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…
As a guitarist and frontman for Swervedriver, Adam Franklin helped to write electrifying and expansive rock songs that went further than — and rocked a lot harder than — the “shoegaze” label they received from many fans and critics. Even after the alternative-rock backlash of the mid-’90s, Swervedriver continued to…
Unlike many of its brethren in the realm of neo-psychedelic garage rock, White Denim decided not to bother with a retro sound at all. The band’s bubbling, urgent rhythms and often angular guitar work sometimes sound like an accidental rediscovery of post-punk — but rather than embrace a stark aesthetic,…
At least this band delivers on the promise of its name. From the opening track, “Battle of the Rabbits,” you feel as though you’ve time-warped back to a fictional past when the club Tech Noir wished it could play music this frenetic. If Mr. Pacman fronted the Nails and ditched…
“Won’t you dance with me?” is the first line that comes oozing out of the speakers from Eyes, the new disc by Almost Legends. That might as well be the statement of intent for the entire CD: Rife with smoothly jazzy funk, breathy hooks and tinges of singer-songwriter cheekiness, tracks…
You’ve heard all the basic song structures in here about a million times before. Of course, simplicity is well within the spirit of punk rock, and the players in No Bueno! are hardly committing a crime by taking the first things they can think of — girls and booze, mostly…
On P-Nuckle’s latest album, it’s obvious to anyone who’s followed the band over the years that the members have matured remarkably. Two years in the making, Stand Up shows the group, which has undergone several lineup changes since its inception, outgrowing its Sublime-influenced party-time reggae rock and delving into more…
Largely comprising veterans of Denver’s underground music scene, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake is a bit of a sonic departure for its members. Rather than assemble a clumsy pastiche of space rock, psychedelia, Americana and dark post-punk from past projects, the players created a new sound, one in which icy melodies…
Ultimately, my goal is to sound like Catherine Wheel playing Johnny Cash songs,” says New Ben Franklins frontman David DeVoe, “which is impossible to do, but it’s a great goal to have. Trying to figure out how to get there is a completely different story.” Indeed. So far, it’s been…
If aliens and sentient vintage arcade machines got together and made hip-hop, it would sound a lot like Eprom. Since that will probably never happen, it’s lucky that we actually have Eprom to meld tortured breakbeats, mind-warping soundscapes and gut-wrenching bass in perfect measure. On tracks like “Ghost Hunter” and…
The Bianchi brothers opened the original Quixote’s True Blue at 9150 East Colfax Avenue in Aurora more than a dozen years ago, as a place where Deadheads and kindred spirits could gather after the passing of Jerry Garcia. The bar was partly dedicated to their father, who had recently succumbed…
UPDATE: Sounds like the Autumn Film is nearing finished working on its new album, which we just learned will be titled the Ship and the Sea. Fans who pre-order the record now, will receive a link download the full album on Friday, February 26, followed by a physical copy, which…
