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…

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody

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…

White Denim

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,…

Pep*Squad

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…

Almost Legends

“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…

No Bueno!

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…

P-Nuckle

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…

Eprom at Quixote’s

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 Autumn Film reveals details of new album

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…