Concerts

The name of this recording (and of the band) perfectly fits the music found on it. Frontman Al Trout, whose deep baritone at times recalls a murky Lee Hazlewood, sings about ghosts, vampires, devils and outlaws. The EP’s dusty tunes are steeped in sinister Americana. “Lonesome River” and “Inky Wine”…

Spoke in Wordz, a master of wordplay, has returned with a new compilation and collaborative album, Power of Wordz. Essentially, the record is a gathering of his favorite MCs and a showcase of their individual talents — a collection of dope verses from veterans and more than one new kid…

For the past few years, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk has traversed the country on multiple tours, often from its base of operations at a house called The Bandit Teeth in Lawrence, Kansas. Without making a conscious effort to do so, Baby Birds helped to build a loosely defined regional…

Up-and-coming San-Francisco-based artist Ana Sia describes her sound as “lots of low-end love featuring deep, grimy dubstep, big and beautiful wonky whomp, and glitch-infused global-slut psy-hop.” If you caught her at the Global Dance Festival in ’09, then you know this translates into ass-shaking grooves designed to get as many…

Yesterday, while Lil Wayne was presumably not diligently monitoring his Twitter account, it was compromised by an unknown Tweeter. Surely the Internet break-in sucked for Weezy once he was alerted, but the bigger problem lay in followers’ laps: The faux LilTunechi was a blathering idiot, subjecting us to 140-character spurts…

WOVENHAND With Git Some 01.15.11 | Marquis Theater On the cusp of its tour with Wovenhand, Git Some seemed in high form to win over at least a few people in the audience on Saturday night at the Marquis Theater. Less chaotic than earlier incarnations of the band, one thing…

Nielsen just dropped some stats about music consumer behavior that will probably make record labels a bit more nervous. The study uses a bunch of futuristic sounding terms like “hyper-fragmentation” and “digital natives,” but when it boils down to it, reveals what we already know: People are consuming media in…

The largest musical collective in Fort Collins will be coming to Denver for a trio of shows in February. Act So Big Forest becomes the second group to curate a residency series at the Meadowlark after Hot Congress did it in November…

Tonight, stalwart local DJ Nutmeg presents “Off the Wagon” at Funky Buddha. Nutmeg and guest DJs encourage you to fall off the wagon and “ditch those pesky New Year’s resolutions for a night of rug cutting techno.” Sounds like our kind of party. (No cover, 21+)…

Trish Keenan, singer for British band Broadcast, died from complications of pneumonia this morning. She was 42. Forming in 1995, the group produced a handful of singles and full-lengths over the years, but had remained fairly dormant until Keenan and bandmate James Cargill brought Broadcast out as just a duo…

This summer, Lipgloss will be celebrating its tenth birthday, and for a dance night, that’s some pretty serious commitment. Michael Trundle, a founding member of the Denver3 — the dudes who started the now-Friday-night institution back in 2001 — knows what it takes to keep the masses rolling back to…

Wovenhand (due at The Marquis Theater tomorrow night with Git Some) is the current musical project of David Eugene Edwards. In his early bands, Bloodflower and The Denver Gentlemen, Edwards was developing an aesthetic that some consider synonymous with all the significant music to have come out of Denver…

In the early ’90s, Liz Phair (due at the Bluebird Theater this Tuesday) started releasing tapes she called Girly Sound. These early tapes revealed a wide-ranging and playful musical creativity and helped to establish Phair in the underground music scene in Chicago. Somehow these tapes made it into the hands…

Colorado’s easy-going persona has always been a magnet for transplants, and hey, if we had a beach, our population would probably rival California’s. But for Raven and the Writing Desk — a band who’s founding members, Julie Libassi and Scott Conroy, landed in our fair square state via Boston in…

Sole, aka Tim Holland, is looking for a little help from fans to fill the streets with Tea Party extras this weekend for his newest video, “White Rage.” The filming will be going down Saturday at a currently undisclosed location downtown around 2 p.m. Click through for full details if…

The folks in the Whiskey Bottles may be based in Boulder, but they clearly have an affinity for Southern-flavored alt-country and Midwestern Americana. Ain’t No Crime, the quintet’s debut, is absolutely brimming with equal amounts of grit and twang. Singers Molly Orlando and Dylan Ward pleasingly trade off lead vocals…

Jimmy ‘Stx’ Blair, drummer for Heart & Soul Radio (formerly Animo and Dork), just issued a statement that took a tremendous amount of guts to make. “If I have learned anything recently,” he states, “it has been that there is no time like the present and complete honesty is always…

Okay, so here’s a nutty idea. Last week, Taylor Swift topped the Billboard charts once again by selling 52,000 copies of her Speak Now album — an industry low, reportedly, taking the title from the Dreamgirls soundtrack, which previously held the distinction with 67,000 sales…

A date has finally been set for the premiere of Denver Undiscovered, the eagerly awaited documentary project spearheaded by Dane Bernhardt of Crazy Horse Studios and our own Tom Murphy, focusing on the high points and underexposed aspects of the Denver scene. The film, which is being presented in concert…

Before the womp-womp of dubstep, there was the brap-brap of drum-and-bass. Tonight, Beauty & the Bass brings drum-and-bass back to the forefront, with massive sounds provided by local movement heads Despise, Fresh Breath Committee’s DJ Skip Rip, and Nofrendo — whose multiple sonic talents we profiled last summer — on…