Sid Pink was heartbroken. So he did what any reasonable, red-blooded American man his age would do: He penned a rock opera about the ordeal — or a “rockeretta spectacular,” as the show’s poster proclaims. “About eighteen months ago, I suffered a devastating episode via Real Life,” Sid explains in…
Collin and Brandon Bordeaux have been making music together since they were kids. The two brothers, better known in local hip-hop circles as H*Wood and Kid Vegas, act as each other’s business partners, musical critics, marketing team and confidants. The former, who has returned home after four years in Los…
EARTH @ MARQUIS THEATER | 11/21/12 Near the end of Earth’s set, Dylan Carlson said, “This is the first song I ever wrote for Earth. It’s called ‘The Ouroboros is Broken.'” This probably came as a surprise to a lot of people because it is inarguably one of Earth’s classic…
For most of us, Thanksgiving is typically a time of vast reflection, a time when we get all sorts of introspective and express our gratitude for the lovely people and fortuitous moments in our lives — that is, of course, when we’re not preoccupied with our overwhelming sense of materialism…
Vincent Furnier has gone by Alice Cooper for more than four decades. During that time, two different versions of his on-stage persona emerged: the early one, when he was kind of meek; and the later one, when he became more of a villain. The change came when he stopped drinking…
When you think about musical projects forming in Boulder these days, rock and roll isn’t exactly what comes to mind, despite Rose Hill Drive’s hailing from that town. But West Water Outlaws (due on Wednesday, November 28, at the Larimer Lounge) can safely be filed in that category. The act…
The guys in Death Grips are not interested in following in anyone’s footsteps, hip-hop or otherwise. Adopting what drummer/percussionist Zach Hill refers to as “future primitivism,” the outfit uses whatever is readily at hand, including camcorders and cell phones, to capture sounds, and mulches a lot of raw audio into…
When Diplo’s Mad Decent spin-off label Jeffree’s dropped the Bro Safari single “Da Worm” last year, it brightened the spotlight already shining on Nicholas Weiller. Bro Safari might be a relatively new project, but Weiller, who currently performs under that name, earned his stripes as a DJ and producer with…
Whatever questions you direct at Asking Alexandria, you can be sure the answers will be delivered in some kind of scream. The Alexandrians trade in the breakdown-heavy thrashing known as metalcore, which, true to its name, combines the excesses of both metal and hardcore into one headache-inducing brew. Asking Alexandria…
As the frontman of Interpol, Paul Banks helped to usher in the most recent wave of post-punk. His emotive quaver and resonance have often been compared to that of Joy Divison frontman Ian Curtis. Musically, however, it’s clear that he’s also absorbed the electrifying, percussion-driven darkness of the Comsat Angels…
At first listen, this album sounds like Jesse Briata, aka Lockbox, borrowed a lot from Aphex Twin and Dan Deacon. “Parmenter Acid,” for instance, is the kind of playfully spastic electro-pop song that wouldn’t be completely out of place on an earlier Deacon record. “Headbones,” meanwhile, is like a cousin…
The debut album from Reed Fuchs (déCollage) is a ten-track collection of psychedelic, surrealist pop that oscillates between the melting fluidity of the Flaming Lips and the irreverent DIY experiments of early Beck meshed with some Animal Collective-esque, experimental neo-folk-pop-musical-collective rhythmic structures. Although it’s cut into songs, the album plays…
Inspired by the music of the Yellowjackets and the late Don Grolnick (once a member of fusion groups Steps Ahead and Dreams), Polarity displays some fine solo work throughout King of Hearts. Fronted by local saxophonists Pete Lewis and Clare Church, the band uses fusion as a backbone and injects…
BurntMD’s Not So Black & White combines relatively old-school production with a new-school flow that draws from MCs as diverse as Pharoahe Monch, Xzibit, Aesop Rock, Canibus and Mos Def and seems to change dramatically with every track. The sound is anything but repetitive and is tricky to pin down…
Brandon and Collin Bordeaux have been making music together since they were kids. The two brothers, better known in local hip-hop circles as H*Wood and Kid Vegas, respectively, act as each other’s business partner, musical critic, marketing director and confidant. Brandon, who’s returned home after four years in Los Angeles,…
Everyone’s heard of the legendary Pete Tong, whose BBC Radio 1 show has been known for years as the best place to hear the hottest new EDM trends. Pay attention to the person touring with him when he next hits up Denver: Bristolian Daniel Pearce, who’s better known as Eats…
Earth was one of the first bands to explore the inner spaces of drone and doom metal. In its earlier phase, Earth made creative use of distortion to create dense and crushing atmospheres. Since the band regrouped close to a decade ago, the focus has been more on a textured…
While Thanksgiving and Black Friday steal all the headlines, the holiday that’s really worth celebrating this week is Thanksgiving Eve, the biggest party night of the year next to New Year’s Eve. It’s the ultimate ruse: You can go way too hard raging all night with your old friends –…
As far as fully realized cartoon bands go, Dethklok kicks everyone else’s ass. (Don’t believe us? Fine — you can go see Josie and the Pussycats or Alvin and the Chipmunks instead.) Last night, the very real band behind Adult Swim’s Metalocalpse put on a very rowdy show during its…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t…
As noted in our review of Bruce Springsteen’s show last night at the Pepsi Center, the concert was packed with longtime fans and visited by an array of ghosts — those of beloved bandmates and even, at least from looking at the shirts on display in the crowd, past versions…
Holiday week evidently means there are fewer new shows to tell you about. Besides Winter on the Rocks, which we gave you the drop on yesterday, this week’s biggest concert news involves New Jersey’s second biggest musical export next to the one that was in town last night at the…
