There’s not much appealing about the plain-Jane cover art that adorns Megan Burtt’s debut, which might prompt less-discerning listeners to pass this one up — and how wrong that would be. Over the course of a dozen tracks, Burtt shows off a stellar voice that splits the difference between Linda…
Anvil started out as Lips in 1978, but by the time it released its debut album, Hard ‘N’ Heavy, in 1981, it was going by the name we know today. The first three Anvil albums, including Metal on Metal and Forged in Fire, pioneered a furiously fast and aggressive music…
Just because a star was bred in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily mean he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Just take Mickey Avalon, the unlikely king of Los Angeles’s swanky clubs. He came from beginnings far beyond dubious and well into deranged, a fact he’s celebrated in his…
The Finnish city of Helsinki is one of extremes, where daylight lingers for nineteen hours during the summer yet is present for a mere six at the winter solstice. It’s the kind of place that might embrace a sunny, open approach to music at one moment while delving into the…
Bad news for those hoping to relive the ’90s this weekend at the Ogden Theatre. We’ve just received word that Open Wings and Broken Strings, the traveling time capsule tour featuring Eddie Kowalczyk of Live, Art Alexakis of Everclear and Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer, slated for a…
This week’s top flier rode into that slot on a wave of nostalgia (and indigestion). That image of a classic TV dinner poked us deep int he subconscious and stirred up memories of being plunked down in front of the old boob tube in our youth, served up with Swanson’s…
In case you were unaware, the darlings of the music industry have decided a regular music album wasn’t enough and moved into the visual arena. Yep, America’s favorite eukaryotic organism-themed band, Animal Collective, has teamed with filmmaker Danny Perez to make what it’s coining a “visual album” titled Oddsac. Before…
The Knife has made some ridiculously incredible music in the past ten years. In fact, the act has won quite a few awards for it, mostly in their native Sweden. Last year, one half of the sibling duo recorded an album using the moniker Fever Ray, and she just won…
Apparently Youtube launched a Pandora-esque service last week dubbed the Music Discovery Project with very little fanfare. Near as we can tell, it functions the same way as services like Last.fm and Pandora and operates based on some crazy mathematic algorithm we can’t wrap our tiny minds around, “Find >…
No doubt capitalizing on Joe King’s recent collaboration on “Undertow,” from Shock Value II, his latest effort, and the fact that the band happens to be in town that day, Timbaland has evidently invited the Fray to make a cameo at his show at the Gothic on Tuesday, January 26…
Country sensation Jason Aldean, who has been selling out arenas on his Wide Open tour, visits the Odeum Colorado Thursday, March 18. Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” single spent four weeks at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart and has been certified gold. Reserved seats run $33.75…
As you may have heard, Fred Phelps and his cheerful band of hate mongers failed to show up at the University of Colorado campus last night as threatened for the same-sex marriage debate sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. Pity. From what we hear, the students were all geared up…
The South By Southwest countdown begins. Yes, we know it’s still two months away. Regardless, we’re started to get geeked. And it looks like Colorado music is once again going to be well represented with not one but two parties showcasing the most desirable of our exports. Habana Calle 6…
The Informants’ latest album, Crime Scene Queen, won Best Self-Produced CD award in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge over the weekend. The record, which was released in July, was up against albums from all over the world. This is a big deal in the blues world. Crime Scene Queen,…
Brace yourself: We just learned that Nick Jonas — he of the Jonas Brothers fame — has canceled his show this evening at the Paramount. Jonas is reportedly under the weather. If you purchased tix through TicketHorse on your credit card, you can sit tight. An automatic refund is headed…
Mustangs & Madras played its final show at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday night. We were there. It was a pretty damned good party. Drinks were flowing. Saw you there, didn’t we? Dunno. Kind of a blur. Sorry. Luckily our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray on caught it all on film,…
Cobraconda spun house DJ Boyhollow’s birthday at La Rumba’s Friday-night Lipgloss party. See photos by Aaron Thackeray on the slideshow page…
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake With Treeverb, Cannons Friday, January 22, 2010 hi-dive Better than: Avatar. Seriously, that movie sucks. Cannons opened up the show with a sound reminiscent of Fugazi, Archers of Loaf or any number of early post-punk bands. Bassist Eric Fuller, who also holds down the low end…
Mustangs and Madras farewell show With Get Three Coffins Ready, Only Thunder, the Gunshy and Git Some Saturday, January 23, 2010 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Virtually every other five-band bill I’ve seen. The five members of Get Three Coffins Ready played the kind of high-energy, glittery surf rock that…
Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like, a compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. View Larger…
One more in-case-you-missed-it moment from the weekend, this one local: Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake performing “Hallelujah” last night on the Hope For Haiti Telethon. Not quite as haunting as Buckley’s version, but the two kill it in their own right. Update: The rest of the country was clearly moved…
Now this is what you call going out on a high note. In case you missed it, Conan O’Brien ended his stint at NBC on Friday night by strapping on a Les Paul and playing “Freebird” with Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top’s Bill Gibbons. Ferrell actually does…
