Eric Prydz’s biggest hits so far have both incorporated famous work by other musicians — 2004’s “Call on Me” samples Steve Winwood’s “Valerie,” and his ’06 track “Proper Education” is a remix of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.” However, he released a number-one track on Beatport…
UMPHREY’S MCGEE @ RED ROCKS | 6/7/13 It didn’t take long for Umphrey’s McGee to show off its chops. The dense solos, the dizzying melodic runs and the complicated rhythms came almost immediately after the sextet took the stage, and it was a good twenty minutes before the band took…
THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS @ GOTHIC THEATRE | 6/8/12 As good as the Psychedelic Furs’ records are, there is just something about seeing Richard Butler, who was all smiles on this night, and hearing his heartfelt thank yous at the end of various songs, and then seeing the collective happiness of…
DEVOTCHKA & COLORADO SYMPHONY @ RED ROCKS | FRI, 6/14/13 Teaming up with an orchestra can sometimes be a thin attempt to disguise a creative lag, but in this case, the pairing has produced an inspired, brilliantly structured melding of two aesthetics that relies less on contrast than it does…
Somehow we missed getting this out to you yesterday. Our bad. Mark your calendar — nay, clear your calendar — on Tuesday, August 6. Sebadoh is coming to the Larimer Lounge, and whether you’re new school or old school, you don’t want to miss a chance to see Lou Barlow…
Update, 6/7/13: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations to Sabrina Palmer. You and a guest will be our guests at the show. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for all the entries! This Friday night, Umphrey’s McGee will…
Tonight at the Oriental Theater, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes is sitting in again with the Dirty Femmes, the tribute act devoted to Gano’s band and led by Jen Korte. That, in itself, is reason enough to make your way to the Oriental Theater, but here’s another compelling reason:…
Guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola teamed up in the mid ’90s as part of T.J. Kirk, an outfit that played the music of Thelonious Monk, James Brown and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Amendola, who also appears on a few of Hunter’s mid-’90s Blue Note recordings, has worked with a…
AUTHOR @ CERVANTES’ MASTERPIECE BALLROOM | SAT, 6/8/13 As Author, Jack Sparrow and Ruckspin — two dubstep producers that hail from the U.K. — produce haunting melodies and captivating rhythms layered with just the right amount of glitchy bass and distortion. The result is totally worth hearing live; the sets…
BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS @ RED ROCKS | SAT, 6/8/13 Twenty years ago, things were considerably different in the local scene. Denver had yet to produce any massive breakout artists on the level of the Lumineers or the Fray. Back then, Big Head Todd and the Monsters were…
Just after the first of the year in the midst of his cancer treatment, Mike Marchant recorded a bunch of songs. According to Mike, he wasn’t in the best shape, physically or mentally, but since making music is what he does, he naturally turned to the tunes to help him…
After a successful tour with How to Destroy Angels, which made a stop at the Paramount Theatre this past April, Trent Reznor has put the paddles to Nine Inch Nails, and is preparing to hit the road. Yesterday, “Came Back Haunted,” a track from NIN’s forthcoming album, Hesitation Marks, due…
Getting laid is one of the perks of the trade. Guys form bands with the sole goal of getting their bananas peeled. Most metal dudes are satisfied with groupies every night, but some just can’t get enough of the jiggly bits and the furry monsters, so they end up singing…
Sometime in the last year, Force Publique shifted its focus a bit to include electric guitar rather than bass and the opted for using an MPC over playing pre-crafted beats made on software. The resulting sound is still darkly moody as it was during the band’s more post-punk period, but…
The Psychedelic Furs formed in 1977 in the wake of the explosion of punk rock in England. By the 1980s, the group had evolved from its earlier musical impulses into a kind of atmospheric, at times brooding, at times celebratory, post-punk band with a broad emotional and sonic palette. See…
Rutherford Belleview says the Widow’s Bane, his theatrical, dark, Americana-flavored, self-styled “zombie death polka” band, began sometime around 1700 A.D. “The name ‘The Widow’s Bane’ is from where we originally met, which was a ship,” the accordion player explains. “We were a house band on the Devil’s ship. We weren’t…
David Sugalski, a Philadelphia native with a business degree from the University of Colorado, has carved out a respectable career for himself in dance music. Better known in EDM circles as the Polish Ambassador, Sugalski is creating music that reflects his life while constantly evolving as an artist and finding…
“Gangsta of War” is the perfect intro to a tape that essentially sounds like a secret early recording made by a now-well-known Warp Records project. Or it could be Art of Noise doing its best imitation of gangsta rap. The hypnotic yet syncopated drum-machine-generated beats, punctuated by bass and urgent…
Although the Raven and the Writing Desk has created some richly textured songs that vary in style and tempo, when it comes to aesthetics, there’s little about the group’s new EP that’s groundbreaking. There’s no doubting the bandmembers’ musicianship on songs like “Cutting the Lime,” which impressively blends a Little…
Considering that its moniker is borrowed from a Native American term meaning “wild with madness,” it’s not surprising that Musuji is a bit unhinged musically — but the band doesn’t stray too far out there. From the get-go on this ten-song album, the quartet shows off its heavy side. On…
As a teenage guitarist, Jeff Scroggins fell in love with rock and roll, especially with players like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck — but at nineteen, he picked up a cheap banjo at a garage sale, then ended up trading in his Les Paul for a better banjo…
If you haven’t heard yet, Riot Fest, the incredibly popular festival founded in Chicago in 2005, is expanding to Colorado. There’s no word yet on the lineup, but if the roster of acts (Motörhead, Public Enemy, Bad Brains, Guided by Voices, the Dismemberment Plan, Dinosaur Jr. and Surfer Blood, among…
