The rap that’s out this week is all over the place, in the clubs, perched on precariously high ledges and, as always, in the motherfucking streets, son. Mr. Midas puts moving pictures to his song “Tender Kisses” for a video that will definitely require tissues, while Spoke In Wordz gets…
Testament (sharing a bill tomorrow night at Summit Music Hall with Anthrax and Death Angel) is one of the bands that make a strong case for expanding the Big 4 to the Big 5 (or Big 6, if the often-overlooked Exodus were included). The Bay Area act was part of…
Anthrax (due Wednesday, October 19, at Summit Music Hall) is one of the Big 4 thrash bands from the ’80s, and the only one originally based on the East Coast. More than most metal bands, Anthrax seemed willing to smile and display a wicked yet playful sense of humor –…
Scotty McCreery’s new album, Clear As Day, broke records this week by debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, proving that American Idol can still produce stars, even if it’s been a while. Clear As Day is the first debut release from an American Idol winner to catapult to…
Boris (due Saturday, October 15, at the Marquis Theater) has had one prolific career thus far, with seventeen albums released since its start in 1992 and multiple collaboration projects with artists like SunnO)))), Keiji Haino and Michio Kurihara of psychedelic band Ghost. Though based out of Tokyo, Boris found more…
Pete Tong (due at Beta this Saturday, October 15) has had a ridiculous year: In commemoration of holding down a slot at BBC Radio 1 for twenty years, he took over the station for twelve hours, plus he re-launched his Pacha residency in Ibiza and started a pool party residency…
When did Adam Levine become such a pop god? Really? Throw the Maroon 5 singer’s vocal on any track, and watch it hit the top ten right now. Case in point: “Stereo Hearts.” It isn’t the strongest Gym Class Heroes track (that distinction belongs to “Peace Sign/Index Down” with Busta…
Former Tickle Me Pink drummer Stefan Runstrom recently moved to Chicago. Before heading off to the Windy City, though, the timekeeper evidently made a stop at Colorado Sound with his former bandmate, guitarist Joey Barba, and Randy Ramirez of the Heyday, where the trio recorded a two-song EP under the…
During the 1980s and into the ’90s, Duran Duran (due tonight at the 1STBANK Center with Neon Trees) was one of the most popular and successful rock bands of that time. It was the kind of band for whom people would camp out outside hotel rooms to get autographs. Its…
LMFAO is a love-’em-or-hate-’em act. You either love “Party Rock Anthem” or you hate it with every fiber of your party-rockin’ being. You either love “Shots,” or you think the devil would play it on loop in hell. LMFAO is that polarizing. The act’s newest single, “Sexy and I Know…
Dick Dale (due tonight at the Gothic Theatre) is one of the most influential living musicians. If Dale hadn’t blown the first 48 guitar amplifiers Leo Fender had brought to him, guitar amps as we now know them may have taken longer to develop. Dale, who invented surf rock, used…
When (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was released, its presence on the scene was almost as explosive as its creators’ antics. Noel and Liam Gallagher — sometimes jokingly known as Cocaine and Abel — aren’t really brothers as much as they are the antithesis of each other, the most charming…
Growing up in Boulder, Rudresh Mahanthappa (due tonight at Quixote’s True Blue) got an early start on the saxophone and studied with Mark Harris, who opened him to a wide variety of music, before heading to Berklee College of Music and DePaul University to study music. Since moving to New…
Last night, we tagged along with Paul Brandt, aka Paul Basic, as he and Michal Menert were doing a photo shoot with Pat Milbery and the So-Gnar snowboarding monster. Brandt is one of the most recent additions to Derek Vincent Smith’s Pretty Lights Music imprint. Between snapshots, we spoke with…
Update (9/29/11): A few commenters on this week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” alerted us to another video of the incident that has surfaced. This one, which was posted on YouTube today, evidently, is shot from yet another angle, and the footage appears to be from sometime between the subsequent eleven-second…
Wondering what becomes of all the bootleg merchandise that is seized? The clothing items sometimes find their way into the hands of less fortunate individuals through various charity organizations. Such was the case in 2005, when Cousins Entertainment, through its attorneys at the time, the Denver-based law firm, Schwartz &…
This week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” outlines how bands, specifically Colorado favorites Phish, battle the parking lot bootleggers who make money — some it defend as a way to keep following the band on tour, while others says it’s profit-driven — off the band’s likeness, name and image. Below are…
Dave Anver, the pony-tailed man in this video from Phish’s show at Dick’s on Friday, September 2, is the subject of this week’s Westword cover story, “Phish Story.” Anver says his job is “serving federal injunctions against people for selling counterfeit merchandise,” but his methods came into question after the…
The summer being over has not slowed the MC’s down in the slightest. Each week, we deliver the newest, freshest, and dopest tracks coming out of the hip-hop scene, and today is no different. Myrical Child capitalizes off of Floyd Mayweather’s winning streak with a new joint; Turner Jackson’s heart…
In a weird twist of unexpected collaborations, Rihanna just released her newest single, “We Found Love,” which features Calvin Harris on production, last week. Somehow it manages to sound both like a Rihanna song and a Calvin Harris song, and both in their own merit. Could Harris be the new…
Followers of world music in general and healing Sanskrit sounds in particular should be familiar with Deva Premal and Miten, but just in case: The duo has been performing together since they met in India in 1990 — at an ashram, fittingly — traveling the world and using their chanting…
Saturday marks the twentieth anniversary of the monumental Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. In 1991, the world was in a war-charged state of transition. Combat troops were preparing to be sent to the Gulf; the Soviets were in fear of the big chill and their food…
