Hey, DJ! Q&A with Kid Hum

Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them…

Q&A with Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew has lead something of a charmed existence as a musician for the last thirty years, from his first high-profile gig as a guitarist for Frank Zappa in 1979 to his later work with Talking Heads, Trent Reznor, David Bowie and King Crimson. Though possessed of preternaturally able technical…

Q&A with Philip Chevron of the Pogues

This week’s preview of the Pogues’ show this Friday at the Ogden Theatre only scratched the surface of our interview with guitarist Philip Chevron, who also talked at length about Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say… Pogue Mahone!!, the five-disc box set of b-sides, outtakes and live…

Q&A with Babah Fly

For the last 15 years, Matthew Kelly has been entrenched in the Colorado hip-hop scene. Although his stage name has changed over the years, Kelly, now known as Babah Fly, has been one of the most consistent artists in the scene. Whether it’s as a solo artist or as part…

Q&A with Ilya Laqutenko of Mumiy Troll

Mumiy Troll from Vladivostok, Russia is one of that country’s most popular bands. The act’s combination of energetic rock and moodily atmospheric pop, for which lead singer Ilya Lagutenko coined the term “rockapops,” has been gaining popularity in America despite the fact that, up to the release of the new…

Q&A with Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root

Jam band faves Rusted Root, which had a taste of mainstream stardom with the 1995 near-hit single “Send Me on My Way” and a popular cover of The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” is touring in support of Stereo Rodeo, the group’s first studio album in…

Introducing: Hey, DJ! Our new Friday Q&A. This week: DJ Klaw

Welcome to our latest feature: Hey, DJ! Every Friday starting today, we’ll be spotlighting the hottest, ahem, cats (see what we did there) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their…

Q&A with Les Freres Courvoisier

If you need a set of playful yet sexy techno, you could do a lot worse than calling upon the services of Les Freres Courvioiser, a faux-French duo with a penchant for spicing up their sets with ridiculous costumes and general hijinx. In the course of putting together this week’s…

Q&A with Roger Daltrey

Just because Roger Daltrey is 65-years old doesn’t mean he’d like to spend his golden years sitting on his sofa listening to all the Who albums he helped make so memorable. He’s currently in the midst of his first solo tour since 1994 [see comments, below], and by the time…

Sneak a peek at Vitamin D’s Hard Times

Longtime Denver dance music stalwart Vitamin D has a new album coming February 24 and, from the sounds of the tracks he has posted on his MySpace, it should be a good one. He announced it back in July and today, he released this image of the album cover. Not…

Q&A with Adam Young from Owl City

If you’ve never heard of Owl City until now, you’re forgiven. The brainchild of young pop composer and producer Adam Young, Owl City, seemingly came out of nowhere in the past six months and is quickly becoming a phenomenon. Foisted to the forefront solely on the strength of a strong…

Q&A with Flawless of Fresh Breath Committee

Back in 2008, we named Boostwell Crew the best hip-hop crew in Denver. Headed by SP Double, the crew consisted of local emcees and producers, Flawless, Fo Chief, ManDaMyth, Catch Lungs, EMB, Purpose, Procise, Kontrast and a few others. Shortly after the recognition, a number of members left the crew…

Q&A with Justin Sullivan of New Model Army

These days, a real punk band (sorry, Green Day) can almost never find its way onto the pop charts. But back in the day (see: mid-’80s), England’s New Model Army released political punk that didn’t merely sell to left-wing extremists. Almost thirty years ago, frontman/mastermind Justin Sullivan, who has been…

Q&A with Time

Time, aka Chris Steele, has been involved in the Denver hip-hop scene for over a decade, and his current and future collaborators include Sole of the Anticon collective, Talib Kweli, Drake, Kool Keith and C-Rayz Walz. The snarkier hip-hop aficionados refer to the form Time writes and performs as “alternative…

Tip sheet: Churchill arrives with tons of promise

Churchill is a yet another newer Denver act that has arrived on the scene seemingly fully formed. The outfit came together from the collaboration of a pair of college chums, Tim Bruns and Michael Morter, when the former moved back to Denver after a stint in Nashville trying his hand…

Endotrend Q&A with Jeremy Gregory of Bands For Lands

Jeremy Gregory had some innovative ideas for this weekend’s Endotrend Festival – such as silk-screening t-shirts as admission rather than issuing hard-tickets. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a little while longer for some of those ideas to take flight. Just a week before the event, being billed as the country’s…

Q&A with Scott “Wino” Weinrich

In this week’s issue, we ran a short profile on Wino by Phil Freeman culled from his recent conversation with Scott “Wino” Weinrich, a singer/guitarist who’s split his time with a slew of revered metal and hard rock acts such as Saint Vitus, the Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls,…

Q&A with Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is on the short list of the most successful and popular of rock singers to emerge in the ’80s. The Canadian-born Adams has had a string of hits in the last three decades, while 1983’s Cuts Like a Knife and 1994’s Reckless are albums that became part of…

Phish top seller at Bart’s CD Cellar

Joy, Phish’s eleventh studio album and first release in five years, nabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar while six Beatles re-issues (including Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s and the Stereo Box Set) dominated the store’s top ten for the week ending September 13. Yo La Tengo’s latest, effor, Popular…