Mike Marchant of Widowers debuting new tunes Wednesday

If you don’t already have big plans for your Wednesday night (and you aren’t hurting too much from Tueday’s St. Paddy’s revelry), consider heading out to the Meadowlark. Mike Marchant of the Widowers will be playing a set in support of Big Timber and he promises some brand new tunes…

Animo is no more

Just received confirmation of a rumor that we heard late last week, that the members of Animo have indeed parted ways. Bassist Donovan Welsh says while there’s various reasons for the split, ultimately, the band had just run its course. The years of toiling away took its toll on he…

Over the Weekend: The Pirate Signal at the Marquis Theater

DJ Beretta, D. Allie, Dante, Air Dubai, Mane Rok and the Pirate SignalMarch 13, 2009Marquis TheaterBetter Than: Puking up green beer outside Scruffy Murphy’sEntering the Marquis Theater on Larimer Street on Saturday night was like stepping into a warm, dry bungalow after being drenched by freezing rain. In this case,…

Over the Weekend: Cut Copy at the Bluebird Theater

Cut Copy, with DJ Knightlife and Matt & KimSunday, March 15, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: Most shows I’ve seen in the last 12 months.The lights lowered in the house as Matt & Kim took stage and then came back up as the pair launched into what sounded like a weird cover…

Enjoy 1,200 free songs, courtesy of SXSW

If you can’t make it to Austin’s fabled South by Southwest event this year (and who can? I can’t even afford the gas it would take to drive there, much less the other expenses), here’s something to ease the pain — 1,267 songs from various SXSW artists, absolutely free of…

My Bloody Valentine show announced

It was a hell of a big deal when My Bloody Valentine reunited last year after a sixteen-year hiatus for gigs in London, Europe, Japan and America, including the Coachella festival in Indio, California, and the All Tommorow’s Parties festival in New York. In addition to playing Coachella again, the…

DJ Chonz, Adelio Lombardi launch Mixterminal.com

DJ Chonz and Side 3 Studios head Adelio Lombardi have united and launched a new website strictly for the DJs called MixTerminal.com. The site is a new social-networking hub, specifically geared toward DJs as a place where they can come together to share ideas, music, videos, photos, blogs, mixes and…

Wicked Garden launches Night of Bad Decisions tomorrow night

When Wicked Garden opened last Halloween on Larimer, some folks were hoping it might be Denver’s answer to Hollywood’s Viper Room. But it takes a little more than throwing up a few ’80s album covers, pictures of Jimi Hendrix and Angus Young and painting quotes from Aerosmith songs on the…

Download DJ Low Key’s new mixtape for free

DJ Low Key will be in Austin at SXSW deejaying for national hip-hop group Tanya Morgan next week. Before he heads out, though, he hooked us up with his new mixtape, Ketchup, with L.A. rapper TiRon. For those unaware, TiRon made some noise a couple of years ago with his…

Forth Yeer Freshman rally the troops to become Almost Famous

All right, I’ve made no secret over the years of my loathing of battle-of-the-bands types of events. I’m just not a fan. At the risk of sounding all sanctimonious, I’ve always felt like these things cheapen the music, in essence reducing any semblance of art to a battle of the…

The Fray still in Top 10 on Billboard 200

In its fifth consecutive week on the charts, the Fray’s self-titled sophomore release is still generating impressive sales figures, good enough, in fact, to remain in the top ten on the Billboard 200. Last week, the group registered 30,000 more sales, which moved it up a notch to number seven…

Update: 3OH!3 taking the UK by storm

From the sounds of it, the 3OH!3 dudes are having the absolute time across the pond. The folks at MTV have tapped the guys to keep a tour diary of their current jaunt supporting Katy Perry. Evidently, the crowds are massive and enthusiastic, with “people slam dancing just like home,”…

Get your goth on with Pictureplane tonight

Tonight at Rhinoceropolis, Pictureplane is kicking off his Goth Tour in fine style — goth style, that is. The notice I just got asks attendees to dress goth (the picture left is a detail from the flier, ostensibly included as a helpful hint if you’ve forgotten what goth looks like)…

The members of Bad Weather California are just young punks at heart

The new Bad Weather California album is called Young Punks. And unless you consider reverb-drenched, Stones-inspired riffs to be punk, then the title might seem like an ironic misnomer at first. Stylistically, at least, the act’s rollicking psych-folk-rock is a far cry from the music of the bands that shaped…

Rock out at the Rockstar

People are going to drink through the good times and the bad. But where they drink may change. Mike, who owns the Rockstar Bar (3358 Mariposa Street), thinks that a lot more folks are buying booze at liquor stores and drinking at home these days. Mike doesn’t like drinking alone…

Pacific Pride at the hi-dive

Although traditionally playing very few shows, Pacific Pride (due at the hi-dive on Saturday, March 14) seems to make every performance count. The outfit’s rich blend of lo-fi pop with frayed sonic edges is reminiscent of the golden age of New Zealand’s Flying Nun label when legendary bands like the…

The X-ecutioners

It’s been five years since the X-ecutioners released Revolutions, and six years since the DJ collective last toured North America on the Scratch tour. In other words, this old-school turntablist crew is long overdue for another town-to-town live showcase of talents. Formerly known as the X-Men (the members changed their…

Efterklang

The music made by the mad Danes in Efterklang on their most recent recording, 2007’s Parades, invokes venerable imagery: hooded monks, cherubic sprites, uncorrupted angels and post-Renaissance composers dedicated to going for baroque. Tracks such as “Polygyne” and “Frida Found a Friend” are overstuffed with aural elements, ranging from sprawling…

Stardeath and White Dwarfs

Musically speaking, Oklahoma City is best known for the Flaming Lips, the Starlight Mints and Colour Music. Soon it will also be known as the home of Stardeath and White Dwarfs. Fronted by Dennis Coyne, the band owes an artistic debt to his famous Uncle Wayne’s long-running project. Mysterious, otherworldly…