Talib Kweli and the Rhythm Roots All Stars hit the Fox Theatre on October 10. There weren’t quite as many concert announcements as in the past few weeks, but a few changes. British soul singer Adele’s show, which was originally scheduled for June 21 at the Fox Theatre, has been…
Cinemocracy Rocks! Monday, August 25, 2008 Red Rocks Amphiteatre Better than: Rocking in the free world. Near the end of Alan Dominguez’s film, Cinema+(Dem)ocracy, a guy said, “Voting is like peeing the ocean. It doesn’t make much difference, but you really feel good having done it.” Of all the people…
Update (8/25): Just got the drop on a late night party hosted by MySpace at Mile High Station featuring Nelly. Hold on. Before you start Googling Mile High Station, you should know that this event, a salute to the screen actor’s guild, is another invite-only shindig. Update (8/22): Welp, looks…
Just received word from the Mad Society Productions folks that the Public Enemy show originally slated for tonight at Boulder’s Theater has been rescheduled for Wednesday. Admission to the show is free and open to folks sixteen and older (with a valid photo ID). You may remember last week the…
Allen Toussaint. The New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya Fillmore Auditorium August 24 It was clear that the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, a fundraiser co-sponsored by the Friends of New Orleans featuring some of the biggest and best names in Louisiana music, differed from the typical live-performance event in Denver even before…
Flobots, Railbenders Saturday, August 23, 2008 Elitch Gardens, DNC Media Party Better than: A vacation at Pleasure Island. It’s a scene that’s disturbing in its darkness, and eerie in its implications. In Walt Disney’s 1940 feature film Pinocchio, the wooden protagonist is lured to a promised utopia for little boys,…
Rock the Bells Tour Saturday, August 23, 2008 Fiddler’s Green The Rock the Bells show was supposed to be a sort of door closing on my adult years, one of those watershed moments replete with voiceover from Richard Dreyfuss that would have gone something like: “As my homies and I…
Photo: Dave Herrera 3OH!3, Chain Gang of 1974 and the Pirate Signal Saturday, August 23, 2008 Fox Theatre, Boulder Having seen 3OH!3 at each of the past two Warped Tours (click here and here for details), I expected more of the same on August 23 at the first of two…
“Where my reality show at, dogs?” DMX gets a reality show Even though DMX is sitting in a Miami jail waiting to answer to a variety of charges including drug possession, weapons possessions and animal cruelty, some television producers think his life would make for some great entertainment. The show…
Received word earlier today from my boy Whip, 101.5 FM’s music director, that KTNI’s new locals show will make its broadcast debut next Thursday night from 10 p.m. to midnight. In a new twist in local programming, the show, set to be hosted by Whip himself, will be broadcast live…
It’s been a busy week around here trying to keep track of everything that’s going on during the DNC. All eyes are understandably on the high profile events, meaning all the other cool local events that have nothing to do with the convention are in danger of being overshadowed. Not…
Update (8/22): Just moments ago, Metallica debuted “The Day That Never Comes,” a song from the new record on its website. Meh. While we’ll hold out judgement on the rest of the album, this particular tune sounds an awful lot like it could’ve been an outtake from Metallica (the “Black…
With enough breakneck shifts in tone, style and pacing to confuse and confound anyone looking for more conventional songwriting, Action Friend’s debut clearly has its roots in the wildly experimental guitar music of John Zorn. This can be disconcerting to anyone not willing to follow the band’s sharp turns through…
One of a band’s biggest challenges is finding its own sound, and the World Romantic has done it. But the players are so locked into this style that their EP gets the redundancy blues by track two. Granted, the first cut, “Pop Culture,” is distinctive: Lead singer James Dzuris caresses…
Inevitably, this band gets lumped into the post-rock category thanks to that whole notion that any epic instrumental music with energy and drive must be post-rock. But San Francisco’s Beaten by Them has more in common with modern classical music and minimalist German bands like Kraftwerk and Neu! than it…
Over the years, categorizers have shoved My Morning Jacket in numerous pigeonholes: jam band, Southern-rock band, Americana band and more. Group leader Jim James doesn’t much like being labeled, though, as Evil Urges, the act’s latest disc, makes clear. The CD begins with the title track, “Touch Me I’m Going…
John MacLean made his first major musical mark as the guitarist for Six Finger Satellite, a onetime Sub Pop signee that merged traditional rock with synthetic filigree. Then, after lying low for a few years, he reemerged with 2005’s Less Than Human, a full-out electronic opus released under the twisted…
The state of Texas has sure given us some interesting and innovative musical figures over the years, including the likes of Roky Erickson, Gibby Haynes and Randy Turner. Erika Thrasher and Brandon Davis are certainly sound pioneers in their own right, and whether performing under the name of Indian Jewelry…
After 1997’s Urban Hymns proved to be a breakthrough for the Verve, frontman Richard Ashcroft went solo prematurely — and he was punished by having quite a bit of strong music be largely ignored. Now Ashcroft is back in the band, and on “Sit and Wonder,” the lush opener, his…
While it might be tempting to overanalyze why this record is released under the given name of Omaha’s favorite sad son instead of his customary Bright Eyes appellation, any such analysis misses the point — which is that Conor Oberst is a deftly written, beautifully performed collection that might finally…
One-thirty in the afternoon on a blistering Monday in late July, and the Flobots are hardly forming like Voltron. The tour bus was supposed to leave from this Save-A-Lot off Federal Boulevard at 12 p.m. sharp to make it to a gig tomorrow night in Dallas as part of the…
Pssst… this just in: The Democratic National Convention kicks off next week here in Denver. After nineteen months of hyperventilation in all the fishwraps (including this one), on talk-radio shows and on the evening news, it’s hard to believe it’s finally upon us. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as stoked…
