Quentin Young

Passion of the Loose Cannon, With Remarks, the followup to Do-Si-Do for Your Girl, is a bit disorienting at first. There’s a lot going on here. The album opens with a gal talking about seeing the Quentin Young Band at some seedy dive and remarking that the show was amazing,…

Fox Theater & Boulder Theater selling VIP laminates for 2011 shows

The folks at Z2 Entertainment, who operate the Fox Theatre and Boulder Theater, are selling VIP laminates that are good for two tickets to every Z2 show for the coming year. Five of the ten laminates, which run $2,500 and are non-transferable, will have the person’s photos on the passes…

The Flaming Lips at Belly Up Aspen, 12/27/10

THE FLAMING LIPS With Vitamins 12.27.10 | Belly Up Aspen A few weeks ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne stopped by the Belly Up to scope out the 450-seat venue. “I wanted to see how much of a Flaming Lips show [we can do] in this small spot here,” Coyne…

Public Enemy, Drive-By Truckers, Sepultura shows announced

After hitting South Africa and Australia in December and January, legendary hip-hop act Public Enemy makes its way to the Ogden Theatre for a co-headlining bill with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe on Saturday, February 19. Jurrasic 5’s Chali 2na opens the show. Tickets ($25) for the 16 and over show…

The former Roxy Theater is up for lease

Since it first opened as a movie house eight decades ago, the Roxy Theater (2549 Welton Street) has gone through many incarnations, most recently as a dance club. The building is one of many properties in Five Points acquired by Charles Cousins, who passed away in May 2009. Some of…

Bad Luck City at the Walnut Room, 12/17/10

BAD LUCK CITY Kal Cahoone & the Dirty Pretty • Death Rides West 12.17.10 | Walnut Room Bad Luck City, Kal Cahoone and Death Rides West each have an affinity for varying degrees of darkness, which is evident both in all three act’s lyrics and music. So it made for…

Trout Steak Revival

Trout Steak Revival formed in the summer of 2008 on the secret shores of a Colorado mountain lake. After singing songs and telling stories during days of rain, the five guys, some of whom are originally from the Midwest and East Coast, came away from the outing with a true…

Francois Safieddine has plans for Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

In September, Francois Safieddine bought the building at 1414 Market Street — which is home to his clubs Oak Tavern and 24K — for $1,525,000. At around the same time, he also bought the former home of Mori, the old Nisei lodge at 2015 Market, from the Nisei Veterans Heritage…

The Bad Plus at Dazzle, 12/12/10

THE BAD PLUS 12/12/10 | Dazzle Over the last ten years, the Bad Plus has established itself as one of the most daring jazz trios in the world. And in the decade that pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King have been together, they’ve proved they can…

Trichome

Some folks say the more trichomes (or crystals) there are in your weed, the higher you’ll get, since there’s a lot of THC in them. Nowhere in the Fort Collins-based Trichome’s materials does it say that that’s what the band’s name alludes to. But considering that Trichome is a reggae…

The Bad Plus

In the decade since the Bad Plus has been together, the adventurous jazz trio has included cover songs on each of its recordings. Bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King have deconstructed and reimagined cuts by everyone from the Pixies and Nirvana to Bowie and Blondie. Last…

Rock-A-Billies brings rockabilly to Arvada

Although Arvada doesn’t have a big rockabilly scene, Jimmy Nigg and his brother grew up there — and that’s where they decided to open Rock-A-Billies. The brothers had spent a year looking all over Denver for the perfect place to put a rockabilly-themed bar; when they found out that the…