Although these days Lizzie Huffman plays what she calls “country folk pop,” the 22-year-old singer-songwriter says she was more into hip-hop and R&B artists like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill early on. But just as she was becoming a teenager, she discovered classic country singers like Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells…
What do you do if you release a music video and get slammed with plagiarism accusations? If you’re Beyoncé, you release another video. And then another. First Beyoncé released a video for “Countdown,” her third official single (after “Run The World (Girls)” and “Best I Never Had”), then she released…
Mykal Hudson — better known locally as Myke Charles, or by his previous moniker, Purpose Found, of the Fresh Breath Committee — is a member of Urban Method, the talented Denver-based a cappella group assembled by Sonic Audio’s Tony Huerta and currently vying for the top spot on NBC’s Sing-Off…
It’s that time of the week again when we bring you the freshest hip-hop to come out of the Mile High City. This week, we’ve got cuts from ProCyse and Fo Chief, a pairing that’s ripe with new possibilities; Zome, who is coming straight outta the Z-Funk era; and James…
Tigran Mimosa (aka MiM0SA, due at the Fillmore Auditorium this Saturday, October 29) hails from the West Coast, but after returning from a summer spent in a New York studio, he can attest to the positive influence and energy emitting from that side of the country. On the eve of…
Spank Rock (due tonight at Summit Music Hall for the Check Yo Ponytail 2 tour) emerged in Philadelphia around the middle of the last decade, making music that brought together threads of hip-hop, rock, R&B and electronic pop. With the release of 2006’s YoYoYoYoYo, the group became known for its…
In less than a week (four days, to be exact), Rihanna has racked up over eight million views with her “We Found Love” video. And deservedly so. The song is catchy as hell, and the video, like the others the pop star has produced recently, is thought provoking. Rihanna is…
The Occupy Wall Street movement is loosely modeled after the “Arab Spring” wave of demonstrations that swept through the Arab world. Immediately based upon civil resistance, civil disobedience and the overall right to general assembly, these protests have been sweeping the nation and the world. Protests are cropping up all…
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…
