Concerts

UMPHREY’S MCGEE with The Kyle Hollingsworth Band featuring DJ Logic The Fillmore Auditorium | 2.11.11 Following two sold out nights at Belly Up Aspen, Umphrey’s McGee came through Denver to the Fillmore Auditorium for a half day of meet and greets, some live, fan-directed, improvisational jamming, which ultimately culminated into…

Update: See photos from last night: Photos: Hollogramz at Galatic Leash, 2/11/11 Tonight at Real Is a Feeling’s party Galactic Leash, local techno/rave-proponent Hollagramz (aka Ron Cole) is debuting a new member to his project and releasing an EP at a rave-to-end-all-raves tonight in a rented warehouse out on the…

Dave Parrish joins DJ Nutmeg this Friday for Musik1st’s monthly night at Funky Buddha Lounge. For nearly fifteen years, Parrish has been one of Colorado’s top techno DJs, and Nutmeg isn’t exactly wet-behind-the-ears, either. The two scene vets playing together should make for an exciting night of quality underground techno…

Tonight, Casselman’s will be rocking for the show being hailed as simply, Good Times. And that’s just what it sounds like, a plain old good time, a great excuse to party like it’s Friday night. There’s going to be live performances from Lamp! Food Chain, S.O.L.I.D, Fresh Breath Committee and…

Something different is going on this weekend at Rhinoceropolis. What that something is, exactly — well, now, that’s a great question. The event posting, which is rather vague, urges us to “come get mad” and then goes on to say: “BRING CANDY, CHOCOLATES, WINE, HOMEMADE GOODIES.” Say what? “I don’t…

Built solely on the intricacies of a well-trained string section, Punch Brothers are equal parts bluegrass and modern classical music. Chris Thile — known also as a member of acoustic band Nickel Creek — leads the quintet with his gentle and powerful voice. But it’s his expert mandolin playing that…

Forth Yeer Freshman (aka Forth Yeer) is soon to be pushing daisies. After more than a decade of debauchery, the hooligans that make up the band have decided to put the old moniker to rest and write new material under a new and completely different handle. To commemorate the occasion,…

Umphrey’s Mcgee will be returning to Colorado after starting their two-month long tour that spans the great U.S. of A. from the East coast to the West. Starting in Boston late in January and winding down the Atlantic coast, UM’s tour made its way back to the motherland, Colorado, for…

Editor’s note: Two of our writers were at the Decemberists show last night in Boulder, and so today we present you with two different accounts of the show from two different perspectives. Two for the price of, uh, none, as it were — well, unless you count the cost your…

The hip-hop purists among us are very familiar with the story and legacy of James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla. Having come up in the hip-hop underground scene in Detroit and later emerging as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop, it was Dilla’s death at the…

Oh, Bobby Long, how hard we swoon for you. If it wasn’t for the first Twilight soundtrack, we might have never discovered your gruff, Southern-by-way-of-London voice, perfect for carrying songs of heartbreak and seasonal love…

During last Friday’s Larians show at Astroland in Boulder, someone stole well over $700 in cash from the venue. The space needed $850 for February’s already overdue rent, and donations were solicited on Facebook. By Monday, $1,000 had come in from 25 donors. We talked to founder Zack Roif, a…

In a statement alongside it’s quarterly and annual fiscal report, Activision, the company behind the Guitar Hero series, effectively put the axe on the series. Over the course of the last two years, the series has seen dropping sales due to a market that’s completely saturated and an expensive peripheral…

OZZY OSBOURNE With Slash 02.08.11 | Pepsi Center Ozzy Osbourne layeth the smack down last night at the Pepsi Center with Slash — he of the shaggy mane, top hat, Velvet Revolver and, of course, Guns N’ Roses — in tow. A chair-packed stadium floor might not be what the…

Joke rap hinges upon one thing: Whether an artist is laughing at themselves, or if the rest of the world is just laughing at them. Das Racist are clearly laughing at themselves — best evidenced in the track “Hahahaha JK” where they explain they’re not joking, just joking, they are…

Do the Dead Kenny Gs exist as the antithesis of Kenny G’s existence? Absolutely. This is what makes them awesome, of course, beyond the simple fact that a band name like that sums up how the general listening public in 2011 probably feels about Kenny G — if they feel…

So this happened: In case you missed it — God knows we did — 3OH!3 recently had a cameo on Hellcats, in which the Boulder boys performed “My First Kiss,” with a scantily clad Ashley Tisdale serving as a sultry proxy for Ke$ha. Nice! Uh, what the hell is Hellcats,…

Anti-piracy and counterfeiting prevention company Envisional recently released a report detailing the 10,000 most popular files crossing the streams of BitTorrent trackers. Porn has taken the top, uh, seed, followed closely by non-porn film, while music was near the bottom of the list. What happened?…

“I’m just interested in DIY culture and the whole aesthetic and idea behind creating your own existence,” says Trevor Peterson. “Especially in the creative world — not relying on outside corporate interests to fuck things up.” Peterson’s words echo a sentiment that has informed the efforts of acts from Black…