Concerts

Supergroup Slaughterhouse consists of Crooked I, Royce da 5’9″, Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz, who combined forces in 2009 to rip the hip-hop game to shreds. All street buzz and promo, the group’s first single, “The One,” from its self-titled album, was dropped on Budden’s Twitter account, and the masses responded…

Tom Petty is an iconic American songwriter whose songs are easily on par with fellow legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Petty’s guitar-driven anthems are instantly relatable monuments to Americana that exude a certain timelessness that belies their obvious vintage. Tunes like “American Girl,” “Breakdown,” “Here Comes My Girl,”…

Greek mythology is teeming with dudes who want to murder their fathers so they can bang their mothers. Nevertheless, as compelling as it is, I don’t really buy Freud’s Oedipus theory; personally, I’ve never felt any particular urge (that I’m aware of) to take my mother to the bone zone…

Given her background in Western swing, gypsy and vintage jazz and bluegrass, it’s not surprising that all of those styles surface on Katie Glassman’s sixteen-track long-player, Snapshot. While Glassman is clearly an able singer, her fiddle playing is exceptional — which also makes sense, considering that she started playing when…

Case Study, the new album from the outfit formerly known as 20:12, finds the act experimenting with different types of hip-hop to see what resonates. From traditional boom bap to elements of dubstep to rock, the material is all over the place. As varied as the record’s rhythm is, however,…

Mojo Nixon’s music and the reputation of his outrageous stage persona precede him. The hilariously wrong songs that he wrote with his then-partner in crime, Skid Roper, such as “Elvis Is Everywhere” and “Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child” were songs everyone knew, even if they weren’t…

DJ Beufie, owner of Native Soul Recordings and Speakeasy, is coming in from New Mexico for another episode of Supernova’s House Revival. No stranger to Denver, Beufie has been playing shows out of his home base in Albuquerque for several years, where he’s been instrumental in shaping the city’s dance-music…

This split LP has Black Sleep of Kali doing something it does well on songs like “Cosmonaut,” and that’s anchor you in space somehow while a parade of burning sound drifts past you — like you’re one of the tune’s namesakes shooting toward escape velocity. Then, near the end of…

Killing Kings are getting back together for the reunion show the Denver hardcore scene has always wanted but never expected. Three and half years after their last show, the band is reuniting to raise money for a friend who was hurt and struggling to pay medical bills without health insurance…

Neon Indian (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) got a boost early in its career by online media, and by the time of the act’s first album, Psychic Chasms was released, there was a pretty big buzz around his blend of synth-driven, R&B inflected pop songs. Alan Palomo and company…

Just one week embarking on its recent format shift focusing on electronic dance music, HOT 107.1 brought in its first high-profile guest for an interview and performance this past Saturday. Shortly after noon, Ellie Goulding stopped by the studios to play some tunes for some lucky listeners, followed by an…

DEEP MEDI MUSIK @ CITY HALL | 4.7.12 City Hall felt the bass on Saturday night, the real bass, thanks to the Deep Medi crew coming all the way from across the pond from London to commemorate the five year anniversary of Sub.mission. The local crew put together an unprecedented…

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 4/8/12 It would be a tough to pinpoint a specific climax of this show, but a true high point of feeling for the band — and probably the crowd — came with the last number of the set when Kawabata Makoto used some…

THE DIRTY FEMMES @ HI-DIVE Like any relationship, a live band needs to first find common ground with its audience, and then and work from there. This is made extremely easy when you’re whole set is duplicating material the audience is already familiar with. The crowd will burst with enthusiasm…

GOTYE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.6.12A sun rose in a blood red sky as Gotye unleashed the first notes and lyrics to “Eyes Wide Open,” one of the more upbeat tracks — and first single — off of Making Mirrors, the album he released in the late summer of last…

FUN. @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.5.12 There’s no question that Fun. is fun. The band, fronted by Nate Ruess formerly of the Format, has been compared to Elton John and Queen, turning out tracks of pop rock that are accessible, bouncy and really effing awesome to yell in your car…

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY @ BOULDER THEATER | 4/5/12 Explosions in the Sky began the show on a high note with the familiar, siren-like guitar figure of “First Breath After Coma.” Sounds came in waves and then floods, as Chris Hrasky struck an almost martial beat with his snare and…

Here we are, already in the first week of April, the sun is shining and the weather is sweet. There are a ton of parties happening this weekend in which you can shake your groove thang, post up in the back and nod your head, or just get plain silly…

Welcome to the end of the work week! Unsurprisingly, your musical options are plentiful this weekend: Gotye packs the Ogden tonight for a sold-out show with Kimbra, Fun. is at the Fox Theatre, John Scofield returns to Colorado after the successful three night stand with Phil Lesh not too long…