Trampled By Turtles, due at this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, was started in 2003 by a group friends from Duluth, Minnesota, who knew each other from playing in various bands. Liberated by the freedom and mobility of playing acoustic instruments, the players honed a sound that happened to benefit from…
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…
The nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase — otherwise known affectionately as the hottest party of the summer — is here! Our little celebration is all grown up now, and the party just keeps getting bigger. This year’s edition, featuring more than 150 artists performing on sixteen different stages, is no…
The first hints that My Body Sings Electric was pissing people off came long before the brutal reviews. Shortly after getting together in 2007, the band’s members went out of their way to be as self-indulgent and strident as possible. They specialized in making “musicians’ music” — songs with experimental…
By Dave Herrera and Britt Chester Update, 4:24, 6/19/13: The identity of the deceased man found at the Sonic Bloom Festival in Georgetown this past weekend has been released. According to Captain Bruce Snelling of the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Department — who also spoke with us yesterday about the unrelated…
Oh, my, I’ve been so preoccupied with the Westword Music Showcase this weekend, I completely forgot to tell you about some cool news I got recently from Zach Tipton. You remember him, right? The marvelous maestro behind Young Coyotes and I Am the Dot? Yeah, him. He’s moving back to…
So if you can’t tell by our wall-to-wall coverage, we’re pretty damn geeked about the Westword Music Showcase this weekend — and for good reason. It’s our absolute favorite time of year, the time when we get to put the spotlight on our beloved scene and — more important –…
Francesco “Phra” Barbaglia, the man behind Crookers, never flew out of his small town in Italy until he started touring the world a decade ago. These days, the Italian producer/DJ leaves the travel planning to somebody else and focuses on keeping everybody dancing until the lights come up. In advance…
If you haven’t picked up your tickets to the Westword Music Showcase yet, dig it: We’ve got the total hookup. Today only, you can buy tickets for $20 with a special promo code. Don’t sleep. Prices are increasing every day from now until the Showcase, so if you want to…
P.O.S, due at this weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, is a founding member of the eclectic and independent Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree. He’s been dealing with kidney problems of late, and although he’s started dialysis and is back performing, he’s still hoping for a transplant. In spite of all this, the…
The Mowgli’s was started by a group of friends who wanted to make music with universal appeal. The act’s sound is rooted in the kind of breezy, folk-inflected, psychedelically tinged music from Southern California that dominated the ’60s and ’70s, and its outlook is imbued with a positive spirit that…
A couple of quick lineup changes to let you know about this weekend: Nunchuck, featuring Chuck Morris of Lotus, has been added to the main-stage lineup at the Westword Music Showcase this weekend. On a related note, due to unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances, Nick Waterhouse will no longer be appearing…
After a being out of the limelight for a spell, MGMT is back with a new record and ready to hit the road. The outfit, who is slated to release its new album in August, is set to headline the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, September 6. Tickets ($35) go on…
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 6/15/13 Saving one of the most blistering numbers of the show for the end of the set, Jon Spencer and the Blues Explosion cut loose with “Blues X Man.” Making his way to the front of the stage amid a squall of…
GETO BOYS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 6/14/13 Stepping on stage with an eager swagger, lead by Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy,” Scarface was the first of the Geto Boys to greet the crowd. The rapper, who visited Denver on his own last fall, announced that all three member of…
DEVOTCHKA & THE COLORADO SYMPHONY @ RED ROCKS | 6/14/13 Sharing the spotlight with an orchestra of more than fifty members, DeVotchKa ran the risk of getting lost in the shuffle on stage at Red Rocks. Then came the aerialists, who climbed high above the stage via slim stretches of…
HAVOK @ MARQUIS THEATER | FRI, 6/21/13 Hot on the heels of its European tour with Cephalic Carnage, Suffocation and Fallujah, Havok is preparing for the release its new album, Unnatural Selection, next Tuesday, June 25. The ten-track album, the band’s fourth release overall and the followup to 2011’s Time…
Update, 6/14/13: Contest is over. Congratulations to everybody who entered (@chadroth, @jordan169 and @levinemichaela). You’ve each won a pair of tickets to the show. Send us an email for details on how to claim your tickets. The Geto Boys are playing at the Summit Music Hall this weekend, and we’ve…
There’s some great live music this weekend. We’ve already given you a full rundown of the ten best concerts in Denver and the best EDM, but if don’t feel like leaving the house, or you can’t find a sitter or whatever, you can still get your live fix. Bonnaroo kicks…
Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! Dear Willie D, I’m a newly single divorcée with lots of time and money on my hands. After dating and…
Nearly four years after transforming the Monarck into the Oak Tavern, Lotus Concepts’ Francois Safieddine has closed the venue and his 24K club upstairs last weekend. Paulina Szafranski, president of marketing for Lotus, says that Safieddine, who owns the building at 1416 Market Street, doesn’t have any plans for the…
ERIC PRYDZ @ THE CHURCH | FRI, 6/14/13 Eric Prydz’s biggest hits so far have both incorporated famous work by other musicians: “Call on Me,” from 2004, samples Steve Winwood’s “Valerie,” and the 2006 track “Proper Education” is a remix of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.”…
