Just a year after taking over the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, the owners of 3 Kings Tavern have thrown in the towel and put the historic 700-person venue up for sale. Jim Norris, one of those owners (and now also part-owner of the new opened Rockaway Tavern), says…
If you’ve been a cognizant observer of local bands at all, you may see these guys take the stage and think, “Oh, no, it’s another one of those local-band supergroups!” Rather than try to list the other projects that have contributed to this sextet, let’s just say that Hindershot (due…
David Longoria, Matt Simon and Jason Chronis could have rested on their laurels as former members of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and Voxtrot, respectively, and waxed into the familiar. Instead, the trio teamed up with Alan Schaefer, son of famous Austin guitar maker Ed…
After a string of R&B hits in the ’60s and stints touring with James Brown and Otis Redding, Bettye LaVette’s career hit a brick wall when Atlantic shelved her 1972 album, Child of the Seventies, which was recorded with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. A disco hit, “Doin’ the Best…
The Black Crowes have been remarkably durable, wisely cultivating a blues-rock and Americana fan base after summiting alt-rock radio in the early ’90s. But after twenty years of commercial peaks, commercial wanes, pubic-hair album art, hiatuses, movie-star marriages and countless bales of weed, and on the heels of their apt…
Ray LaMontagne is a notoriously reclusive artist. When it comes to giving interviews, he may well be music’s JD Salinger. Okay, maybe he’s not that isolated. But, seriously, how many in-depth profiles have you read about the guy? Precisely. Good for him, then, that his music needs no introduction. With…
Black Heart Revival opens with a track that recalls Seraphim Shock’s ’90s period, when the band used enigmatic samples to set a dark mood before foreboding instrumentation exploded into razory metal riffing over the soaringly melodic and sepulchral vocals of Charles Edwards. From there, though, the album lunges toward the…
The self-titled debut from Boulder’s 18 Switchbacks is essentially the very pleasing result of several former Deadheads and Colorado Americana/jam-band veterans getting serious about bluegrass songwriting. The romantically dusty lyrics and harmonies of dual singer-songwriter-guitarists Matt Wallwork and Tim Johnston are continuously beautiful throughout the seven-track EP, and upbeat bluegrass…
Although half-brothers Eli Battles and Drew Thurston grew up six years apart with completely different musical interests, music ended up being a connector between them when they formed Laslow. On the inside cover of the duo’s debut, A Quality of Light, there’s a photo of Thurston playing a dual-neck MIDI…
The first two tracks of this album, “My Shell” and “Poor, Poor Vivian,” wouldn’t be out of place on a far-better-than-average pop-punk album. “Green Eggs and Ham,” meanwhile, is obviously influenced by early-’90s grunge, but with more power-pop flavorings — gritty like Cheap Trick could be in the early ’80s,…
In June last year, there was a show called Denver Does Denver that featured musicians and bands from a broad spectrum of the scene covering their favorite musical compatriots — or at least those whose music they found interesting or amusing to perform. For starters, Slight Harp and Safe Boating…
DJ Narky Stares (aka Lauren Zwicky) is a non-traditionalist when it comes to the tastemaking side of deejaying. Dropping tracks from Dave Nada to Egyptrixx, her proudly weird taste is as diverse as her upbringing: Zwicky’s childhood took her from Utah to Mexico to Costa Rica and eventually to her…
When a kid starts spinning records in his parents’ basement, he dreams of having the kind of career Dave Audé has had — if he dreams big. Let’s look at it by the numbers: 44 Billboard #1 dance tracks, including eighteen in 2009 alone, and toss in a Grammy nomination…
File under: SUH-WEET! Referring, of course, to the new Havok T-shirts. Have you seen them? We repeat: SUH-FRICKIN’-WEET! Assuming these bad boys come in double extra fat guy … checking … ahem, this just in, they do! … we’re going to … doo-dee-doo, click, click, click … order this one…
Ah, looks like we’re finally going to get around to screening Oddsac, Animal Collective’s twisted take on cinema verite (see trailer after the jump), thanks to the lovely chaps from Analog Space and their esteemed counterparts at Research & Development, who will be treating us all to a night of…
After a concerted effort to keep things going after splitting with former frontwoman Kyle Simmons and swiftly naming her replacement, Katrina Stone, who accompanied them on this year’s Warped Tour, it appears that the remaining members of Speakeasy Tiger have reached another crossroads, and perhaps an impasse…
For this week’s top flier, the legs have it. Four hypnotic, abstracted sets of them, like a mannequin-esque nightmare that erupts after a night of too much cough syrup and too many Robert Palmer videos — but in a good way. The key word here is synergy. The legs themselves…
Urban Dictionary, the Internet’s home for crass generalizations, defines a bro as, “Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren’t making an ass of themselves, they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exciting to happen so they can scream…
With the exception of the excellent Wesley Willis Joy Rides documentary, we haven’t heard much from Eyeosaur lately, but the above teaser seems to suggest that something Warlock Pinchers related might be in the works. Either way, the video reminded us of something equally as interesting: The Mr. Pacman Half…
After a supporting slot on Lupe Fiasco’s tour earlier this year, B.o.B. will be making his return to the area for a date at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, October 9, followed by a show at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday, October 10. Tickets for the Boulder show, which are…
A gathering of cannabis connoisseurs met up at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City this past Saturday, August 21, for the aptly dubbed Cannabis Festiva, a marijuana awareness festival and concert featuring No 1 Left Standing, Slaughter House Rootz, Statewide Emergency, Tatanka, MC Subcon, Full Belly and DJ Mada,…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
