Music

I don’t have to all of a sudden now become fucking Marilyn Manson if I’m gonna define it as goth,” says Yonnas Abraham of the music his band BLKHRTS is making. “I just gotta…be obsessed with romance, obsessed with death, and obsessed with the color black. “Sex, drugs, violence, money,…

Andy Thomas’s new solo album, Wicked Dark, begins with an appropriately downcast note of confused emotions riding on a repetitive, dynamically textured riff. There are two vocalists on “Nowhere but Down,” and the song creates a sense of isolation that has yet to turn into the sadness you know will…

Early in her career, during four years of solid touring, Coles Whalen sold thousands of CDs out of her truck — and since issuing her self-titled debut EP in 2005, she’s released five recordings and toured almost constantly. After wrapping a tour last December, Whalen was completely (and understandably) worn…

Logistixx is a technically sound rapper. With his ability to rhyme and ride the beat, he complements the music like a lead instrument would; on New Paradigm, this talent mixes with really dope beats to make the album a chill listen all the way through. As a lyricist, Logistixx is…

Project Aspect has dropped a remix album every year since 2011, and each one shows his diverse taste in music. Remixes Vol.3 is no exception. The producer has honed his glitch-staccato sound, and it’s noticeable on the opening track (his take on Lil Flip’s “Game Over”), but not nearly as…

Although trumpeter Terence Blanchard and saxophonist Donald Harrison, both New Orleans natives, were part of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers when the two released 1983’s New York Second Line, it didn’t take too long for them to form their own group and release five albums as co-leaders. In the early ’90s, Blanchard…

MUDHONEY @ UMS | 7/19/13 Mudhoney didn’t spend a lot of time joking with the audience between songs at this show, but after the borderline cartoonish menace of “Judgment, Rage, Retribution and Thyme,” Mark Arm said, “I feel like Colorado and Washington are sister states. There’s no reason to play…

40TH DAY @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 7/20/13 The whole 40th Day set felt a bit like me traveling and a creative resurrection at the same time. For whatever reason, it just didn’t feel like a reunion show. The felt show felt like the five members of the band were playing…

ADAM ANT @ OGDEN THEATRE | WEDS, 7/24/13 Adam Ant, the charismatic post-punk British pop star responsible for a generation of pirate shirts, returns to the U.S. after a long absence. Now 58, he’s picked up more tattoos and a smoking habit since we saw him last. Despite being battle…

TENNIS @ UMS DAY PARTY | SAT, 7/20/13 Just a block off of Broadway, in a nondescript Baker-neighborhood house lived in by Tennis’ sometimes drummer-sometimes bass player Patrick Meese and his wife, we saw a very different side of UMS. The party felt like it was thrown together in a…

STEVE MARTIN & EDIE BRICKELL @ DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | 7/20/13 Watching Steve Martin riff on stage at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield, it was easy to see how he sold out stadiums with his stand-up comedy in the ’70s. Martin came prepared with an arsenal of one-liners and sight…

GLOBAL DANCE FESTIVAL @ RED ROCKS | FRI, 7/19/13-SUN, 7/21/13 Going strong for ten years, Global Dance Festival is the premier summer event for EDM fans. Changing things up in the past few years, Triad Dragons has expanded offerings to include acts like Beats Antique, EOTO, Big Gigantic and Empire…

“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC @ BOULDER THEATER | SUN, 7/21/13 “Weird Al” Yankovic’s zany parodies catapulted him to fame in the ’80s, back when pop culture was in dire need of some deflation. He never got critical props for his oddball iconoclasm, though, and after his 1989 film, UHF tanked at…