The Monkey Barrel, a new bar and live music venue being brought to us courtesy of Rock-a-Billies owner Jimmy Nigg, was slated to open last month, but after some construction delays, the venue, which is housed in the former Salvagetti Bicycles space at 1611 Platte Street, pushed back its debut…
SUNDAY | COLORADO RISING at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/13 Colorado Rising is a fitting name for this benefit show. Aside from its obvious meaning, the title could also describe the homegrown acts on the bill, each of which has helped raise the profile of music being made in our state…
FRIDAY | TALE OF US at CLUSTER STUDIOS | 10/25/13 “Epic” is a word that gets thrown around so much it’s practically lost its meaning. Yet in the case of Tale of Us, it’s one of the few descriptors appropriate to what the Italian duo creates on stage. Carmine Conte…
I’m a simpleton, in general, but particularly when it comes to beer — I know, a shameful admission in this town, beloved land of the microbrews. Sorry, dude. Most of that stuff gives me a headache. Still I can’t help but be hopelessly in love with TRVE Brewing Company. I…
While the individual members have released new music in various configurations in the past few years, it’s been a while since we’ve heard new music from Prime Element. The last release from the act, formerly known as Three the Hard Way, came a few years back when Kamikazi Airlines picked…
Shakey Graves (Alejandro Rose-Garcia) is a one man force to be reckoned with. Armed with a vintage guitar, attention grabbing musical stylistics and a drum made out of a suitcase, this one man band grabs audiences like no other; you can hear a pin drop at his shows. In advance…
Plenty of Discovery Channel viewers cried foul a few months ago when the cable network aired a bogus documentary about a prehistoric shark called the Megalodon. But that little piece of on-air fiction for “Shark Week” proved more inspirational than frustrating for FaceMan’s uni-monikered frontman, Steve. Inspired by the idea…
After years of refusing to play Soul Coughing songs, Mike Doughty, the band’s former frontman is not only performing entire sets of the band’s material, but he also released an album of Soul Coughing tunes reimagined. The title of the disc, issued last month on Doughty’s Snack Bar imprint, is…
The lap steel guitar is a tough instrument to learn, but that’s exactly why Will Buck of West Water Outlaws wanted to take a crack at it for his band’s new album. “I’ve been playing guitar for about twenty years at this point,” says Buck, who co-founded the Boulder-based quartet…
It’s hard to make an overarching creative statement in the space of just four songs. Happily, though, the Highland Ramblers keep the message fairly straightforward on Four the Pour. Although the tunes don’t boast a lot of diversity in terms of style, the quintet shows plenty of heart when it…
Armed with just two acoustic guitars, a trap kit and Nate Cook’s zealous singing, the Yawpers have been known to kick up a hell of a racket not only on stage, but also in the studio, as heard on last year’s Capon Crusade. That same musical energy is more than…
If an early-’70s Laurel Canyon band were to get caught up in progressive jazz and some kind of gypsy music and then go on a decade-long tour playing experimental venues, Jellyfish Tuesday might be the result: a chilled-out version of a cabaret carnival, as Renaldo Migaldi once described Chicago’s Maestro…
Omniism, which began life as a side project for Spools of Dark Thread frontman Chris Thomas, is blossoming into an impressive modern-rock powerhouse. A Turn for the Worst, the band’s new four-song EP, finds Omniism (due this Saturday at Herman’s Hideaway, with Lola Black, Horse and No 1 Left Standing)…
Stevie Boiser is an omnipresent figure in Denver metal. He fronts Vale of Pnath and recently stepped down from Enemy Reign to focus on Dissonance in Design, a progressive/death-metal quintet that features brothers Harrison and Zac Patuto on guitar and drums, respectively, as well as Vale of Pnath guitarist Vance…
Pink was originally slated to bring her Truth About Love tour to the Pepsi Center on Friday, October 18, but upon direct doctor’s advisement, she postponed the date until Wednesday, October 30, in order to rest her voice. After a short rest, she played a pair of shows in the…
What is trap music? According to T.I., on the title track of his genre-defining Trap Muzik, it ain’t no album and it ain’t no game. Indeed, the origins of trap go beyond music — beyond even the Atlanta corners where drugs are dealt and rubber bands are filled — into…
Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel formed the Helio Sequence in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1999. On their first few releases, the duo created vividly realized, playfully psychedelic songs that made a languid, rockist format seem expansive and upbeat, particularly 2001’s Young Effectuals, which was like a day-glo-hued daydream of an album…
In his new column, award-winning goofball Shea Serrano writes about his life and times. Better put on your shoes, because your socks are about to be blown off. On Monday night I watched the movie about TLC, the most important all-girl rap group of all-time. It was on VH1. I…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
Stevie Boiser is an omnipresent figure in Denver metal. He fronts Vale of Pnath, and recently stepped down from Enemy Reign to focus on Dissonance in Design, a progressive death-metal quintet that features brothers Harrison and Zac Patuto on guitar and drums, respectively, as well as Vale of Pnath guitarist…
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame is preparing for its next round of inductions on Friday, November 8, at the Paramount Theatre. Before Judy Collins, Bob Lind, the Serendipity Singers and Chris Daniels become the next set of Colorado artists to be honored, an hour-long special is slated to air…
Kyle Even has parted ways with Breathe Carolina, and co-founder David Schmitt reports that the split is completely amicable. Even, who recently celebrated the birth of his first child, has left the fold to devote more time to his family. Breathe Carolina, whose current lineup features Schmitt, Luis Bonet on…
