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Bassist Matt Skellenger pulls double duty on Parentheticals, simultaneously laying down the pulse and the lead, taking cues from Victor Wooten and Michael Manring (both masters of two-hand tapping) on a bulk of the songs, which are steeped in funk, jazz and world. Trumpeter Ron Miles lends his gorgeous tone…

Spaceflight Orchestra’s debut album is ten tracks of dubby downtempo and funky breaks perfect for your next blunted journey into inner space. It’s reminiscent at times of the Orb and Royskopp, with a clean, uncluttered aesthetic and impeccable production. The disc starts off a little slow but hits its stride…

Few acts have used their MySpace page more effectively than Millionaires, appearing with Cash Cash, Kill Paradise and Watchout! Theres Ghosts. Hot sisters Melissa and Allison Green, supplemented by their equally photogenic pal Dani Artaud, used Apple’s GarageBand program to assemble a novelty song called “I Want Money,” and quicker…

Three of the five members of the Strokes have capitalized on the band’s success with side projects. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. released a pair of solo albums, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti’s band Little Joy released a stellar self-titled album last year. Most recently, bassist Nikolai Fraiture formed the band Nickel…

Dirt Nasty has become something of a YouTube sensation with his absurdly profane lyrics and equally ridiculous videos. Although his given name, Simon Rex (Cutright), may not be immediately familiar to most, he’s probably been in at least a few movies you’ve seen — or perhaps you remember his stint…

The White Tie Affair has all the ingredients for future stardom. Five bandmembers whose looks range from hunky to good-enough-if-he’s-just-a-friend? Check. Songs like “Candle (Sick and Tired)” and “If I Fall,” whose hooks sound as if they’ve been polished by a factory’s worth of chamois-wielding minimum-wagers? Check. A deal with…

Well, hello there. Nice to see you again. Man, it feels like it’s been forever. Hey, how did everything work out with old what’s-her-name? You know who I’m talking about — that one girl with the great rack but who could never shut up even though she had that horrible…

This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin — not during South By Southwest, surprisingly — back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturday,…

Photo: Kirsten AalandYou know your group is catching fire when you’ve manage to generate a truckload of interest before you’ve even had a chance to set up a website. Such is the case with the much-buzzed-about Fresh Breath Committee, which, we’re happy to report, finally has a MySpace page. The…

photo: blkmtnstudio.comAre you sitting down? You should probably be sitting down for this. Really. Brace yourself. Although it pains us greatly to report that one of the most promising bands to come out of Denver in the past five years or so has stopped breathing, we figured it was best…

What are you doing this weekend? Really? Again? How do you feel about heading up Aspen? The X-Games are going on up there, you know? And check this out: We’ve got a pair of tickets to go see A Place to Bury Strangers at the Belly Up. If you said,…

Boulder singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom, also one half of the duo known as Rhythm Angels, whose disc was reviewed in last week’s issue, is slated to appear on the February cover of Women’s Magazine, a publication based in the People’s Republic that focuses on — you guessed it — women. Folsom…

THE FLUID @ MAXWELL’S | 1/6/09 It was a painfully cold night in northern New Jersey, but the legendary Maxwell’s was plenty warm, and any thoughts of harsh weather were eclipsed once the show got started. Opening, oddly enough, was Overcasters from Denver. The band had been invited to share…

Next week, Jim Dalton, the Railbenders’ affable frontman, is slated to perform a song at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C., hosted by Norman Lear, the man responsible for This Is Spinal Tap and the classic ’70s sitcoms that are now TV Land mainstays, such as All in the Family, Maude, Sanford…

Anyone who has followed the Internet and television show Out Tha Box TV probably checked out the episode’The Legend of Boozilla.’ It told the story of Xavier Davis, aka Za Boo, aka Boozilla, a Colorado hip-hop producer who was making huge waves in the Colorado hip-hop scene and was close to busting…

Copyright 2009 NBAE (photo: Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)Just received word that the wisenheimers of 3OH!3…wait…what’s that? Oh, right. Sure. Ahem…it seems we got our, uh, wires crossed there. Evidently, Sean Foreman and Nate Motte didn’t actually get the, er, key to the city. Our bad. But they did…

Dent, a respected elder statesman of hip-hop in Denver, has been toiling in the studio with his ace cohort, Noel Zancanella, putting together a brand-new album, the followup to his last release, the excellent Confi-Dent, which contained the feel good track “Sunshowers.” After the jump, check out a pair of…

So I just flipped on the inauguration, a few minutes before Obama took the oath, and who do I see playing to usher in the 44th President, our first African-American president, the first president who acknowledges having Jay-Z on his iPod? Let me give you a hint. It wasn’t Jay-Z…