Another half dozen new shows were added to the Red Rocks schedule, including John Mayer, Paramore, STS9, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Pretty Lights and Widespread Panic, who will be at the venue from Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27, a month after its eleventh studio album, Dirty Side Down, hits…
So this is pretty rad: Evidently, if you act quickly, you can score yourself tickets to see Jónsi of Sigur Ros at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday for just $7. There’s no catch, near as we can tell. You just have to sign up, and then you’re provided with a…
Splendid news coming out of the Bad Weather California camp this morning: In addition to joining Akron/Family (and Woodsman, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Widowers and the Dead Phish Orchestra) for its upcoming three-day residency at Quixotes on May 14-16, Bad Weather California is planning to head to High Bias studio…
And so here you have it. Streets of Gold, 3OH!3’s forthcoming album, now has a release date and the cover art has been revealed. According to our friends at AP, Gold, the follow-up to the act’s 2008 Photo Finish debut, Want, is due on the, uh, streets on Tuesday, June…
Retribution Gospel Choir • The Life There Is • Rubedo Larimer Lounge | 04.17.10 Rubedo, a fairly new band, opened this show, and while the three members of the band seemed to be coming from different musical directions, somehow they managed to bring it all together. It was obvious the…
Who’s Having Fun Fest 1346 Lipan Street | 4.17.10 See more photos on the slideshow page. I’ll eat my words right up front: The Who’s Having Fun? Festival was an unqualified success, completely free of drugs, alcohol, house-trashing, train-wreck technical difficulties and cops. Somehow, Casimir Bemski pulled off an all-day…
Um, yeah, so this just happened: Guess who just crashed 3OH!3’s little house party … Okay, times up. Give up? Mr. Party Hard, and he’s rocking the hell out of the remix, evidently. Yes, Andrew freaking WK! We repeat, WK? WTF?! Raise your hand if you saw this coming. Seriously?…
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…
After a day or so of speculation, it was confirmed yesterday that Peter Steele (aka Petrus T. Ratajczyk) has indeed passed away from heart failure at the age of 48. Steele, who formed and fronted Type O Negative, had once actually faked his own death in 2005 through a post…
The crew from Mile High Sci Fi – the off-the-wall movie-watching comedy show — has never been shy about beer: “We sell it right there in the theater,” says member Matt Vogl. “Sometimes we even have a red wagon that we pull up the aisle, vendor-style.” And on Saturday, they’ll…
Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham loves vinyl. And Denver. When we last spoke with him about a year ago, he sang the praises of bygone Denver punk bands like the Frantix and Bum Kon, an act he also namedropped in a Spin article. “I wish I could just be satisfied…
If the scent of fresh vinyl in the morning turns you on, then chances are you’re already aware that tomorrow is Record Store Day. for the rest of you, consider this a public service announcement. Starting at various times across the state on Saturday, April 17th, independent record shops are…
Pioneers of grindcore in Colorado from 1990 to 1996, Pueblo’s Fanatics inspired a generation of hardcore kids with their fun, impassioned live shows and clever, socially conscious lyrics. The band’s sole full-length album, 1994’s Better Than Fried Baloney, is a classic of Colorado punk rock filled with thoughtful, introspective songs…
Last year, the Bronx created a record that, without a doubt, is the best mariachi album of all time from musicians who also play in a Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band. Under the guise of Mariachi El Bronx, vocalist Matt Caughthran and his cohorts recorded eleven mariachi masterpieces devoid of…
It will be hard to top last summer, when Phoenix unofficially took the mantle of the world’s house band. But Thomas Mars and company are hardly a flash in the pan: After all, the album that catapulted them to unprecedented success was their fourth studio effort. They’ve been doing this…
With the release of 2009’s It’s Frightening, White Rabbits took a darker turn in its musical path, with songs about uncertainty and human frailty. Even though the music was moodier, the frenetic energy of the Rabbits remained firmly in place, as evidenced by their fiery and forceful performances. Sometimes lumped…
With Sigur Rós taking a break while some of its members start families, frontman Jón Thor “Jónsi” Birgisson decided to use the downtime to release an up album. Aptly titled Go, the disc is a delicate, earthy, orchestral marriage of spring-like warmth and Birgisson’s fluttering voice; as such, it’s a…
Opening track “Harvest of the West” has the kind of blue-eyed soul sound favored by English bands of the early ’80s — the kind that is clearly written to be catchy and poppy but with an underlying element of darkness and sharply observed commentary. “The Film Society Is Watching Me”…
Holley 750 has played South by Southwest, toured with the Supersuckers and released a split CD with punk legend Antiseen. So why don’t they get more props in the local scene? For starters, they’re not exactly trying to spoon-feed their music to the masses. The band’s latest full-length, Prison Rules,…
The Lumineers recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Denver, but don’t let that inform your opinions. Wesley and Jeremiah do not sound like the wave-catching hipsters associated with New York’s hippest borough. No, these two sound honest and unadorned. Their self-titled EP is seven songs of what we’re going to call…
Remember the late ’80s, when indistinguishable second-tier acts with names like Hurricane, Steelheart and Southgang walked the earth? Their stock-in-trade was power ballads, and their prettier, more polished brand of metal made the ladies swoon. Fittingly, their sound was reflected in their image: The dudes were pretty but not dolled…
Akufen’s 2002 debut album, My Way, was one of those records that just seemed to stand alone, unique and perfect. The microhouse sound championed on the disc was deep and technical without being over-intellectualized. The use of microsecond snippets of sound, chopped up and shaped into shuffling, swinging house music…
