Review: Game at the Ogden Theatre, 11/3/11

GAME at THE OGDEN THEATRE | 11/3/11Last night at the Ogden, Game had so many fans draped in red on stage with him, it began to look more like the red sea, rather than a band of hip-hop hooligans representing for their favorite MC. A few things are still clear…

B.U.F.F. Brothers bar group splits up

The B.U.F.F. Brothers group of bars and restaurants has broken up. After thirteen years, Rob Lanphier split from his business partner last month and started his own company, Pour Kids. Noonan’s Tavern (13521 East Iliff Avenue, Aurora), which B.U.F.F. opened in March, is now part of Lanphier’s portfolio, as is…

Critic’s Choice: Glass Hits plays November 4 at the Larimer Lounge

Joe Piza, Dave Beckhouse and Brian Wilson were in hardcore band Warsaw Surrenders around the middle of the last decade. That band split too soon, but the three started playing together again before long and recruited former Vaux bassist Greg Daniels and vocalist Keith Curts, who had been playing in…

Jeffrey Gaines

It’s somewhat befuddling that the song that brought Jeffrey Gaines the most notoriety in his career is one that he didn’t even write, nor was it even really meant to be released. But when a radio station latched onto a live version of “In Your Eyes” — a Peter Gabriel…

Dirt Nasty

In the early ’90s, when he began his pop-culture career, Dirt Nasty was better known as Simon Rex — a super-tan MTV VJ and the occasional star of screwball comedies and prime-time teen shows. Around 2007, Rex went in a new direction: He adopted the Dirt Nasty moniker and became…

Judas Priest

It’s easy to forget that Judas Priest existed at the dawn of heavy metal, because the band’s most well-known releases are rightly affiliated with the new wave of British heavy metal. Starting out in 1969 in Birmingham, England (the home of Black Sabbath), the group solidified its classic lineup in…

The Appleseed Cast

Before emo became something of a joke marketed to emotionally overwrought teens, bands like Braid and Mineral and the early Appleseed Cast were lumped in with that genre. By the turn of the century, though, the Appleseed Cast had already evolved into something else. Experimenting more with the noises you…

Thrifty Astronaut

On Apple-Eaters, Thrifty Astronaut’s Nick Jones has pushed himself a little in terms of production, but he’s done so without losing the rough edges that have always made his songwriting so compelling. The title track has lyrics and a vocal delivery worthy of Jad Fair, but the music is more…

Green River Vibe

From the opening cut (“Calling of the Angels”) on Sun Comes Up, Green River Vibe’s debut, it’s pretty clear where the quintet is coming from: About halfway into a rock-infused reggae groove, the tune breaks down into a hip-hop interlude. The players, who all met while studying music at the…

ProCyse and Fo Chief

Nothing Else Matters, the impressive mixtape collaboration between ProCyse (Soulfficial) and Fo Chief (Fresh Breath Committee), showcases some great writing and stellar lyrics. The seven original joints here — there are ten tracks in all — show off each MC’s diverse flow and concepts. ProCyse tends to stay in the…

IZ

The latest offering from long-running experimental guitar band IZ is filled with the kind of metallic riffs the project has often used to produce its idiosyncratic art rock. Part Frank Zappa in a heavy and unpredictable mode, part Motörhead’s gritty drive and part Dinosaur Jr’s penchant for warped, melodic aggression,…

Lizzie Huffman is a Pretty Old Soul

Although these days Lizzie Huffman plays what she calls “country folk pop,” the 22-year-old singer-songwriter says she was more into hip-hop and R&B artists like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill early on. But just as she was becoming a teenager, she discovered classic country singers like Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells…