Sleepdial’s latest effort, Ext, begins with a collage of coruscating white noise, seemingly created by taking droning tones and distorting them beyond recognition. What emerges from that chaos is an incandescent melody that ends abruptly. It’s as if you’re in a spaceship, emerging from the star-dense core of a new…
Though Damon Wood’s Harmonious Junk never indulges too long in overblown solos or meandering instrumentals on Sirens and Pipers, it’s not a stretch to see why the trio has garnered so many accolades in the jam world. There’s no shortage of soaring, epic guitar work here, from Wood’s high-register, Frank…
Action Bronson, who was just in town last week supporting Mac Miller on the undercard of his headlining bill at the Ogden Theatre, will be making his way back to the Mile High City for a co-headlining date with Danny Brown, an equally esteemed rapper who’s made several trips to…
BRUNO MARS @ RED ROCKS | 8/6/13 Michael Jackson was alive and well at Red Rocks last night in the form of one Mr. Bruno Mars. Mars, decorated in an animal-print shirt and gold jewelry, was ever the showman for a nonstop ninety-minute set, jiving and moonwalking and pelvic-thrusting his…
If you’re planning to head up to Red Rocks tonight for Phoenix and Dinosaur Jr, take note: Your plans have officially changed. Evidently, the weather in the foothills is not supposed to be very agreeable this evening, so the folks at AEG have opted to move the show inside to…
After ongoing discussions for the past few months, AEG Live Rocky Mountains has finalized a fifteen-year deal with the Museum of Outdoor Arts to take over Fiddler’s Green, the 18,000-seat Greenwood Village amphitheatre that opened in 1989 and recently reverted back to its original name after stints as Coors Amphitheatre…
After first opening Rock-A-Billies in Arvada in 2010 and opening a second location in Greenwood Village last year, owner Jimmy Nigg is gearing up to open the Monkey Barrel, a live music venue and bar in the central Platte Valley, next month. See more: Rock-A-Billies brings rockabilly to Arvada Nigg…
The ZetaKaye House has assembled another edition (well, editions, rather) of its This Ain’t No Cowtown compilation. The fifth in the series, the comps (there’s three) feature, among other things, a brand new tune from Andy Hamilton & the Whiskey Hitchers, the new eagerly-anticipated band led by frontman and former…
Newsted, Hellyeah, Device, Black Label Society and Megadeth all have well known members from very big former bands — even Dave Mustaine with thirty years of kicking ass and taking names after Metallica. This was one of those shows so jam packed with metal talent, like an Ozzfest, that it…
STEELY DAN @ RED ROCKS | THURS, 8/8/13 Enigmatic, intellectual, wry and clever, Steely Dan played what sounded a bit like smooth jazz when the band debuted in the mid-70s, even as singer/pianist Donald Fagen sang pointedly about clandestine acts, the lurid underbelly of American society and the nuanced psychodrama…
During his five-year stint as talent buyer at the Meadowlark, it was clear that Jonathan Bitz had a deep passion for the local scene, and as such, he helped cultivate a community of singer-songwriters, most notably with acts like Churchill and the Lumineers. Over the last three years or so,…
NO AGE @ RHINOCEROPOLIS | WEDS, 08/28/13 Blurring the line between punk rock and noise, No Age could be mistaken for a particularly frantic and raw garage rock band. But this Los Angeles duo was one of the handful of bands that played at the Smell in L.A. in the…
Just over two years ago, Chances opened in the former Wolfie’s location at 1135 Bannock Street, and in March of last year, it moved to 1320 15th Street, the space formerly occupied by Rack & Rye (and Sauced after that). Now Chances is moving into much bigger digs when it…
GIGANTOUR @ 1STBANK CENTER | FRI, 8/2/13 Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine first conceived of Gigantour as a platform to showcase acts whose music featured virtuosic guitar playing. In addition to his own band, the festival’s inaugural roster, in 2005, included prog-rock vets Dream Theater, extreme-metal unit Nevermore and skronky math-core…
ANNA LUNOE @ NORAD | FRI, 8/2/13 Australian rising star Anna Lunoe has only been working her craft stateside for about a year, but she’s already made a name for herself in this country. After dabbling in the radio-DJ lifestyle, she started spinning hip-hop and indie tunes in venues before…
HARD RED ROCKS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 8/1/13 In its first year at Red Rocks, HARD Fest brings a boombastic explosion of the biggest names in bass and trap music. Festival founder and curator, Gary Richards, performing under his veteran moniker Destructo, kicks off a stellar bill that includes…
GIGANTOUR @ 1STBANK Center | FRI, 8/2/13 Sure, Megadeth’s last several albums have been less than stellar, but they can still rip it up on stage, playing the schoolyard rough ’em up songs from back in the day. You also can’t find too many more musicians dedicated to giving his…
AMERICA’S MOST WANTED FESTIVAL @ FIDDLER’S GREEN | FRI, 8/23/13 The America’s Most Wanted Festival features some of the most talented and successful artists to come out of the South in a long time, including Lil Wayne, whose name speaks for itself and whose March album I Am Not a…
Thief River is hesitant about using the word “country” to describe its music. “I remember telling people, ‘You’ve got to come see this band I’m working with. It’s country,” notes guitarist Mike Makkay, also a member of King Rat, who started spreading the word soon after the quintet formed in…
HARD Events founder and twenty-year veteran DJ Gary Richards — also known as Destructo on festival bills — has been putting on electronic-music parties under the HARD moniker since 2007. Richards has developed a following by successfully curating programs that cater to a variety of tastes; there’s always something for…
From the onset of the stoner-rock sea chanty “Pirates Sail for Portsmouth,” which opens …In the Land of Sin, you get the sense that the members of Amputators do their writing with a bit of tongue in their cheeks. “Muscle Truck” ups the ante on the concept of the muscle…
For anyone who spent any time in an arcade as a kid, Danger, the new EP from Chemistry Club, will hold a subtle appeal. The opening effects of “Bend to Colors” are electronic notes straight out of an eight-bit video game. A similar dynamic undergirds the synth effects on the…
