KATE NASH With Peggy Sue 11.06.10 | Ogden Theatre Kate Nash, it turns out, is fucking punk rock. Yes, the Kate Nash with a single called “Merry Happy,” the one with the dress-up music videos and glossy studio singles. An understandable first glance might lead you to believe she is…
PAUL OAKENFOLD With Zen Freeman 11.05.10 | Ogden Theatre See the full slideshow Paul Oakenfold, who headlined the Ogden Theatre last night, has been spinning steadily to crowds around the world since the late 1980s. He has quite a track record, having founded the Perfecto imprint in 1989, the responsible…
It’s that time again. Time to start hanging the lights, decking the halls with bells of holly, and rally in a fevered eleventh-hour attempt to even up the Naughty/Nice ratio on Jolly Old Saint Nick’s list. What? Yes, we know it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. Relax. We’re not trying swag…
There is no plausible reason an Ian Cooke show should be only five bucks. But tonight, you can catch Denver’s polished gem at Moe’s Original BBQ — on a lovely first Friday night, no less — for the low price of a cocktail. While we await the release of his…
STEVE AOKI With J Flash • Lond Dungeon • DJ Shares • DJ Mada 11.04.10 | Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom Another hit-or-miss Thursday night and another total hit. Steve Aoki, aka Kid Millionaire, shut down Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom last night closing just after the enforced cut-off time for booze service. Braving…
Steve Aoki, the creator of Dim Mak records — the label responsible for pushing MSTRKRFT and Bloody Beatroots into the spotlight, and recently recharging Atari Teenage Riot’s career — does a lot of things, mostly involving highly successful parties. Aoki (aka Kid Millionaire), playing Cervantes tonight, is a remix master,…
BEST COAST With Sonny & The Sunsets 11.03.10 | Bluebird Theater The Twitter Universe is a strange one: The ability for fans to connect with and receive semi-personal information directly from people like Dolly Parton and Just Bieber — or in this case, Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast — is…
Lil Wayne (aka Lil Tunechi, Weezy, Bird Man Jr., Mr. Carter) — Thank god you’re finally free! It has felt like a decade has passed in the pop world since you’ve been at Rikers. The Black Eyed Peas/Will.I.Am reign of Billboard terror has continued, most recently enveloping one of your…
Two Cow Garage from Columbus, Ohio, makes you forget that a ton of people have done the country-rock thing before — mainly because the band’s songwriting is smart and delivered with un-ironic conviction. Although the act’s recorded output is remarkably strong on its own, on stage Two Cow always seems…
At Casselman’s Monday night, at a listening party for Gypdahip’s latest mixtape, Magic, in a move that surprised everyone — if for no other reason than no one saw it coming — brikAbrak was asked to join GirlGrabbers, the production and beatmaking consortium of Gypdahip and Qknox. For the producer…
Justin Bieber, Anton Dodson — every individual who devoted a special solo dance to Ginuwine’s “Pony” — they all have YouTube to thank for providing a free entertainment platform to millions of viewers. California-bred singer and songwriter Kina Grannis, who plays the Soiled Dove Underground tonight, took advantage of the…
We adore robots here, so when a flier has a giant robot featured prominently, it’s already got a leg up on the competition. Throw in a vacuum tube for a head and it’s impossible to resist. MTHDS, the subject of this week’s feature profile, gives us all of this on…
SUFJAN STEVENS With DM Stith 11.2.10 | Paramount Theatre “I’m high,” someone near me whispered with a wink just before the lights went down and Sufjan Stevens’s band of black v-neck-T-shirted accompanists started tuning their instruments together in a cacophony of sound. About three songs into the set, when we…
DRAKE With Tyga 11.02.10 | Wells Fargo Theatre It seems Tyga — last night’s opener — got the memo that donning a puffy vest in Colorado makes you automatically likable. We have braved decades of trends in those things, and nothing makes you look native quite like sleeveless body armor…
Darius Rucker might not have a whole lot of street cred these days as a country singer, but it’s still kind of a big deal if he asks to sing with your band, which is what happened to MTHDS a few years ago when it was based in Vail. The…
Strip clubs may be good for your health. That’s the word from Lakewood-based VCG Holdings, which owns the Diamond Cabaret, the Penthouse Club, La Bohème, the three PT’s Showclub locations and thirteen other clubs in nine more states. According to VCG president Michael Ocello, the company hired Empire Research to…
Christian Atencio and Sean Payton formed Gritch in the spring of 2006, brought together by a mutual love for well-crafted, well-produced pop songs informed by simple melodies. The band’s debut album, The World Was Asleep, is full of refreshingly spare songs with subtly lush atmospheres and a penchant for taking…
“It’s been assumed I’m soft or irrelevant/’Cause I refuse to downplay my intelligence.” So raps Dessa on “Bullpen,” from her debut album, A Badly Broken Code, released earlier this year on the Doomtree imprint. Although her inherent “hardness” has yet to be tested, it’s clear that Dessa is an intelligent…
Sesame Street couldn’t handle mixing kids’ programming with Katy Perry cleavage, but Yo Gabba Gabba! gets it right every time. Perhaps it’s because one of the show’s creators, Christian Jacobs, is MC Bat Commander of the Aquabats. After becoming a father, he and a friend created Gabba, which began to…
The Eames Era was a promising indie-pop band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with songs appearing on commercials and TV shows when it broke up in 2008. Out of the ashes of that project, Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner formed Generationals with Tess Bruneh. With a retro-’60s sound element being just…
Crimes of Passion comprises five songs of melodic hardcore that sound like they draw inspiration from Hot Water Music and that ilk — you know, that kind of anthemic, fist-pumping punk rock that plays well with people who missed out on the silver age of hardcore nearly a decade in…
If this, her sophomore album, was meant to spark a tour playing snack time at preschools nationwide, then Jenn Cleary hit the nail on the head. She doesn’t sing so much as baby-talk, occasionally to a melody and more often not. And what she’s goofily intoning is the lyrical equivalent…
