Brothers Pete and Sam Loeffler, who formed Chevelle while still in high school, have essentially been performing as a band half their lives. They started writing music when Sam was just fourteen and Pete was twelve, and began playing gigs around Chicago just four years later, in 1995. Since then,…

Everything Absent or Distorted had strength in numbers. There were usually at least eight members, which sometimes ballooned to a dozen or more, depending on the show, and together they created some huge, buoyant and joyous sounds, with a wide assortment of instruments. Unfortunately, the guys decided to call it…

I first heard Laura Goldhamer a couple of years ago, when she opened for the Books, the sound-collage band, at the Boulder Theater. She shared the headliner’s endearing quirkiness, and her appeal was augmented by wonderful video animations projected on a screen behind her. Last week, I was just a…

Originally called the Potcheen Folk Band, this outfit has dropped the “folk” from its name, and that makes sense — because while the musicians delve into traditional Irish folk songs like “Foggy Dew” and “Whisky in a Jar,” they also use the genre as a foundation to build upon and…

I’m rarely carded these days: I’m nearly twice as old as the legal drinking age, and what hair I still have is starting to go gray. So when the bartender at Hai Bar (3600 West 32nd Avenue) asked for my ID on a Thursday night, I gave her such a…

The Pogues Friday, October 23, 2009Ogden TheatreBetter than: expected. Much better. “Sorry it’s taken us awhile to get here,” guitarist Philip Chevron said during the Pogues’ first show ever in Denver. “Almost thirty years in fact, but we finally got here.” But holy Jesus, the epic two-hour set these guys…

Tyler Gilmore, who’s been booking shows at Dazzle for the last four and a half years, is leaving the jazz club to focus more on composing for Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra, which he heads up. He’s also plans to write for local groups, as well as college and high school jazz programs…

I only went to Shakespeare’s once after it moved to 2620 Walnut Street, and I never ventured beyond the front section of the bar, so I had no idea how massive the space was until I met with Adam Ranes, who took it over after Shakespeare’s moved out. This was…

Although the Pogues’ storied career spans nearly four decades and includes several tours to the States, the London-based band has never played Denver before. Instead, the Irish punk-folkers stuck primarily to the East and West coasts, with occasional forays down south, even when boisterous frontman Shane MacGowan was ousted in…