Look out, Tegan and Sara! Here come the Veronicas — the spunky, electro-poppy Australian quintet led by 23-year-old identical twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso. Down Under, they’re superstars who regularly sell out arenas, win awards and have their own clothing line at Target. Here they’re still trying to break…
The words to “Pleasure Ryland,” a song on Cobra Starship’s 2007 disc ¡Viva La Cobra!, are very different from the ones initially warbled by the tune’s co-author and namesake, guitarist Ryland Blackinton — and that’s fine by him, since the originals weren’t intended for public consumption. “I have a little…
Is it just us, or does papa Rupp look younger every year? Seriously. Old Bobbo must’ve made a deal with the devil or something. Unbelievable, that guy. Him and Prince, forever young, eh? Perhaps his perpetual youthful appearance is spurred by the fact that he’s constantly reinventing himself every couple…
How many times have you overheard someone in a band grumbling about having to go on first, or not being able to land a weekend slot, or having to play in front of only twenty people? Yeah, those folks would do well to sit down for a chat with the…
Photo by Chandra Carney. Looks like Meese is just about finished recording its new as-yet-titled album. Since inking their deal with Atlantic this past fall, the guys have been hard at work in the studio with producer Sean Beaven, who grew up in the Meese brothers’ hometown of Cleveland. Aside…
Whoa! Did y’all happen to catch a glimpse of who’s being touted on MySpace’s music page today? Both 3OH!3 and Flobots are featured prominently: The former is previewing tracks from its forthcoming album, Want, while the latter is the subject of the site’s Who Knew feature. To paraphrase Pete Wentz…
In 2006, Gnarls Barkley, the subject of a June 26 Westword profile, scored with what to most ears was the song of the year – a little single called “Crazy.” Although lead singer Cee-Lo Green makes it clear in the Q&A below that he never attempted to repeat this feat,…
Cobra Starship, a June 26 Westword profile subject, is among the more unlikely passengers on the runaway train known as the 2008 Warped Tour – a band whose members didn’t truly come together until after a song released under its name was already well on its way to becoming a…
After months of polling, tonight is the big night, when we’ll announce the winners of the 2008 Westword Music Showcase. Please join us at at the Bluebird Theater this evening at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!…
Photos by Chris Velarde Wolf Eyes and Aenka Tuesday, June 25, 2008 Hi-Dive Better Than: Soft-rock Wolf Eyes are hard to describe without superlatives. They’re one of the loudest, heaviest, most intense onstage and most approachable offstage bands out there. Phrases like “from the primordial ooze, they emerge” or “like…
So Jason Hayes from the Last Seen and I were standing around smoking outside the Atomic Cowboy this past Friday night before the Fluid show, when he presented me with a hypothetical proposition: If I were to form and front a band right now and could choose any musicians in…
The convenience and portability of MP3s may make the them the de facto music standard, but vinyl, despite its weight and relative fragility, is making a big comeback. Maybe it’s the warmer sound, the reassuring physicality of it, or maybe it’s just simple nostalgia. Or maybe, just maybe it’s absolutely…
Rose Hill Drive’s new record, Moon Is the New Earth, which we reviewed in last week’s issue and which earned three stars in the latest issue of Spin, hits stores today. After the jump, check out the outfit’s rad new video for “Sneak Out,” directed by former Boulderite Mendel Rabinovitch…
Flobots’s music has been characterized as a lot of things. Socially conscious? Check. Political? Sure. Insurgent? Sure. Incisive? Most definitely. But Spirtual? Perhaps to some, I guess. Christian? Uh… really? That’s a new one. Nonetheless, that’s exactly how eMusic — or somebody, CD Baby maybe? — has classified Platypus, the…
Photos by Soren McCarty and Jon Solomon. The Fluid, Boss 302 and the Omens Friday, June 20, 2008 Bluebird Theater If terrorists had wanted to rob Denver of its most devoted music lovers in one fell swoop, they should have targeted the Bluebird on June 20. Virtually anyone who’s worked…
Photos by Soren McCarty. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Red Rocks Amphitheater Saturday, June 21, 2008 Better Than: Being at Stonehenge for summer solstice. As the electrifying frontman of Led Zeppelin nearly three decades ago, Robert Plant was the epitome of the über-rockstar. But Saturday’s show with bluegrass queen Alison…
Photo by Tom Murphy. Broken Spindles, Red Orange Yellow and We Are! We Are! Saturday, June 21, 2008 Larimer Lounge Better Than: Anything else going on in town this night. I got to the show a little late, and was relieved to find that We Are! We Are! hadn’t played…
Here’s a wrap-up of all the spectacular coverage you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were transfixed by Ice T’s calling out Soulja Boy for ruining hip-hop and telling the young star to “eat a dick” …..
Lately, a lot of people have been asking me where I’ve been. Once a fixture of the scene – whatever that might mean to you or your mom – I seem to have disappeared. A Facebook friend – yes, I’m over thirty, and I Facebook (I also verb) – recently…
LOCALS ONLY Being a hip-hop artist in Denver is one of the toughest gigs in town. Not only is it difficult to find a venue that will allow hip-hop shows, let alone take home a piece of the bar and door, but it’s really hard to find an audience who…
Photos by James Mitchell Evans. Creative Music Works Thursday, June 20, 2008 Denver Art Museum Better than: A typical Thursday night at the DAM Last night, I walked into what has to be one of the strangest events that the two-year old Hamilton Building in the Denver Art Museum has…
Tom Waits played a extraordinary show in Phoenix at the Orpheum Theatre this past Wednesday night as part of his twelve-city “Glitter and Doom” tour. As far as we’re concerned, Waits is a god among men. The guy doesn’t tour a lot and his shows have taken on the holy…
