Didn’t see this coming, particularly with all of the school closures and snarled roadways: We’ve just learned that tonight’s scheduled Combichrist show at Cervantes’ has been canceled. Snow, evidently, isn’t a friend to the band, which was presumably trying to make its way to the Mile High City from Salt…
This week’s flier is so freaking awesome, it wasn’t even close. Just look upon the freakish majesty of this five-eyed, skull/owl beast and weep in the face of its power. There’s really no other option. The fact that it’s a flier for the return of d.biddle to these shores (metaphorically…
As reported earlier this week, a new batch of North American dates for U2’s 360° Tour were announced, which includes a stop at Invesco Field June 12. Live Nation says 85 percent of the tickets are priced at less than $95, general admission floor tickets at $55 and at least…
We’re not big sportos around here. We know, right? Hard to imagine. Folks who spend all of their time writing about, talking about, listening to, thinking about and making music, you’d think we’d all be big jocks, especially since we live in such a huge sports town. That in mind,…
This Friday, the Epilogues will be returning home from tour with the Photo Atlas and both bands are celebrating with a dual CD release show at the Marquis. But if this impending event has you jumping up and down with anticipation, relax — you don’t have to wait to hear…
The Slippery Nipple — isn’t that a great name for the space soon-to-be formally known as Quixotes? Whaddya think? No? How about the Almighty Righteous Room? Not so much? What, you have a better idea? Then let your fingers do the walking, bigshot, and drop the new owners a line…
Hello Kavita, Houses, It’s True October 23, 2009 hi-dive Better Than: Prozac Omaha band It’s True started things off with some sweet ‘n simple melodies and starry-eyed vocals. They cranked the feedback a bit because they’re no pushovers, but theirs was certainly the odd performance out on a night of…
College Music MarathonOctober 20-25, 200975+ Venues in Brooklyn and ManhattanBetter than: Fighting swarms of tourists to see the Statue of Liberty. This year’s CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Marathon offered more music than any avid concert goer could even attempt to comprehend with 1,300+ bands playing at more than seventy-five…
Update: Just received word that U2 will be bringing its 360° tour to Denver on Saturday, June 12, at Invesco Field. Oh happy day! No word yet on when tickets will go on sale, but they Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 6, and will reportedly range from $55…
As we told you last week, DJ Miss Audry — the hottest dance-music-spinning, gryo-slanging goddess this side of Mykonos — has retired from DJing. She spun her last set on Saturday at the Funky Buddha. See photos on the slideshow page…
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), The Knew, Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man October 24, 2009 Bluebird Theater Just Like: Heaven This was the final moment of Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), the last song in a too-short set that was just long…
The Pogues Friday, October 23, 2009Ogden TheatreBetter than: expected. Much better. “Sorry it’s taken us awhile to get here,” guitarist Philip Chevron said during the Pogues’ first show ever in Denver. “Almost thirty years in fact, but we finally got here.” But holy Jesus, the epic two-hour set these guys…
Sunset Rubdown, tUnE-yArDs Friday, October 23 Bluebird Theater Better Than: Wolf Parade and Swan Lake combined. Providing the latest evidence that the loop pedal is the best thing to happen to one-person bands since the harmonica holder, Merrill Garbus, who performs as tUnE-yArDs, opened up the show with a collection…
We’re suckers for a good cause, especially if all we have to do to do good is go to a bar, have a few beers and hear some kick-ass tunes. That being the case, next Wednesday offers up a fine opportunity to do exactly that, and get in the proper…
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from local lo-fi ambient popsters George&Caplin (in part, presumably, because Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens was busy recording a pair of killer EPs with Joe Sampson as Wentworth Kersey) but we’ve just received word that the duo have new material incoming. The first release…
If you make it out to Moe’s next Thursday, October 29, you can catch a bill of Light Travels Faster, Night Owl and Portamento. If you like Light Travels faster (and you probably will; our A.H. Goldstein said the band has a “dense, textured and harmonically rich sound [that] melds…
Feeling funny today? Well, here’s your chance to win a fabulous prize — supposing you consider a personal voicemail message from the dudes of 3Oh!3 to be a “fabulous prize.” All you have to do is head over to the band’s website and leave a comment suggesting a funny caption…
Tyler Gilmore, who’s been booking shows at Dazzle for the last four and a half years, is leaving the jazz club to focus more on composing for Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra, which he heads up. He’s also plans to write for local groups, as well as college and high school jazz programs…
Denver rapper/producer and former radio personality Lenny Lenn and his Kintenders imprint are offering their entire catalog for free download.The catalog features three compilation albums, solo projects from Lenny Lenn, James Ray, Joe D, and Mr. H, as well as collaborative projects with DJ Psycho and Q-Burse. When asked why…
Did you see this yet? We just caught a link to this on Twitter (thanks, MyBodySings), a list of artists whose music was used “during the detention and interrogation of” to torture “prisoners at Guantanamo and other US facilities”? The list, published by the National Security Archive and reportedly culled…
Hey Guys, So, your last show is this Saturday, October 24 at the Bluebird. I understand that circumstance dictates it, but it makes me sad. You guys have been one of my favorite bands over the past three years since I first saw you live at the Donnybrook Bastille Day…
Editor’s note: Whitney the Intern is in New York for CMJ, the annual music festival and conference. She filed this dispatch. An upstanding establishment serving beer in Solo cups on tables lit by candles in bar glasses, Wicked Willy’s was precisely the venue one would hope to see an act…
