Hollow Talk. You probably don’t know the name yet, but you’re almost certain to recognize the names of players in this new outfit, which is slated to make its live debut tomorrow night at the hi-dive with the Big Get Even and Rowboat. I hesitate to toss out the “supergroup”…
Country music used to have its own distinct identity, one that was tied to rich traditions of lonesome country roads, hard work, low pay and drinking. These days it’s a black hole of insipidity. Following the Grammys, the Lumineers and Mumford & Sons are now reportedly making inroads on country…
Hip-hop is a world unto itself. Its rich tradition of spoken word poetry, self-referential subject matter and electronic and sample-based production make it, in many ways, a difficult musical form to adapt to, especially if you come from a more traditional background. These ten acts helped make rap more accessible…
SNOW THA PRODUCT @ ROXY THEATRE | SAT, 2/16 It may at first seem easy to dismiss Snow Tha Product as another Iggy Azalea or Kreayshawn-level gimmick because of her gender and unconventional appearance, but it gets harder and harder the more you listen to her. Make no mistake, Snow…
ALESSO @ OGDEN THEATRE | FRI, 2/15/13 Sweden is experiencing a groundswell of bass drops and bleep-bloops, the result of electronic dance music’s worldwide takeover. And riding shotgun on the revolutionary journey is Alesso, the Swedish house DJ who broke onto the EDM scene a few years ago as one…
For centuries, men have known that the real power of music lies in its ability to get you laid. From “panty-dropper” mixtapes that your parents made back in the day, to John Cusack standing outside the window with Peter Gabriel on the boombox, to that little boy banging on the…
OM @ LARIMER LOUNGE |2/13/12 It was impossible not to be moved last night by the music of OM, as the visceral, low-end sounds moved through your body and the music hit you and washed around you like a physical force. The mixture of those chthonic tones, with the clatter…
We’ve got another fresh batch of homegrown hip-hop for you this week, and the cuts we’ve picked will take you through different ends of the spectrum. DJ Cavem brings in a breath of fresh air with his anti-pollution anthem in “Hybrid Lex (I Can’t Breathe the Air),” H*Wood takes you…
Like the quixotically stylish music of his full-time band, Fingers of the Sun, Nathan Brasil’s solo side-project, Salads and Sunbeams, is a warm and accessible, stripped down version of the mustachioed songwriter’s dream-pop style. “It’s a lot of odds and ends that didn’t work with Fingers of the Sun or…
Pitchers and catchers reported this week. You know what that means, right? Yeah, probably nothing. We’re not going to get our hopes up here. I mean, aside from our new skipper, Walt Weiss, a beloved former Rockies shortstop, there’s really no reason to believe this season will be any less…
With a recent chart-topping house banger on Beatport, Israeli producer Asaf Borger, aka Borgore, has a new record on the horizon. Aside from enjoying other recent success with Miley Cyrus on the collaborative chart topper “Decisions,” Borgore is mainly focused on finishing his forthcoming album at an L.A.-based studio when…
I don’t lie in my music,” says Danny Vincennie. “I don’t exaggerate shit, and if it didn’t happen to me, you’re not going to hear about it.” Vincennie, who has been performing under the moniker Extra Kool since going solo after the 2006 split of his long-running Optik Fusion Embrace…
You could be excused for expecting an outfit named Warhawk to be a metal band. But while these guys clearly share influences with many metal merchants — you’ll hear a bit of Black Sabbath’s edgy darkness and more than a dash of Pentagram’s gritty boogie — they sound more like…
It’s impossible to miss the influence of New Orleans in the brash, brassy sound of Galactic. Since forming in 1994, the sextet has experimented with plenty of sounds and styles, dabbling in everything from hip-hop to electronica. But the lush legacy of New Orleans’s native jazz, funk, soul and R&B…
Lauded local trumpeter Ron Miles and guitarist Bill Frisell, a Denver native now living elsewhere, have performed and recorded together a number of times, but they’ve only teamed up with drummer Brian Blade on a handful of occasions, including on Miles’s latest disc, Quiver, which was issued this past fall…
One of the few heavy bands with a genre-transcending appeal, Oakland’s Neurosis forged an impressive sonic evolution across several decades. Starting out as a political crust/hardcore band in 1985, by the time of its 1992 album — the epochal Souls at Zero — Neurosis was on the path to creating…
Doro Pesch was the charismatic frontwoman of the ’80s German metal band Warlock. With power and confidence that were rare at the time, Pesch, the first woman to front a band at the 1986 Monsters of Rock festival, possessed a stirring, sometimes animalistic wail. Warlock split in 1987, two years…
After growing up in Denver, Rob Drabkin went to Trinity University in San Antonio to major in biochemistry and molecular biology. But a few weeks before graduation, he says, something snapped in him while watching the Broadway musical Chicago. His mind drifted, and while daydreaming, he realized he would have…
In order to fully understand the impact Dean Paul has had on the West Coast techno scene, you should know that he is a full-time resident with Droid Behavior, the Los Angeles collective behind the Droid Recordings label (other residents include techno powerhouses Audio Injection, Drumcell and Raíz), the D-Node…
On “Disappear 1,” which opens Rowboat’s Of Disappearing, Sam McNitt displays a keen gift for articulating the paradoxical delicacy and intensity of certain emotions. The crushing sense of loss conveyed in that song is both comforting and unnerving: It’s as though the feelings being addressed were too overwhelming to endure…
On “This Charade,” the opening cut on Laroy & Co’s Worth Reckoning, the trio unleashes a flurry of Rodrigo y Gabriela-esque Spanish guitar before settling into a medium-tempo backbeat. During the Spanish-tinged solo, frontman Jason Laroy Boudreau proves he knows his way around the fretboard, a skill that’s further evidenced…
Border Patrol, the third album from this Denver-based trio, features famed trumpeter Andre Mali, who wastes no time in showcasing his talent. The album’s opener, “Tumbleweeds,” immediately sets the theme and mood for the whole piece: road-tripping across the country, soaking up the intricacies and details of the landscape, keeping…
