Sunday’s AC/DC concert — reviewed in the blog “Live Review: AC/DC and The Answer at the Pepsi Center” — conjures up memories of the Q&A with the band’s Brian Johnson that Westword published under the headline “Power Age” back in April 2001. It’s among my favorite interviews ever — and…
Shawn Colvin joins Hot Rize and Leo Kottke at the RootsFest. Not too much shaking this week with concert announcements, but there’s good news for acoustic and bluegrass fans: tickets for Swallow Hill’s RootsFest (known as the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival for the past two years) concert on…
Widespread Panic’s New Year’s Eve show sold out in a record time of 25 minutes, but tickets for the band’s December 30 Pepsi Center show were recently released through Ticketmaster. Tickets are $61 plus a facility fee and an applicable Ticketmaster service charge…
Hard-core Frank Zappa fans will have to wait a little longer for revamped versions of two of the late composer’s seminal works from the ’60s.An ambitious box set combining rare studio tracks and new mixes of both Lumpy Gravy and We’re Only In It for the Money, creatively dubbed Lumpy…
Nearly two minutes of Born in the Flood’s “Anthem” was used in last night’s episode of One Tree Hill. Local musician Dan Craig and former Colorado resident Katie Herzig and have also had songs placed in the show. Check out the clip after the jump. The Born in the Flood…
It took Guns ‘N’ Roses fifteen years to finally release Chinese Democracy, which was released November 23 and available exclusively at Best Buy. That’s a mighty long time. Heck, Jesus Christ died and returned from the grave in just three days. Our sister paper in Houston compiled a slide show…
If the Flobots are bummed with the recent bad show review they got, maybe the news from Music Choice will excite them. The band’s video, “Handlebars,” was nominated in two categories in the channel’s Most Demanded: Music Choice Video On-Demand Awards ’08. The first was “Alternative Video of the Year”…
Tim Kaminski, who fronts Yerkish, got an e-mail from his half-brother Brian Tomes a few days ago, with a subject line that read: “Sarah Palin’s latest shame.” He thought, “Yeah, whatever. I’ll watch it later.” The next afternoon, he got a call from Tomes: His sibling was suddenly famous. See, Tomes…
HDNet recently started using Jessica Sonner’s song “Still Be Here” as the soundtrack for a promo video for Dan Rather Reports, HD World Report and InFocus Documentaries. Check out the video here…
The new Synthetic Elements video for “How Far” (directed by Dave Franco and Ben Martinez) shows the band knee-deep in the rock and roll lifestyle: getting out of an Escalade limo, walking the red carpet, foxy dancers in cut-offs and hot chicks in hot tubs. Check it out after the…
Photo: Chad Fahnestock Coldplay, Jon Hopkins, Sleeper CarFriday, Nov. 21, 2008Pepsi CenterBetter Than: A rock show where the band stays rooted in one spot.Making an arena rock show personal may seem like an impossible task, especially for any band playing to thousands of fans in the airy expanses of the…
Just caught the Fray on the American Music Awards. Tonight’s AMA performance marked the live debut of “You Found Me,” the first single from the Fray’s forthcoming self-titled album, due on on February 3. Isaac Slade’s vocals seemed a bit shaky during the intro verse, but overall, the band’s performance…
LOCALS ONLY Colorado rapper Catch Lungs started get his name buzzed about in the local scene when he started working with producers SP Double and Flawless as part of the Boostwell Crew last year. After separating from Boostwell this summer, he began working on his own mixtape, Food for the…
Go ahead and play, it’s not like you were getting anything done today anyway Now that lunch is but a dim memory and beer o’ clock is still hours away, you need something to distract you from the grinding horror that is your work day. May we humbly suggest Auditorium,…
After a long and eventful tenure with Love.45, guitarist Paul Trinidad Jr. has decided to part ways with the group. As a result, the remaining members of the band are seeking a replacement. Would be applicants can reach out to the band directly to set up an audition. The act…
Photo: David Barber This weekend, a cluster of bands from Denver’s past and present will be gathering at Herman’s Hideaway to celebrate the life of Sharon Rawles, who passed away at the end of September. A cherished member of the music community, Rawles had an undeniable impact on the scene…
The Sisters of Mercy Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Ogden Theatre, Denver Better Than: Getting 86’d. By the time I got into the Ogden, the Sisters were already performing. Before going into the performance space proper I had been talking with a friend and thought it was a CD playing and…
pilfered from myspace David Guetta November 20, 2008 Beta David Guetta is popular. Of the many DJs I’ve seen at Beta, I think tonight was the most crowded, with the possible exceptions of Danny Tenaglia and maybe Richie Hawtin, which were close. It was so crowded I was constantly being…
Update: This afternoon, the Fray posted a viral video on its MySpace page, and sent out a bulletin explaining the meaning behind the words to “You Found Me.” We’ve posted both after the jump, along with the lyrics. The Fray’s new single, as previously reported, debuted last night during Grey’s…
Skinny Puppy has stopped by FashioNation (613 E. 13th Ave.) quite a few times over the years. So has Ministry, Front 242, KMFDM, Peter Murphy, Motorhead, Social Distortion…well, you get the idea. See who else has visited the store here. On Friday, November 28, (the day after ohGr’s show at…
Just received word from Nat Kramer, the former host of Radio 1190’s Rude Awakening morning show, who’s also a co-founder of the Media Production Consortium, that Negativland — the San Franciso-based band best known for its widely-publicized tiff with U2 — will be playing two back-to-back shows on Tuesday, December…
Photo: Gary Isaacs This past spring, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club released Cipher, the act’s fantasic follow-up to 2004’s The Bloudy Tenant Truth Peace. Aside from being the outfit’s most definitive piece of work, the album sports some really cool looking, cryptic artwork, including indecipherable song titles on the jacket –…
