MANO LE TOUGH @ NORAD | SAT, 9/28/13 Mano Le Tough is a Berlin-based artist whose output ranges from sweeping, atmospheric house soundscapes to a more minimalist slant on the techno side of things, with mechanical beats and melodies that evoke what you might hear if robots could write melancholy…
Update, 10/18/13: And the winner is…Lakewood High School. Katy Perry picked the school this morning and is coming to perform next Friday. It was fate — sort of. Lakewood High School’s lip-dub to Katy Perry’s “Roar” was in fact a submission to Good Morning America’s call for such entries, but…
If you think about it, The Wire and Breaking Bad are the Biggie and 2Pac of televised dramas. Equally revered, the two shows have similarities that are obvious, and there’s a reason that one always invariably comes up in conversation about the other. What’s more striking, through, are the pronounced…
Phish is the greatest cover band on earth, hands down. Some songs have become staples — so much so that we’ve come across fans, even well versed fans, who didn’t realize songs like “Funky Bitch” was a cover — while others are only busted out occasionally, sometimes only once. Of…
Born Joshua Davis, DJ Shadow made great waves with his first proper album, 1996’s Endtroducing, which has been lauded as the first album made up entirely by samples. By then, he’d already made a name for himself as a producer with some singles and production work out on Mo’ Wax…
It’s probably the most unhappy I’ve ever been as an adult,” says Dan Aid, frontman for the Wiredogs, the band previously known as the Hate. He’s referring to the group’s name change, a stressful process that involved wading through hundreds of possibilities. “The reason for the name change was mostly…
It’s been a stellar year so far for Dusky, the London-based duo that’s blowing up right now with a garage-house sound mastered in the act’s native stamping grounds. Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman, the pair who make up Dusky, are just as comfortable inside the studio as out; they’ve had…
“You can cut your wrist wide open and bleed out all of your miseries,” sings Lil Thunder’s Marie Litton on “Serpent and the Rainbow,” the rousing opener to Razor Blades & Sunshine, the followup to the band’s self-titled debut EP, released in 2011. It’s just one of many poignant lines…
When Havok emerged in the middle part of the 2000s, its members were already prodigious players. Still in high school, the dudes were accomplished enough to expertly channel the finest moments of Metallica’s classic era, which is how they first gained notice around here. Since then, of course, they’ve attracted…
Total Ghost appears to be having some existential despair. “We have made love with over 37 different space genders/We have raised glasses of moon champagne with foreign dignitaries/We have snorted asteroid dust off the boobies of space prostitutes/And we realized: Something is missing.” The sophomore release from this Euro-trash duo…
“So You Go Along,” the opening track on Varlet’s new album, American Hymns, sounds deceptively like something out of a 1970s musical, only the textures are richer and the lyrics darker. And that’s a perfect image for this album, a project on which Lily Scott indulges her inner jazz-and-blues singer,…
Like any other town, Denver has its share of cover bands, and those bands often tend to get overlooked, because, well, they’re playing somebody else’s music. Thus, our latest feature, Cover Band of the Week (or, perhaps more accurately, every few weeks, because let’s be honest: There’s a finite number…
Update, 9/25/13: Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd has been added to the lineup for this Friday’s flood relief benefit at Swallow Hill. Complete information listed below. Although the heavy rains that soaked the Front Range have stopped and the floodwaters have begun to recede, as with any natural…
Being a rock star is clearly overrated. While the romanticized version might have you think it’s all-night parties with all-you-can-eat pizza, followed by decadent, diabetic-coma-worthy binges on hot fudge speedballs, when you pull back the curtain, the sanitized, actualized version appears closer to a Sunday-school potluck with ho-hum, cold-cut catering,…
It’s been a stellar year so far for Dusky, the London-based duo that’s blowing up right now with a garage-house sound they mastered in their native stamping grounds. Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman, the pair who make up Dusky, have had their tracks spun by such notables as Pete Tong…
When Big Gigantic played Red Rocks last year, the feeling of hometown pride was unmistakable. As the act went into “Colorado Mountain High,” a giant projection of the state flag draped the rocks, and the crowd went absolutely bananas. The duo ended up delivering its best set ever. That said,…
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…
Rap is not the homogeneous radio-whoring genre that people make it out to be…most of the time. But the rest of the time, you have to admit that rap can be just as formulaic and predictable as its detractors claim. If you’re looking to find a new appreciation for one…
Casey James Prestwood and the Burning Angels just finished recording their new album, Honky Tonk Bastard World, in the Nashville home of revered designer Manuel Cuevas, whose iconic Nudie suits have been worn by an array of country legends. It’s an ideal pairing for the two, as the former has…
Third Eye Blind is making its way back to Denver for a show at the Gothic Theatre on Friday, December 6. Tickets, $30, go on sale this Friday, September 27, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what other shows are on sale this week, what songs are being played…
Update, 9/24/13: If you haven’t heard yet, this special screening of U2’s Under a Blood Red Sky has been canceled. According to the Denver Film Society, after conferring with the Feys, it was determined that any fundraising efforts would be better directed to raising funds for flood victims. All credit…
FURTHUR at RED ROCKS | NIGHT FOUR | 9/22/13 Last night marked the final show of Furthur’s annual four-day Red Rocks run, and Mother Nature continued playing a prominent role as dark rain clouds quickly moved by on the horizon. Luckily, everyone came prepared for the worst, and for very…
