Concerts

GOGOL BORDELLO Forro in the Dark 10.27.10 | Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO In some regards, a Gogol Bordello show is kind of like sex: It’s a sweaty and exhausting experience, one that you can’t really fully comprehend until you’re balls-deep in it. Sure, you can sneak peeks at your dad’s…

Gary Numan may best be remembered by the masses for “Cars,” — a song that was once swept into those inaccurate time capsules known as generic “Greatest Hits of The ’80s” compilations that used to be sold on television. But the truth is, the song came from an entire album…

Hollywood has been fascinated with the idea of punk rockers since the word was originally coined in the ’70s. It’s a rare case that they get it right, and it’s even more amazing that nobody has devoted any significant time looking at the ways Hollywood has destroyed, showcased, revered and…

Looking for WMAs of Third Eye Blind? You’re going to have to look elsewhere. Effective immediately, LimeWire, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing service, has gone the way of pagers, pay phones and the Walkman. In 2006, the music industry filed a suit against the service for a “massive scale of infringement”…

Houses primary songwriter Andy Hamilton has a lot more where that came from. And he’s feeling generous. Yesterday he announced plans to start giving away music. “Well, I’ve got a hundred songs doing nothing but taking up space on my external hard drive,” he tells us. “They aren’t doing me…

MUMFORD & SONS King Charles • Cadillac Sky 10.27.10 | Ogden Theatre What happens when a band plays a concert at a venue that’s smaller than what it theoretically could sell out? Well, for starters, you can scalp your $20 ticket for 75 bucks, no questions asked. And for another,…

Alejandro Ocana, who performs as 2MEX, also performs in the politically conscious hip-hop group the Visionaries and the similarly minded Look Daggers, with Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta. In all of his projects, solo and otherwise, Ocana’s beats bring a heightened sense of atmosphere to the songs that, on…

The modern bluegrass revival might not have happened if not for Hot Rize, the members of whom met each other through the Denver Folklore Center in the mid-’70s. Kindred spirits in their appreciation for the folk music they were exposed to as kids, the members of Hot Rize made bluegrass…

It was perhaps a more altruistic time, or maybe one that just relied on telvision more. The era of after-school specials, from 1972 to 1997, was a time when these shows caused so many awkward moments at the dinner-table, but admittedly were also the teacher of life lessons mom and/or…

Halloween weekend is just a few days away, and Denver is overflowing with ghostly activities. We know it’s a daunting to keep track of all the events, so we’ve compiled a handy list of two-dozen ways for you to get your Halloween on. Whether you’re interested in dance parties, rock…

Halloween should really be the entire month of October, not just one day. That’s how its celebrated, anyway, with suburban multiplex haunted houses starting up before fall even hits, and pre-Halloween parties in full effect. This Thursday, Neon Knights goes down at the Meadowlark, as a pre-Halloween, post-Gary Numan concert…

THE BLOODY BEETROOTS With Boyhollow 10.26.10 | Ogden Theatre Despite freezing temperatures and a biting wind, fans lined up outside the Ogden for Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77. Instead of scaring people off, the cold weather kept everyone inside and dancing for the entirety of the concert…

RED FANG With the Swindlers, Black Acid Devil and Decay 10.27.10 | 3 Kings Tavern After the Swindlers, a female-fronted power quartet, wrapped up their set, the brilliantly titled Black Acid Devil took the stage to play its own brand of sludgy stoner metal. Black Acid Devil switched back and…

Its hard to tell if a band is as popular in other states as it is in our fair square one — as a music-listening population, Colorado fans are eclectic and devoted, coming out in droves for every style of music imaginable. So it’s no surprise that Horrorpops, taking over…

Mickey Melchiondo keeps getting distracted. Speaking via telephone from his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Melchiondo — better known to fans as Dean Ween — has taken several breaks to attend to domestic duties. There’s the screaming tea kettle on the stove that he’s minding for his wife, who stepped…

With Halloween coming right up, there are plenty of ogling opportunities around town. Lotus Entertainment has parties at all four of its clubs, which kick off on Thursday, October 28, at Oak Tavern (1414 Market Street) with the Playboy Halloween Party, featuring 2007 Playboy Playmate Sara Jean Underwood. On Friday,…

My Sister Outlaw was an eclectic, all-female band that played poppy rock music and possessed a stage presence with a theatrical flair. In 2008, when that band broke up, Suzi Bromfield, Jocelyn Holst and Andrea Allen kept in touch and continued to experiment with music together with a new drummer,…

Seemingly hand-picked by Lil Wayne to watch over the Young Money label empire while Weezy did time at Rikers Island, the doe-eyed Drake gladly took the throne, ego and all. After a string of successful mixtapes brought the rapping crooner to the masses — tracks like “Houstalantavegas” and “Best I…

With the release of 2003’s Greetings From Michigan, Sufjan Stevens embarked on an ambitious project of writing a theme album for every state in the union. Five years later, Stevens is releasing The Age of Adz, which, while possessing an interesting theme of its own, leads us to believe that…

As a founding member of Pocahaunted, Bethany Cosentino had a direct hand in that act’s ability to bring together spooky drones and what can best be called “outsider funk.” In 2009, she parted ways with the band and began to write the kind of sunny pop songs heard on Best…