This weekend, stoners from across the Front Range will converge upon Red Rocks to celebrate 4/20. Two acts will be on hand to raise a toast roast commemorating the occasion, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting pair to do the roasting: the hemp-hop icons in Cypress Hill,…
While in high school during the late ’90s, guitarist Kyle Zender and drummer Hill Baker bonded over the likes of Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and King Crimson. It’s not surprising, then, that some of those influences (and possibly some newer stuff like El Ten Eleven) have seeped into their work…
“Happy” starts off Hi-Strung’s new album as though some sort of standoff were about to go down. It’s like spaghetti-Western music interpreted by Siouxsie & the Banshees working with Lene Lovich. “Weird” shifts gears with whimsical but well-composed lyrics that evoke Todd Rundgren or the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and…
Fade’s Audio Racketeering has some unique personality traits, taking cues from both Dirty South pimpology and modern dance pop — a combination that produces some engaging results and others that are poorly conceived, badly mixed and just boring. As a rapper, Fade is serviceable — which is to say, he…
On its latest effort, the Booty Snatch EP, Robotic Pirate Monkey displays a noticeable maturity. On “Tides of Babylon,” which opens the album, the Boulder-based trio delves into reggae and infuses the track with its signature bass-heavy sound, layered with island-style vocals. The album peaks with the anticipated drops of…
I know it’s hard to imagine now, especially with the temperature outside and the blanket of snow currently covering the Front Range, but summertime is just around the corner, which means the festival season is just getting ready to kick off. We know this because we’re in the middle of…
A year after opening the 1UP in LoDo, owner Jourdan Adler took over the former home of Pete’s Monkey Bar last June and put his second arcade-themed bar, the 2UP, in that space. While the 2UP might be smaller than its downtown counterpart, that could change if Adler gets the…
Independent concert promoter Soda Jerk Presents has forged a new partnership with the team at the EXDO Event Center, Managing partner Andrew Feinstein and his crew, which involves Soda Jerk Presents exclusive concert booking rights for the 22,000 square foot building at 1399 35th Street in RiNo. “It’s a part…
Christopher Victorio Karen O’s Outfit Karen O’s wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace…
Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix’s set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found…
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL |4/14/13 In a fairly gutsy move, two songs into its set, Suicidal Tendencies performed its classic song, “Institutionalized,” a tune of paranoia, societal oppression and mental illness. It was a different from the version on the album. The music was a little more jazzed…
Dyalekt, an MC from the Denver hip-hop collective known as the Diamond Boiz, has decided after a long period of contemplation to officially change his name to his longtime nickname Jay Class. The decision comes more than a year after his appropriately titled album, Death By Ego, and precedes his…
The Daft Punk dudes may be generating all the headlines right now for its forthcoming album, Random Access Memories, on which they flip the script by incorporating analogue instruments and production techniques, but they’re not the only ones going more organic. Pretty Lights is doing pretty much exactly the same…
Update: The Ghostface Killah show at the Summit was canceled. Top ten has been updated with the addition of Black Thought at Club 64 with Immortal Technique. THE DEAR HUNTER @ MARQUIS THEATER | TUES, 4/16/13 The Dear Hunter was a side project launched in 2005 while Casey Crescenzo was…
Timothy NorrisThis look could catch on one day, right? We all know Coachella is a textbook study on the desire to wear things that no human should. That typically applies to the crowd, which comes decked out in ill-fitting, barely-there outfits, wearing spirit hoodies and every piece of tight neon…
Marco Torres As we mentioned earlier, the bros are freaking bringing it this year! Sure, we all know about the women who wear just about nothing, but the guys are getting exceedingly creative, particularly when it comes to their funny T-shirts. So it’s time to give the men some props…
Oliver ScherilloNew Order NEW ORDER @ COACHELLA | 4/13/13 While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out — they instead got R. Kelly — a smaller but perhaps-more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits…
); return false”>It may be a bit early, but Coachella 2013 seems to be the Year of the Bro. For the ladies, it’s business as usual, but the bros are really bringing it, from humorous neon t-shirts to costumes to all-around chiseledness. But there’s more to being a bro than…
Many in music world are reeling this morning over the loss of Chi Cheng, the masterful Deftones bassist who passed away yesterday at the age of 42. Word of Cheng’s passing was posted on OneLoveForChi.com, a site that was established shortly after a 2008 car accident that left him comatose…
Is Daft Punk playing Coachella? This is the burning question of the festival, being asked everywhere from the campsites to the press tent. Even though the French dance-punk duo officially squashed the rumors, not many people seem to be buying it. At least, not since last night. Just before Yeah…
Timothy NorrisThis dude’s actually drug free. But he still knows his rights Hate to say it, but some of you at Coachella (which starts today!) are going to be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. Cameron…
GREEN VELVET @ BETA | SAT, 4/13/13 Curtis Alan Jones created the Green Velvet persona to head up his deejaying gigs, and in the early 1990s, his productions (including “The Stalker” and “Preacher Man”) gained the attention of dance fiends all over the world. The Chicago house legend has been…
