Fort Collins’s Candy Claws has been able to achieve international attention in large part because they have been so adept at finding creative ways to reach potential listeners. The act’s latest venture, a weekly show called Candy Claws in Dreamland that the members will shoot, edit and write the soundtrack…
Now into its third decade, Sarah McLachlan’s career seems to be burning brighter than it has in a long time. The singer-songwriter was instrumental in bringing women to the forefront in the ’90s with her female artist-focused Lilith Fair tour, a festival that flourished at a pivotal time in popular…
Queens of the Stone Age, who will re-release an expanded and remastered edition of its self-titled debut, visits the Ogden Theatre on Friday, April 8, as part of short tour that only includes fourteen North American dates. On this tour, Josh Homme and company will be playing the entire first…
BEST COAST With Waaves and No Joy 02.14.11 | Fox Theatre Opening the show with “Ghost Blonde,” No Joy provided the perfect blend of noisy garage rock and dream pop. The title track to the group’s debut full-length is one of its best songs and a strong introduction to the…
Salmineo Martin — or Big Sal, as he’s known in the professional wrestling community — built a strong reputation with Juggalo Championship Wrestling and Primo’s Hardcore Wrestling; he even went on tour with the Insane Clown Posse. But while he still spends time in the ring, he’s now grappling with…
If Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds had been born in the ’80s or ’90s, they probably would have written their songs entirely in private and recorded them on their computers before unleashing them on the public. The music of Nick Jones (performing under the Thrifty Astronaut moniker this Thursday, February…
Young the Giant possesses songwriting wisdom and craft far beyond that of a band whose oldest member is only 22. The California quintet is made up of guys who started playing music at a young age and have already amassed more indie-rock cred and mainstream clout than most players who…
Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads is not exactly redefining punk, but these dudes may be responsible for breathing life back into it — or at least one of the labels that helped shape the genre. In February 2010, the foursome signed with punk stalwart Epitaph Records, which will release the…
Going by the moniker “Dee Dee” these days, Kristin Gundred once fronted experimental pop band Grand Ole Party. After that band split in 2009, Dee Dee formed Dum Dum Girls and dispensed with the post-punk of her former band in favor of the kind of singing and songwriting that allows…
Considering its disparate parts — spastic, nearly chaotic song dynamics with angular but wild guitar antics, asymmetrical drumming, a bass that locks in with its eccentric rhythms, and a singer who can’t really carry a tune in any conventional sense — Deerhoof shouldn’t work. And yet the act manages to…
By the time Brazil native Carmen Sandim was seventeen, she had already won national competitions in both Brazilian jazz and classical piano. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, she went on to win several awards for the compositional work she did for television and radio. So it’s no…
Here’s the fake backstory: German pop duo Chön and Biktor have a few favorite things — notably, traveling to space, courting women in extremely ill-advised ways and making ’80s electro jamz. The actual story is that three dudes from Denver — Randy Washington (Chön), Adam Nix (Biktor) and Evan Nix…
Name & Town, Molina’s collaboration with New Mexico’s Diles, is like a rhythmic trip through a psychedelic desert. The track “Meditation,” for example, almost floats out to you with tribal-flute harmonies mixed in with hip-hop beats, eloquent DJ cuts and the deep, warm voice of Molina. As far as features…
Few bands have had as wide-ranging and unlikely an influence as Swans. Starting in 1982 with an early incarnation that included Thurston Moore, the band created music that was like the perfect evocation of anguish and desperate release, with brutally pounding rhythms and seething, atonal sounds to accompany singer Michael…
Walker Barnard’s funk credentials extend back to his childhood, when his father (who made music videos for Motown artists) took him to the set of Rick James’s “Super Freak” video. He’s only gotten deeper into the genre through the years, playing bass in L.A.-based funk band Mobius Trip in the…
ONE NIGHT STAND With Darude • 4 Strings • AK1200 02.14.11 | Sherman Events Center Over the weekend, the Sherman Events Center was host to “One Night Stand” — a Valentine’s Day party put on by Polygamy Productions, featuring Darude, 4 Strings, AK1200 and more spread across four stages. Making…
We thought something seemed a little hanky when we saw the ad promoting Yerkish’s upcoming show at the Gothic Theatre with Vices I Admire and the Foot, as its farewell gig. And what do you know? Turns out, everybody’s favorite simian ambassadors are not — we repeat NOT — in…
Looks like this weekend’s much welcomed warm up shook us all out of our winter funk. On Friday night, The Church held auditions for Caffeine, the March 26 electronic music party at the 1STBANK Center. Photographer Marcus Gadison brings back these photos, which are most likely Not Safe For Work:…
Minneapolis’ Melismatics have a transportative quality, like a step back to a time to when rock and roll was just drums, bass, guitar and vocals. This isn’t a bad thing at all — the band’s nostalgic sound taps into The Strokes’ prime era of the early ’00s, but with the…
FURTHUR 02.12.11 | 1STBANK Center Almost a year after they played the reopening of the remodeled 1STBANK Center and just five months after its three night run at Red Rocks, Furthur, the Grateful Dead spin-off featuring Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia sound-alike John Kadlecik, returned…
With so many great shows happening on Saturday night, it was virtually impossible to stay in one place. Luckily, Denver’s geography makes it fairly easy to maneuver between venues in a short amount of time, so we attempted to catch various bands and performances throughout out the evening, making stops…
DEVOTCHKA With Mariachi El Bronx | Gregory Alan Isakov 2.12.12 | Fillmore Auditorium On this night, Colorado native Gregory Alan Isakov played the role of conquering hero — stepping out onto the massive Fillmore Auditorium stage and looking pleased at the sea of people flooding through the doors early to…
