Mike Wird is a well-known name in the local hip-hop scene. A bona fide B-boy, he’s one half of Babah Wird, a member of Denver Avengerz and a producer — all wrapped up in an Adidas jumpsuit. His debut solo project, Afronaut Funk Volume 1, isn’t quite as funky as…
Passion of the Loose Cannon, With Remarks, the followup to Do-Si-Do for Your Girl, is a bit disorienting at first. There’s a lot going on here. The album opens with a gal talking about seeing the Quentin Young Band at some seedy dive and remarking that the show was amazing,…
When Peter Pisano moved to Minnesota from Milwaukee with his old band, the Wars of 1812, he sacrificed an offer of grad school and a teaching job for an unknown future in a town where he was not aware of any real music scene. What he found was a community…
The members of BLKHRTS — FOE, Karma and Yonnas Abraham of The Pirate Signal — are blazing into the new year with the same fervor and furor that drives their individual careers. The project has great cohesion, which isn’t too surprising, considering the three MCs have frequently featured on each…
Up-and-coming minimalist techno artist Octave hails from Paris and is gaining traction at clubs in Germany, Greece and the Netherlands, as well. On this side of the pond, meanwhile, his “Past Flash” track was included on techno god Richie Hawtin’s album Sounds From Can Elles. Octave’s version of techno is…
The folks at Z2 Entertainment, who operate the Fox Theatre and Boulder Theater, are selling VIP laminates that are good for two tickets to every Z2 show for the coming year. Five of the ten laminates, which run $2,500 and are non-transferable, will have the person’s photos on the passes…
As Autococoon, Caitlin Payne Roberts takes the very personal and makes it public, cramming paragraphs of thought and emotion into simple song structures with fluttering vocal grace. Unlike most touring musicians, the singer-songwriter will be passing through Colorado by way of Greyhound bus tonight, as part of a fundraiser for…
PAPER BIRD Dovekins • Pee Pee 12.31.10 | Oriental Theatre The New Year’s Eve traditions on display at the Oriental Theater went beyond the noisemakers and the balloons. For the second year in a row, Paper Bird shared the bill with Dovekins to ring in the new year. The young…
WARLOCK PINCHERS with Il Cattivo 12.31.10 | Gothic Theater Around 9 p.m., the safety videos started up and it looked and sounded like something straight out of Wonder Showzen. Puppets and people in a gorilla and a robot costume interacted as they would on a warped, faux kids’ show: surrealistic,…
EOTO • HEYOKA • DIESELBOY With Project Aspect • NitGrit • Ishe • SPECTRE J.Wail and Chuck Morris of Lotus • Fresh2Death • Freddy Todd • Jantsen NastyNasty • Liquid Stranger • RumbleJunkie • Larva Ink City Hall Amphitheatre | 12.31.10 City Hall Amphitheatre recently renovated their outdoor stage by…
A NEW YEAR UNDERGROUND With Hence * Eli D * BeeKay * Travis Press * Uriah West * Brick Lee 12.31.10 | Theory + Practice The only sign that the Theory + Practice gallery, 738 Santa Fe Drive, was hosting an epic New Year’s Eve party was the pounding bass…
After over a decade of Colorado-centric album releases, Smooch Records has called it quits. The California-based label released music from over a dozen Mile High City bands with a dark country twinge, putting out music by the likes of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand…
Mother Earth Sound System and CrowdPleaser’s NYE 2010 at the Werks features up-and-coming techno DJ Patrick Russell. Hailing from Detroit, Russell also has a few original productions and remixes under his belt. CrowdPleaser and MESS DJs Tess, Deciprocal and Scott Everett warm up the main floor. Chill out room hosted…
Sound Tribe Sector 9 opened up the first of a three-night residency at the Fillmore Auditorium last night, selling out the venue. If you don’t get tickets for tonight’s show, you can’t blame us! (New Year’s Eve is sold-out.) Photographer Aaron Thackeray was at the Fillmore last night and brings…
Y’all can cancel the Amber Alert. Kevin Kain is alive and well. Very much so. Last night, the local Twitterverse was buzzing with word that promoter Kevin Kain had allegedly been killed in a car accident at the Southlands Mall. Turns out the erroneous rumor was just that. Talk about…
The Epilogues are filming a video, and the band needs your help. Through kickerstarter.com, the dudes are hoping to raise $4K — $1,390 of which they still need to come up with in the next five days — to cover the cost of production, cast, crew and the like for…
It was avery slow week for concert announcements, which usually happens around this time of year, but there were a few new shows added. Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux returns to the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, April 13. General admission ($30) and reserved ($40-$47.50) tickets go on sale next Friday, January…
KDJ Above, a resident in the club rocking scene, is joining the KS-1075 team in a move that has set Denver’s hip-hop world ablaze. This past year, KDJ has been a regular at Gallery 22, as well as the prominent DJ causing a ruckus at Club Sutra’s wild weekly Friday…
We see a lot of posters throughout the year, and many of them are stellar. This usually all comes to a head on New Years Eve, when venues pull out all the stops and unleash a ton of kickass posters. We haven’t seen many, however, that have come even close…
If you’re up this early, you likely weren’t at the “old school” industry holiday party at Jet Hotel & Lounge last night, hosted by Greg Bloom. Which is why you can check out these photos from last night without a single twinge of morning-after regret or under the effects of…
Say what you will about 50 Cent, love him or hate him, you cannot knock the dude’s hustle. While this might not be quite as meaningful to those of us in the Mile High City who can only vaguely remember what snow looks like, if you travel back in time…
THE FLAMING LIPS With Vitamins 12.27.10 | Belly Up Aspen A few weeks ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne stopped by the Belly Up to scope out the 450-seat venue. “I wanted to see how much of a Flaming Lips show [we can do] in this small spot here,” Coyne…
