Concerts

Terribly sad news to share in case you’re like us and somehow managed to miss this when it happened more than a month ago: On Wednesday, October 19, bluesman John Alex Mason died from complications after a routine surgery. The gifted guitarist, who was just 35 years old, is survived…

Antarctica is apparently brimming with bass players. That’s what prompted Frank Abbatecola, who spent the better part of a decade there building runways for the National Science Foundation, to switch instruments. “I went down there as a bass player and came back as a singer and guitar player,” notes Monroe…

After a long run as Joe’s Buffet, the building at 753 Santa Fe Drive went through a number of incarnations, including Club Mystery, Club 753 and, most recently, the Sound Kitchen. Now Marcus Giavanni has taken over the three-story, 15,000-square-foot space, which he’s dubbed The Cow — as in “cash…

The same people who would label True Aristocrats’ music as “prog” would probably think the same thing of Naked City or Mr. Bungle. Not that the Aristocrats (due at Road 34 in Fort Collins on Saturday, December 10) sound anything like either of those two projects, but a vibrant spirit…

The mathcore and metalcore titles attributed to Converge never quite fit. If musical precision is a requirement for the former, and heavy, breakneck-paced riffing qualifies as the latter, then Black Flag deserves the same designations. Converge was started in the early ’90s by a group of guys who didn’t really…

At Panorama Bar in Berlin, sunrise forms the perfect backdrop for Cassy’s warm, soulful DJ sets. Those early-morning workouts run the gamut from deep and tech-house to straight techno and minimal, and they’ve made Cassy famous within international dance-music circles. She relocated to Berlin after meeting Cadenza Records boss Luciano…

Everyone has heard of Guns N’ Roses, and for better or worse, most people have a strong opinion of the band. But what’s often lost in the tangle of melodrama and inter-band recriminations is what made GN’R popular in the first place. Appetite for Destruction came out of L.A. at…

Freddie Gibbs, the mixtape assassin from Gary, Indiana, is on the come-up. Signed to Young Jeezy’s Corporate Thugz Entertainment imprint, “Gangsta” Gibbs has a collection of underground street gems from projects like The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs, released after he was dropped from Interscope in 2009. Most impressively, Gibbs released…

The last time I tripped mushrooms, it went down exactly the way you might imagine it: I was sitting on a patio nursing a beer when an elfin bearded dude — wearing, I shit you not, a stovepipe hat — bounded up and told me to open my hand. I…

Between Josh Homme’s various bands and Fu Manchu, Torch the Wagon’s influences are easy to pick out. Even so, this isn’t the stoner-rock sort of thing that was rampant here a few years back. Instead, the band takes the splintery groove of its obvious inspirations and puts some real drive…

Although its moniker might imply a sound that’s massive and earthshaking, Seismic Event’s alt-rock is tamer than a defanged tiger. Just the same, even though the band splits the difference between acts like Kings of Leon and the Fray, the seven songs here aren’t necessarily wimpy. Frontman Tyrel Sloan’s vocals…

Out of the Blues, Papa Juke’s followup to 2009’s Jukin’ at Jack’s, draws from the blues in many forms. Early on, the four-piece displays a knack for writing tunes all across the blues spectrum, from blues-tinged funk numbers like “Never Lost Love” to jazzy blues cuts like “Sizzle” and jump…

DJ Ktone brought together a variety of contributors for Left Lane Music vol. 1. The album is heavy with tracks from Denver artists like Anxious (for the smoker-friendly joint “Put It in the Air”) and Innerstate Ike (check him out alongside E-40 on the street love song “From the Soil,”…

In the fall of 2010, Robin Edwards of Lust-Cats of the Gutters wrote to CJ MacLeod and Ethan Hill and asked if they wanted to play a late-December show at the Carioca Cafe (aka Bar Bar) in December. Mcleod had seen the Lust-Cats months before and had written about them…

You might expect an artist with a name like Punisher to be a big man with an attitude, but that’s not the only surprise musician Michelle Herrmann has in store for those unfamiliar with her. The Detroit techno impresario began her career in 1993, at the tender age of fifteen,…

Heyday, My Body Sings Electric, Beats Noir, Saints, Monroe Monroe, Eldren, Reno Divorce, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Swayback, Churchill, Photo Atlas, In the Whale

Update (12/6/11): Suspicions confirmed. The mighty men of TaunTaun are indeed reconvening to play a show. “I don’t want to call it a reunion,” says Ian O’Dougherty, “because we never broke up. This is just for Jim.” The Jim in question is Jim Norris of 3 Kings Tavern, where TaunTaun…

Snowball 2012 lineup ticket info, Big Boi, MiMOSA, BoomBox, Ghostland Observatory, Gauntlet Hair, the Head and the Heart, TV on the Radio, Bassnectar, Rusko, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Elephant Revival, Avon Colorado

Welcome to Memory Lane Monday, our latest feature in which we hop into the Hot Tub Time Machine and spotlight a band from the bursting annals of bygone Denver music. This week: Lionize, a band we used to catch once upon a time when we were underage at Sonesta in…

The Solution, the Best of Denver award-winning club night hosted by DJ Low Key, Sounds Supreme, and DJ Lazy Eyez, is back and will take up a monthly residency at the Meadowlark for the city’s newest, hottest live music showcase. The premise of the party is to showcase a dope…

SCOTT KELLY at HI-DIVE | 12/3/11There were plenty of signs around the hi-dive last night indicating that this was an acoustic show. Meaning: Talking was ill-advised. Even so, some people near the stage decided to have a conversation at the beginning of Scott Kelly’s set, at which point he kindly…