Savoy ahoy! – Savoy, easily one of Colorado’s best up and coming dance acts, recently announced they’ve been booked for the Dallas and Los Angeles dates of Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the nation’s biggest dance music festivals. Strangely, they won’t be playing this Saturday at the Denver date for…
It’s been a while since we checked in with everyone’s favorite South African rap-rave act Die Antwoord (since Ralphie brought us a micro-review of the act’s first-ever US set at Coachella), but this should make up for it. The act is starring in the latest “What’s in my Bag?” entry…
Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 06.07.10 | The Paramount Theatre Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday’s two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had dissected the original stereo mixes of Frank Zappa songs…
Phil Lesh & Bob Weir’s group Further, who helped kick off things at the 1stBank Center in March, return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25. The two Grateful Dead members will be joined by RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti,…
Bummed out that Bono and his U2 compadres won’t be at Invesco this weekend? Yeah? So are we. Luckily, we have Under a Blood Red Sky, Denver’s trusty rusty U2 tribute band, which has pulled together a gig this weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe this weekend to help us…
Have you seen Mike Judge’s latest flick, Extract? No? Allow us to save you the trouble: The movie, which came out last year, is occasionally amusing; it’s no where near as funny as Office Space or as incisive as Idiocracy. If anything, it leans far closer to the former in…
The extended hiatus of Young Coyotes is finally at an end. We heard last week that the duo have announced that they are in the process of recording a full-length follow up to their previous two EPs. Now we have some details. Zachary Tipton tells us he and Adam Halferty…
While you were out enjoying the lovely weather last night, MTV aired its 19th annual Movie Award show. The broadcast featured such thought provoking awards as “Most WTF Moment” and “Best Villain.” We’re pretty certain the MTV Movie Awards haven’t actually mattered to anyone for the better part of the…
La Roux • boyhollow 06.05.10 | Ogden Theater Boyhollow opened this show, and his DJ set was a nice weaving together of modern, house music and tastefully chosen pop and rock songs to match the pace being set at that given moment. Kind of a more original take on Big…
Hot Congress / Long Spoon Block Party 06.05.10 | Meadowlark • Larimer Lounge The upside to a big, multiple-venue show like the Hot Congress/Long Spoon Block Party this past Saturday is that there’s always something awesome to see. The downside: There’s always more than one awesome thing to see at…
It’s that time again, and somehow it sort of snuck up on us this year: Time to whip out the sunscreen, bring beer money and ear plugs and head over to Civic Center park for the 39th annual Capitol Hill People’s Fair. From the looks of the lineup (posted after…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. Trouble is, you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing riches when it comes to music, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are worth checking out? Glad you asked. After…
While we usually get word of mega shows months in advance, that’s not the case with Paul McCartney, who just added a July 15 stop at the Pepsi Center to his upcoming 2010 Tour. McCartney, who made his Colorado debut with the Beatles at Red Rocks in 1964, last played…
Great news for those who got their groove on this past weekend at the Denver Day of Rock and are now jonesin’ to hear more music downtown, particularly with the absence of the annual summer concert series at the Denver Pavilions. The Skyline Park Free Summer concert series, which just…
Speaking of getting back after it: If you haven’t heard yet, DJ Nutmeg — crowned Best DJ by us in 2004, who picked up stakes and moved to Hawaii the following year — is back in town, and duder has wasted no time getting back into the, uh, mix. Tonight…
They’re back. After being a face on a milk carton for the better part of the past year and a half, the Rose Hill Drive boys are getting ready to fire up the old muscle car. And holy cow, get this: During the time off, frontman Jacob Sproul, a wicked…
For whatever reason, Cincinnati-based, über-Christian metalcore band Corpus Christi has chosen Denver as the place to shoot their next video. The scream-for-Jesus quintet will be here from June 6 through 11, filming a video for “Monuments,” the lead track off of its upcoming sophomore full-length, A Feast for Crows. And…
The Westword Music Knowcase, that all-music pub quiz we conned Geeks Who Drink into creating so we could kick some asses, is shaping up awesomely — for us. We’ve got word that some of the best music minds in Denver are coming to play. Too bad for the rest of…
Props to Petals of Spain, who earned a slot to perform at the year’s Westword Music Showcase by turning in a stellar performance last night during our Showcase pre-party at La Rumba, besting fellow Readers Choice contenders, Kosmos, Be the Ant and Saints. While each of those acts played admirable…
Shea Boynton’s love of music is all over the map. But as he’ll tell you, that kind of wanderlust is just in his genes. “My grandfather was a touring jazz musician for years,” says Boynton, leader of the upbeat, hard-to-peg Denver outfit the Gromet. “He was a saxophonist. He played…
When Vicky Wagner took over the defunct Trail Dust Steak House at 7101 South Clinton Street in Centennial, she knew that she didn’t want to open another steak joint. “When Trail Dust first started it was a unique concept,” she says, “but it just ran its course.” After a thirty-year…
The Getdown! didn’t channel the ghost of James Brown so much as the would-be love child of frayed garage-rock psychopaths the Sonics and the arch post-punk of the Blackouts. But while superficially this band’s music could be lumped in with garage rock, it goes further into droning atmospheres with its…
