Even at the height of Bright Channel’s popularity and on-stage volume, leader Jeff Suthers played occasional acoustic shows as a solo artist. When Moonspeed, Bright Channel’s successor, debuted, Suthers seemingly had found a way to indulge both his predilections: vast, untamed soundscapes and whispery songcraft. Flowers of the Moon (whose…
Makeout Point, a newer outfit that formed this past spring, recently finished filming its first video for a song called “Falling In.” We just got a peek at some stills from the shoot and the video looks like it’s going to be positively funtastic on the homemade goodness tip, with…
We’re all familiar with the phrase “so wrong it’s right” but it’s rare that we come across an image that exemplifies that familiar idea as perfectly as this week’s top flier. We feel a little dirty just looking at it — liking it as much as we do surely indicates…
Of Meese and Spin: You know what we love about life? We learn something new every day. Today, for instance, we learned that the members of Meese are literate — well, at least Nathan Meese, anyhow. And we also learned that Spin files the band under up-and-comers. We discovered this…
Being in the music business is tough these days. Ask Randall Frazier, who, as reported yesterday, recently shuttered Massive Music America, a fairly successful independent promotions firm he launched in 2003. “The digital music/iPod world that we are now living in has greatly changed the music industry,” he declares. “Five…
The Big Pink, Crystal Antlers Monday, November 23 Larimer Lounge Better Than: Getting whacked in the face by something warm, fuzzy and pissed off. A cat, maybe. No subtleties here — just two bands probably hyped before their time, leaning on a couple tricks each. Both, but particularly Crystal Antlers,…
This just in: Judy Collins and Neko Case will be headlining Swallow Hill’s fourth annual RootsFest on Saturday, March 6 at Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Local favorites Paper Bird and Trace Bundy are also slated to perform at the fest. Tickets, which are $35 to $140, go on sale Thursday,…
Massive movement: Just received word that Massive Music America, the independent promotions firm launched in 2003 in association with Helmet Room Recordings, which has handled campaigns for an array of artists including the Legendary Pink Dots, Beta-Lactam Ring Records and Edward Ka-Spel, among others, is shutting its doors. The company…
Over the weekend, Dan Aykroyd was in town signing bottles of Crystal Head vodka at Applejack Wine and Spirits. Blues Brothers fans who were undoubtedly thrilled at the prospect of being able to press flesh the one and only Elwood Blues on Saturday afternoon, would’ve positively lost their dang minds…
We’re sure you enjoyed our Q&A with Vaughn Harris of Nitzer Ebb last week. But maybe you were wondering why we didn’t ask him about that one b-side off the band’s second single, or why they never remixed Madonna, or how much practice it took to perfect those pouty/scary looks…
Puscifer, Uncle Scratch’s Gospel’s Revival Saturday, November 21, 2009 Paramount Theatre Better than: Watching old reruns of Hee Haw. It would have been hard to predict the format and content of Saturday night’s Puscifer show based solely on the outfit’s studio recordings. A side project of Tool frontman Maynard James…
Sun Circle, Epileptinomicon, Temples, Sterile Garden and nervesandgel Friday, November 20th, 2009 Glob Better Than: A noise show comprised entirely of purist noise projects. Epileptinomicon opened the show with just Mike Reisinger feeding his vocals through a series of effects pedals into the PA. The result was an amplified white…
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. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what we missed in the…
Some quick news bites from the local scene…Oh my!: Recognize these striking dames? Yeah, us neither. That boa helmet and weird, red, veil, feathery thing kind of obscures any chance we have any sort of face recognition. This pic was snapped a few nights ago at mtvU’s Woodie Awards, which…
Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face show originally scheduled for Sunday, November 22 at the Pepsi Center has been pushed back to February 22. Any tickets purchased for this Sunday’s show will be valid for the rescheduled date, and refunds are available at point of purchase. The two…
Mama mia!: Mama, the outfit led by frontman Jeff Leonetti and Jonny Barber (aka Chris Barber, frontman of Spiv and the Velvet Elvis), has signed a distribution deal with Steve Vai’s Digital Nations imprint. The label, an offshoot of Vai’s Favored Nations, will handle worldwide distribution of Bayoutopia, the act’s…
In response to an overwhelming demand from fans looking to pitch in after yesterday’s news that the annual fall Festival is struggling financially, Monolith organizers have set up a Kickstarter account and have set an initial two-week goal of raising $38,000 in donations towards an overall goal of $200,000 to…
Slayer and Megadeth team up for KBPI’s Midwinter Melee on Monday, January 25 at DU’s Magness Arena. It’s the first time the two bands have co-headlined in two decades, and as a bonus for diehard metal heads, Testament gets things started. General admission floor seats are $49.50, while reserved seats…
In the beginning, there was the sample. And the love of that sample led directly to the creation of pH10, an electronic outfit with a hard-edged sound and a long, storied history. “Wax Trax proved to me that electronic-based music could be as heavy as the punk rock and metal…
On Halloween, three people were shot outside Posh Ultra Nightclub (4040 East Evans Avenue); one, John Singleton, died a few days later. The following Saturday was quiet at the club, with maybe twenty people scattered through the multi-level space, which was previously Midtown Beat, and the Deadbeat Club before that…
Playing unvarnished, catchy tunes as though there had never been any interruption in the development of that strain of punk called riot grrrl, Lust-Cats of the Gutters (due Wednesday, November 25, at Denver Creative Co-Op Studio, 425 Lincoln Street) sound like the Shaggs without the perversely eccentric sense of melody…
Looking for a shovel to bury the Aughts with? Millions of Brazilians seem happy to oblige; just do us all a favor and throw the band into the grave along with the decade it so laughably typifies. Sounding like a factory reject of the Killers, the Bravery and Franz Ferdinand,…
