THEE OH SEES @ THE GOTHIC | 9.13.12 Since playing Rhinoceropolis in 2007, Thee Oh Sees have progressively worked their way through the daisy chain of Denver venues from Bender’s Tavern to Moe’s Original BBQ. Last night, the San Francisco band headlined the Gothic and blasted everyone with an infectious…
Science Partner had its origins as a solo side project of Tyler Despres of Dualistics. When that band split up due to half the band moving out of state for work and the like, Science Partner became Despres main creative focus. The early shows may have been more acoustic affairs,…
Known for his innovative, textural approach to guitar playing, David Torn has released a number of albums under his own name and under the Splattercell moniker. He’s also used his talents for film scoring and collaborated with a diverse set of artists including David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Sting and John…
Speaking of new ways of doing old things, our old pal Alf, the longtime host of KTCL’s Locals Only show, is getting his Big Gig pre-game on this Saturday night by taking a very well worn activity and giving it a new — wait for it — spin. Uh-huh, see…
Greetings, weekend warriors! Ready to blow off some steam on the dance floor this weekend? Good, ’cause there’s a ton of stuff on this weekend’s Dance Card, from Paper Diamond at the Ogden Theatre to the Great American Techno Festival, which kicks off tonight and runs all weekend, to GATF,…
Welcome to the weekend! The weather has finally cooled off a bit, but the shows haven’t. Whatever your inclinations are this next couple of days, there are a plethora of options, from Devin Townsend Project tonight at the Summit Music Hall to Deltron 3030 tomorrow night at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom…
“Metal bands want to portray the opposite of a happy life on their album covers,” says Ken Sarafin, and the Vale of Pnath frontman knows from whence he speaks. In addition to creating the awe-inducing artwork for his band’s latest release, The Prodigal Empire, Sarafin has illustrated at least a…
Colorado is an incredible place for live music — from our outdoor venues, one of which is world-renowned, to the vast festivals, shows and indoor venues we have to choose from. The growth of the music scene has created a small niche of music-industry jobs. In case you missed it,…
Note to the grizzled cynic who said that punk’s long since run out of any new ideas: Luke Schmaltz could make you eat those words, hot shot, with a heaping side of shut the hell up. This Sunday, September 16, the members of Schmaltz’s band, King Rat, will be celebrating…
Twelve years in the making, the sequel to Deltron 3030 has attained mythical stature in many underground hip hop circles. The original — a turn-of-the-millenium sci-fi concept record that sprang from the collaboration of Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator and Kid Koala — balanced a dark, post-apocalyptic technological…
MELVINS LITE @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/12/12 Melvins Lite? There was nothing “lite” about this show. As soon as the stage lights dimmed, a loop of the coughing at the beginning of Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” filled the air for what seemed like a comically extended period of time until…
My parents cut me off,” recalls Alex Botwin, “and I was definitely broke and homeless for a period of time there.” That time must have been quite a while ago, because Botwin, better known to electronic-music fans as Alex B., the man behind Paper Diamond and the co-pilot of Elm…
Stoic Dissention appears to have found a way to fuse black metal and doom in a way that does justice to both, tapping into the dark and primal spirit that flows through the work of bands like Wolves in the Throne Room and Thorr’s Hammer. Some retailers might file such…
The Hives were supposedly formed by some mysterious figure named “Randy Fitzsimmons” in 1993, when the band’s members were still in high school. It seems unlikely that someone with that name is the mastermind, Svengali or Swedish Malcolm McLaren of the group. Whoever the Fitzsimmons character really is, he’s credited…
The self-titled, sci-fi-infused concept album born of the collaboration of Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator and Kid Koala way back in the year 2000 has maintained a devout, cult-like following of hip-hop heads. With Del unraveling tales of intergalactic rap battles atop some of Automator’s most distinctive production…
While the great majority of P.O.D.’s contemporaries in the ill-conceived nu-metal/rap-rock movement of the mid- to late ’90s — chagrin-inducing outfits like Limp Bizkit, a skeleton in oh-so-many closets — have become fossilized relics, P.O.D. has outlasted them all. And while it hasn’t thrived, necessarily, the San Diego-based act has…
Formed in 1982, Kreator quickly became one of the pioneers of thrash in Germany alongside Sodom and Destruction. The band’s breakneck pace, precision and distorted vocals proved important to the development of death metal, a sound Kreator pursued in the ’90s. Mille Petrozza mastered the art of the rapid melodic…
A Shoreline Dream has always been as much about the presentation as the music. Ryan Policky, the band’s creative driving force, puts just as much thought and care into how the music is delivered — from the artwork to the packaging — as he has into crafting the compositions. Here,…
It’s one thing to listen to Trace Bundy on record, but it’s a whole other experience to actually see the guitarist — one of the finest acoustic fingerpickers around these parts — do his guitar gymnastics firsthand, from two-handed finger tapping and percussive slapping to looping phrasing and using multiple…
Monyy’s aptly named Crack Vol. 1 offers a perspective that’s stuck in the trappings of street life, but with aspirations of something more. While the tape’s lo-fi sound gives it a rugged feel, inspired production allows the tracks to breathe. Monyy’s main focus is the corporate music industry, for which…
Resurrection, the latest release from Alana Rolfe and Brett Schreiber, both of whom used to be in the avant-garde post-punk band Slow Crash, finds the pair teaming up with percussionist Sean Spear. Opening track “Snake” is a fast-paced gypsy song, but from there the album explores a broad territory: “Camera…
Known for his innovative, textural approach to guitar playing, David Torn has released a number of albums under his own name and under the Splattercell moniker. He’s also used his talents for film scoring and collaborated with a diverse set of artists including David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Sting and John…
