Concerts

It’ll be déjà vu all over again when the Psychedelic Furs share a bill this week with Tom Tom Club, a fellow hallmark band of the new-wave era. The Furs, who crawled out of England’s punk scene, leavened their roiling, tempestuous rock with touches of pop, with Richard Butler’s blustery…

Extra Kool and Satyre once worked together as Optik Fusion Embrace, and the two recently teamed up again for this album full of wry observations and playful musical experiments. It opens with “Optik Fusion Is Dead,” a Danny Elfman-esque recounting of the duo’s history since the breakup. “Everyday Living” is…

Neil Haverstick is well known for pulling musical experimentation out of the realm of theory into practice. For more than twenty years, the guitarist has explored 19- and 36-tone tuning structures, expanding his instrument’s vocabulary beyond its traditional 12-tone confines. While past releases like 2009’s Spider placed Haverstick’s style in…

The name AuntEaters seems apt for a punk band — so when this Pueblo-based quartet opens Marionette with the Ennio Morricone-tinged instrumental “Rabbit Ears Pass,” fit for the opening credits of a spaghetti Western, it’s a little disorienting. But once the disc kicks into gear on the second track with…

Joy Division made an immediate mark on the world of music with its two full-length albums, 1979’s Unknown Pleasures and 1980’s Closer. The desperation, anger and psychic torment of those records is all but unparalleled in the annals of rock music. Singer Ian Curtis’s tragic suicide, two months before the…

When the members of TV on the Radio announced they were taking a hiatus in the fall of 2009, they did what anyone would have come to expect of them: They stayed plenty busy. Kyp Malone released his first solo album, while Dave Sitek moved to L.A. — and also…

We all know Denver’s got a sick dubstep scene, and the fact that underground players have taken bass into the streets before just serves to prepare dubstep lovers for the two-day Bass Invasion 3 festival at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom — because this time, two stages and four walls won’t be…

Judging by the response to the debut of Cacheflowe and Brer Rabbit’s Yo Soy Sauce project last month, there’s clearly some differing viewpoints on the quality of the song. Now, however you feel about the track, whether you love the track or hate it, here’s a chance to remix it…

Over the weekend, seven people were injured at Red Rocks, four of whom reportedly sustained significant enough injuries that they required treatment at some area hospitals, when some rocks on the north side of the venue fell on them at the end of STS9’s set. In an interview with 9NEWS,…

DMX at THE GOTHIC THEATRE | 9/10/11DMX is loud, energetic and, at least for what he gave at the Gothic Theatre last night, in the same shape he was in when he first lifted his voice with the infamous query, “Where my dogs at?” back in 1997. Exploding onto the…

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 at RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 9/9/11Since this was a sold-out show, there was really no possibility of my seeing the opening act, Up Until Now, as I was trapped on the south staircase in a sea of wookies and wookettes. Granted, there really wasn’t anything I…

THE DON’TS AND BE CAREULS at the HI-DIVE | 9/9/11 The Don’ts and Be Carefuls did something at this “Triple EP Release” show that you just knew the band had in it but you might not expect to see: they fused the exuberance and innocence of its original sound with…

Local imprint, Ash From Sweat (To Be Eaten, Zombie Zombie, Collapse) which just celebrated its tenth anniversary last month, preparing to enter it next era with the release of a split 7-inch split with Norweigan band Wits End and the DC-based Perfect Future. While that in itself may not be…

“It’s not your usual standard variety of variety show,” deadpans Anabella Lafontaine, one of Denver’s burlesque divas, when discussing Saturday night’s Burlectronique event. “It’s a little edgy. Most of it should be a lot of burlesque to totally different music — not the classic bump-and-grind — plus, it’ll have art…

This Saturday night, September 10, Rhinoceropolis is throwing benefit show to help The Silent Barn, a sister venue in Queens, New York. This summer, the the independent art, music and living space was raided by the city and tenants were forced out. The following night, theives broke in and stole…

Whether you’re a local scene junkie or strangely attracted to artists without vowels, there’s no shortage of things to do over the next two days. Here’s what’s good this weekend: On Friday at 3 Kings Tavern Virgil Dickerson’s Suburban Home Records kicks off its weekend long celebration of its 16th…

Dixon, one of the top ten DJs in the world as voted by Resident Advisor last year, is definitely the big news in electronic music this weekend; the Berlin-based techno king will no doubt tear up the dance floor at Apex on Saturday. In the meantime, we’ve got plenty more…