TIESTO With Robbie Rivera 11.13.10 | 1STBANK Center Holland’s native son, superstar trance DJ and dance music producer Tiesto, boasts a resume that would be hard not to find impressive. Some of its highlights: Headlining Coachella and Bonnaroo; a Grammy nomination for his 2007 album, Elements of Life; performing during…
SMALL BLACK With Class Actress • Pictureplane • Vitamins 11.13.10 | Rhinoceropolis This was a grittier than ever version of Vitamins. On the first song, it was obvious that someone had triggered a sample or a loop or something generating electronic sounds behind the band. Either way, it filled in…
SAVOY With Trajikk • Kostas • Alex B. 11.13.10 | Ogden Theatre Savoy electrified the Ogden with their crazy dirty, electro beats and a lightshow that made for one of the best productions I’ve seen in ages. The night started off with sets from Trajikk and Kostas of Triad Dragons…
BROTHERS O’HAIR With Weather Maps • The Fling 11.13.10 | Larimer Lounge One year and two months since their first show together, Brothers O’Hair returned to the Larimer Lounge with their first recording in tow. And people noticed. You could not stand within thirty feet of the stage without being…
DANZIG With Withered • Toxic Holocaust • Marduk • Possessed 11.12.10 | Ogden Theatre Atlanta’s Withered set the stage for much of what was to follow with its admixture of death metal and grindcore. But instead of playing with lightning speed, this band seemed to care more about mood and…
VOODEUX With Tanner Ross • Worthy • DJ Hipp-E 11.13.10 | Beta The Roots Dirtybird & Mothership Showcase at Beta featured some of the best house and techno sets Denver has seen this year, all rolled up into one slick package and blasted over an amazing sound system. Tanner Ross,…
HEY MONDAY With We Are The In Crowd • the Ready Set • Cartel • This Century 11.12.10 | Marquis Theater If there was any question as to whether this show was sold out, the line snaking past the Gin Mill just before 7 p.m. dispelled any doubts. Each of…
A few weeks ago, Tom Murphy and I were sharing stories, and somehow we got on to the subject of Tornado Dream, a fascinating film chronicling the rise and fall of three great Denver bands, Rainbow Sugar, Orbit Service (an earlier incarnation; Randall Frazier has since brought the band back…
Witch House: Bigger than “Chillwave,” not as controversial as “Rapegaze,” maybe existing somewhere on a plane with the short-lived, but massively influential No Wave? The internet-seeded musical genre took on a life of its own earlier this year, with bands like Salem, Shams and our own Pictureplane being touted as…
Formed in 2009, Weekend started out as a trio comprised of guys from punk and hardcore bands in the Bay Area who wanted to do something with a broader sonic palette. Often compared to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Weekend doesn’t really sound like either so…
Everyday is Halloween for Danzig. Tonight, you can see Glenn in all of his dark, shirtless, wavy black-haired glory at the Ogden theatre for just 35 bucks — or enter to win tickets by telling us five souls more evil than Danzig. Danzig has made an admirable , forty-plus year-long…
ALOE BLACC AND THE GRAND SCHEME With Air Dubai • Maya Jupiter • Foodchain 11.10.10 | City Hall Amphitheater I’d been seeing posters all over town advertising Aloe Blacc and the Grande Scheme’s show at City Hall with Air Dubai and FoodChain. What those posters failed to mention — and…
For this week’s installment of the Hot Congress residency at Meadowlark, the group is bringing out the big guns, with Hindershot being joined by Vitamins, Kissing Party, and Luke Hunter James-Erickson. For the entire month of November, the collective and record label has handpicked each weekly bill, pulling from their…
Black Magicians From the Mountains of Mars is a bit of a mouthful. And an eyeful, for that matter. And while not everyone from that band migrated over to Skully Mammoth, the colossal sound sure did. Someone reaching for a genre descriptor for the kind of music made by these…
“Pleroma” sounds like a collage take on IDM, post-rock and dream pop, like if Geogaddi-era Boards of Canada blended together bits of sound ideas from Sigur Rós and Radiohead. On Redefinition, Dan Barnett has crafted a melancholy yet expansive set of music that suggests night travel by air over an…
If this is a real record — meaning it didn’t come as a free gift with my flare jeans purchase from Wet Seal in 1995 — then it’s rather alarming that someone would make something like this in 2010. This EP is filled with brain-jarring cliché after flippant cliché, beyond-formulaic…
For more than fifteen years, Ian O’Dougherty was in Uphollow. Early on, Uphollow was something of a melodic punk-rock band, but by the late ’90s, it had evolved into an act that included a lot more nuance and conscious craft in its songwriting. Around the turn of last decade, Ian…
If the DJs at HallowFreakn’Ween didn’t offer enough creepy, haunted-house-worthy tracks for you, then you won’t want to miss Voodeux Live (due at Beta this Saturday, November 13). Comprising two well-respected producers — James Watts, AKA KiloWatts, a downtempo/breakbeats/techno expert, and Tanner Ross, who creates techno and house tracks –…
The itchy-O Marching Band will take its, ahem, marching antics to cable TV tonight for an episode of the DIY Network’s Disaster House, a show that’s best known for demonstrating unusual techniques to destroy homes and then showing you how to fix them back up. Tonight’s episode, which airs at…
Kanye has gotten a lot of flack for doing some absolutely wonky things. Most recently, a photo of his junk mysteriously appeared on the Internet, followed by word that he copped the microphone on a Delta flight last week to perform for the cabin, and last night, he evidently had…
Once upon a time, DJs played records, and going to the club was a dressy affair. Enter Double//Shadow, a flashy, free party happening this Saturday night at Beauty Bar, hosted by musician besties James Holden (of Astra Moveo) and James Yardley (of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake.) The night aims to…
Rock posters have a long and storied history with silk-screening. It has been a tradition in poster and flier design for as long as the promotion of rock concerts has existed. It’s this very fact that warms our hearts when we see local shows with silk-screened posters, and this week…
