As you may have heard, Fred Phelps and his cheerful band of hate mongers failed to show up at the University of Colorado campus last night as threatened for the same-sex marriage debate sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. Pity. From what we hear, the students were all geared up…
The South By Southwest countdown begins. Yes, we know it’s still two months away. Regardless, we’re started to get geeked. And it looks like Colorado music is once again going to be well represented with not one but two parties showcasing the most desirable of our exports. Habana Calle 6…
The Informants’ latest album, Crime Scene Queen, won Best Self-Produced CD award in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge over the weekend. The record, which was released in July, was up against albums from all over the world. This is a big deal in the blues world. Crime Scene Queen,…
Brace yourself: We just learned that Nick Jonas — he of the Jonas Brothers fame — has canceled his show this evening at the Paramount. Jonas is reportedly under the weather. If you purchased tix through TicketHorse on your credit card, you can sit tight. An automatic refund is headed…
Mustangs & Madras played its final show at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday night. We were there. It was a pretty damned good party. Drinks were flowing. Saw you there, didn’t we? Dunno. Kind of a blur. Sorry. Luckily our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray on caught it all on film,…
Cobraconda spun house DJ Boyhollow’s birthday at La Rumba’s Friday-night Lipgloss party. See photos by Aaron Thackeray on the slideshow page…
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake With Treeverb, Cannons Friday, January 22, 2010 hi-dive Better than: Avatar. Seriously, that movie sucks. Cannons opened up the show with a sound reminiscent of Fugazi, Archers of Loaf or any number of early post-punk bands. Bassist Eric Fuller, who also holds down the low end…
Mustangs and Madras farewell show With Get Three Coffins Ready, Only Thunder, the Gunshy and Git Some Saturday, January 23, 2010 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Virtually every other five-band bill I’ve seen. The five members of Get Three Coffins Ready played the kind of high-energy, glittery surf rock that…
Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like, a compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. View Larger…
One more in-case-you-missed-it moment from the weekend, this one local: Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake performing “Hallelujah” last night on the Hope For Haiti Telethon. Not quite as haunting as Buckley’s version, but the two kill it in their own right. Update: The rest of the country was clearly moved…
Now this is what you call going out on a high note. In case you missed it, Conan O’Brien ended his stint at NBC on Friday night by strapping on a Les Paul and playing “Freebird” with Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top’s Bill Gibbons. Ferrell actually does…
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 three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, tonight the biggest names in entertainment are coming together for MTV’s Hope for Haiti Telethon, a unified relief effort to raise much needed funds for the disaster torn country, devastated by the recent earthquake. The relief effort is wide reaching and beyond massive. In…
Star Bar, one of the state’s classic dives at 2137 Larimer Street, has gone dark to due to a liquor violation by the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses. No word on yet on when it will re-open…
After a decade-long run, it appears that one of Denver’s biggest hip-hop clubs has closed its doors. At least that’s what we gather from this sign, which was posted in the window this afternoon when we drove by. Formerly the Blake Street Baseball Club and then the LoDo Music Hall,…
Patti Smith provided an interesting definition of punk rock in the current issue of New York magazine: “Punk rock is just another word for freedom.” That got us thinking about what punk is and was, and how, as with all abstractions, you get to make up your own definition. As…
If there’s a film equivalent to the punk rock movement, it’s got to be Troma Films. In titles such as Toxic Avenger, Redneck Zombies, Class of Nuke ’em High and many, many, many more, Troma took a punk approach to filmmakeing — forget the technical expertise, who cares if we…
Ever since the launch of Harmonix’s Guitar Hero in 2005 there has been an ongoing debate between musicians and gamers about the legitimacy of the multi-colored guitar peripherals in regards to teaching people how to play. We’re not going to weigh in on the debate, but with the introduction of…
You haven’t lived until you’ve huffed paint fumes on the front lawn of an old folks’ home. Good times. Just ask the Still City’s Brian Knab. Relax. This was no COPS episode. Knab and his bandmates were on tour in Minnesota and stopped to visit Knab’s grandpa just outside of…
At some point in the life of everyone who ever got into punk rock after the ’80s, there was that band that wrote anthemic songs that seemed to perfectly articulate how you felt about everything. Those songs were written to be catchy and to be sung along with by the…
Greensky Bluegrass takes bluegrass to a new high by weaving psychedelic rock into a roots-oriented go-for-broke approach. While retaining a good dose of backwoods authenticity on genre standards as well as its own earthy creations, Greensky marks live gigs with crowd-pleasing interpretations of the music of Pink Floyd and the…
As longtime keyboardist for Chicago’s Sonia Dada, Chris “Hambone” Cameron added some tasty playing to the band’s hybrid of rock, soul and R&B. For his new project, JamBón, Cameron recruited fellow Sonia Dada singers Michael Scott and Shawn Christopher, as well as Liquid Soul guitarist Tom Sanchez, Weather Report percussionist…
