Back with another batch of fresh local hip-hop. This week, we’ve got a new clips from Spoke In Wordz featuring the 17th and Fokis, a cut from Slo Pain for hardcore fans, as well as fresh goodness from Rap League Manifest, assisted by Planet Asia, and Aires Jackson, who just…
Dr. Neptune (due this Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23, at 3 Kings Tavern) became one of the more popular punk bands in the scene before disbanding for good in 2006, after a couple of vans broke down as the band was making waves on the Warped Tour circuit…
As reported previously, there’s a trio of big shows going on sale this weekend, Arcade Fire at the Pepsi Center and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at the Temple Buell on Friday, and Trey Anastasio Band at the Ogden on Saturday. We’ve also got the word on three more…
Cat Power (due this Saturday, November 23, at the Gothic Theatre) is the sometimes solo, sometimes full-band, project of Chan Marshall. Although born in Atlanta, Marshall made her way to New York City in the early 1990s and became involved in the underground music scene in the Big Apple. In…
Formed in Tampa — the home of death metal — in 1984, Morbid Angel (due Friday, November 22, at the Bluebird Theater) may not have put out the subgenre’s founding document (an honor generally bestowed on Possessed’s 1985 masterpiece, Seven Churches), but it can rightfully be considered one of its…
MICHAL MENERT at FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 11/16/13 Taking the stage waving a Colorado state flag bearing his own name, Michal Menert humbly thanked the crowd for coming out and supporting him and then opened up the throttle of samples. With a new custom light stage, AC Lao on the drums,…
After delivering an incredibly compelling performance at the Ogden Theatre this past spring, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are making their way back to Denver for a must-see show at the Temple Buell Theatre on Tuesday, June 24. Tickets ($33.50-$69.05, plus fees) go on sale during a special pre-sale…
THURS | JOHN LEGEND at ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE | 11/21/13 A child prodigy who’s been playing the piano since age five and attended college at sixteen, John Legend played with Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and Janet Jackson, among others, before Kanye West noticed his talent and took him under…
Last month we asked readers to send us suggestions for the Denver music scene’s best representatives on social media for our 2013 Denver Web Awards. Now you can help pick who wins top honors. Here’s how it works:…
When you talk to hardcore hip-hop heads, it almost always comes down to one thing: lyrics, lyrics, lyrics. And while lyrics are obviously the keystone of rapping, the hook is essential as a respite from often dense, less accessible lyrics. Great hooks are among the most underrated aspects of making…
In the same way that artists like Rembrandt, Diego Velazquez and Picasso were able to abridge an era through painting, California-based, New York-bred, Justin Bua (due tonight at SoGnar’s Shedded Beats at Cervantes’) has done so with the hip-hop generation. With a trademark style, Bua has transformed a lifestyle of…
3OH!3 (due this Saturday, November 16, at Summit Music Hall) formed in 2004 as an irreverent, outrageously humorous dance pop band. Founded by Boulder natives Nathaniel Motte and Sean Foreman, 3OH!3 quickly caught on with audiences locally and then well outside of Colorado with its 2007 debut, 3OH!3. But it…
SAT | MICHAL MENERT at FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 11/16/13 Since his debut solo album Dreaming of a Bigger Life, Michal Menert has been steadily touring the country building a grassroots following in the same way Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights did when he first hit the scene. Menert has…
FRI & SAT | THE BLACK CROWES at OGDEN THEATRE|11/15-11/16 In the late ’80s, many young musicians were embracing the myth of the ’60s. In 1989, the Black Crowes (due at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16) emerged from that cultural backdrop with a bluesy,…
Fresh off the release of Reflektor, its latest album, Arcade Fire is preparing to embark on a full blown, multi-city arena tour that kicks off at the Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky this March. Midway into the jaunt, the lauded Canadian act, which previously played at 1STBANK Center and Red…
In jazz discussions, the saxophonists and the trumpeters generally dominate the conversation, and rightly so. Equally as integral to the music, though, is the rest of the band. While we’ve already listed the top guitarists and pianists, today we focus on those holding down the low-end. Although there are a…
In his new column, award-winning goofball Shea Serrano, whose recent exploits include Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book, writes about his life and times. Song: One Direction’s “Story Of My Life” History: A long time ago, there were barber shop quartets, and then after that, the New Kids On…
THE BLACK CROWES at THE OGDEN THEATRE 11/13/13 While the crowd on Wednesday night seemed completely receptive to first of the Black Crowes’ three nights at the Ogden Theatre, the place pretty much exploded with energy once the band launched into “Remedy” about an hour and a half into its…
Over the past decade or so, Broadways Sports Tavern, a pool and dart bar at 3978 South Broadway, was open one day a week for a pool league. But in September, Danielle Jurnisky, who was an owner of the Aussie Pub down the street, and Chel Johnson, who was a…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
NINE INCH NAILS at 1STBANK CENTER | 11/13/13 From the very beginning, a Nine Inch Nails show creates a different kind of space, a heightened reality, accompanied by an unsurpassed light show. A pulsing low end preceded the band taking the stage, and the six distinctive lighting rigs above each…
“I didn’t know what to say with a gun in my face,” Michal Menert recalls, “but I figured if they were going to kill me, I’d better make my move.” In December 2006, Menert’s means of generating income had brought him face to face with the barrel of a shotgun…
