Concerts

Although the names Nahum, Soul Bender and the Bedraggled are probably lost on most people familiar with the work of Reverend Deadeye, from the early ’90s until 2003, Brent Burkhart played in those dark, experimental rock bands before launching his solo side project. Casting off former pseudonyms like Saint Absinthe,…

Female DJs and producers are always accused of getting ahead on their looks. For a lot of them, there’s a grain of truth to that. But let’s get something straight: You’d like Miami-based Sydney Blu even if she were a 350-pound man with skin problems and a bad comb-over. It…

Emerging with a sexy brand of hip-hop, intent on dispelling any lingering stereotypes about what Latino music is supposed to be, the members of 20:12 (The Juice, Role Pl-A and DJ R 2) first earned their stripes in the twelve-person act Devoted Union. The three eventually parted ways with the…

Andy Thomas is bummed. Can’t say that we blame him. See that beautiful black resonator he’s playing here? She’s a beauty, yeah? Well, “was” a beauty is more accurate. Seems some unscrupulous jerk apparently swiped it this past weekend after his set with Tin Horn Prayer at the Irish Rover…

Eclectic taste I may claim to have, but my favorite tunes usually fall into a category I like to call “cry rock” — if it’s likely to make me stare wistfully and pensively out of a coffee shop window while I hack away in my metaphorical Livejournal, I probably love…

Parts. That’s the name of the new Gamits record. This is the artwork for the new platter, which we just learned will be co-released by Suburban Home Records and Paper + Plastick, the imprint owned by Vinnie Fiorello of Less Than Jake, sometime in October. While we can’t say for…

From the possibility of the Nathan & Stephen reunion becoming more than just a one-off proposition to former Speakeasy Tiger frontwoman Kyle Simmons making her debut with her new band Boys, we heard several intriguing rumors and were made aware of quite a few new developments this past weekend. None…

When SP Double signed with Digital Dollar, a record label run by Brian Hutcheson out of Orlando, Florida, it appeared as though he was gone for good. SP moved his whole operation out to the Sunshine State, and got right to work, perfecting tracks for his new album, Loyalty, Honor,…

It’s all Pinchers all the time around here. In case you can’t tell, we’re all sorts of giddy about this pair of reunion shows happening next weekend. Hell, we’ve only been waiting for these gigs to take place for, what, like, eighteen years or so? And we purposely (well, some…

As you probably read in our earlier post, there is a ton of non-music stuff to do at Mile High Music Festival on August 14 and15. But what may garner the most attention — at least at first, is the 26-foot tall statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the…

A big hell yeah for Tjutjuna, who was written up last week on Altered Zones, Pitchfork’s sister site, made up of a consortium of forward-thinking bloggers devoted to highlighting “the most notable and adventurous new artists.” Although we have to admit that the writing is a little dense for our…

All right, so if for some reason, you’re crabby about the line-up for this year’s Mile High Music Festival — which, you know what, say what you will about DMB and Jack Johnson; love ’em or loathe ’em, you can’t deny there’s some serious gems on the undercard (um, hello,…

In the beginning, Donnybrook Manor was just an imaginary place jokingly referred to by the members of the Donnybrook Writing Academy. But then on a trip through France, Donnybrook founder Erin Barnes (aka Angora Holly Polo) took inspiration from a tiny, cramped apartment over a Paris bookstore that housed young…

You can chalk this one up as one of the more brilliant ideas of July 2010: “Inside a Dead Skyscraper” is an interactive music video (aka “music video game”) from Jesse Stiles’ Target Museum album. You read all that correctly — it’s a music video you can play. The video…

UMS Travelogue, Night Four 7.25.10, Baker District/South Broadway Getting a late start, I got to the TS Board Shop stage in time to catch The Conjugal Visits. Before the show, I saw Pete on the side of the truck, and asked him about the new band, and he said it…

UMS Travelogue, Night Four 7.25.10, Baker District/South Broadway The mood was more understated from the beginning. As the fourth and final day of the UMS got underway on a stifling Sunday afternoon, the sense of weariness felt almost palpable. After four straight days of live music in venues spread up…

UMS Travelogue, Night Four 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway The heat was stifling when I showed up to watch Photo Atlas play the main stage in the Goodwill parking lot, and the crowd seemed too sluggish to truly enjoy it, even though the band’s guitar-based, Foals-style technical pop warranted some…

UMS Travelogue, Night Four 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway I have never seen so many neon Wayfarer sunglasses in my life. Ever. It was like I walked into 1982 the second I walked onto Broadway — the hot sun blistered people’s skin but their eyes were blocked by their first-rate,…

Liars • John Wiese 07.24.10 | Bluebird Theater Props to Liars for seeing fit to bring a straight-up noise artist — and a good one — as an opening act. Through his solo work and his numerous collaborations with heavyweights like Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, and Merzbow, John Wiese has…

UMS Travelogue, Night Thee 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway The TS Board Shop stage was really an augmented version of the truck that Jeremy Gregory of Bands for Lands and The Construct uses to put on shows anywhere and everywhere. This year, someone did something right, and the sound, despite…