Concerts

Tori Amos and eskimOTuesday, July 21, 2009Paramount TheatreBetter Than: The last time I saw Tori Amos at Red Rocks in 1998.London-based One eskimO opened the show, and at first, I was concerned it might be one of those bands favored by modern rock stations that border on the adult contemporary…

New music: The Mansfields, who just completed a tour with the Queers, will be recording a new album in Atlanta, and Joe Queer will be reportedly producing it. Hello Kavita has posted three new songs (“Sunday,” “To a Loved One” and “Ok”) on its MySpace page from the forthcoming album…

I like Denver-based, danceable post-punk outfit the Ideal Fathers a lot. I like the bleepy, chirping 8-bit soundscapes of chiptunes a lot. So you can imagine my excitement today when I stumbled upon a completely kickass chiptunes remix/reimagining of one of my very favorite Ideal Fathers tracks whilst wasting time…

On Wednesday, July 22, Live Nation is offering buy one, get one free lawn tickets for Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre shows including Creed, Crue Fest II, Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Poison, Toby Keith with Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, and Rod Stewart. The two-for-one…

If you like free music — and I know you like free music — point your web-browsing machine over to One Track Mind, a newish blog offering a daily song review and download of said reviewed song. It’s a Denver-based operation and, according to its About page, it’s staffed by…

The highlight of the Mile High Music Fest — at least for the guy who was stuck in the media tent uploading photos and reviews — had to be the moment when photographer Brian Landis Folkins returned to the tent armed with photos from the early-Sunday performance of honeyhoney, the…

It took me a bit, but I finally was able to sift through the hundreds of photos our photogs took over the weekend and cull out some of the best. So on the slideshow page, you’ll now find slideshows of full of concert photos for Day One and Day Two…

Venerable Colorado dance music resource Unnet has been going through some changes lately, revamping the site to make it even more of a hub for Colorado’s dance music scene. One key addition was the introduction of a mobile-friendly site for all you folks that like to read the ‘Nets from…

The Beastie Boys have just announced, via YouTube video, that Adam Yauch (aka MCA) has cancer in one of his parotid glands. As a result, they are canceling all tour dates for this summer and pushing back the scheduled September 17 release of their album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1…

If you missed the Mile High Music Fest — and I did too, thanks to a wedding that was occurring simultaneously — or if you were there, but were just so trashed your memories are hazy, you can relive it in glorious lo-fi, shaky-cam glory on YouTube. A quick search…

The Black Keys, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons Friday, July 17 The Fox Better Than:Engine oil under your fingernails, sweat running down your back and your car in good working order once again. Zero frills. A white drum kit with two toms and three cymbals, a bag of extra sticks…

See photos of the day’s fans and crowds on the slideshow page. We’re back for Day 2, which looks to be shaping up a little hotter, and not just because of HoneyHoney’s frontwoman (above). Check back throughout the day for more photos and reviews. For coverage from Day One, see…

Scalping is illegal in Commerce City, too, as Jon Simpson could tell you.While there were a number of arrests at the Mile High Music Festival yesterday, Simpson’s may well be the most high-profile. He appears to be the brother of Grammy Award- winner India.Arie, who was known as India Arie…

See photos of the fans who woo-hooed their way around Day One of the Mile High Music Fest at westword.com/slideshow…

See photos of Day One’s fans on the slideshow page. It’s here: The second edition of the Mile High Music Fest is underway, and our gaggle of writers and photogs are shvitzing their way around the grounds to bring you ongoing, as-close-to-live-as-my-fingers-allow coverage of Denver’s biggest music festival. Check back…

As you’ve likely surmised, the Mile High Music Festival is this weekend. We’ll be there, sweating and shooting and watching and writing, and posting it all to this little blog and this little twitter feed. So check in for the latest news, reviews, photos, whatever, and check back Monday for…

D1g1tal Mayh3m, a new site for showcasing the work of Colorado DJs and electronic music artists launched recently. The site aims to offer a forum for some of the less commercial strains of electronic music to be heard. Specifically, the site offers free, streaming mixes in the genres of ambient,…

Tomorrow night at 6 p.m., the Sputnik will be hosting Face the Music, a photo exhibit featuring the portraits of Todd Roeth, who’s emerged in the past year as one of the most talented photographers in the city. His bright, colorful style is as vibrant as it is distinctive. “I…

Frontside Five, Git Some, Speed Wolf, St. Fall Apart Thursday, July 16, 2009 Marquis Theater Better than: Attending a show devoted to only one subgenre of punk music. Frontside Five’s new full-length album, Resurrection Cemetery, veers from the Denver ensemble’s skate-punk roots in many ways, incorporating new sounds and textures…

Even though ManeLine is continually doing shows around town and the Pirate Signal is hard at work on its new album, rapper Mane Rok and DJ A-What have found time to connect and put together a mixtape project called Mane Rok and DJ AWHAT! Present Rok Stars Mixtape. The project…