Listening to Our Slow Decay, Black Sleep of Kali’s latest effort, calls to mind easy comparisons to Torche because of the heavy melodicism and aggressive vocals, while the progressive structures and densely layered, expansive guitar work recall mid-era Isis. Rather than clutter the songwriting by hitting the listener with as…
Based in Brooklyn, the Depreciation Guild made prominent use of the Nintendo Famicom early in its career to build electronic rhythms to underlay founder Kurt Feldman’s luminously melodic guitar pop. Inspired in part by artistically ambitious synth-pop bands of the ’80s as well as experimental, melodic guitar bands like Cocteau…
Catch Lungs is a bright, emerging MC steadily making a name for himself, both as a member of the Fresh Breath Committee and on his own with a pair of mixtapes, 2008’s Food the Famished and his latest effort, Sleeping Pills Scriptape. Born John Morse in Grand Junction, Catch Lungs…
German trance duo Cosmic Gate — Nic Chagall and Bossi — has spent the last decade producing exactly the kind of slick, spacey trance you’d expect from a German trance duo named Cosmic Gate. It’s big, it’s shiny, it sounds best after 2 a.m. with a head full of illicit…
The founders of Next Big Sound believe the Boulder-based tech company can use online chatter to uncover the next big breakout bands. To test their system, we asked them to track down the most buzzed-about Colorado acts. And here are the results: the top 24 bands listing Colorado on their…
Cash Cow Recording Company started nearly two decades ago with vinyl releases from Squid, Tugboat Annie, Milf and others, but it was inactive for the past thirteen years, and has recently been reborn as Cash Cow Productions. And what better way to get back into the swing of things than…
Alright, so remember a few weeks ago when we told you about Illegal Pete’s Starving Artist program and how they’re feeding touring musicians coming through Denver. The initial response was like, “Wow, that’s pretty cool, but what about the musicians that live here?” — a very reasonable question, if you…
The old “cut up magazines and make it look like a ransom note” approach is so old school, it may have existed before there was a school. But it’s fallen so far out of favor that when it’s occasionally revived, it’s hardly fair to call it cliche. Throwback maybe –…
A mansion once occupied by the late, great Ronnie James Dio, who passed away earlier this year, is up for sale, and it’s just barely out of our price range at a mere $3,333,000! Based on the pictures that accompany the listing, it looks like quite the spread. While a…
EELS With Jesca Hoop 10.05.10 | Ogden Theatre When we interviewed Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) last week, he said he was having the most fun he’s ever had on tour and that it might surprise people how much fun the shows are. Sure enough. Last night’s show…
If you tune in to Dancing With the Stars tonight, chances are good that if you pay close attention, you’ll see a familiar face (no, not the Situation). By familiar, we mean none other than Joe Ginsberg from Single File. Ginsberg’s on the set right now, rehearsing and preparing to…
Last night at Red Rocks, Mastodon, the Deftones and Alice In Chains got it on for a one-of-a-kind mountain metal sandwich, the kind of awesome threesome you usually only hear about, rarely experience and talk about for years to come. We sent our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray up the hill…
After selling out three nights at Red Rocks, Widespread Panic returns to the Pepsi Center for a two-night New Year’s Eve run on Thursday, December 30, and Friday, December 31. Tickets are $61 and go on sale this Saturday, October 9, at noon and are available through TicketHorse. Speaking of…
SONIC YOUTH With Caldera Lakes 10.04.10 | Ogden Theatre The thing about seeing Sonic Youth is, no matter what else is going on in the venue, the city or even the world at that very moment, there is no question the show will be staggeringly beautiful. It won’t be flashy…
HIGH ON FIRE Torche • Kylesa • Kingdom of Magic 10.03.10 | Bluebird Theater With a punishing low end that rumbled like thunder, Kingdom of Magic filled the Bluebird with heavy music that can no longer be called “stoner rock.” What the guys are doing now is just so much…
Grammy nominations? Platinum status? Selling out Red Rocks? It’s difficult to imagine any single event surpassing those sorts of mile markers in your career. Unless, of course, said event involves warming up for U2. In your hometown. Now that’s beyond difficult. That’s inconceivable. But that’s exactly what the Fray will…
MUSE With Passion Pit 10.02.10 | Pepsi Center View a slideshow of Muse and Passion Pit at the Pepsi Center Pinpointing Muse’s primary, uh, muse is neither difficult — if you said Bends/OK Computer-era Radiohead, give yourself a gold star — nor particularly insightful to point out at this stage…
Received a heartening update from Rebecca Folsom, whose plight we first shared during the devastating Fourmile Canyon fire a few weeks ago. Folsom and her family, as you might recall, faced moments of uncertainty during the fire when early word seemed to indicate that her home was destroyed by the…
Is your life sorely lacking mind-bending psych-rock delivered by a band named after Siberia’s most famous yeti-like monster? Well then, friend, have we got some kick-ass news for you! Tjutjuna is streaming its brand-new, as-yet-unreleased album for free, and it is awesome. As you can see, the band’s namesake is…
After searching for the last year or so for a place to open a rockabilly-themed bar, Jimmy Nigg and his brother just took over the former Cucina Roma Roma spot at 12363 West 64th Avenue in Arvada and hope to re-open it as Rockabillies early next year. While the bar…
To finance their new EP, Till We See the Sun, the members of the Heyday appealed to fans with a tiered donation system to help get them back in the studio. Depending on your level of generosity, you could land your name in the liner notes, book a private show…
After being a sound engineer at the Walnut Room for nearly five years and the head engineer for the last year, Randall Frazier jumped into the talent buyer seat last month. While he has plans to bring in different types of acts than the room has seen in the past,…
