Yesterday, TMZ posted a video of a juggalo stripper giving a lap dance to the belly button of an enormously fat man here at the Gathering — a short film actually shot by DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia/Da Mafia 6ix fame. The video quickly went viral. We know what…
“Please, we ask you to hold your Faygo until the wedding begins,” a woman with electric green braids instructs the crowd. Standing anxiously nearby is the groom, outfitted in a Jack Skellington top hat. His big day has arrived — he is about to be wed to the love of…
The Underground Music Showcase is underway. Last night’s kickoff of the 400+ band festival featured standout sets from the likes of Jux County and Homebody. But there’s plenty more to see and hear. We’ve picked out eleven of the sets we’re most excited about. See also: Denver musicians talk about…
Great White is due to play at the Buffalo Rose this Saturday, July 26th. The veteran blues rock band got its start in 1977 during the early days of the Los Angeles Hard Rock scene, when Van Halen was in its ascendancy and the glam metal with which it later…
While the Gathering of the Juggalos is generally known as a peaceful event filled with unity and togetherness, there are still occasional scuffles. One such incident took the form of a melee early Thursday morning when Hed PE rapper/singer Jared Gomes launched himself into the crowd to confront a rambunctious…
Those in the outside world tend to view the Gathering of the Juggalos as a lawless festival of debauchery, with apparently violent clowns — “gang members,” even, if you ask the U.S. government — running rampant and chaos ruling the day. In actuality, this notion is far from the truth…
I thought I would have to wait until the 20th anniversary of Sublime’s 1996 self-titled mainstream breakout album to write about how fundamentally misunderstood and judged Sublime is. I have so many feelings, too many probably, about a band whose legacy is beaten up almost as much as Insane Clown…
Enrique Jimenez is a man about town — if you’ve been to more than a handful of local shows over the last several years, chances are you’ve crossed paths with him. His own band Altas (formerly Panal S.A. de C.V.) is an experimental instrumental rock band par excellence and can…
Jason Isbell shared the billing with Hard Working Americans at the Ogden last night. Isbell took the stage promptly at 8 p.m., and that seemed to throw almost everyone for a loop. At about 8:10, with the club only at three-quarters capacity, Isbell was already into his second song, “Go…
Denver’s Tim Gerak is in love with sound. So much so that, on Monday, July 28 , he will launch his own line of boutique audio gear under the name Mammoth Cave Audio. This isn’t Gerak’s first foray into sound, though. While growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, he started making…
Recently, my enemies have been accusing me of having a problem with hats. Maybe it’s because I am (predictably) a bald, pale music critic, and wearing a hat makes me look like a Nosferatu vampire-creature. But personally, I think someone’s choice of headwear can tell a lot about a person…
Jux County is playing a rare show this Thursday, July 24th, at 9 p.m. at the Eslinger Gallery for the UMS. Since forming in December 1986, Jux County has become a fixture in the local music scene. Within the first few years of the band’s existence it had released its…
What’s different about this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, Ohio? Well, the cops for one thing. During last year’s coverage of the event, set in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, we encountered minimal security. The gatekeepers and patrol staff, which were seemingly just exceptionally large juggalos in “SECURITY” shirts, peered into…
Nine months ago, the worst flood in Colorado’s history had a particularly devastating impact on Lyons and its surprisingly robust music scene. The town owes its artistic revolution in part to Planet Bluegrass, which hosts two of the state’s three major music festivals on a twenty-acre ranch in Lyons. In…
Planes Mistaken for Stars was one of Denver’s most beloved punk bands, as respected around the country as it was here at home. After a seven-year hiatus, the band returned with a West Coast tour. In this week’s music feature, now posted on the Backbeat blog, Oakland Childers explains why…
This week’s cover story is about how Lyons developed a music community and how that community has been impacted by the flooding last fall. Much of the story focuses on Planet Bluegrass, an organization that three music festivals, including two at its ranch in Lyons. This weekend, it will be…
Going to a Deep Club event is a bit of an adventure. The label and host of “DIY Parties” hides the addresses of its shows until you RSVP. They’re always at a place well off the beaten path, and you never find out the exact location until the day of…
Thick sheets of rain started falling in Lyons on the night of September 11, 2013. Most people didn’t think much of it until a few hours in, when sirens wailed through the deluge and a flat voice came over the town’s public-address system: Floodwater warning. Move to higher ground immediately…
In February 5th, 2013, Denver MC Marcus “Arrilius” Hayes passed away. He left two-thirds of a trilogy of albums unfinished, and producer David “Fat Trak” Williams has spent the last year and a half putting together the pieces. Part two — The Meditations of Marcus Arrilius — is the first…
Denver’s Bullet Wilson, formerly known as Kevin Pistols, has accomplished a great amount since entering the rap game in 1998, recording songs and videos with the likes of Bun B, Snoop Dogg and E-40. But after a personal epiphany and after visiting some of the biggest record labels in the…
Global Dance Festival — by some metrics the largest EDM festival in the region — brought a typically powerhouse lineup of bass purveyors to Red Rocks over the weekend. Over three days, thousands of fans flocked to the park for sets by the likes of Adventure Club, Zedd and Waka…
It would be easy to dismiss a show like this as something aging fans of ’90s alternative rock take their kids to. But Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden still have plenty of intellect and challenging music. And opener Oneohtrix Point Never, an experimental electronic and ambient artist, likely challenged the…
