It’s that time again: time to start making your festival plans for the coming year. Specifically, Burning Man, as tickets for the largest desert gathering since Moses led people to the Promised Land go on sale in about an hour (11 a.m. local time, to be exact). The festival, which…
PLACES @ MARQUIS THEATER | 1/7/12 No one seemed more surprised by the turnout at the Marquis Theater on Saturday night than the seven members of Places. The CD-release show for the septet’s new album, No More Wasted Days, drew a capacity crowd, and the audience’s feverish and energetic response…
THE SKELETON SHOW @ Carioca Café (“Bar Bar”) | 1/ 7/12Halfway through her set, after hitting who knows what chords and wailing about being hatched from a witch’s egg and flying high, Sara Century held up the guitar she was playing and asked if anyone had a pick, as she…
MUDHONEY @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 1/6/12Though the mood hanging from the heads of the Bluebird Theater crowd last night was a heavy one, it was also bittersweet — Mudhoney, the Fluid and the bands’ mutual fans were gathered together to remember their friend, Fluid guitarist Ricky Kulwicki, who died in…
CATTLE DECAPITATION @ MARQUIS THEATER | 1/6/12It’s a pretty strange reality to hear a lead singer, in preparation for his show, soundcheck first his real voice and then his “metal” voice in repeat succession. For the record, Cattle Decapitation leader Travis Ryan’s do not match — at all. Both his…
What are you doing with yourself this weekend? There’s a number of parties to keep you rocking, including the Box Media Empire calendar release at Rockstar, the reggae vibe will be in full effect at both at Opal and Blue Ice and there’s an electronic drum-and-bass mash-up at Summit Music…
Even in the early part of January when the concert calendar is typically just barely beginning to ramp back up after the holiday season, there’s still plenty of great music to catch. Tonight, Mudhoney’s at the Bluebird, Cattle Decapitation’s at the Marquis, the Wailers are at the Fox in Boulder…
World-renowned DJ Christopher Lawrence is heading to Denver this weekend; underground artist Hugh Cleal will play Bar Standard tonight, or you can get your dubstep fix with Vaski or Stephan Jacobs. Keep reading for details:…
Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It’s really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It’s confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear…
Some sad news to report today: We’ve received word that bluesman Creighton Holley passed away yesterday. The news is devastating to the scene, in general, but particularly for the blues community, which is still grieving the loss of John-Alex Mason, who passed away this past fall at the tragically young…
Three of the city’s hottest R&B singers, Amanda Hawkins, Devan Blake Jones and American Idol alumnus Julie Zorilla, are performing together on one bill this Friday night at the Walnut Room. The trio of Mercury Sauce artists will be showing off their singing and songwriting chops with one of the…
While the term “surf rock” could be applied to the music of Moon Tides (due at the hi-dive this Saturday, January 7), “dream pop” would probably come closer to describing the sound of this Fort Collins-based band: hazy, breathy vocals underneath delicate, shimmery guitar melodies. And although Moon Tides is…
In his six years on the job, Herman’s Hideaway security manager David Barber has seen mike stands get broken, equipment get mashed, sets lit on fire, bands fall off the stage and, at least once, a bandmember threaten to stab the staff. This, he admits nonchalantly, did not increase that…
This Saturday night, inside of Club Glo (in the space formerly occupied by the Heartthrob and Catamaran Liquor Stand), a brand-new club night will make its debut. Four area promoters (Parlay Productions, Dream Entertainment Group, Take Off Ent and Still Livin Entertainment) are coming together like Voltron to present Limelight…
Oh, man! Maybe the Mayans are right after all, and we really are doomed. Here we are, a mere four days into the New Year, and already we have the first sign of the pending apocalypse: We’ve just learned that on Saturday, May 19, Creed is coming to the Paramount…
Have an old guitar lying around collecting dust that you’ve been meaning to play but somehow just never got around to actually playing? Yeah? How about putting it to use? Flobots.org is seeking donated instruments for its Art 2 Action and Youth on Record programs. As you’re probably aware, the…
The name of the young man from Highlands Ranch who died as a result of the injuries sustained from a fall at 1STBANK Center after Pretty Lights’ New Year’s Eve show has been released: Twenty-year-old Chris Engel was a graduate of Thunder Ridge High School and a junior at Colorado…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from the Ting Tings and Wale were announced; Dressy Bessy, Oh Starling and John Common got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys, Young Jeezy and Sunn 0))) were among…
In early November 2011, Colorado Springs Air Force Academy cadets jumped on the LMFAO-spirited Party Rock wagon for a tribute to the band’s song, “Sexy and I Know It.” In a lip-dub-style video honoring RedFoo and SkyBlu’s comedic clip, the cadets face the Army soldiers in a dance-off full of…
ITCHY-O @ 3 KINGS TAVERN | 12/31/11 A number of people at this show had no idea what Itchy-O was about. So when one of the uniformed cadre of musicians, his arms lit up with a short row of lights, went running through 3 Kings just prior to the performance,…
It’s tough to single out a distinct voice when speaking to the men of Places. There are seven guys in the band, and they frequently talk over one another. But it’s not the sheer numbers that make isolating a single member a chore. It’s the fact that they each offer…
Someone should really make a movie about the saga of the Wailers. Founded by reggae legends Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963, the seminal reggae band and its various members have influenced every style of reggae imaginable, from roots and rocksteady to dancehall and ska. It has…
