As hopes continue to diminish for another installment of Monolith, we couldn’t help but notice this post on the festival’s facebook page, subsequent to the announcement of this year’s Lollapalooza lineup. Funny, we were thinking exactly the same thing, actually: Congratulations to all the MONOLITH alumni playing Lollapalooza this year:…
John Common has a passion for collaborative art. He’s just kicked off the third project asking artists to draw inspiration from his Beautiful Empty album and share it with the world, with the Beautiful Empty Photo Conspiracy…
New Zealander Annabel Alpers, who performs as Bachelorette, opened the show with a set that ranged from folk-pop to indie dance — basically the whole spectrum of what you might expect from a “bedroom” musician these days. Alpers relied heavily on laptop backing tracks, but her Björk-ish voice does most…
A complete list of the notable bands represented in this lineup would be exhaustive. But when you have Rick Kulwicki and Matt Bischoff of The Fluid present, that’s not a bad place to start. Add in John Rumley of Urban Leash, Sam Schiel of Francis Theory, Arnie Beckman of the…
Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, led by frontman Neil Fridd, performs bedroom lo-fi pop taken to the next level of conception and execution. Signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop imprint in 2008, the act is something of an underground phenomenon known for costumed performances where audience participation is not only encouraged,…
Is it premature to call Miike Snow’s “Animal” a ready-made hit? Breathy and quivering, the song’s pop fluency and offhand reggae vibe have already inspired four remixes. (Snag them for free with the original at RCRDLBL.com.) More telling, though, is that the project combines Downtown Records producer Andrew Wyatt with…
Having both worked as producers for M.I.A., Diplo and Switch combined forces under the Major Lazer moniker, a name inspired by a fictional Jamaican commando who fought in a secret zombie war of 1984 and lost his arm, replacing it with a futuristic weapon that became his namesake. The act’s…
Adam Green started his career with singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson in the quirky folk duo the Moldy Peaches — but those who got to know him through the Peaches’ posthumous success on the Juno soundtrack may have had to do a double take the first time they heard Green’s solo work…
This record sounds like the band took an eight-track recorder into a dark Birmingham dungeon and bashed out two songs in a fast, brutal and dirty session, after a late night of raising adrenaline levels by hanging out with Napalm Death. Singer Reed Bremmer sounds like the band’s very namesake…
George Christiansen’s latest effort, Photosynthesis, the followup to his 2006 self-titled debut, is a notably stripped-down affair, with about half of the tracks on the album featuring Christiansen accompanying himself on guitar, with playing that at times veers toward jazz and funk territory. Save for the upbeat and bouncy opening…
Andy Hackbarth is back in Colorado after spending the past four years in Nashville, where the sheen of that town’s assembly-line production evidently rubbed off on his music. Just the same, Hackbarth, the son of llama ranchers, is no country bumpkin. In fact, Hackbarth is tailor-made for hot AC radio…
After an October trip to Boulder, the Foot wrote a blog post ensuring its return to “rock your balls off again.” For now, we’ll have to take the guys’ word for it on the live show. But the music contained on the band’s debut album, Primary Colors, is certainly ball-rocking…
King Khan was scheduled to play Denver last November with BBQ (aka Mark Sultan), but the duo and their tour manager got held up in Kentucky when cops found a controlled substance in their car. While King Khan and the BBQ Show do a damn fine job making a joyous…
In a city where the sound of oonsa oonsa oonsa has dominated dance floors for decades, the subterranean subwoofer frequencies of dubstep (wobble wobble boom clack clack!) stand out emphatically. For the past three years, the Denver residents of Sub.Mission — Budros Gali, ServOne, RumbleJunkie, Dayquill, Zeno and Subliminal —…
Techno has a reputation for coldness and sharp edges, even brutality. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and Montreal’s Pheek (Jean-Patrice Rémillard to his mother) is living proof. He delivers a warm, inviting strain of techno that defies the stereotypes without abandoning the foundations. While still embracing the…
Achille Lauro is opening for John Common at Casselman’s. Everyone is seated, drinking complimentary spiked fruit juice. Achille Lauro frontman Matt Close is introducing every song in this manner: “This song is about and drag racing.” Some people laugh at this, some people think he’s serious, and drummer Ben Mossman…
When Star Bar, at 2137 Larimer Street, was slapped with a liquor-code violation late last year for serving a minor, it had to close from January 1 to March 1. But it didn’t reopen after that punishment was up, and the future looked dim for the last surviving saloon from…
When Paul Piciocchi said he was closing Tryst at 1512 Larimer last week and moving the club down to Playa Del Carmen, he said the former space would soon become a new watering hole. After less than a week of remodeling, Dive on 15th is slated to open this weekend…
When Soda Jerk Presents started booking punk and hardcore shows in 1997, its main venues were Club 156 on the CU-Boulder campus and Tulagi’s. Since then, company, headed up by owner Mike Barsch went on to book shows at the Raven and Rock Island, before buying The Cat, and for…
The Chain Gang of 1974 has finally completed work on its new album, White Guts, slated for release on Tuesday, April 27. Impatient like us and don’t feel like waiting that long to hear it? No worries. Head on over to the hi-dive next Friday, April 16 (with former Chain…
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s debut headlining performance at the Bluebird is a momentous occasion, so it’s no surprise that the poster promoting it is suitably momentous as well. The flier definitely turned our head when we walked by it the other day, prompting us to head straight the computer to…
Chalk this one up to a case of celebrity cash-in: It looks like Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer has an iPhone app now. And this probably isn’t going to come as any surprise, but it it absolutely blows. The ap, Joey Kramer: Hit Hard, only held our attention for about three…
