If you have an iPhone or iPod touch and really like the Heyday, start jumping up and down with excitement because the band is now available in convenient app form. The free app (is there any other kind?) will keep fans up to date on Heyday concert dates and news,…
Get Your Going, Murder Ranks and Caroliner Rainbow Sunday, September 6, 2009 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Anyone but the performers could have hoped for. With Get Your Going you never really know what you’re in for, and on this night, a big black podium sat in the middle of…
Ween, Meat Puppets Red Rocks Amphitheatre September 5, 2009 Better than: Seeing Gene Ween play a solo show. Ween’s live shows have always seemed better suited to smaller stages, where the soaring, sharp guitar tones of Dean Ween (aka Mickey Melchiondo, Jr.) and the tongue-in-cheek vocal stylings of Geen Ween…
Fell, Astrophagus, Peña September 4, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than:Watching one of your friends squirt out a kid and get lame. Barely better. More up-front bias from Columbia boy (that’s me!). I like noisy shows in sparse bars. They remind me of the good ol’ days at Mojo’s some three…
Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday and Chester French Fiddler’s Green September 6, 2009 The members of Blink-182 became the kings of pop-punk nation a decade ago, when Enema of the State flushed the style’s system with a cleansing formula of big hooks and cheerfully profane snottiness. But the median age…
Update: Just received word of a show in support of Elana Rogers. Slated for Friday, September 25 at the D-Note, the bill features Demon Funkies, Something Underground, Melanie Susuras Band, Tempe and the Tantrums and Naor Nave.Well wishes are due to Elana Rogers, who was recently diagnosed with IDC breast…
Not sure who, if anyone, this applies to, but we thought we’d alert you anyhow. A company called 1iota Events, which distributes tickets to television shows, is evidently looking to “cast” one-hundred “high energy” fans to be part of the “stage fans” at the VMAs — whatever that means. Evidently,…
Saw this last night at the Meadowlark with the full band. Breath taking. Amazing. Even more amazing was the crowd, which was the most reverent assembly of people I’ve seen since church last weekend. Seriously, the audience was so reserved that you could distinctly hear Nathaniel Rateliff’s most delicately picked…
In 1995, Toy Story was the highest grossing movie of the year. I know this, because I had a toddler running around the house at the time who was completely consumed with Buzz Lightyear. More than a decade later, my little guy has grown up, and I’m quite proud of…
You know what I love about living in Denver — well, besides the fact that it’s the best city in America as voted by me? We take care of our own here. God forbid (No, seriously, God forbid. Please!) that anything ever happens to me, I rest easy knowing that…
Just came across a pair of radio interviews and performances featuring Danielle Ate the Sandwich and the Rouge. The former, due at Monolith next weekend, appeared last night on Guy Errickson’s KGNU show, Highway 322, in a Naked Stage segment (easy, tiger, we’re pretty sure she was fully clothed), while…
Just last week, the one and only Madonna announced that she was working with Colorado hip-hop producer Frank E on her upcoming greatest hits package. Before the ink is even dry on that post we’ve received word that Frank E has dropped another bomb hit for the masses. This time,…
For almost three decades, the CMJ Music Marathon has grown into a monster of a music outing, right up there with South By Southwest. Started in 1980 as a way for industry folks to discover bands on the college radio charts, the CMJ Music Marathon went from just a few…
If you haven’t yet scored tickets for the Monolith Festival, which is just over a week off, now might be the ideal time to get them and save a few bucks. Esurance, one of the festivals sponsors, just released a block of 400 $99 two-day passes (no service fees) that…
Hip-hop purists may hate what the kids are liking these days, but you can’t deny the power of the youth. And in our city the youth seem to be gravitating toward the Moi Yo Yoi Boiz out of Aurora. The trio, who formed in 2007, recently dropped a new mixtape…
When Vaux ended its ten-year run a couple years back, it was a sad day for fans, a group which includes plenty of folks here at Westword. If you’re one of those folks and are still having a hard time filling that Vaux-shaped hole in your heart, here’s a chance…
That’s right: Broken Silence Recodings is looking for you. Well, provided that you have quality songs, a good live show and the right image/look. A little about the criteria for that last one? Here’s a hint: Broke Silence, the label that sponsoring this contest and potentially looking to sign your…
Cracker, Motorhome September 2, 2009 Bluebird Theater Better than: Retracing the roots of modern alt-country through a flow chart. When Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman took choice solos on songs like “Lonesome Johnny Blues” and “Friends” on the Bluebird stage Wednesday night, the clear tones and resonant rings sounded like they…
Boasting is an essential element of hip-hop; the verbal technique, honed through countless on-stage battles, epitomizes the idea that a rapper can go from nothing to something B.I.G. if only he can spit better than anyone else. But while Regan Farquhar, better known as Busdriver, loves such traditions, he can’t…
From 2003 to 2005, Club Ra, an Egyptian-themed club with a hookah bar, filled the space at 1111 Lincoln Street that’s now occupied by Andrew’s on Lincoln. And in late August, the same weekend that Andrew’s threw a grand-reopening party to celebrate a remodel, a new Club Ra celebrated its…
Fort Collins’s Castles started as a solo project, but eventually Matt Sage’s sophisticated electro-indie pop evolved into an impressive three-piece, experimental rock band. After retiring that outfit, Sage went fully into exploring the possibilities of a lo-fi recording approach and released the hushed yet intense Consider Me, Ghost under the…
On Experimental Dental School’s new and fourth full-length, Forest Field — which is being offered as free download on its website — the group comes across as one you’d love to dance to. If only you could. Unless you’re both schizophrenic and quadruple-jointed, there’s little chance of getting into the…
