The art installation at City Hall is coming to a close this weekend, and it will end with a display of some serious talent. Following Tuesday night’s free Sub.Mission dubstep show with Denver residents RumbleJunkie, Despise, Dodger and Coult-45, in its final days Terminal Kings will show just what these…
Years ago, my mom asked me, ‘What are you going to do when your music can’t support you?'” Dominic Lalli remembers. “And I think it was then that I realized that I just had to go at this thing full steam.” And go at it full steam he has. And…
SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 at the FILLMORE | 1/13/12Somewhere toward the end of the first set, STS9’s Zack Velmer and Jeffree Lerner took the reigns on drums and percussion for a monumental, LED temple-constructing percussive solo that left the auditorium in complete disarray. If the crowd left on that note,…
Whoa! If you check the electronic iTunes Top 10 chart right now, you’ll notice that Big Gigantic’s latest album has jumped to the second spot on the chart. While that in itself is noteworthy, what makes it more so is that the outfit made Nocturnal available for free download on…
Terminal Kings, a new art project commissioned by the Denver International Airport’s Art and Culture Program, is taking off this week, as world-class street artists Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff work on giant murals — each 100’x8′, painted in panels — that will be used as construction barricades at…
Bedrockk’s debut full-length showcases an admirable ability on the band’s part to concoct a unique blend of mellow dubstep, reggae, electronica and even some dancehall. David Marquess’s smoky, passionate vocals and soft guitar riffs on songs like “Diamond in the Night” and “Streets Are Shinin” balance nicely with the more…
Inspired by the Mayan calendar’s succession, STS9 has developed a one-of-a-kind musical experience in the form of a tour dubbed the Great Cycle Spectacles, a presentation of art, imagination and music performed by one of the most sought-after psychedelic jam-rock bands going right now. After a successful tour following bassist…
While earlier rumors of DJ Z-Trip being in town at the end of January proved to be just that, it turns out that he will be in town this month after all — just not at Red Rocks. Instead, he’ll be performing at City Hall for the final night of…
It’s that time again: time to start making your festival plans for the coming year. Specifically, Burning Man, as tickets for the largest desert gathering since Moses led people to the Promised Land go on sale in about an hour (11 a.m. local time, to be exact). The festival, which…
PRETTY LIGHTS @ 1STBANK CENTER | NIGHT ONE | 12/30/11 See also photos from New Year’s Eve With a fairly expansive catalogue to draw from, Derek Vincent Smith has a plethora of singles at his disposal when preparing his sets. Last night, the Pretty Lights mastermind kept things a bit…
If giving away free music via a self-run record label website isn’t enough, the team over at Pretty Lights Music has developed yet another way to infiltrate the airwaves: the Pretty Lights Music app. If you are on the Pretty Lights mailing list (which if you’ve downloaded any of the…
How does one go about defining the best electronic music shows of the year? A lot goes into it, trust me. There is the production aspect, which looks upon the lighting choreography and the overall visual spectacle. Then, there is the actual music, which volleys between producers and DJs, both…
Capturing the moments and energy of a psychedelic rock show on an album isn’t easy, but Octopus Nebula has managed to do just that on its full-length debut. Right from the start, “Robin Your Mind” introduces the band with a deep, ritualistic chant before the truest display of O-Neb’s composing…
Denver will lose a familiar face this week when Club 404, a classic dive bar at 404 Broadway, changes hands after sixty years under owner Jerry Feld…
BEATS ANTIQUE at THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 12/3/11When Zoe Jakes emerged from stage right during the opening song adorned in a traditional bedleh and a painted mask to tease, it was pretty much set in stone that the remainder of the evening would include sultry hip gyrations, explosive dance moves…
Beats Antique (due Saturday, December 3, at the Fillmore Auditorium), a trio made up of producer and show-stealing belly dancer Zoe Jakes and a pair of classically trained multi-instrumentalists, David Satori and Tommy Cappel, has crafted a sound that has roots in dubstep, hip-hop, indie rock and even Middle Eastern…
Beats Antique, a trio made up of producer and show-stealing belly dancer Zoe Jakes and a pair of classically trained multi-instrumentalists, David Satori and Tommy Cappel, has crafted a sound that has roots in dubstep, hip-hop, indie rock and even Middle Eastern music. The act’s often primal show includes Jakes…
PANTyRAiD at the Fillmore | 11/20/11Well, it’s safe to say that Marty Folb and Josh Mayer successfully raided the Fillmore’s panties last night. Debuting their new stage set-up, created by a Denver based design group, the mysterious duo brought their heavy, glitched-out hip hop and bass music to Denver, showing…
ZEDS DEAD at the OGDEN | 11/18/11For the first of two nights, Zeds Dead sold out the Ogden Theatre, and introduced Denver to its new staging, which included a strobe so powerful that it wouldn’t be at all surprising to hear that everyone has “ZD” seared into their consciousness today…
Update: Monday, November 21: Photos from PANTyRAiD at the Fillmore are up now. PANTyRAiD doesn’t tour. So when the act, which is made up Josh Mayer of Glitch Mob and Marty Folb of MartyParty, bring its sexy, dubbed out hip-hop beats to the Fillmore this Saturday, November 19, along with…
Westword recognized the best of the local Web again in 2011 with the Denver Web Awards, held on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at Casselman’s. Below are the winners for this year; here the 2011 Denver Web Awards finalists. — Nick Lucchesi Colorado Peak Politics is Denver’s Best Political Blog Because…
SAVOY at the FILLMORE | 11/11/11In front of an estimated crowd of 3,600, Savoy took the stage at exactly 11:11 p.m. on November 11, 2011. While this is only marvelous due to the nature of wishes, everyone in the Fillmore last night, from the sixteen-year-old first timers to the electro-house…
