Concerts

In 1985, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie stormed the pop charts with “We Are the World,” a song that had something to do with togetherness or African famine or something — we don’t remember anymore. Now, just in time for the 25th Anniversary of the original recording, producer Quincy Jones…

It’s been three years since the Fray last attended the Grammys. And the act’s chances of walking away with a statue aren’t any better this time around, unfortunately. Last time around, coincidentally enough, Isaac Slade and company were also pitted against Black Eyed Peas, as they are tonight, as well…

Who do we talk to about changing the state slogan on the border entrance signs? Instead of the staid “Welcome to Colorful Colorado,” how about we change it to “Welcome to Colorado, Home of the Grammys”? Got a nice ring to it, yeah? What’s that? Oh sure, we’re well aware…

Matt Morris’s star continues to rise. While appearances on Letterman and Ellen certainly gave him some great exposure, his duet with Justin Timberlake on last weekend’s Hope for Haiti Telethon did wonders for him in terms of introducing him to the wider mainstream audience. Morris and Timberlake’s version of “Hallelujah”…

J.D. Salinger died quietly at 91. He was a rare author whose one novel provoked many of its millions of readers to claim that it had changed their lives. Maybe it makes sense to fall so hard for Holden Caulfield and maybe it doesn’t. It is likely that one reason…

File this item under awesome: Just received word that the Overcasters will be heading to Hollywood this May to record their next record with Rick Parker, whose impressive resume includes production on albums by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Von Bondies and GLISS, among others. The Overcasters frontman Kurt…

And now for a poem inspired by Aaron Thackeray’s photos of the Mickey Avalon show, last night at the Church. Hey, Mickey, you’re so fine You’re so fine My tits, you will sign Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey, for what it’s worth, it should also be pointed out that…

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 three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…

Relive January with the best of our nightlife and concert photos — including New Year’s parties like Beta’s, which featured bartenders dipped in lead (hot!) — in this slideshow…

Holy hell! Anyone who saw these guy at Monolith last year had to have seen this coming sooner or later. We’ve just heard from our friends in South Florida that Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg last night at a gig in West Palm Beach. Given the unpredictable and…

Okay Fraysayers, sounds like the moment that you’ve been clamoring for all these years may finally be upon us. Just watched an interview that Sir Isaac Slade gave last week at Sundance in which he utttered the magic words so many detractors who have dismissed the band as being boring…

The Informants don’t really play cover songs. They don’t need to. “People seem to think they need a cover because it makes them feel like, ‘If I can hear a cover, I can have a good time,'” Kerry Pastine points out. “We give them a good time no matter what,…

Cole Rudy likes to start his Jazz Expo nights at the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer Street) with the music of Lenny Breau, who was one of the world’s greatest jazz guitarists but also one of the most underrated. A damn fine guitarist himself, Rudy was talking with Jonathan Bitz, who does…

In the liner notes to the reissue of the Raincoats’ debut album, Kurt Cobain wrote about how listening to those songs made him feel like a voyeur into a private world due to the intimacy and immediacy of the music. And while Dream Wagon (due at the Larimer Lounge on…

Upon first listen, it may be tough to discern folk singer A.A. Bondy from contemporaries like Ryan Adams or Jeff Tweedy. A.A., also known as Scott Bondy, stays above water in the overcrowded ocean of singer-songwriters by, simply enough, writing good songs and singing them well. It was this formula…

Lest you think all modern-punk package tours are monolithic blocks of terrible music, look beyond headliners Brand New and Manchester Orchestra — headlining the Fillmore on Saturday — to one of the opening acts: Dusty Rhodes and the River Band. The California-based sextet has somehow gotten away with a rootsy,…

In this economy, it’s hard to begrudge anyone trying to make a buck. Most rock stars, though, only want to rape your wallet — not molest your memories. Open Wings Broken Strings teams up three of the least essential singers of the alt-rock era — Eddie (formerly Ed; apparently Eddie…

Based in Paris, Nouvelle Vague has made a career out of taking old punk, new-wave and post-punk songs and giving them a unique reinterpretation — often with the cooperation and participation of the original bands. Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux put a kind of bossa nova, lounge and French pop…

The best punk rock always has a busted heart shivering beneath all the bluster and distortion. It’s a stretch to say that Throwaway Sunshine can be so simply labeled, but there’s no denying the punch, grit and world-weary determination of its full-length debut, For Everything We’re Not. Fronted by Cory…

Skeptics in Love follows a young couple into, and then back out of, love. It is not based on a single experience of any member of kosmøs, which is probably why lyricist Ben Tonak was able to step back far enough to view the thing from all sides. So the…

This album’s title, Collages, serves as a statement of purpose and a summation of the aesthetic of the band up to this point. The instrumentation and sampled sounds here overlap and complement each other in vibrantly varied configurations. “Spirit Stone,” for instance, seems to channel Ceremonial-era Savage Republic in its…