Bells will be ringing, this sad sad sad news/Oh what a Christmas to have the blues/My baby’s gone/I have no friends, to wish me greetings once again… Every year at this time, for as long as I can remember — hell, probably since I first heard the tune when I…
This was a pretty good year for hip-hop dance crew BreakEFX. They not only won the Colorado’s Best Dance Crew competition earlier this year, but they’ve been booked solid for quite a few events. Some of the standout events include Mighty 4 Colorado, Rockers Rumble 2008, and the recent Boyz…
Looks like the rumor first floated last week by my cohort Andy Thomas on Mile Hi-Fidelity is true. (Not that I ever doubted you for a minute, man.) The original members of the Blackout Pact are indeed reconvening to record a followup to their stellar 2005 Astro Magnetic debut, Hello…
Later this week, we’ll be unveiling a new feature on the blog called The Denver Boot, which will feature exclusive live recordings taped by our pal and frequent commenter, SxPxDxCx. The first installment will be the Cephalic Carnage and Brujeria show taped earlier this month at 3 Kings Tavern, and…
As Eryc Eyl so astutely noted in his Mile High Makeout column today, it is indeed that time of year again, when fans, bloggers and pundits alike compile and weigh in on their top picks for the year. So far, we’ve stumbled upon a pair of lists, one from Julio…
For the past couple of days I’ve been enjoying what will probably be one of early 2009’s most interesting local releases, the Complete Waste of Time Travel EP from the Ideal Fathers. I knew when I saw these guys more than a year ago that they had some serious potential,…
Magazine promotions don’t get much cooler than Fader’s vinyl single series, produced in conjunction with Southern Comfort, which presses edgy indie music on old-school jukebox 45s. The seventh offering is a case in point. The A-side features Brooklyn-based Telepathe, whose “Heat” raises temperatures with a monstrous synth riff that makes…
Mercury Rev amd the Duke Spirit Sunday, December 14, 2008 Fox Theatre, Boulder Better Than: The last unbelievably great Mercury Rev show at The Fox. It probably would have been wiser to stay home on a night like this and not risk the icy streets and highways between Denver and…
The Black Crowes, Vetiver Saturday, Dec. 13 Fillmore Auditorium Better than: Revisiting the sounds of ’60s soul and ’70s rock with a middling bar band. “I swear I’ve heard that riff before.” That was the recurring thought as I watched the Black Crowes and Vetiver perform Saturday, as the solos,…
Always secretly harbored a desire o get into the live music game? Here’s your chance. The owners of the Rock & Roll Grill, located at 15th and Champa, have put the venue on the market. With approximately 5,000 square feet combined, the space, which purportedly was a speakeasy at one time,…
After years of grinding it out on her own, writing, recording and performing here and across the country on her own dime, truly embodying a grassroots, do-it-yourself approach, Angie Stevens is about to get a major boost from a well-regarded member of the music industry. Next month, the affable local songstress…
Nowadays, alternative rock station 93.3 KTCL is showing more and more love to hip-hop music on the air. First it was the Flobots being added to daily rotation last year, then it was the addition of Judgemental (of Basementalism) to Ralphie’s First Trax show on Saturday mornings (6 a.m.-10 a.m.)…
Did you miss out on the Monolith festival, but want people to believe you were there? Or maybe you blew all your cash on a ticket and a few $7 beers, leaving you no funds to purchase the appropriate shwag to remember the event by? Or maybe you’re like me,…
The Ground Zero Movement pretty much went on hiatus a few years ago and with the direction that the members were going it kind of looked like the group basically disbanded. But a new track has been leaked from Sid Fly, Dow Jones, Aseone, D.O. the Fabulous Drifter and DJ…
Hello. My name is Dave. I’m addicted. Hopelessly addicted. Hello, Dave. No, seriously. I’m a junkie. I’ve got it bad for Friday Night Lights, man. Really bad. Last year around this time, I got a terrible case of the flu. I missed a couple days of work. It was ugly…
Since seeing Laura Goldhamer perform two weeks ago, I’ve been a little preoccupied with her work. Part of it is my girlfriend’s repeated calls for me to find some of Goldhamer’s music for her, but mostly it’s been her songs getting stuck in my head and remembering the very cool…
Just received word from Brad Turner of Nuts & Berries that the show slated to take place this Wednesday, December 17, that Tom Murphy wrote up this week has been canceled to make room for the Larimer Lounge’s annual Christmas party. Turner and the Lounge are in the process of…
That’s something we’re trying to shake,” says Yerkish frontman Tim Kaminski. “We don’t want people to think, ‘Oh, the monkey band,’ because you either think that it’s a band of monkeys, which has been done before, or you think it’s just some band that plays silly music. We try to…
The sign outside still reads Cafe Cero, but 1446 South Broadway is now officially The Open Tap & Grill. After taking over the place two months ago, Linda Sarace overhauled the kitchen; she now has people painting the interior walls. After she gets the bar and dining room refurbished, she…
We were driving toward Hollywood to catch Shwayze at the Roxy. Atmosphere was playing in the background, and my son was grumbling about Denver, futilely trying to sell me on the virtues of living in L.A., the sunshine, the palm trees — second-verse-same-as-the-first. I was trying just as futilely to…
This project has all the hallmarks of something conceived alone in someone’s bedroom. And on stage, Brad Turner solo with his laptop is hardly the stuff of which rock-and-roll legends are made. But anyone with the nerve to get on stage in the first place knows it takes guts to…
No matter what the endeavor, playing with others can yield some great results. For example, take a twenty-year-plus veteran of dance music who’s been there for everything from piano-driven, post-disco proto-house to the current-now sounds of minimal and electro house, then pair him with a hot, rising star with a…
