The saga continues. Back in September, you might remember, Isaac Slade and Joe King of the Fray filed a lawsuit in U.S. District court against Gregg Alan Corp, a company headed by their former manager, Gregg Latterman, alleging that a portion of their publishing was procured without their knowledge. This…
Zero 7 with Phantogram Monday, December 7, 2009 Ogden Theatre Better than: Listening to a DJ spin trip-hop and ambient pop — they’re kicking it live on stage! A couple of years ago, it was unclear whether trip-hop/electro-pop heavyweights Zero 7 — comprising producers Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker –…
While recording songs for Jim Sampas’ documentary about Jack Kerouac, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard realized they both shared an affinity for the famed Beat writer. After recording songs for the film, the pair continued to work on songs using words from Kerouac’s novel…
My experience with poetry slams is almost nonexistent, so someone tell me: Do most poetry slams feature awkward rap battles between goofy white guys named Lando Calrhymian and MC ChewRocka, meditation on Gungan penis, and appearances by a a marching band led by Boba Fett? Because the George Lucas Poetry…
A few months ago, we were excited to hear that ambient lo-fi electro-pop act George&Caplin had a remix EP forthcoming on Plastic Sound Supply. This weekend, it hit and it’s quite nice. The EP revisits just over half of the group’s last release, He Really Got Through to Advertising, and…
The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything — although “that’s not true until they buy one of the guitars!,” points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that…
The Don’ts & Be Carefuls, Pep*Squad, Josephine and the Mousepeople, Lungs They Burn, I Sank Molly Brown Friday, December 4, 2009 The Meadowlark Better Than: Butt Shakin’ So it was mostly a big dance party at the Meadowlark, the sort of night where you show your approval with abandon and…
Moonspeed with Widowers Saturday, December 5, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than: A CD release show with an overloaded line-up. After an extended break from performance, Widowers played its first show in a few months. The sonic configuration for this show seemed cleaner and more spare than in the past, but…
Outlaw country men, The Railbenders, whose frontman, Jim Dalton, is currently moonlighting with Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, are preparing to release a new album on Friday, December 11 at the Bluebird. And since value seems to be the order of the day these days in the world of music,…
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…
What are you doing on Sunday, January 31? Haven’t thought about it yet? Bet those Fray kids have. In fact, we’re going to guess that they know exactly what they’re doing that night. We don’t have access to the band’s itenerary or anything like that, but something tells us that…
We knew something was underfoot every time we made our way through the I-36 corridor and noticed more and more progress being made on what we’ve now discovered will be a pedestrian foot bridge going over the highway where the Broomfield Event Center sits, in between the 104th and Wadsworth…
Norma Jean, HORSE the Band, The Chariot, Arsonists Get all the Girls Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 Marquis Theater Better than: Seeing an actual Kenny Loggins show — this show had just the right amount of Kenny Loggins. Though, to be fair, I’ve never seen the guy play. It might be…
Three vocal mikes. Three D.I. boxes. A condenser mike, a bass mike, a melodica vocal mike and a percussion mike. Two acoustic guitars. Two amplifiers for a pair of synths. Two drum kits. Moonspeed, which at times boasts an eleven-piece roster, strives to ensure that every note is played exactly…
Fifteen years after I graduated from college, I finally discovered beer pong when I stopped in at Hiccups I (7980 Sheridan Boulevard in Westminster) on a recent Monday. The joint was jumping at 11:15 p.m., with a DJ spinning Bell Biv Devoe’s “Do Me!” At one end of the club,…
A cursory listen to Sandusky’s recorded output might give you the impression that the act has been doing soundtrack work for the next Gregg Araki film. In much of the band’s music, you can almost hear sighing ambience, gentle dynamics and the sort of introspective aesthetic that comes from contemplating…
Compared to airbrushed, frosted-bang pretty boys like the ones in Rascal Flatts, Atlanta’s Zac Brown Band looks like it came straight to Nashville from a bare-knuckled dustup with the Kentucky Headhunters. However, the strand of Southern rock that Brown and company are steeped in most is the free-form Widespread Panic…
Idaho is probably the last place anyone would expect a thriving pocket of experimental rock to exist. But that’s exactly where Finn Riggins was founded, in the small town of Hailey. Four albums and hundreds of shows into its career, Finn Riggins is hardly a household name, but it should…
It would be easy to peg Big D and the Kids Table as the de facto leader of some sort of ska revival. But the truth is, the band has been at the skanking game for almost a decade and a half. Formed in 1995 at the height of the…
In the earlier part of this decade, four post-punk-inspired bands of note from New York came to the attention of the general public: the Strokes, Interpol, the Rapture and Stellastarr*. Of the four, Stellastarr* probably received the least amount of hype, but with the release of its latest album, Civilized,…
Joanna Newsom came on strong earlier in the ’00s, peaked early and has seemed to all but disappear from the limelight now that the decade is winding to a close. But the odd, arty folk of her debut, The Milk-Eyed Mender, lives on in Polka Dot Dot Dot. That’s not…
Trimming most of the flab that the indie world has packed on over the past ten years, Pacific Pride is more than just a fine physical specimen. Airy yet athletic, it’s a tribute to the immaculate jangle of acts like latter-day Pavement and Luna, one that serves only itself, not…
