If you’re going to SnowBall Music Festival this weekend, we’re guessing you’re already amped, having read our Bassnectar profile, our piece on Wear the Party and the Q&A we did with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles, and no doubt you’re full prepared for the elements, having absorbed our handy…

SnowBall Music Festival is about to hit Avon again. We were there for the icy, snowy, steamy, crammed and all around awesomeness of the inaugural edition last year, and just in case you weren’t, or you need a refresher of what to expect, we compiled this Survival Guide just for…

When I first got going,” recalls Lorin Ashton, “I was into fuckin’ brutal, satanic death metal.” Even with all of his hair, it’s hard to imagine that Ashton, better known in dance circles as Bassnectar, was once enthralled with extreme metal. After all, dubstep, the subgenre he’s essentially helped pioneer,…

EXCISION @ OGDEN THEATRE, 2/16/12 Last night, Excision, the Canada-bred dubstep monster, carried the Ogden Theatre on low frequency bass waves that were so powerful the ceiling is probably still resonating this morning. He opened his set with the title track of X-Rated, which immediately sent the eclectically clad (neon…

In support of his most recent effort, X-Rated, Excision, one of the dubstep world’s latest kingpins, will show the Mile High City just how our neighbors to the north like to party. The DJ (known legally and to his mom as Jeff Abel) hails from British Columbia, and has found…

LOTUS @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2/4/11 Freezing temperatures aside, the Fillmore was turned into a dancing sauna, brimming with melodic improvisations and thousands of moving bodies. If Lotus derived their band name from Greek origin, then we all got a taste of the sweet fruit that leaves you in a…

The jazzy electronic quintet Lotus, known for its precisely timed improvisations during live shows, is celebrating its thirteenth year together. This weekend, fresh off the release of its most recent effort, Lotus, the band, which is signed to Boulder’s SCI Fidelity records, is kicking off a tour that will culminate…

ICELANTIC’S WINTER ON THE ROCKS @ RED ROCKS | 1/27/12 Under a star-speckled sky and with freezing temperatures, Atmosphere delivered a greatest hits compilation at Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the inaugural Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks. Nostalgia aside, when he greeted everyone at the venue and opened into “God Loves…

Sean Daley is family man. He’s got a cat, a wife, two children and a house, and he just took his first family vacation, to a small island in the Gulf of Mexico. The music world, of course, knows Daley better as Slug from the Minneapolis-based rap group Atmosphere, an…

BIG GIGANTIC @ THE BOULDER THEATER | 1/20/12In closing down the set, “Eyes Closed” showed off some of the more complex rhythms that Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken — the duo which makes up Big Gigantic — are working with, especially the climatic ending where a machine-gun wobble shakes bodies…

Souls of Mischief @ City Hall | 1/19/12 Following the Ninja Stylez Bboy competition in the main room, Souls of Mischief exploded from behind the stage, tearing into the opening lines of “You Never Knew” with A-Plus casually swayin’ behind his all-black shades amidst flawless lyricism. City Hall was all…