Concerts

So this is a rad perk for touring acts coming through Colorado. Suburban Home Records honcho Virgil Dickerson and our own Andy Thomas have teamed up with Illegal Pete’s to establish the aptly dubbed Starving Artists Program, which is exactly what it sounds like: setting up weary bands on the…

Treeverb • Ross Etherton and the Chariots of Judah 09.17.10 | 3 Kings Tavern, Denver Three years ago, Bright Channel and Red Cloud were two of the highest-profile underground bands in Denver — not to mention the most interesting and consistently compelling live acts in town. Despite having widely disparate…

This magical Internet machine has been up and running for a while now, transmitting music from the ether to our ears using a mix of faerie dust and marketing panache. It seems, however, that there is still a decisive split on what this new mystery machine means for the future…

In a couple of weeks at the Gothic, Air Dubai and the Heyday are scheduled to issue their respective new platters at a dual CD-release party. Since both albums are coming out at the same time, the two acts figured they’d also host a dual listening party. Why not, right?…

Just as the last of the Amber Alerts are set to expire, we’ve received word and indication that the members of Rose Hill Drive are emerging from their self-imposed hiatus. Although the act has played a couple of dates recently, for all intents and purposes, it’s been a good year…

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Jersey Shore DJ Pauly D takes over Beta for what is sure to be a sea of hair gel and ubiquitous fist-pumping. Those with more discriminating taste will want to be upstairs in the Beatport Lounge for P.U.N.C.H.I.S., the best weekly underground techno…

DJ Frank E’s ascent continues. With a string of singles already under his belt, including tracks for Flo Rida, Plies, Justin Bieber, T.I. and Gym Class Heroes, it looks like the burgeoning homegown hitmaker is going to have a track on Chris Brown’s forthcoming album. In an exclusive interview on…

Hey, Rolling Stone, WTF? Twist & Shout, Wax Trax, Independent, Albums on the Hill, Jerry’s, Angelos, Black and Red — ever heard of ’em? Clearly not, we’re guessing, since you somehow saw fit not to include any of these fine establishments in your supposed list of the 25 Best Record…

File under: Epic bummer. We’ve received confirmation that Astrophagus has been laid to rest. After seven years, countless shows and a revolving door of musicians, the band has simply outgrown itself and its name…

TITUS ANDRONICUS with Free Energy 09.15.10 | Bluebird Theater, Denver Free Energy opened for Titus Andronicus at the Bluebird last night, and while I was skeptical of the band’s hype upon entering the venue, I’m fully on board now. The Philly quintet has received breathless reviews for its power-pop revivalism,…

After doing the M.I.A. album, I was asked if I would be interested in writing some stuff for it,” says Christopher Mercer almost nonchalantly of his recent production work for the upcoming Britney Spears album. “A good rule of thumb is that more tracks won’t make it than will make…

Since its construction in 1883, the building at 1301 Santa Fe Drive has been home to everything from a hardware store to a grocery store to Hoffbrau Tavern & Grill, which lasted more than two decades at that address. But a few years ago, the bar’s then-owner started neglecting the…

Before coming to rest in 2006, Laymen Terms often got lumped in with the pop-punk milieu of its day. But a keen listener could tell that Andy Tanner and company were coming from a different place than their contemporaries, with roots more in ’90s Midwestern indie rock and emo. These…

T-Model Ford ain’t a car. T-Model Ford is a living reminder of the power of Delta blues, and he must be mentioned among greats like Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside. Ford was plowing fields by eleven and worked at the local sawmill before drifting in and out of trouble; he…

For a primer on the power of golden-age hip-hop, meet Chicago’s Cool Kids, exhibit A. The signifiers are everywhere you listen. There’s the Detroit Pistons’ “Bad Boys” starter cap, lovingly described in the opening bars of “Black Mags.” There’s a song simply titled “88,” which pays similar homage to Guess…

After a ten-year run fronting Chapel Hill indie luminaries Archers of Loaf, Eric Bachmann and company stepped away from the limelight at the height of the band’s popularity. Now, having spent just as much time creating music as Crooked Fingers, it would seem that Bachmann is pretty comfortable in his…

Known for a hybrid of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens, Georgia’s Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of its 2008 debut full-length, Wrecking Ball, whose bipolar cacophony had many folks comparing the band to both Nirvana and My Morning Jacket. While that’s a lot to live up…

Adam Halferty has toured with 3OH!3 and played drums in a number of very recognizable bands over the years. American Tomahawk, however, Halferty’s solo project, might make folks hope he never returns to the drum throne again. His latest album, Generalities, Contradictions and Future Criminals, which he recorded on his…