Umphrey’s McGee at the Fillmore Auditorium, 2/11/11

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…

Tonight: Hollagramz debuts new member at Galactic Leash

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…

Tonight: Good Times are in store at Casselman’s

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…

This weekend, Rhino transforms into… a fort?

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…

Tonight: Punch Brothers at the Boulder Theater

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 finally finishes its studies

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,…

The Decemberists at the Boulder Theater, 2/9/11

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…

Five reasons Dilla’s still missed five years later

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…

Tonight: Bobby Long at the Bluebird

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…

Guitar Hero franchise overdoses and dies

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 at the Pepsi Center, 2.8.11

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…

Tonight: Das Racist at the Larimer

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…

Woodsman open up a black hole over our heads

Sometimes all it takes to catch our eye is a nice big landscape on a flier. Even if we can’t quite make out what cities are being mashed together here, this one still manages to peak our interest in the show and the material based solely on our passing interest…

Tonight: The Dead Kenny Gs at the Fox Theatre

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…

3OH!3 cameos on Hellcats with Ashley Tisdale

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,…

With Rare Forms, Woodsman focuses its musical experimentation

“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…