See Also: Lower Dens at Larimer Lounge – Tuesday, July 10 There’s something both unnatural and superhuman about the new Lower Dens album, Nootropics. True to the Baltimore quintet’s Facebook bio, which reads only “dark nerds,” the band delved deep into social, moral and technological issues on its latest through…
See Also: Meet Extra Kool, the Creature From the Whack Lagoon Dirty Laboratory MC Extra Kool just dropped a new video for his tune “Is Anybody Thirsty?” The clip spills enough fake blood to make you forget the bucket scene from Carrie. With some help of shlock-horror experts from Troma,…
If you’re one of those folks who thinks electronic music is made by people lacking the manual dexterity to play “real” instruments, then Amor, Est. would like to prove you wrong. The local producer, born Steele Kempton, has a dozen years of classical guitar training, but preferred the expansive possibilities…
See Also: Sunday: Anthrax at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Joey Belladonna talks about Married…With Children and rejoining the band Scott Ian on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who and interviewing Ozzy Photos: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/19/11 Review: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/18/10 Slipknot’s Clown on the time he…
See Also: Tonight: Porter Robinson at the Boulder Theater Tomorrow: Porter Robinson at the Ogden Theatre Porter Robinson started making electronic music at the age of thirteen using Sony ACID Pro, but he didn’t perform his music live in front of an audience until a handful of years later. Since…
See Also: Tonight: Peter Black at the Meadowlark Peter Black (aka Peter Gurule) first gained renown as a DJ as part of the long-running and legendary club night, So What! Since then, he’s made a name for himself not just as a skilled DJ in a very real sense of…
See Also: – Tonight: Jason Anderson at the hi-dive – The members of Holophrase on working with Ikey Owens on Horizons of Expectation Jason Anderson’s startlingly unvarnished yet well-crafted songs and his intimate and charismatic performance style evoke the sense of a compassionate and unpretentious friend offering nuggets of wisdom…
See Also: Tonight: Youth Lagoon at the Bluebird The best SXSW music 2012 The worst SXSW music 2012 Youth Lagoon (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) began as the solo project of Trevor Powers, who first started making music while still in high school, and whose early recordings caught the…
See Also: Tonight: Holophrase CD release at the hi-dive The Mars Volta’s Ikey Owens stretches his wings in Free Moral Agents Rubedo on recording its new album, Massa Confusa, with Ikey Owens Holophrase got its name for the technical term for the sounds infants use to communicate verbally before learning…
See Also: Sunday: Slipknot at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Photos: Umasking Corey Taylor of Slipknot Photos: Women that rock at Mayhem Photos: Mayhem Fest 2011 Photos: Mayhem Fest 2010 Formed in 1994 by late bassist Paul Gray and M. Shawn Crahan (aka Clown, aka #6), Slipknot (due this Sunday, July 8…
While Squeeze (due at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July 4) has had a few hiatuses in its almost forty year history, singer and guitarist Glenn Tilbrook says the band sounds more energized these days — so energized, in fact, that the group has even started work on…
Baby Dee (due Tuesday, July 3, at the Walnut Room) has been recording music for over a decade, and her music defies easy classification. A multi-instrumentalist, Dee’s songs are driven by piano, harp and various other instruments that accompany her unique, sometimes haunting voice, which also manages to be curiously…
MC/label founder/activist Sole (aka Tim Holland) has been espousing the virtues of DIY long before the internet made it so easy for everybody to put out their own albums. But since splitting with Anticon (the label he founded), he’s been living his philosophy again, and that feels good. Now, having…
Say what you want about Justin Bieber — “he looks like a girl,” “he’s annoying,” “he’s only relevant to thirteen-year-old girls” — but the pop star sensation is doing something right. His new album, Believe , sold 374,000 copies in its first week. That number may not seem like a…
Happy Westword Music Showcase weekend, friends, Romans, hip-hop heads! This weekend promises to highlight all the reasons why the music scene in Denver houses some of the best talent in the country. With the hip-hop scene, in particular, the styles and profiles of the MCs, DJs and singers have been…
Battles (due tomorrow at the Westword Music Showcase on the main Stage) first came together when Ian Williams, a former guitarist in math rock pioneers Don Caballero, moved to New York and got lured back into playing live music. He ended up working with like-minded musicians with their own backgrounds…
The last time we caught up with Seattle rapper Macklemore (due tomorrow at the Westword Music Showcase on the main stage), he was working on his latest album with remarkable fervor — he chose to skip SXSW. That effort, combined with having been inducted into XXL’s prestigious 2012 freshman class…
Ceremony (due tonight at the Marquis Theater) started out in Rohnert Park, California, as a straight-ahead hardcore outfit. The band’s fast, hard-hitting songs put it in good company with like-minded bands influenced by that era of punk where a song could be less than a minute long, so long as…
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” remains number one for another week on the Billboard Hot 100. However, on the Billboard 200 albums chart, somewhat unexpectedly, Usher overtakes Adele for the number-one album in the country with Looking 4 Myself — even without a strong lead single to drive sales…
“It started as a total joke,” says Sarah Anderson of Harpoontang (due tomorrow night at the Larimer Lounge), the outfit which also includes the trio of Paper Bird vocalists, Laura Goldhamer and M & the Gems singer Maria Kohler (also known as Kitty Crimes). “But every time we practiced, something…
This Saturday, some of the hottest local talent will be getting busy on fifteen stages throughout the Golden Triangle for the annual Westword Music Showcase. After the Showcase wraps, Q-Tip, hip-hop’s premier rapping, producing and trendsetting superstar will rock a rare DJ set at City Hall Amphitheatre for the official…
Røsenkøpf (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis) is a trio whose membership came out of punk but didn’t bother with trying to shed the ideas or trappings of punk. Even sonically, there is a bit of punk’s edge to the band’s darker moods and atmosphere. But the dark to be found here…
