Juliette Lewis, the Ettes, American BangFox TheatreTuesday, October 6, 2009Better than: Lewis’ show with the Pretenders and Cat Power this past August. I wasn’t expecting much before seeing Juliette Lewis open for the Pretenders and Cat Power during a ninety-degree afternoon last August at the Botanic Gardens at Chatfield. Sure,…
The Avett Brothers grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 4 with their latest effort, I and Love and You. Black Gives Way to Blue, the first new Alice in Chains recording in fourteen year, came in second while new releases by Monsters of…
Emmylou Harris, who was inducted into the Country Music of Hall of Last Year, visits the Macky Auditorium Friday, November 20 in support of her latest effort, All I Intended to Be. Buddy Miller, who backed up Robert Plant and Allison Krauss last year at Red Rocks, opens the show…
Stoner rockers Om grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax for the week ending October 4 with their latest effort, God is Good, released last week on Drag City. Muse’s The Resistance and Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 came in second and third while Karen O & the…
Maybe it was the last minute switch of venues from the Auraria Campus to the 3 Kings Tavern and Oriental Theater, but it was pretty slim turn-out for Saturday night’s section of the festival at 3 Kings. Although not many folks came out that night, there was still a lot…
Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s Fame Kills tour, which was just announced on Monday, has been canceled. The tour was to include a stop at the Pepsi Center on December 2 and tickets were scheduled to go on sale Saturday, October 3. There’s no word yet on why the tour…
The title sounds exotic, but a luthier is simply someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. Still, there’s nothing simple about this work, which requires considerable training. And while quite a few colleges have courses on how to make and repair guitars or violins, there aren’t many at the high…
Four year ago, Coles Whalen moved out of her apartment and into a pickup truck with a camper. She says she decided if she was going to make anything work, she had to be on tour. She set up shows at Borders bookstores around the country, sold enough copies of…
Nearly half the cuts on Ivory Drive’s debut album sound as though they were ripped from the pages of the Ben Folds Five songbook, only with sax and trumpet added on top. What’s more, Van Wampler’s vocals and piano playing bear an uncanny resemblance to Folds’s. That’s not a bad…
The only time I saw the Violent Femmes was when the Milwaukee-based trio played a short, energetic set on the counter of Wax Trax Records in the mid-’80s. People were stuffed in the aisles of the store for the entirely acoustic set; I’m pretty sure the drummer banged on a…
Kanye West and Lady Gaga are taking their 34-city Fame Kills tour on the road, and that includes a stop at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, December 2. Word has it that the two, who share equal billing on the tour, will integrate their performances. Ticket run from $39 to…
Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 was Independent Records’ top seller for the third week in row and Five Finger Death Punch’s War is the Answer, released last week on Prospect Park, and Pearl Jam’s Backspacer nabbed the second and the third slots. Brand New’s latest effort, Daisy, and Lil Boosie’s Superbad:…
Monsters of Folk, which features M. Ward, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout with their self-titled debut. Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, and Mark Knopfler’s Get Lucky came in second and third while Brand New, Muse and…
Backspacer, Pearl Jam’s ninth studio effort, grabbed the top spot while David Gray’s Draw the Line and Mark Knopfler’s Get Lucky nabbed the second and third slots at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending September 27. Monsters of Folk (M. Ward, Jim James, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis) and…
Dubstep is slowly but surely becoming one of the hottest flavors of dance music out there, and U.K.-based producer/DJ wunderkind Skream has been at the forefront almost since its inception. He’s grown and evolved with the movement as it changed from its dark, gnarly, tech-driven roots to a more organic…
It’s just a week before Dualistics guitarist and singer Tyler Despres is slated to release the debut five-song EP of his new side project, Science Partner (which features Charley Hine from Dualistics on bass and Carl Sorensen on drums), and he isn’t even close to having the disc finished. He…
As far as album titles go, GT & the Sidewinders found a perfect one with Across America. The album’s pretty much about traveling in one way or another, whether it be musically or through the lyrics — like the opener, “Coming Home,” in which frontman G.T. Scragg sings about driving…
While the Ballpark neighborhood still has the town’s highest concentration of sports bars, the 1400 blocks of Market and Blake streets could soon be giving them a run for their money. In July, Francois Safieddine opened the Oak Tavern in the former home of Monarck, at 1427 Market Street, just…
This week wasn’t quite as insane with show announcements as last week, but we did still get the line on a fair amount of decent gigs. The Fiery Furnaces, touring in support of its eighth album, I’m Going Away, will stop at the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, November 24. Tickets…
Jen Korte & the Loss The Walnut RoomFriday, September 18, 2009Jen Korte and the Loss recorded most of the tracks on her new self-titled album live in the studio and there’s an immediacy and cohesion on those tracks that can usually only be captured with everyone playing at the same…
Muse’s The Resistance, released last week on Warner Bros., debuted at the top spot on Twist & Shout’s top seller list for the week ending September 20. Mark Knopfler’s latest effort, Get Lucky, and Rodrigo y Gabriela’s new release, 11:11, grabbed the second and third slots respectively while Porcupine Tree…
Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3, the rapper’s follow-up to his two previous Blueprint albums, nabbed the first slot on Independent’s top sellers list for the week ending September 20. Kid Cudi’s latest effort, Man on the Moon and Lil Boosie’s Superbad came in second and third while Drake and Megadeth rounded…
