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…
Formed in 1995, Mogwai quickly made a name for itself with adventurous guitar work and a sound that loosened and opened up the imagination. Over the course of the next sixteen years, the Scottish band very much plotted its own course through exploring every sonic whim without losing a strong…
To begin, we had purchased our $50 tickets expecting to be entertained by the Violent Torpedo of Truth, and as we entered, before the show even began…they gave us even better tickets. Apparently, since people bailed on the show last night at the Wells Fargo Theatre, over half the place…
Every fifth Saturday, local house-music ambassador Brett Starr coordinates House Revival at the Funky Buddha, a night of three DJs, one rooftop and a mixed-up format with spiritual undertones. Starr corrals two different house DJs every month, and he and the visitors mash their varied sounds into a single set…
In case you aren’t going to see Chuck Sheen spit tiger blood all over the crowd tonight at Wells Fargo, there are plenty of other things to entertain you this fine evening. Not that Chaz isn’t worth dropping a sizeable stack of loot to see if he WINS! or loses,…
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…
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…
ROBERT PLANT & BAND OF JOY With North Mississippi Allstars 4.27.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Say what you will about his refusal to reunite Led Zeppelin and his musical journey since that project ended: Robert Plant is and has always been a rock god. He reminded the Fillmore last night just…
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…
In the middle to later half of the 1990s, John Vanderslice (due tonight at the hi-dive with Damien Jurado) was a member of the respected Bay Area alternative rock band, MK Ultra. When the band split in 1999, Vanderslice took the delicate intensity and experimental edge he had brought to…
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…
We’ve already decided we’re big fans of Debbie Clapper’s pattern-based art based after seeing her work in a few art shows and around town, but she doesn’t kick out enough concert posters for our liking. Thankfully, this week we get a nice demonstration of her skills with a pen and…
Charlie Sheen’s “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option” tour hits Denver Thursday, April 28, at the Wells Fargo Theatre, but is Denver ready for Charlie? More important, is Charlie ready for Denver? Using highly scientific research methods, we’ve developed the Tiger Blood Barometer® to determine if Sheen…
This week in local hip-hop, we have a bunch of new tracks from a fresh new face, Kid Plat, as well as some others we’re already familiar with, including a food-heavy cut from Turner Jackson, a nostalgia-tinged track from the Roadside Profits, and a very grown-up collaboration featuring Haven, Surgon…
Lollapalooza turns twenty years old this year. Can you believe it? We can’t. Doesn’t seem like it was two decades ago when Perry Farrell introduced America to his roving festival in 1991. The inaugural version, which made a stop at Fiddler’s Green, featured Farrell’s band Jane Addiction, along with Nine…
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…
Former Sony Corporation president Norio Ohga, the man widely attributed for pushing Sony into a new generation that led to the standardization of the Compact Disc format, passed away on Saturday from multiple organ failure. He was 81. While Ohga left Sony in 2000 to focus on music — namely…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: On the concert front, we’ve received word that Kings of Leon is slated for a two-night stand at Red Rocks with Band of Horses, Tony Bennett is due at Ellie Caulkins and Symphony on the Rocks will feature Sarah McLachlan,…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
