“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…
Did you catch Daughtry’s New Year’s Eve performance? We saw a clip, and the dude, who apparently gets mistaken for Vin Diesel a lot, has facial hair and eyebrows that kind of look like they were drawn on his face with Sharpie. Seems a little distracting if you ask us,…
You see this kids? This flier for Ballistics, a dubstep party with Eprom and Hulk, is a near-perfect design. Every element is strong. It’s a great image. The color scheme is awesome. The carefully constructed logo is bold and memorable without being flashy or overdone. The textual elements are both…
How do you take a venue that’s already not all that appealing in the first place and make it even less so? How about hanging a handle on it that fans can’t say (or even think about, really) without spitting out their soda? If you haven’t heard yet, word came…
For reasons we can’t figure, 3 Kings hosted jazz and burlesque on Monday night. Photographer Coleen Whitfield was there. See her photos on the slideshow page…
Okay, so the fame and fortune part is a stretch. But that certainly shouldn’t stop our glorious local bands from showing the world their songwriting and recording prowess in the Fifth Annual RPM Challenge. The premise for this thing is simple enough: musicians have 28 days, from the beginning of…
Not familiar with the intricacies of this process — mainly because we’re not well heeled enough to actually, you know, own one of these things — but this seems pretty badass. Evidently, there’s an iPhone ap called Four Track that allows you to record sweet, sweet pop music from the…
Fucking A. Ask and ye shall receive, eh? (Well, it’s not Denver, but close enough.) Just glimpsed the lineup for this year’s Coachella. As far as headliners go, you’ve got your Jay-Z and your LCD Soundsystem and, uh, let’s see here, Thom Yorke and … yada, yada, yada. Whatever, dude…
It’s not everyday you’re struck with eternal truth while watching a sitcom, but it does happen. And while watching a rerun of 30 Rock the other day, it happened to me when one character offered to make another a mixtape and asked, “You like Phil Collins?” and was answered, “I…
Paging Neil Young: Saw what you did with “Pants on the Ground” last week on, ahem, Jimmy Fallon. Good times. Call us crazy, but this one has your name written all over it. No? We’re of course talking about this gem from Chargers star running back LaDainian Tomlinson. Considering that…
It’s almost time for the Winter Olympics, which means we all get to pretend like we care about a bunch of sports that normally only get “televised” on places like icenetwork.com. Men’s figure skating, for example, which features one Johnny Weir. His reality show debuted last night on the Sundance…
Been listening to Spoon’s about-to-be released seventh studio album Transference (slated for release tomorrow) pretty much non-stop for the past four days, thanks to NPR’s Exclusive First Listen, and have to say, we’re newly reconverted to the Spoon fold. We fell out of love (although not out of like) after…
This was not a good year for the “Best Original Song” category at the Golden Globe’s. In fact, it’s arguably one of the worst in recent memory. We’re not certain what this means, if it means anything at all, but it’s clear the film industry tossed original music to the…
Alan Alda, Accordion Crimes and I Sank Molly Brown Friday, January 15th, 2010 hi-dive Opening the show was I Sank Molly Brown. When I had seen the band on previous occasions, I was never impressed. So it came as something of a surprise when the song that began Molly Brown’s…
John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light, Achille Lauro, Danielle Ate the Sandwich Casselman’s Bar & Venue Saturday, January 16, 2010 Better Than: Martinis and Red Wine John Common is too old for the slog of rock and roll. In this week’s feature, he talked about giving it up before…
