The White Tie Affair has all the ingredients for future stardom. Five bandmembers whose looks range from hunky to good-enough-if-he’s-just-a-friend? Check. Songs like “Candle (Sick and Tired)” and “If I Fall,” whose hooks sound as if they’ve been polished by a factory’s worth of chamois-wielding minimum-wagers? Check. A deal with…
Well, hello there. Nice to see you again. Man, it feels like it’s been forever. Hey, how did everything work out with old what’s-her-name? You know who I’m talking about — that one girl with the great rack but who could never shut up even though she had that horrible…
This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin — not during South By Southwest, surprisingly — back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturday,…
Photo: Kirsten AalandYou know your group is catching fire when you’ve manage to generate a truckload of interest before you’ve even had a chance to set up a website. Such is the case with the much-buzzed-about Fresh Breath Committee, which, we’re happy to report, finally has a MySpace page. The…
photo: blkmtnstudio.comAre you sitting down? You should probably be sitting down for this. Really. Brace yourself. Although it pains us greatly to report that one of the most promising bands to come out of Denver in the past five years or so has stopped breathing, we figured it was best…
What are you doing this weekend? Really? Again? How do you feel about heading up Aspen? The X-Games are going on up there, you know? And check this out: We’ve got a pair of tickets to go see A Place to Bury Strangers at the Belly Up. If you said,…
Boulder singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom, also one half of the duo known as Rhythm Angels, whose disc was reviewed in last week’s issue, is slated to appear on the February cover of Women’s Magazine, a publication based in the People’s Republic that focuses on — you guessed it — women. Folsom…
THE FLUID @ MAXWELL’S | 1/6/09 It was a painfully cold night in northern New Jersey, but the legendary Maxwell’s was plenty warm, and any thoughts of harsh weather were eclipsed once the show got started. Opening, oddly enough, was Overcasters from Denver. The band had been invited to share…
Touring again for the first time in four years, the Dead will stop at the Pepsi Center May 7. The lineup features original members Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, as well as guitarist Warren Haynes and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.A number of other shows were announced…
Next week, Jim Dalton, the Railbenders’ affable frontman, is slated to perform a song at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C., hosted by Norman Lear, the man responsible for This Is Spinal Tap and the classic ’70s sitcoms that are now TV Land mainstays, such as All in the Family, Maude, Sanford…
Anyone who has followed the Internet and television show Out Tha Box TV probably checked out the episode’The Legend of Boozilla.’ It told the story of Xavier Davis, aka Za Boo, aka Boozilla, a Colorado hip-hop producer who was making huge waves in the Colorado hip-hop scene and was close to busting…
Copyright 2009 NBAE (photo: Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)Just received word that the wisenheimers of 3OH!3…wait…what’s that? Oh, right. Sure. Ahem…it seems we got our, uh, wires crossed there. Evidently, Sean Foreman and Nate Motte didn’t actually get the, er, key to the city. Our bad. But they did…
While we’re not entirely sure we get the symbolism of the imagery attached to this flier — the focal point of which appears to be a figure who looks like Jesus leaning on an inverted hand drum in front of a vague cluster of men of unknown origin? — or…
Dent, a respected elder statesman of hip-hop in Denver, has been toiling in the studio with his ace cohort, Noel Zancanella, putting together a brand-new album, the followup to his last release, the excellent Confi-Dent, which contained the feel good track “Sunshowers.” After the jump, check out a pair of…
So I just flipped on the inauguration, a few minutes before Obama took the oath, and who do I see playing to usher in the 44th President, our first African-American president, the first president who acknowledges having Jay-Z on his iPod? Let me give you a hint. It wasn’t Jay-Z…
The Killers and M83Saturday, January 17, 2009Magness ArenaBetter Than: Not seeing them at all, even though the Magness sucks.Have you seen Denver University’s Magness Arena? It’s a cement tomb. The pharaohs would love this place. Hell, spent nuclear fuel would find a good home here. I’d rather listen to City…
While we’ll be posting some pictures and a write up of our own shortly from Tom Murphy, who accompanied the Fluid and the Overcasters to the East Coast for a pair of dates this past weekend, Brooklyn Vegan posted a bunch of a great pics from the show. Unsurprisingly, both…
The Swayback is a quartet once again. After briefly stripping its lineup down to a three-piece late last year with the exodus of Shawn Astrom, the outfit has added Vaux’s Adam Tymn to its ranks. The guitarist, who formed the excellent Ride the Boogie after the dissolution of Vaux and…
While it’s still a bit early, the official list of Denver acts invited to play SXSW seems pretty narrow. Given the extraordinary talent we have here, we’re guessing that the number of artists who submitted this year is down and that this is really more of a reflection of the…
Aaron Thackeray braved the sweatiness to get photos from 3OH!3’s Saturday-night show at the Ogden. See his work at westword.com/slideshow…
We’re not sure when Denver MC Tone Skarfo plans on releasing an album or if he has a mixtape coming up. What we do know, however, is that his single, “Gurl I Wanna Know You,” is buzzing around the city. Just last week, he dropped the video for the single…
You’re looking at a custom synthesizer built into the casing of a classic Atari 400 computer. Combining my love of synthesizers, custom-built gear, obsolete computers and 8-bit style sound in one small package, this thing is like my dream instrument. It’s a one-of-a-kind masterpiece from Fridgebuzz Electronics (they also make…
