“Repressed Memories,” the lead track on this latest release from former Gang Charger drummer Dan Barnett, sounds like something at the nexus of industrial and IDM. Spectral synths haunt the album’s stridently mechanical beats and textures. “Gate” is more overtly musical, but its dense composition suggests Giorgio Moroder trying his…
Phish is at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Labor Day weekend for the third consecutive year. Tickets ($49.75-$60) for the shows go on sale March 30 at 10 a.m. via TicketHorse, or in person at TicketHorse kiosks at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores and the box offices at the Pepsi Center…
Aqualung’s Music Community Space is closing its doors. The north Denver DIY space is hosting its final show this Friday night, with Deceased, Gravehill, 666 Pack, Glutgnar and 3BA. Aqualung’s was started by Ethan McCarthy following his departure from Blast-O-Mat just before the fall. After an arduous summer, part of…
Last week, we took a look at the fifty worst rap lyrics of all time. Going through all the dreck and drivel to get to the crème de la crème of crappiness was tedious and rather exhausting. This week, we even things out by taking a look at the other…
Irish drinking songs may seem fairly simple to the casual listener. The main theme is in the title, right? These are songs concerned with alcohol of any kind, tunes in 4/4 that are easy to clap along with during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Though that may be the kind of…
Back in 1976, while traveling around northwestern Colorado, composer and musician Bruce Odland was introduced by locals to the Tank, a sixty-foot-tall water tank outside Rangely. Odland used a circular portal to go inside the never-used tank — and immediately knew he’d entered a very special sonic wonderland. Since that…
Well, here we are, at the end of the road of lyrical idiocy. As our countdown to crappiness finally culminates, we’ve trained our eye on some of the greatest lyricists in rock, who, during select moments, greatly disappointed us with their valueless verse. These lyrics are all bad on their…
Back again with another fresh batch of homegrown hip-hop. This week, we’ve got new cuts from newcomers Young Tenner and Killa Keezy, while scene veterans 2MX2 deliver a song about the mischievousness of certain women and Panama Soweto works to uplift the voices of the unheard. See also: – Fresh…
In an ongoing testament to the generous spirit of the people that make up our local music scene, the number of benefit shows devoted to Mike Marchant, one of our town’s prized songwriters, who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and is in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy, continues to grow…
We already told you about a pair of killer shows at Red Rocks this summer, a double bill featuring two generations of shock rockers, Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson, and another featuring the National and Local Natives, but there are a bunch of other new shows this week to tell…
On a chilly January afternoon in West Hollywood, the heavily tattooed singer Otep Shamaya can’t hide her excitement about the release of Hydra, her namesake band’s sixth studio album. In the testosterone-fueled genres of aggressive rock and heavy metal, it’s not easy to be a lesbian singer, but Shamaya has…
Update, 10:37 p.m.: Charles Trowbridge spoke with the 22-year-old manager at Jimmy John’s, who declined to give his name. According to the manager, he was indeed trying to clear people away from the front of the store when someone from the crowd began yelling at him. The manager says he…
Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson at Red Rocks. Sweet Jesus! How has this totally obvious and sure-to-be-awesome pairing not happened before now is anybody’s guess. The music world’s O.G. shock rocker and his direct artistic descendent are slated to share a bill at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday, June 3…
Last year, Phibstock became the newest addition to the Colorado family of music festivals. One of the more intimate fests, Phibstock drew bluegrass and jam band fans in droves to its off-the-grid location in Hartsel, Colorado. The festival is returning to Hartsel for its second year on Friday, August 2…
Well, another edition of the SnowBall Music Festival is on the books. If you went, hopefully you raged all weekend. If you didn’t go, well, you’re probably wishing you did. Either way, relive the best moments from the festival through the lens of Brandon Marshall, who braved the elements and…
Contrary to trends among rising hip-hop artists these days, Big J Beats doesn’t flood the internet with a new song or mixtape every other week. But despite the shortage of releases, he’s definitely prolific, and it turns out his hard drive is a gold mine of unreleased gems, including American…
Join us as we go further down the rabbit hole of cringe-worthy rock lyrics, making our way through an underselling David Lee Roth, a culture war waged by Avril Lavigne, a melodramatic suicide note from Blink 182, some lumpy Black Eyed Peas and Chinese food that makes LFO sick, while…
It’s easy to look at what’s become of rock music over the last three and a half decades and find countless traces of the CBGB micro-culture and the fast-and-loud aesthetic it cultivated. During their now-legendary years at CBGB, bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith were disrespected…
The Ogden. 3/1 (Denver) This is for the guy with the long hair at the Griz show near the bar. I don’t know who you are but the odor that was emitting from your hair was horrendous. I can’t not even begin to explain how bad you smell. This wasn’t…
KEGGS & EGGS @ LODO’S | FRI, 3/15/13 In addition to being a Denver institution at this point, Keggs & Eggs has become a signifier of spring and annual monument to daytime drinking. No matter who’s playing KTCL’s free St. Patrick’s Day shindig, the lines start forming in LoDo just…
If you’ve never seen the Alabama Shakes live, add that to your bucket list immediately. Fuck jumping out of a plane. You’ve just got to see Brittany Howard live before you’re pushing daisies. She’s simply the most magnetic performer I’ve seen in a long time. Unlike other singers who resort…
ALABAMA SHAKES @ OGDEN THEATER | 3/9/13 There were too many musical threads to count during Alabama Shakes’ dynamic and dizzying performance at the Ogden Theatre. During the most heart-rending moments of “Be Mine,” for example, vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard summoned the spirits of James Brown, Etta James and…
