John Statz may not be a full-time resident of Denver, but the Mile High City shouldn’t take it personally. The singer-songwriter’s unquenchable wanderlust has taken him from Colorado to Wisconsin to West Virginia to Hungary, and during his travels, he wrote Ghost Towns, a full-length dripping with folk-rock immediacy and…
“More Sunlight” begins this EP sounding like Twitch-era Ministry gone disco, almost like Bronski Beat if it had gone in a much darker direction. The Flashlight guys have figured out how to perfectly mix Ethan Converse’s light and expertly executed falsetto with vintage synths and percussion that sounds like it…
Lissie, who was slated to perform tonight at the Bluebird, had to cancel the show. “Just found out my vocal cords are ready to explode and if I don’t stop talking and singing for at least 2 weeks-possible permanent damage,” she posted on her Twitter account. “But I also want…
We’ve received word that Absolutely Huge Entertainment has signed an agreement to take over the Oriental Theater, which became available in August. Headed up by Anna Muniz, who has over twenty years of experience in the bar and entertainment industry, the group also includes Joe Hendricks, who ran the Fallen…
Burbank, California’s DIY label Deathbomb Arc began a monumental sonic undertaking this September, offering up over a hundred songs to subscribers of its year-long “Digital Singles Club” for just ten bucks. Taken from the idea behind the label’s past cassette-tape club — which featured Caldera Lakes, one half of which…
Looking for the best place to rock out in Denver? You don’t say. So are we. What a coincidence. Luckily, this morning we happened upon this helpful bing.com billboard, which promises to help make our daunting quest infinitely easier. The hunt, it seems, at least according to Microsoft’s flagship search…
Some of our most loved fliers are hardly decipherable messes of wacky design, so it’s nice to see something readable and simple sometimes. Simplicity was once a staple among concert posters because they needed to convey two simple facts: who was playing and where. Thankfully, this artist showcase manages to…
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, who have released three live albums together, visit the 1STBANK Center on Thursday, December 9, to play stripped down version of Dave Matthews Band classics. Tickets ($85-$95) go on sale Saturday, October 16 at noon. In support of The Grand Theatre Volume One, which hits…
Houston is like any other city if you were to take away outside interest, camaraderie and hope,” says Tex Kerschen about the town he calls home. “That is to say, it is a vast, overwhelmingly alienating and inherently negative place. There is no money, no glory, and no future to…
The partners at Wild Ivories, the dueling piano bar at 1400 Market Street, have not been making beautiful music together. On the day the club opened in June, Tim Kirkland, one of those partners, says he got an anonymous “Here’s who you’re doing business with” e-mail that outlined a check-fraud…
“When there’s no god left to pray to, you’ll see what I mean.” In singing those words from “Build a Wolf a Cage,” Benjamin Buttice probably doesn’t mean any harm, but that’s just a taste of the bracing lyricism to be found in his songwriting. Like Bill Callahan in a…
One of the Big Four of thrash metal, Anthrax was formed in 1981 by Scott Ian and Danny Lilker. It wasn’t until a few lineup changes later that the act hit its stride with the addition of talented vocalist Joey Belladonna in 1985. Long before it became fashionable, Anthrax introduced…
Matt Berninger’s warbling baritone has the gruff, amber warmth of whiskey. As intoxicating as his band’s songs are, it’s arguable that his voice is at least 80 proof by itself. Berninger, of course, is frontman for the National, a gorgeously morose outfit that has become one of the brightest talents…
Fred Cole was a teenager in Las Vegas in the early ’60s when he recorded with his band, the Lords. For the next decade and a half, Cole soldiered on through various projects, forming the Rats with his wife, Toody, in the wake of punk rock. But Cole wasn’t following…
This Is Happening, LCD Soundsystem’s third album, has a notable duality to it. Although the music is impossibly catchy and danceable, James Murphy’s lyrics — which have always contained a certain amount of bile — seem a little more toned down, and, well, perhaps a little depressed. But the album’s…
To get a good idea of what Tjutjuna’s self-titled album is all about, look no further than the cover: It’s a depiction of the band’s namesake, the Siberian equivalent of Sasquatch, wearing sunglasses with rainbow lenses, the universe and stars behind him. He looks as if he’s peeled back the…
On their latest, Gristle Gals tell a familiar tale of heartbreak and the whiskey abuse that follows. But the way they tell it is far from familiar. Rather than putting on country airs and busting out the steel guitar, the trio tells the tale of an unscrupulous ex with a…
After hearing Joey DeFrancesco’s Live at the Five Spot, a sixteen-year-old Pat Bianchi, who had already been playing organ and piano for about nine years, knew he wanted to play jazz organ. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in the late ’90s, the 21-year-old Bianchi moved to Denver…
German DJ/producer Martin Roth has dubbed his take on dance music “NuStyle,” which involves blending elements of minimal techno, trance and electro into something that, if not “nu” enough to deserve its own genre classification, is at least a relatively fresh take on progressive house. Sounding like a tougher take…
Some bummer news from over the weekend: Early on Sunday morning, the king of rock and soul, Solomon Burke, died of natural causes after arriving at an airport in Amsterdam. Burke left behind a hell of family legacy — 21 children, 90 grandchildren and 19 great-children — as well as…
Over the weekend, NBC summer show America’s Got Talent held open auditions here, attracting, well, all sorts of people. You know, the kind of people you see on America’s Got Talent. We sent intrepid photog Britt Chester to the auditions for the purpose of taking pictures of twenty randos in…
Tommy Metz, the talented maestro behind Iuengliss and one half of the intriguing Yawn Tron duo, has entered into a remix competition sponsored by Warp Records, in which Metz is being pitted against other would-be remixers from around the country. For his part, Metz has remixed a song by Gonjasufi…
