The conversation in Saratoga Springs, New York, is mostly about turf conditions at the local racetrack, the winners of the last big race and the other finer points of horse racing. It’s been nicknamed “Spa City” for its abundance of natural mineral springs, which help make it a favorite tourist…
Before striking out on his own, Pezzner put in sixteen years as half of the duo Jacob London. As interesting as that act’s take on house and breaks was, though, Pezzner’s solo work has quickly surpassed it. His mesmeric take on deep house has quickly gained the attention and admiration…
You excited for Showcase? Yeah, us too. So excited, in fact, we can’t wait. June 19 seems a long way off, so we’re throwing a free Showcase preparty called Get Your Pink On starting at 9:30 tonight at City Hall, 1144 Broadway. DJs A-Ray (grab his latest mixtape) and Mu$a…
If this new fangled Internet machine has proven one thing to us, it’s that we wasted our youth smoking pot and reading comic books. It seems like every damn day there’s a video of some little turd doing some amazing music thing and we’re left trying to find someone to…
If you haven’t got on the Savoy bandwagon yet, perhaps the video embedded above will help you make the jump. As we told you in our recent feature on the act, this is an electronic dance act with the soul of a rock band — and the show to go…
The browns, beiges and orange-reds of this week’s top flier put us more in mind of autumn than late spring. But looking out the window at the gray sky and scrim of snow sticking to things puts us more in mind of autumn too, so it’s strangely fitting. Perhaps Sun…
The second single off Drake’s upcoming blockbuster finds him with some 808s and orchestra, courtesy of (who else?) Kanye West, doing his Casanova thing. The reaction was sort of neutral — it’s not terrible, but it’s also not “Forever.” Something of a holding pattern. But then the video came out…
The just-announced Black Crowes show the Fillmore on Sunday, August 29 might be the last chance to see them in the area for a while. The group is planning on taking an indefinite hiatus after its “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys 2010 Tour,” which kicks off in August and…
It’s a simple concept: Write a program that searches news articles for naturally occurring Haikus and pair them with an obliquely related flickr photo. Personally, we could never do this because we do not know how to use something called Unix Cron Scheduling. But Eric Peterson does. You may know…
Back in the day, if you wanted to pull off a one-man band shtick, you needed a lot of instruments, a clever way to strap them all to your body and an unreal amount of coordination. Now, you just need five cellphones, some tape and a portable speaker. Oh, and…
Nearly a year after Tool’s triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday,…
Gotta give it up to the men of Ozomatli for having the cojones to embody their convictions rather than merely paying lip service with vacant platitudes, as so many artists do. These cats are putting themselves out there for better or worse. Witness the track “Gay Vatos in Love,” from…
Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic artwork alone contributed to many of our own doodles of death-dealing knights…
Beltania 2010 05.06.2010-05.09.2010|Florence First things first: Beltania is primarily a festival for people practicing Earth-centered religions — paganism, Wicca, Native American religions, or even a very steward-centered (and non-exclusive, non-judgmental) form of Christianity. The four-day festival in the mountains included rituals for men and women, a sweat lodge, workshops on…
The Epilogues and Della helped welcome the Summit Music Hall (1902 Blake Street) to the scene on Saturday — just one of the things our nightlife photogs captured over the weekend. See the fruits of their labor on the slideshow page…
There’s something comforting about listening to stories while sitting in a dimly lit venue with the stench of too many bourbons wafting from your mouth. Well, comforting and potentially boring — it’s a difficult balance to keep an audience intrigued by random true stories told by random people. It’s a…
Mike Marchant • Blue Million Miles • Old Radio 05.7.10 | Hi-Dive It’s 2010, where we can start show reviews with social media: Approximately ten hours before Friday’s show at which his album was to be released, Mike Marchant posted the following on his facebook page : “just got a…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Here’s the newest track off the upcoming Bruno Mars EP It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, which comes out May 11. This song started cropping up on YouTube last night. It’s not as good as “Nothin’ On You” or the first single off the EP, which you can hear below…
Well, that didn’t last too long. Remember a few weeks ago, when we posted a video featuring the members of Speakeasy Tiger talking about how everything was fine in their camp, and that, despite rampant rumors, Kyle Simmons was still very much in the band? That, as they say, was…
View Larger Map Anyone who had been to Monkey Mania even once walked away with a story to tell. In fact, choosing just one great show from Monkey Mania is next to impossible. It was a haven for loud-as-fuck rock and roll tailor made to appeal to bands that loved…
So we just received word that single-day tickets to the Mile High Music Festival will be available for purchase this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and will be on sale through Monday, May 31 at 6 p.m. There’s only one way to get your hands on them, however, and that’s…
