Concerts

Sounds like the P-Nuckle dudes are shuffling the deck again. The band is about to play a new hand on its new album, The System, the follow-up to Stand Up, last year’s primarily reggae-driven record. Flush with a new rhythm section, the outfit is leaning more toward a heavier, old…

EMINENCE ENSEMBLE With DAMN RIGHT! and DJ Skywalkerr 01.18.11 | Cervantes Otherside Last night at Cervantes’ OtherSide, Eminence Ensemble shared the stage with DAMN RIGHT! in front of an impressive Tuesday night turnout. Boulder’s DJ SkyWalkerr bounced and bobbed as the opener for an hour or so, but didn’t really…

Last night at the beat battle competition in Aurora, things got off to a pretty lively start. The place was crawling with DJs, hip-hop heads and, of course, the producers who were to enter the battle. It was all beats and rhymes, until somebody got chased out of the bar…

LIZ PHAIR With Le Divorce 01.18.11 | Bluebird Theater As Le Divorce got things going last night, the room was pretty crowded, a nice change from the typical turnout for opening acts. It was entirely appropriate that Le Divorce opened for Liz Phair, seeing as how frontwoman Kitty Vincent has…

Since forming the forward-thinking big band Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra about five years ago, Tyler Gilmore has won the 2009 ASCAP/Columbia College Commission in Honor of Hank Jones, as well as the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award for the past three years. In addition to composing for and conducting the Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra,…

Looks like we have another producer battle on our hands. Colorado Beat Box is going down tonight at the Spillway (3740 East Quincy Avenue) in Aurora. According to Yak of PMG Solutions, the company presenting the battle, the competition is designed to show the skills and production chops of the…

We have to hand it to a band that makes us physically LOL. A searing vision of George Costanza running out of the bathroom, pants around his ankles and screaming “Vandelay Industries!” was one of the funnier scenes to resonate from the Seinfeld series — and tonight at the Larimer…

You can chalk this one up to one of the stranger announcements we’ve seen in a while. It looks like Curious Sense, the development studio in North Carolina who made the REO Speedwagon game last year, will be bringing the Grateful Dead into the realm of the Beatles, 50 Cent,…

Lissie With Dylan LeBlanc 01.17.11 | Bluebird Theater Lissie walked on stage to the Twin Peaks theme song. That should come as no surprise, as she’s a well-publicized fan of the show. The lesson here and throughout her set at the Bluebird: Lissie is not big on subtlety…

Although Lyrics Born has already amassed a resumé that any MC would envy — founding member of Quannum Projects; collaborator with Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, KRS-One and many others, just to name a handful of credentials — he believes the best is yet to come. “I see…

The Deadbeat Club has been revived. But this new Deadbeat Club is not the iconic venue that Regas Christou ran at 4040 East Evans Avenue in the ’90s. After he gave up the venue in the early 2000s, it went through several owners and incarnations. When Steve Lyons and his…

Trees pushes a lot of air when it gets on stage with its bank of nearly wall-to-wall amps issuing forth colossal, crushing, menacing, loping sounds that recall Neurosis circa The Eye of Every Storm without that band’s essential weirdness, or Wolves in the Throne Room minus the more ridiculous black-metal…

Early on in jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson’s career, he listened to a lot of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. While Terrasson says he doesn’t listen to the three pianists as much as he did two decades ago, when he was starting out, he’s taken what they’ve given him…

San Diego’s Crocodiles aren’t from New Zealand, but they seem to share an aesthetic kinship with a number of the classic Flying Nun bands of the ’80s and ’90s like Straightjacket Fits and the Clean. But the members of Crocodiles have also clearly absorbed their share of sunny psychedelia by…

The product of an unholy coupling of technical death metal and guttural grindcore, Engage the Mechanicality — the second and latest release by Kansas’s Diskreet — is less concerned with genre purity and more obsessed with snapping necks. That said, there’s a sinister cerebration to the group’s necro-centric onslaught. Steeped…

Guitarist George Lynch auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne before hooking up with Don Dokken to form Dokken in 1980. Throughout that decade, the band’s output was lumped in with the kind of hook-laden hard rock that some derisively called “hair metal.” However you viewed that musical milieu or the songs of…

With Son of the Crack Era, Mr. Midas, with his gravelly flow and bouncy cadence, has created an album from the perspective of a hustler that would make Jay-Z proud. The second track, “Talking Bout Me,” immediately draws on the paranoia and insatiable appetite for survival found in Jay’s “Can…

Much as Brian Eno’s Apollo was the breathtaking soundtrack to the visual grandeur of the film For All Mankind, Decay may have been conceived as music for the current state of American society and its power and influence in the world. “Mayflies (for strings and pedals)” is an eerie mesh…

BLKHRTS’ six-song debut is impressive upon first listen and continually rewarding and compelling upon additional spins. While all of the MCs involved (Yonnas Abraham of The Pirate Signal, FOE, Karma, Catch Lungs, Haven) are in dependably top form here as they trade verses with one another and add shading with…