lupe Fiasco • B.o.B. 04.29.10 | Ogden Theatre B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco collaborated on “Past My Shades,” which appears on the former’s just released, soon to be number one album, B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray. Yet the two did not play the song together during either set last…
Didn’t get tickets to Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. at the Ogden? Bummer, kid. It’s sold out, from what we hear. No worries. Mark Farina’s at the Gothic tonight with Miguel Migs, J Flash and Half Color, and there’s still tickets left for that show. Farina, in case you’re not familiar,…
Below Bar is re-opening tonight as a gay bar with Rockstar Aaron at the decks. Bill Ward has revamped his two-year-old, subterranean spot at 1422 Larimer Street — from changing out some furniture to adding a lot of mirrors — and turned it into a gay bar at the request…
Okay, so even though we’ve been doing this Showcase for sixteen years — sixteen!, can you believe it? — we still haven’t perfected this ballot process, even if we think you’ll agree that we came closer than ever to nailing it this year. Still, a number of acts — and/or…
After a two year-stint as Senger’s on the Fax, the bar at 3014 East Colfax Avenue closed quietly last July, then reopened the next month as 3014, under the ownership of Nick O’Sullivan, one of the brothers responsible for Brothers BBQ, with former owner David Senger back running the joint…
Jazz has long been music reserved for the best players and has produced some of popular music’s most memorable eccentrics and rebels. While not a jazz show in the purest sense, Jazz at the Root (taking place this Thursday, April 29, at the Meadowlark with a wealth of talent on…
As one-third of Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould would have been important solely for having been in one of the most influential bands of the 1980s — a band that arguably established “alternative” music as commercially viable in the world beyond the American underground. But after the group’s breakup, Mould went…
