Earlier this week, there was some fear and uncertainty as to whether local singer-songwriter Rebecca Folsom’s home was one of the ones lost to the devastating and still burning Fourmile Canyon Fire. Folsom was reportedly told initially that her house was one of the ones that was seen burning, news…
PAVEMENT With guests Jenny and Johnny 09.09.10 | Ogden Theatre, Denver Jenny and Johnny opened this show and received a mixed reception from the crowd at first. But appreciative cheers for the group, which features Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, increased with every song. The band’s sometimes bluesy, jangly guitar…
I’m convinced that there’s a special place in hell reserved for bottom feeders who steal other people’s stuff, particularly musical equipment. If there’s any sort of justice in this often times god forsaken universe, it’s in a grimy, rat-infested, shit smeared place shared by those who rip off the elderly,…
So the organizers of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Denver Marathon evidently take the name of the event very seriously. So much so that they’ve convinced the members of Semisonic — you know, the dudes who did that song “Closing Time” — to get the old band back together, man, just…
If you’ve missed the off-the-wall art and music of Patrick Porter, rejoice — the prodigal weirdo returns! After a year on the East Coast, Porter is returning to Denver to pick up his musical explorations and record two already-written albums. Word is he’ll be working with members of the Vitamins,…
The Denver Cruisers have been getting a lot of press lately for its topically themed rides, but last night, riders took on one of the trendiest themes of the past few years: The undead. The club held its “Vampires and Zombies” bike ride, and from the looks of these photos,…
Although ZetaKaye House, the name of John and Kim Baxter’s new booking and management company, might sound like sorority house, it’s actually a deliberate fusion of the names of two individuals: Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was part of the Brown Power movement in the ’60s and Hunter S. Thompson’s attorney,…
For years, I’ve really fought to dissuade people as categorizing me or thinking of me in singer-songwriter terms,” Joshua Novak says. “Not that it’s bad. I felt like those people in the ’70s who were singer-songwriters, they all had bands. But something happened in the ’90s, when the coffee-shop singer-songwriter…
Bill Ward learned a hard lesson in Larimer Square, where he owned Below Bar and Slim 7: At most clubs, you only have a small window — say, from 10 p.m. until closing — when you can make money. But now that he’s out of Larimer Square altogether, Ward’s planning…
Despite having been together for only a short time and not playing many local shows, Tennis (due on Friday, September 10, at the Larimer Lounge) has stirred some buzz outside of Denver through write-ups on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear and, most recently, the New York Times blog. Inspired in part…
Owen Ashworth started Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in 1997 as an electro-pop one-man band. But over the years, the act has made its sound more organic, especially as Ashworth started playing with various collaborators. The seemingly confessional lyrics are really snapshots of American life, and the kinds of portraits…
Formed in 2004, when its members were still in high school, Paramore has become a rock-radio institution, with several tours down and three albums on the venerable pop-punk imprint Fueled by Ramen under its belt. Hayley Williams’s robust and pitch-perfect vocals shoot the band far beyond contemporary acts like Boys…
Capitalizing on the best part of Bloc Party, lead singer Kele Okereke has stepped out and found a better place for his vacant and sexy vocals: the club. Enlisting Spank Rock producer XXXChange for his solo debut, The Boxer, Kele released an early-summer single, “Tenderoni,” which served as a dirty…
“Tramps like us, baby we were born to die,” shouts Titus Andronicus singer Patrick Stickles on the opening track of his band’s latest album, The Monitor. The line is an obvious homage to both the Garden State, from which he and his bandmates hail, and that state’s most celebrated Boss…
With his modified wok-lid resonator guitar, rigged-up drum kit (which includes a metal washtub for a snare), a rusty Falstaff beer-can microphone and assorted other things, you have to wonder how the hell Brent Burkhart, aka Reverend Deadeye, takes the one-man band concept to a completely different level — and…
Five 13 trades in a very distinctive blend of metal, minted in the latter part of the second Reagan administration. If the names Fates Warning, Scorpions, Dokken or Warrant make you scoff or otherwise turn up your nose, you’ll want to steer clear of this album, which sounds like a…
Daralee Fallin is working with drum machines and synths with effects — familiar elements of electronic music — across this four-song release. From the jump, though, there’s an undeniably organic feel to the music and a warmth that doesn’t just cradle the listener in a sense of comfort and well-being;…
Listening to side one of this cassette-only release, you can’t help but think of the scenes from Videodrome where James Woods watches the TV show of the same name and becomes both repulsed and obsessed with the programming. The textured drone is reminiscent of those distorted images, and, while abstract,…
The promo sticker on Crowded House vocalist/guitarist Neil Finn’s 1998 debut solo disc, Try Whistling This, praised him as “one of the finest songsmiths of his generation.” It was a claim few pop lovers would dare to deny. If you’ve turned on a radio in the past two decades, chances are…
If not for Pavement all but deconstructing the dominant paradigm of rock music throughout the ’90s with albums like Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee!, so much of the underground rock that’s come out since the band parted ways in 1999 would have been much more…
Along with Claude Von Stroke, the Martin Brothers (actual brothers Christian and Justin Martin) have carved out a distinctive brand of dance music on the dirtybird label. The brothers have both notched some notable successes on their own, but their collaborations on tracks such as “Dum,” “Duckface” and “Stoopit” are…
Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked…
