Concerts

Photo: Sarah Cass The exceptional gentlemen pictured above, otherwise known collectively as Hello Kavita, are currently holed up in the studio recording a brand-new album with Ian Hlatky, who’s previously overseen recordings by the Last Seen, Born in the Flood and the Swayback, among others. The band recently offered a…

Photo: Joshua Kessler So, have you caught Pepsi’s latest commercial? Notice anything remarkable about it? Besides, of course, the inexplicable, reworked-for-what-seems-like-the-umpteenth-time, futuristic-looking logo? You know that gorgeous, sun-kissed, audible goodness you hear playing in the background? Uh-huh, that’s the Apples in Stereo. Pretty keen, eh? We caught the commercial over…

The Ideal Fathers have a fresh, danceable, well-crafted take on post-punk. They have a freshly recorded, yet-to-released EP that’s damn good. What they don’t have is a drummer, and that’s holding them back from capitalizing on those first two things, which is a shame. Their longtime drummer recently succumbed to…

Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) gets a fair amount of love here at Westword for his ace mashup skills and incendiary live performances, and with good reason: the man is an artist at what he does. And if you’ve ever wondered exactly how he does what he does, today is…

Black Pegasus was booked to party up in Aspen on New Year’s Eve, but was turned away because of a bomb threat in downtown Aspen. We’re sure you heard the story by now. “The whole downtown area was evacuated last night,” Black P recounted on Thursday. “The Red Cross made…

And now it’s time for the”I love you like a fat kid loves cake” memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying melange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the…

You don’t need a half-wit music critic to tell you it’s been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern…

Along with having a MySpace page, some photos and MP3s, it’s become a necessity for Colorado hip-hop artists to have a YouTube account and a camcorder nearby.Many artists are now taking the responsibility of recording their own videos and events in order to promote their latest projects, as well as…

All right, so you know how this time of year everybody asks you if you’ve received anything cool for Christmas? Generally, I’m all, like, you know, socks, shirts, gift certificates, yada, yada — and that’s usually the extent of the conversation. Not that I’m ungrateful — it’s just, how much…

Poor sketchy man outside the Gothic Theatre last night, yours was a complication born of marquee ineptitude. For you see, the Gothic lists several shows at a time there, a column of upcoming shows on the left, and a column as well on the right. Last night, the top line…

The Flobots are finally home this week but they’re not arriving quietly. Along with their New Year’s Eve show at the Gothic Theatre, which benefits Flobots.org, the band will be hanging out with more than 100 people from Fight With Tools street teams from across the country at the first…

This weekend I stumbled across this story about the convergence of video games and music in our sister paper the Phoenix New Times, and really enjoyed it. I’m quite pleased that two of my great loves — video games and music — are coming together in so many ways, both underground…

DJ Bedz has been the official DJ for the Denver Nuggets for five seasons now, and if you’ve been to a game at the Pepsi Center, you know he keeps the place rockin’. But apparently the folks at ESPN magazine suggested that the Nuggets “trade up” to get DJ Clue…

The Jewell Tyme Music family put out a nice collection of releases this year, but one of the most robust projects was the compilation album Music, Money, and Roundtables, which features the entire Jewell Tyme roster and then some.The album is at your local indie stores now, but in case you’re…

As I compiled this year’s edition of Nationalistic, I was struck by how diverse our Backbeat scribes’ tastes were in 2008. Unlike with Moovers & Shakers, the roundup of our favorite local albums of the year that ran in last week’s issue, there was hardly any crossover. Not even with…

Whenever I get near Appaloosa Grill (535 16th Street), I think about the time my cousin and I tried to go there on New Year’s Eve. It was about an hour before midnight, and the place was packed. We waited in line for a few minutes, and then the bouncer…

On this fine Christmas Eve, I gift all of you with a link to the finest Christmas song ever recorded, and the only one anyone ever truly needed. It’s a song about the brutal, cold reality behind all of our romantic pretension, and about love that still manages to hang…

The Pirate Signal recently got off a national tour with 3OH!3 and most of the feedback the duo is getting from their live set include everything from “passionate” to “hyper”. That’s the great thing about Colorado hip-hop going on tour, seeing how other cities react to the music. But in…