KENDRICK LAMAR @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/8/12 The stage was set by an erupting smoke machine, thundering bass and a massive light spectacle, all in preparation for a dynamic, five-foot, six-inch MC in old-school high socks and a voice that seems too powerful to come from such a little body…
Happy Monday, amigo! Another great batch of shows this week to help you get through the work week. We’ve got all this week’s shows listed in our concert calendar if you’re so inclined. Otherwise, keep reading to get a full rundown on the five best concerts this week, the ones…
Fresh on the heels of supporting Big Gigantic at Red Rocks a few weekends ago comes word that GRiZ will be headlining a show of his own at the recently renovated Fox Theatre. ThisSongIsSick announced the show on Friday, and it sold out in six hours. We have a pair…
BEACH HOUSE @ BOULDER THEATER | 10/7/12 It’s easy to be enchanted by the music of Beach House. The Baltimore outfit brings an underlying darkness to its warm, beached-out dream pop for a sound that is alluring, complex and, most of all, hypnotic. At the same time, Victoria Legrand and…
Three decades into her career, Aimee Mann remains as consistently fresh and challenging a singer/songwriter as in her days fronting the mid ’80s new wave band, ‘Til Tuesday. Since then, Mann has had a strong solo career, delivering one of the greatest film soundtracks in recent memory with P.T. Anderson’s…
GARBAGE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/6/12 After opening the show with a vigorous take on “Automatic Systematic Habit,” and then following with the equally charged up “I Think I’m Paranoid” and “Shut Your Mouth,” Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson was greeted by a blast of applause from the sold out frenzied…
HOSPITALITY @ HI-DIVE | 10/05/12 Hospitality’s set made you think of a time when rock bands weren’t trying to mine classic rock territory or go for a specific genre, especially at the end of the show when the foursome performed “All Day Today” from its self-titled, debut full-length. Along with…
YASIIN BEY @ CERVANTES’ MASTERPIECE BALLROOM | 10/5/12 When Yasiin Bey stepped on stage at about half past midnight, the crowd was hungrily awaiting his arrival, freshly energized from an impressive set by Binary Star and ready now for the main event. Dressed in fitted white slacks, white collared shirt,…
Last night at Auraria, MC Lyte shared her views on the current state of hip-hop, a broad range of topics ranging from the diminishing role of females to the dwindling voice of hip-hop overall and its lackluster effectiveness to her personal triumphs and downfalls. With style and grace, she left…
Poor Moon is a side project of Christian Wargo of Fleet Foxes fame, who before joining that outfit toured with both Danielson Famile and Pedro the Lion. Through his time playing guitar in David Bazan’s band, Wargo became friends with the guys from Fleet Foxes and ultimately ended up joining…
Beach House became a bit of an underground sensation with the release of its self-titled, debut album in 2006, followed by 2008’s warmly enchanting Devotion. Lead singer Victoria Legrand’s rich, deep, yet feminine voice and Alex Scally’s delicate melodic sense on guitar creates a disarming sense of intimacy that soothes…
Garbage was one of the most popular and arguably one of the best bands out of the second wave of early ’90s alt rock. Benefitting from the production skills of drummer and renowned producer Butch Vig (Nevermind) and Steve Marker, Garbage was able to put out a body of work…
The music industry sucks, and the Epilogues know it. They’re no strangers to being let down by the business. Over the course of the band’s nearly six year existence, its members have gone through the label dance enough to know what a downer it is. Waiting in limbo, the band…
Max Cooper spends his Afterhours at NORAD this Saturday The world of electronic music is lucky that Max Cooper, a computational biologist who earned his Ph.D. at Nottingham University, decided to pursue a life behind the decks. Before 2010, music was an evenings-and-weekends gig for Cooper, who was working as…
Welcome to the weekend, amigos! Cold enough for you this morning? Yeah, we’re feeling all sorts of brrrrrr over here. Only in Colorado can you go from eighty degrees to the thirties in the expanse of a couple of days. Alas, though, there’s relief on the horizion, plenty of hot…
In our series of coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, so far we’ve covered a range of jobs, from being a guitar tech and handling publicity to being tasked with overseeing digital music delivery from a vast electronic music catatlog to band management. Today, we bring you five more coveted gigs. Keep…
About two decades ago, I heard Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, and it floored me. It’s the best selling jazz album of all time, and if there’s one album that truly started an obsession with jazz, it was that one. As a kid, I’d gotten to see cats like…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that the most common (and our mutually favorite) topic of conversation among all of us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in…
SAINT VITUS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/03/12 When Saint Vitus came on stage, the quartet went right into “Blessed Night,” with Dave Chandler letting out a wail or siren sound with wah and distortion from his guitar. From there, guitar and bass rumbled together like a high idling engine, as…
It’s time for the 2012 edition of Westword’s Denver Web Awards, our annual celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. This time, we’re introducing new categories to recognize the area’s creative and forward-thinking app developers, but we’ve made sure to include a few favorites, like Best Shameless Self-Promoter and Most Viral…
With Flobots, we had the right song at the right time in 2008,” observes Andy Guerrero, aka Andy Rok, about his former group. “If not for that, we would probably just be another band here. A lot of that is about timing and realizing you have those opportunities.” For six…
Reed Fuchs is the ringmaster of Décollage, a collection of like-minded, freely associating outsider-art terrorists who take collaged sounds and turn them into coherent pop songs. When you see these people perform, you can’t help but think that some freak folks got weirder and hooked up with crust punks, challenging…
