Concerts

Where to start with Incredibox? Well, you start with a little cartoon guy, like one of the ones you see above. Then you give him a part of the song by dragging and dropping an icon onto him and he starts performing it. That makes another little dude appear. You…

According to the official South By Southwest website only ten Colorado acts (Nathaniel Rateliff, ytcracker, Pictureplane, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Breathe Carolina, Epileptinomicon, Matt Morris, Pretty Lights, A Shoreline Dream and Boulder Acoustic Society) are slated to perform at this year’s festival. Fact is, though, nearly three times as many…

Walt Disney was amazing,” says Johnny Wohlfahrt of nervesandgel without a hint of irony. “His whole motto was, ‘If I want something done and people tell me it can’t be done, I’m going to figure out a way to do it.’ Everything that he did that was a milestone, everyone…

After Brian Haddad and David Weiss bought The Border, a University of Denver hangout for more than three decades, they didn’t waste any time. They closed the deal on a Friday in late January, brought in a lot of people to clean the joint over the weekend, and had all…

When most bands raid the coffers of ’60s and ’70s music, they go in for the Nuggets thing, or hard rock, or the Beatles or the Velvet Underground. Night Owl (due on Thursday, March 11, at Old Curtis Street) didn’t really do that. Instead, it followed in the footsteps of…

Although Fat Possum Records has branched out over the years with the acquisition of bands like the Walkmen, bolstering a roster that already includes such groups as Dinosaur Jr., Andrew Bird, Lissie and Heartless Bastards, really, it’s still about the last place on earth you’d expect to find an act…

Some guitarists borrow from the Hendrix canon, while others simply absorb his music through osmosis. Either way, there’s probably not a guitarist alive who wasn’t affected by the music of Jimi Hendrix in some way. Joe Satriani has said that although he can play every one of Hendrix’s songs, out…

Had Tracy & the Plastics started out in Ames, Iowa, instead of Olympia, Washington, they might have turned out like Leslie & the LY’s. The act combines electronic pop with hip-hop and an obvious streak of playful weirdness that would make Peaches and Cindy Wonderful proud. The band’s live shows…

One thing about Sharon Jones that’s often overlooked: She may be the figurehead of today’s retro-soul movement, but she was also there the first time around. Granted, Jones may not have been strutting around big stages the same time that Tina Turner was tearing up “Nutbush City Limits,” but Jones…

On the back cover of Thompson Blues, Dan Allen’s latest album, there’s a photo of Allen holding a stack of Jim Thompson novels. While this might be intriguing for fans of the crime-fiction writer, who wrote some gritty, tough-ass books like The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway and The Grifters,…

At first listen, it’s easy to mistake Glowing House’s debut as a vehicle for Jess Parsons, the outfit’s lead vocalist and pianist/guitarist. But the more the sumptuous and heartfelt songs sink in, the more the whole project feels like a real band. And a good band. Sidestepping the trend of…

Husband and wife Cory Obert and Andrea Lecos marry fiddle and banjo and tell the story of their lives. They are inspired by bike rides, blackbirds, their two dogs and, most significantly, the amber-trapped past. They know words are inadequate and don’t use them very often, relying much more on…

Building on some of the ideas presented on her last album, 2008’s Beat Beat Pound, Andrea Ball once again sidesteps the well-worn singer-songwriter template on Dial Tone, her latest effort, in favor of more plodding, piano-heavy arrangements. Fleshed out by an array of interesting sounds, the dynamic range here swings…

Lots of bands use cello and violin. Strangers Die Every Day, though, rocked those rarefied strings in a way that evoked everything from hardcore punk to the Constellations Records roster. But when the Boulder-born instrumental band moved to Portland in 2007, where it dissolved after releasing the stunning Aperture for…

Christopher Crisci is a man of few words. Well, that’s only partially true. When he’s not performing, the lead singer and guitarist for the Appleseed Cast is a relatively talkative guy. But when he’s making music, Crisci’s words are few — especially on the band’s latest full-length, Sagarmatha. “On this…

Robbie Rivera is one of those incredibly prolific artists who make normal musicians look like slackers. Since releasing his first track (“El Sorullo”) in 1996, he’s produced dozens and dozens of tracks, a seemingly unceasing stream of funky, dirty house music, incorporating everything from progressive to Latin influences. His first…

Just two more days until we get to hear the new Flobots record (they are going to have copies of the new disc, right? It is a CD release party, after all). Suffice to say, we’re eager to hear how much, if any, the outfit has grown since issuing its…

“Parental Advisory. Explicit Content.” Remember that little sticker? The little black and white one that used to rest in the corner of only the most bad-ass of cassette tapes? The first albums I remember seeing with this warning were Danzig’s self titled album, Soundgarden’s Louder than Love and Guns and…

In case the heated debate between music games being viewed as a teaching tool or as a hindrance wasn’t convoluted enough, a new guitar related peripheral is attempting to make its way into the already crowded and slightly confusing market. Meet Seven 45 Studios’ Power Gig: Rise of the Six…

If you’re like us, you’ve been on pins and needles for the past three months or so, anxiously awaiting word on whether the Monolith Festival will be happening again this year or not. While we’re no closer to knowing the fate of Monolith than we were this past November, when…