John Reis, the subject of the following Q&A as well as a May 1 Westword profile, is the leader of a new band called the Night Marchers – but the group is hardly his first. He made his initial ripple as part of Pitchfork back in the ‘80s, after which…
All right, if you thought the inaugural edition of Monolith last year was pretty kick ass, wait until you get a load of this year’s line-up, which comes even closer to living up to the festival’s name: How about some TV on the Radio? Justice? Vampire Weekend? Neko Case, And…
Almost a year after being forced out of their former location by redevelopment, the owners of the 15th St. Tavern have encountered a major setback in in their efforts to set up shop at their new location, 1028 Park Ave West. According to a note sent out by Mykel Martinez…
Slide Show Last Night: Birds of Avalon and the Raconteurs Monday, April 28, 2008 Fillmore Auditorium Better Than: Actually returning to the ’70s. You would have been forgiven if you wandered into the Fillmore Auditorium last night and thought you been transported back in time 30 years. That’s not because…
Slide Show by Molly Kreck…
Kanye West, Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco Sunday, April 27 Pepsi Center The mainstream press’ habit of branding Kanye West a one-dimensional egotist tends to make his creative achievements seem like side effects of his neuroses, and that’s a shame. His public statements overflow with so much self-love that he…
F.O.E. and Jewell Tyme with The Pirate Signal, Makk Beez, A-Co, Julox, and others Saturday, April 26 The Snake Pit Better Than: Watching the Nuggets get beat down. After just a handful of releases in 2007, Denver hip-hop label Jewell Tyme Music (JTM) is looking at a big 2008 and…
Britt Rodemich, Ellison Park, Ian Cooke and Levi Weaver Friday, April 25, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: Enduring yet another uneventful happy hour. The matinee show is an idea whose time has come in Denver. Instead of doing happy hour and then heading home only to amble back out around nine…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Timeless tunes, a pirate shirt and a large cougar on the prowl are just a few of the highlights of this New York Dolls show review…
Goldfinger Hello Destiny… SideOneDummy 01:23-02:08 of “Without Me” Whoa. Goldfinger is still around. You know, I could pun the title and be like, “Hello Destiny, we still suck,” or “Hello Destiny, is this all we’ve worked for?” But that would be easy. And not really funny. Kind of like Goldfinger’s…
LOCALS ONLY For the last decade or so, F.O.E. (Father of Enemies) has steadily been putting in work, first as a member of the group Hilltop Click, then as a solo artist and now as vice president of Jewell Tyme Records. But just because he’s helping run one of Colorado’s…
Damn, man, can Flobots catch any more fire? A week after we reported that the crew will be sharing a bill with Metallica (less than a month after inking its deal with Universal, no less) comes news today that the act has claimed the seventh slot on Billboard’s Hot Modern…
Photos by Jon Solomon. Widowers, Achille Lauro, Mothership and Hawks of Paradise. Thursday, April 24 Larimer Lounge Better Than: LSD Nearly a year ago, Widowers played its first gig with Achille Lauro and Mothership, so it was a no-brainer for the three like-minded bands to team up again to help…
I know it’s not an original sentiment and I’m the millionth person to make this observation, but I feel compelled to go on record with a bastardization of Mark Twain’s famous words: the reports of the death of music have been greatly exaggerated. As I observed in a past column,…
Photo by C. James Hamilton The Titan Courageous, one of the dozen promising bands from the Class of 2008 is going on hiatus until the fall, and then… well, we don’t know. All we have to go on is a semi cryptic blog titled “New Shit Has Come to Light,…
After being together less than a year, the Crimson Red has called it a day. The outfit, comprised of former members of Ion, Adam’s Ruin and Ember, offered no reason as to why the band is splitting aside from leaving a pithy note on its MySpace page last week stating…
Kraftwerk Wednesday, April 23 Fillmore Auditorium Kraftwerk? In 2008? In Denver, Colorado? The date – one of just four by the German quartet in a mini U.S. tour – was easily the most unusual booking of the season at the Fillmore Auditorium, and that likely contributed to the modest turnout:…
Neva Dinova, Ladyhawk, Vampire Hands Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Hi-Dive Better than: Drinking a bottle of NyQuil. Looking for a night full of surprises, something completely lost to me of late, I ramped up to the Hi-Dive to experience some new rock music for the first time in ages. Of…
I love pizza like a fat kid loves cake. So imagine how stoked I was when I heard about “Pizza Party,” by Littleague, Neil McIntyre’s first post-Yo, Flaco! project. Come to find out, though, Littleague is like a shindig at Chuck E. Cheese: It’s a pizza party, all right, but…
The musicians in Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey thrive on change. When bassist Reed Mathis and keyboardist Brian Haas formed the trio fifteen years ago, they focused on a blend of post-bop and post-James Brown funk, covering cuts by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Prince and Maceo Parker. But with each album,…
It can be odd to visit a place where you haven’t been for more than a decade. You get a picture in your head, and it stays there until you finally get another look at the real thing. I went to the Catacombs, in the basement of the Hotel Boulderado…
These guys aren’t exactly breaking new ground. And if you’re one of those people who have nothing good to say about the current state of music, and haven’t for the last decade, you’re not apt to like Buffalo Beard (due this Saturday, April 26, at the Larimer Lounge). But if…
