Our 55 favorite musical releases of 2010

At the end of each year, after everyone’s weighed in on their favorite releases, the overall critical consensus is always interesting. Invariably, a number of titles consistently crop up on countless lists (ahem, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). But while you’ll find many of those acclaimed albums represented in our…

Moovers & Shakers 2010: More of our picks

As we compiled our annual Moovers and Shakers issue this year — a rundown of our favorite local releases from the past year — we found, once again, that there were simply more albums that we dug than we had space to devote to in the paper. Thankfully, no such…

Nü Metal quilt will keep you warm with ’90s nostalgia

Memorable Christmas gifts are made with love, and in the case of this gent, his Christmas gift is infused with a rap-metal logos of the ’90s and early 2000s. Many of the classic T-shirts are there: the Korn Adidas rip-off and 40 ounces, the Coal Chamber ice cream truck, the…

Public Enemy, Drive-By Truckers, Sepultura shows announced

After hitting South Africa and Australia in December and January, legendary hip-hop act Public Enemy makes its way to the Ogden Theatre for a co-headlining bill with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe on Saturday, February 19. Jurrasic 5’s Chali 2na opens the show. Tickets ($25) for the 16 and over show…

Elvis meets Nixon to fight drugs: 40 years ago today

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sealed his fate as the first rock-and-roller who got too old and joined the Man. The White House meeting between the King and Richard Nixon was the former’s idea — he’d written a six-page letter proposing the visit and asking to be made a…

Moovers and Shakers: Our favorite Denver music releases of 2010

Whatever your measure of success — whether you define it as adventurous artists making boundary-pushing music and then releasing it themselves, or as acts with commercially attractive songs that get a more mainstream push — you have to agree: A music scene is only as interesting as the music being…

The former Roxy Theater is up for lease

Since it first opened as a movie house eight decades ago, the Roxy Theater (2549 Welton Street) has gone through many incarnations, most recently as a dance club. The building is one of many properties in Five Points acquired by Charles Cousins, who passed away in May 2009. Some of…

Gina Star spins on Christmas at Beta

It’s a long way from Dallas, Texas, to the United Kingdom, but Gina Star has made the transition with both glamour and aplomb. The DJ/producer has seen several sides of the music business — at one point, she was the director of A&R at Thrive Records, putting her ear for…

RIP Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart

The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 years old. Beefheart is survived by his wife of forty years, Jan Van Vliet — and…

Low at Larimer Lounge, 12/18/10

LOW With Charlie Parr 12.18.10 | Larimer Lounge Fellow Minnesotan Charlie Parr opened the show and brought a classic blues and folk sensibility to his performance. It was a pretty minimalistic, stripped down set-up but if you paid attention to what Parr was doing on guitar, it was intricate, but…

Buzzov•en at 3 Kings Tavern, 12/19/2010

BUZZOV•EN With Kingdom of Magic • Il Cattivo 12.19.10 | Larimer Lounge We’ll get to that confederate wristband in a bit because Buzzov•en’s Southern hillbilly persona did not define this show at all. Might as well start with first opener Il Cattivo because that set was the most fun of…