Negative Degree, one of the more active hardcore bands in the Denver punk scene for the past year or so, is part of a small wave of new local bands playing hardcore punk music, which first sprang up in basements in the ’80s and has been romanticized and gold-plated in…
What happens when contemporary electronic musicians, DJs and producers are teamed with old masters of rock, jazz, soul and country? That’s the question posed by the new documentary Re:Generation, which opens for a limited run of screenings around Denver on February 16. The film follows musical collaborations by some unlikely…
Chris Brown singles have always come in two flavors: Sexy & Braggadocious and Song & Dance — songs that are either about busting a nut or busting a move, regardless of production or tempo. Edgier singles from his catalogue, like “Look at Me Now,” “I Can Transform Ya” and even…
Descendents (due tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium) didn’t exactly invent pop punk, but the band’s musical influence can be heard throughout that movement whether latter day poppy punk bands know it or not. Starting in 1978, Descendents were early compatriots of what later became the hardcore scene in southern…
Leo Kottke (due tonight at the Boulder Theater) is a legendary and beloved master of finger picking guitar and a gifted raconteur. He got his start with John Fahey’s Takoma Records in the late ’60s, and he’s been releasing noteworthy albums of some of the most inventive and interesting acoustic…
Ghost (due tonight at the Marquis Theater) is a metal band from Sweden that might also be considered a bit of a performance art troupe. With one member dressed as the Satanic counterpart to the Pope and the other five as hooded, essentially faceless acolytes, all decked out in reverse…
See Also: Hindershot trashes Spencer Alred’s backyard in its new video. Stuart Confer can’t pin down exactly where the inspiration for the tunes on his band’s latest EP, Curse Us All, comes from. Confer, the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter for Hindershot (due at 3 Kings Tavern on Friday, January…
Good day and good rap! This week we have a ton of fresh local hip-hop for you, some new videos, some new cuts and some new faces. We’ve got new videos from the Foodchain, TC Crook, Babah Fly, as well as a sneak peek at Prime Element’s new clip for…
While guitarist Janet Feder has made a number of instrumental recordings, she sings on most of the songs on her latest effort, the fittingly titled Songs With Words, slated for release tonight at the Mercury Cafe. Producer Joe Shepard encouraged Feder to do anything that she wanted. At first, she…
Secret Chiefs 3 (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) is the brainchild of Trey Spruance, whom you may know from Mr. Bungle. With Secret Chiefs 3, Spruance seemingly follows every musical idea he can think of down every rabbit hole imaginable. Along the way, he has learned to play a…
Dengue Fever (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) was born of Zac and Ethan Holtzman’s fascination with the pop music that had come out of Cambodia prior to the Khmer Rouge takeover of that country in 1975. Pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia had a thriving pop and rock scene that was influenced…
The Chemical Brothers have been touring as an electronic-music duo for more than a decade; the team has won Grammy awards and accolades for its hard-hitting dance music — and the amazing visual show that the act puts together. On Wednesday, February 1, select movie theaters around town will screen…
Forget Lil Kim. At this point in her career, Nicki Minaj’s only enemy is herself and “Super Bass.” That track, which catapulted Minaj into a mainstream as cross-genre artist and onto the iPods of Taylor Swift fans everywhere, will be her “Lose Yourself” — the song that defines Minaj’s career…
“Nineteen sixty-seven was a watershed year,” Keith Richards writes in his recently released autobiography, Life. “It was the year the seams gave way. There was a tension in the air. There was that feeling that trouble was coming — which it did.”…
Garland Jeffreys (due Saturday, January 21, at the Lion’s Lair) should be a household name considering some of the shoulders with which he’s rubbed during the course of his long career: He met Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker before the Velvet Underground were properly a band, when Jeffreys and Reed…
Update 1/20/12: Some sad news just coming in from California just now. Etta James has reportedly passed away at the age of 73 due to complications associated with leukemia. RIP, Etta. Originally posted 1/11/12: Etta James is having a hell of a year. Aside from battling leukemia and dementia, being…
As if Katy Perry’s divorce news weren’t bad enough, now there’s an acoustic version of “The One That Got Away” to empathize with. Released yesterday, this rendition, drenched in piano and acoustic guitar, shows greater depth and emotes way more than the video ever could have. Had Perry released this…
Forget Tim Tebow. From now until at least the day after the Super Bowl, everyone’s going to be talking about another figure in pop culture who had the religion thing down long before Tebow did: Madonna. Although Lady Gaga may never admit as much, Madge recently acknowledged the similarities between…
Nurses (due at the hi-dive this Sunday, January 15) moved around a bit before settling down in Portland and completely shedding its previous, more rockist, musical identity. Having pretty much reinvented itself for its 2009 album, Apple’s Acre, Nurses sounds as though some eccentric songwriters got together and used a…
Well, now, this is something different. It’s roughly the exact opposite of how things usually work. Generally you have musicians dipping their toes in the electronic world before eventually taking a full-on plunge into that side of things. Here, meanwhile, we have Ty Tekavec (you know him better as DJ…
The last time you probably heard the name Marshall Gallagher, it was most likely in conjunction with the dearly departed band Solar Bear, with whom he was a member. Sometime after that outfit folded last spring, Gallagher packed up his gear and joined the 3OH!3 dudes on the road as…
Despite the pointed assertion of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney that rock music is dying because of Nickelback, the genre still appears to be selling quite well. Granted, not quite as well as hip-hop or pop, but it’s still kicking. In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, Carney is quoted…
