Over the weekend, photographer Brandon Marshall stopped by Vinyl, El Diablo, Barry’s on Broadway, Blue Ice, Sputnik, hi-dive, 3 Kings Tavern, Badger’s Pub and Skylark Lounge to capture the nightlife on South Broadway. What’s your favorite South Broadway hangout? See also: – Midnight on South Broadway – Midnight in LoHi…
Quixote’s True Blue has relocated a few times since first starting out sixteen years ago on 9150 East Colfax in Aurora as a place where Deadheads and kindred spirits could gather after the passing of Jerry Garcia. Next month, the now iconic Denver bar will move again into Bender’s Tavern…
DEFTONES @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 10/19/12 Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has an unmatched intensity on stage. With his trademarked disposition, Moreno hovered commandingly over the crowd, hunched over and screaming until the veins on his head popped out, belting songs like “Tempest,” one of many of the band’s songs that…
Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! And what a glorious weekend it’s going to be. Have you seen the forcast? What’s more, the Broncos have a bye-week this week, which means there’s no reason at not to get out in the sunshine during the day and then treat yourself to…
Let’s get this straight: There is only one Madonna. Unless, of course, you’re counting the number of times Madge has reinvented her sound and her look throughout history, in which case there are dozens. And last night at the Pepsi Center, they all came out to see the original. There…
Whether your taste is old-school minimalist techno by way of Detroit or bass-driven, glitch-laden tunes that have gained popularity recently, there’s something for everybody to love on this weekend’s Dance Card: Christian Martin headlines a two-day benefit for Scott Christensen at NORAD, Daniel Bell’s at Satori, Michal Menert at Cervantes’,…
FLYING LOTUS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 2/4/12 The Ogden Theatre was hit last night with the bowel-shaking earthquake that is Flying Lotus, who opening his set with a sample from Lil Wayne’s “I feel like dying.” While we didn’t check with every single person, we’re pretty sure the bass-emitting frequencies…
HOPSIN @ CERVANTES’ MASTERPIECE BALLROOM | 10/18/12 If there was a reoccurring theme last night at Cervantes’, it was a pronounced disdain for the recording industry. Spitting in the eye of the industry with bravado, with each artist on the Funk Volume Tour boasting about their independent status, the night…
The scene from A-Trak’s house party last night at Rhinoceropolis: People were pushing, shirts were off, sweat was dripping to the ground like so many leaky faucets then rising from the beer soaked floor to form the most disgusting sauna you can imagine. The best moment of the show, which…
CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION @ ORIENTAL THEATER | 10/18/12 From the beginning of its set, Crime and the City Solution created an intimate, sensory immersive environment with a flood of atmospheric sounds built from what seemed like Persian music. The instruments interacted with each other as though emulating waves…
MADONNA @ PEPSI CENTER | 10/18/12 Don’t fuck with Madonna. She’ll shoot you dead. Or, at the very least, if you’re at the Pepsi Center on a Thursday night in October, she’ll make you wait an extra hour until she goes onstage. But this is Madonna we’re talking about here…
Okay, something truly disturbing is happening right now on the radio — and, no, we’re not talking about that inescapable, goddamned “Call Me Maybe” tune (though that song can suck it, too!). No, there’s something far more troubling being broadcast right now on the 103.1 frequency on the FM dial…
This weekend, Christian Martin is coming to NORAD Dance Bar. And while this was noteworthy enough to us to feature Martin’s appearance in this week’s Scratchin the Surface, if you ask NORAD owner Preston Douglas, there’s a bigger, much more important reason to head to his club this weekend. A…
CRYSTAL CASTLES / HEALTH @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/17/12 Crystal Castles (Ethan Kath and Alice Glass) carry out the perfect combination of disaffected mystery; the duo’s artistic rebelliousness is a coalescence of beat-driven abrasion, sterile melody and the ability to not give one fuck if anyone in the audience is…
It was one of my first days working at Wax Trax, and I was talking to Duane Davis,” recalls Jimmi Nasi. “It was a slow moment, and I just said something about liking Journey, and he pretty much fell off his stool laughing. Then he said, ‘That is the first…
If writing only one kind of song were a crime, Eldren (due this Friday, October 19, at the hi-dive) would be innocent of all charges. By design and inclination, these guys have a broad palette of instrumentation and sounds to use in the songs they write and the shows they…
Although considered by many to be a hip-hop producer, Steven Ellison has displayed musical and artistic ambitions that are clearly not confined to a narrow range of classification. Drawing inspiration from the late hip-hop genius J Dilla, Ellison, under the moniker Flying Lotus, has likewise brought considerable imagination and a…
Formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1977, Crime and the City Solution was one of the seminal post-punk bands of the era. Upon moving to Melbourne in 1978, the band and its leader, Simon Bonney, befriended like-minded souls the Boys Next Door (later called the Birthday Party) and had an impact…
When the Deftones came storming onto the scene in the mid-’90s, they were initially filed in with the much-maligned so-called nu-metal scene. A broad, all-encompassing term that applied to any metal act blending disparate elements into its music, nu metal proved to be an albatross for the Deftones, as it…
New York’s Freelance Whales is another big, bustling band that collects instruments like kids used to collect Pokémon cards, then deploys them in ebullient arrangements of soaring indie pop. Before the group unleashed its 2009 debut, Weathervanes, on the world, it tuned up by busking at subway stations, making for…
Somewhere between soul, hip-hop, jazz and funk lies Ten Pound Elephant’s self-titled EP, five tracks that stand alone as complete, diverse and distinct pieces, but that also hold together to an extent. Ten Pound Elephant’s sound is characterized by idiosyncratic funk guitar, smooth sax and tight, straight-ahead drums. The instrumentation…
A record to brighten up even the cloudiest of days, the debut from Denver’s latest orchestral rock collective, Mega Gem, is a hyper collection of anthemic melodies and ascending choruses. The band, which boasts an ever-fluctuating roster of seven to twenty members (including guest spots by Princess Music’s Tyler Ludwick…
