Every year, dubstep promoter Sub.mission celebrates its birthday with a massive party called Bass Invasion. This year, the party will take place this Friday and Saturday nights at the Fusion Factory in RiNo. Friday’s set is headlined by Ganja White Night, Kaiju and Mesck, and Saturday features Le Lion, The…
Since moving to Denver from Boise, Idaho in 2012, Trevor Uberuaga has fully immersed himself into the Denver music scene. His cassette-only label, Heart in Box Records, has released albums by the Dirty Few, Zebroids, Ned Garthe Explosion and several others. Uberuaga has had a life-long passion for tapes, and…
Utilizing the modern methods of 3D video seen to great effect in recent movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Kraftwerk turned what were already interesting visuals perfectly suited to each song into something almost interactive and unlike anything any other popular band is doing…
The 2015 iteration of Denver Black Sky festival looks to be a monster, with the announcement that Cleveland hardcore legends Ringworm will play the annual event alongside metal heavyweights Pig Destroyer and Skinless. The December 5 show at Englewood’s Gothic Theater will also feature some heavy hitters Havok, In The…
The Larimer Block Party debuts this Saturday, September 26, at the 2700 block of Larimer Street (both outside and in several venues). Running from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m., the event will feature musical acts on five stages at Cold Crush, Larimer Lounge, Meadowlark Bar, Meadowlark Kitchen and an outdoor…
If you’ve enjoyed any part of the recent dance-music boom in Denver, you owe some thanks to Catherine Nguyen Le. Until recently, she was the executive director of Beta Nightclub. Her absence (she left to spend more time with her family) will have a profound impact on both Beta and…
Covenhoven’s new album, The Wild and Free, is songwriter Joel Van Horne’s most fully realized effort to date. Van Horne recorded all of the vocals for the album and played all of the instruments except violin and cello, creating a set of songs that reflect his love of the wilderness…
There is a tendency in show reviews and music journalism for writers to introduce an artist to readers by citing the musician(s)’ recent accomplishments or affiliations to even-more-famous musicians. For bassist Stephen Bruner, a.k.a. Thundercat, who has received a flurry of media coverage this year, the introduction en vogue goes…
There were so many fine performances during both days of Goldrush Music Festival at the Savoy Events Center, it would be difficult to pick a towering standout. Despite the wide array of genres represented, the festival managed to feel like one, big cohesive experience. The accompanying ‘zine and cassette compilation…
Going back to the days of early raves in the ’80s or even as far back as “happenings” in San Francisco, strong and creative visuals have been an important component of the concert experience. Every EDM show worth attending has rich, unusual and creative light shows and projections. So it…
The Goldrush Music Festival is a great place for bands, new and old, to get publicity and make connections. But lat’s face it: Denver is a long way from most other big cities. It’s fifteen hours by van, for example, from Chicago, the home town of Crown Larks. The band…
Skylab 2015 will take place September 18 and Saturday September 19 at the 1STBANK Center. One of the longest, continuously running electronic dance music festivals in the country, Skylab has reflected the current state of the scene since its 1994 debut. In past years, legendary artists such as Rabbit In…
Don “Dynomite” Messina has been the guitarist and singer of the renowned Brethren Fast for the past two decades. He died on August 16 away at the age of 47 after a car accident on Lookout Mountain. This Sunday, eight bands will play a benefit show at Herman’s Hideaway, with…
The last two decades have been a time of extreme change for Tara Jane O’Neil, a singer/songwriter who is performing at Denver’s Goldrush Festival. In the ‘90s she cut her teeth in the Louisville, Kentucky, punk scene — one of the most active and vibrant in the country. Years later,…
Glancing at the lineup for this year’s Goldrush Music Festival it doesn’t take a music scholar to notice that one of the acts doesn’t quite fit in. Among the slew of acoustic and atmospheric artists sits Denver’s American Culture sticking out like a reverb-soaked soar thumb. It’s an observation the…
Yoni Wolf will headline the Impose Stage at Goldrush Music Festival this Saturday, September 19, at Savoy. Wolf has been a leading figure of alternative/avant-garde hip-hop over the last fifteen years, and he is one of the founders of the respected Anticon imprint. Wolf grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and…
Cloak & Dagger Music Festival is set to take place on four stages between Vinyl and City Hall on Saturday, September 19th. The set times for the festival can be found below and you can buy tickets here. While a sizeable, electronic dance music festival, Cloak & Dagger is not…
The Doggfather himself made a public service announcement wishing everyone in Colorado a happy pot tax holiday. The video was sponsored by Merry Jane media. Mostly celebrating the money rolling into the state, Snoop also reminds youngins’ that recreational marijuana is for those 21 and older. Here’s exactly what he…
I’ve spent the last few years arguing that the ’90s were one of the best eras of popular music for women, because as musicians and fans, we seemingly had the same access to mainstream visibility as the men who have always dominated the music industry. As an early teen in…
Ian Cooke pauses and chuckles when asked where his musical career might be right now if he had never met friend and longtime collaborator Ian O’Dougherty. “I think I may have gone to California and tried to score films,” he guesses. “Singing and songwriting was always something I was planning…
Categorizing music is inevitable, even necessary in some cases, but the desire to describe a band using predetermined genres sometimes has the effect of creating more questions than answers. Such is the case with Modern Goon, a three-piece Denver band that includes two high-school English teachers and members of now-defunct…
