Tonight: Xavier Rudd at the Ogden

Australian-born performer Xavier Rudd (who performs tonight at the Ogden Theatre with HoneyHoney) takes the multi-instrumentalist label far beyond its usual connotation. In addition to creating music with his voice and an acoustic guitar, he employs didgeridoos, djembes, cymbals, stomp boxes and slide guitars. This is perhaps why Rudd’s music…

Tonight: Dovekins at the Oriental

Dovekins (due tonight at the Oriental tonight with Brethren Fast) is a hard band to pin down. The group employs bluegrass instrumentation, gospel-style singing and a little bit of psychedelic folk rock to create its own unique sound. Each member’s contribution is key to making the group work as a…

2011 Transistor Festival lineup announced

Since 2007, The Transistor Festival has been bringing together Denver’s experimental electronic scene in what has since become a massive three-day festival in the dead center of summer. This year will be no different, and the recently released schedule looks like it’ll be an incredibly diverse, action-packed weekend running from…

Boss 302 reunion at Larimer Lounge video, 4/24/11

This past Sunday, April 24 at the Larimer Lounge, a bunch of friends of Rick Kulwicki got together one more time to celebrate the life of the dearly departed guitarist at the Pure Sunshine BBQ. Boss 302 reunited for the occasion, and our art director Jay Vollmar was there and…

Tonight: Between The Buried And Me at Summit

Between The Buried And Me (playing tonight at Summit Music Hall with Job For A Cowboy, Cephalic Carnage and The Ocean) are seasoned veterans of the metalcore genre. Forming in 2000, the post-hardcore leaning band’s prog-rock tendencies are what really sets it apart from a scene now saturated with screaming…

Tonight: Tobacco at the Larimer Lounge

Beat-man Tomas Fec (aka Tobacco, who performs tonight with Beans and Shapers at the Larimer Lounge) is not only a sound manipulator, but has the warped visuals to match. Tobacco’s musical creations are best experienced live for this reason, as he projects pop- and consumer-culture collages while creating his live…

Moolah Music is Innerstate Ike’s best work to date

“I remember hopping out the car and just praying to God to please help me,” says Innerstate Ike, recounting a fateful night almost six years ago when he was shot while sitting at a stoplight in Capitol Hill. “I looked on the other side, and Cac was on the ground…

Hart’s Corner in Lakewood reopens with former owners

You can trace the history of Hart’s Corner Bar & Restaurant through the black-and-white photos hanging on one wall of the building at 5201 West Mississippi Avenue. Hailed as the oldest business in Lakewood, it got its start as a root-beer stand during Prohibition, then became a small barbecue joint/gas…

Slakjaw, April 29 at 3 Kings Tavern

The music of Slakjaw sounds like the members of the band took Eddy Joe Cotton’s book Hobo to heart, hopped a train and then stumbled off the rails near the 20th Street viaduct somewhere around 1992 and spent the intervening years crawling their way through all the bars, collecting and…

J Mascis

As the primary songwriter for Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis influenced a generation of guitarists by bridging the gap between hardcore, experimental guitar rock and psychedelia. Mascis’s songs perfectly balance sonic aggression with fluidity, and his lyrics speak deeply to a generation of people who came to realize that they will…