An expressive ode to Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church

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…

SXSW10: One day, two great Colorado day parties!

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 win International Blues Challenge award

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,…

Picture This: Mustangs & Madras farewell at 3 Kings

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,…

Over the weekend: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the hi-dive

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…

Over the weekend: Mustangs & Madras farewell show at 3 Kings Tavern

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…

Denver Rock Atlas: The Aztlan Theatre

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…

Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris Hope For Haiti “Hallelujah” duet

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…

This Just In: Club Bash appears to be closed

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,…

Moving to Denver was monumental for the Still City

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…

Redo at Moe’s

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

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…

JamBon

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…