Concerts

Just last week Distrakt launched a new web-video game called “Delta Blaze, just the fun of it. Now this week, he’s premiering his new video, “Sup,” which features hip-hop icon Sadat X of Brand Nubian on the hook. The video is the typical Distrakt style animation with a super hero…

Local oddball popsters Six Months to Live are calling it quits — just as soon as the new album is finished and released. “If stoned friends are any judge of quality, it’s going to be an incredible record,” frontman Gregory Hill says. The band’s CD release and final show will…

Pretty Lights, Lifesavas, Mr. AnonymousSaturday, October 3, 2009Ogden TheaterBetter than: Watching a disinterested DJ hide behind his equipment.Derek Vincent Smith doesn’t categorize himself as a DJ. The driving force behind Pretty Lights has made a point to stress the distinction in interviews, pointing out that he doesn’t spin records and…

Insane Clown Posse, The Dayton Family, (həd) p.e.Friday, October 2, 2009Fillmore AuditoriumBetter Than: The spectacle of a white trash cult on parade that many expect.Standing in a line around the block for this show with people randomly chanting things like, “Magic, magic ninjas whut!” and “Faygo! Send yo’ momma straight…

Maybe it was the last minute switch of venues from the Auraria Campus to the 3 Kings Tavern and Oriental Theater, but it was pretty slim turn-out for Saturday night’s section of the festival at 3 Kings. Although not many folks came out that night, there was still a lot…

Distrakt is mad busy and he’s getting all digital on us. Besides working on a new album and directing videos like crazy, he’s now made a video game. The web-based game, Delta Blaze, is a flying shoot em’ up, which appears more so to promote “Sup,” his upcoming single and…

With the Rockies clinching its playoff birth yesterday and this being Rocktober and all, it seems only fitting to post the “Rockies Anthem,” penned by 3OH!3 for the boys of summer and captured live at the Ogden, to get everybody all fired up. If you haven’t caught the clip yet…

All right, have y’all heard about this one yet? Beck’s record club? Just stumbled upon this one ourselves. Evidently, El Guero Loco and his cronies — an ever shifting lineup which includes Nigel Godrich, Devendra Banhart, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden from MGMT, Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother, Binki Shapiro…

Ah, now here’s an idea we can co-sign. Just received word from Mike Marchant (Widowers, Houses) alerting us to a rad new idea he’s about to execute, a songwriter’s workshop at the Meadowlark. Dubbed as “Dissecting and Perfecting the Pop Song – A Songwriter’s Workshop,” the sessions are slated to…

Ah, Europe. Home of tiny mustaches, hot yet unshaven women and an entirely too-forgiving stance toward child rapists with artistic achievements. And, of course, a firm appreciation of American-style garage rock, which we assume is the reason that the Omens are headed over there for a ten-day whirlwind tour (well,…

Tauntaun ripped up 3 Kings on Wednesday night, and photographer Aaron Thackeray was there. See his photos on the slideshow page…

The leaves in the trees aren’t the only thing changing in Denver. We received late confirmation that Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom and Quixotes True Blue next door have indeed been sold. Rumors have been swirling for a few weeks that a deal was in the works, and last night it was…

Everyone in the audience was armed,” says Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson, recalling making that horrifying discovery on stage at a recent show. “It was like that scene in The Blues Brothers, where they play at the country bar and no one knows what to think.” While you can picture such…

The only time I saw the Violent Femmes was when the Milwaukee-based trio played a short, energetic set on the counter of Wax Trax Records in the mid-’80s. People were stuffed in the aisles of the store for the entirely acoustic set; I’m pretty sure the drummer banged on a…

Andy Monley isn’t exactly a household name, but maybe he should be. He’s definitely made the Denver music scene a lot more interesting for more than two decades. As a guitarist for pioneering local bands Jux County and Velveteen Monster, Monley showed an impressive range as a guitarist and songwriter…

Most artists hope to develop an indelible personal style — but achieving that goal can produce both negatives and positives, as Hope Sandoval (joined on this bill by Dirt Blue Gene) has learned over the course of her come-and-go career. She first moved the pop-culture meter in the late ’80s…

It’s important to take note of Boston’s the Dear Hunter, if for no other reason than to not confuse the group with Deerhunter, the Atlanta-based art-rock outfit. Fans of the latter’s jagged yet atmospheric awesomeness are likely to run screaming from the former’s pompous, overwrought, Danny Elfman-on-steroids spasms. Wielding emotive…

Sian Alice Group’s dusky, contemplative songwriting is intense and vibrantly electric, with layers of percussion, non-traditional and otherwise. Although this avant-garde soul outfit borrows liberally from the aesthetics of electronica, jazz and experimental rock, it has crafted a sound all its own — like a band of the recent past…

Like a jerkier, dirtier version of avant-rockers Clinic, California’s the Intelligence hijacks indie rock with an arsenal of skin-peeling distortion, jackhammer repetition and oxymoronic moronism. And that’s a good thing: On its latest full-length, this summer’s Fake Surfers, the group accordingly mutilates reverb-slathered surf riffs using post-punk nihilism, garage-rock rawness…

Miami has more than its share of nice Jewish girls — but few of them can sing like Tel Aviv-born Tim Yehezkely, who consistently delivers as frontwoman for the Postmarks, currently touring with Brookline. Memoirs at the End of the World represents the players’ fourth release in as many years:…