WALLFLOWERS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/24/12 Jakob Dylan must be a hell of a poker player. Last night’s show at the Ogden proved that, as the Wallflowers frontman crooned through a couple dozen songs with a stony glare on his face. Clad in black and looking every bit as youthful…
Word of Rockbar’s closure yesterday has been met with a variety of reactions from readers, ranging from those joining in on a chorus of good riddance on our Cafe Society blog to folks like emily225, who no doubt speaking for a good section of the nightlife community, put it simply:…
Pop music,” declares Seamus Moore, “has proven that musical talent means shit as far as being accepted by a musical fan base goes.” Moore and his group, Human Agency, aren’t necessarily anti-pop, but neither are they ones to adhere to modern pop conventions to make their mark, relying solely on…
Rumor has it that the members of Conjugal Visits live in a place called Wiener Demon Castle. Maybe that’s the garage-rock equivalent of saying one’s Uzi weighs a ton. Either way, there is definitely a wiseacre, self-deprecating sense of humor underlying the band’s garage-rock anthems, which are clearly informed by…
Originally hailing from Cincinnati, the Afghan Wigs were an early, non-Pacific Northwest signing to Sub Pop. Probably because of their raw sound — which was akin to that of the early Replacements and had a soulful vibe in line with what the label was cultivating in underground music at the…
San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys got started ten years ago, before the most recent wave of garage psych. And while that aesthetic certainly informed the group’s music early on, there’s more to its sound than that. Sweeping through its center is a Smiths-like, incandescent guitar jangle, along with gentle…
With the pageantry of their presentation and the overwhelming ostentatiousness of their personas, it’s easy to forget that the members of Gwar are actual people — not mere caricatures, but beings made of flesh and blood, with feelings and emotions like the rest of us. And that’s kind of the…
Agnostic Front is a bellwether of New York hardcore. The band’s seminal 1984 full-length debut, Victim in Pain, assailed injustice, conformity and society’s norms, raging through eleven paeans to alienation in fifteen minutes. Celebrating three decades on this tour, the band has gone through numerous members and weathered myriad ups…
Bob Dylan doesn’t belong here. Not here, but here — as in 2012. And he’d admit as much. Throughout his career, Dylan has always had sentimentality for a world before his time, romanticizing the lives of Robert Johnson and Hank Williams. “I was born very far from where I was…
Rarely do you find as much emotional range on an album as you do on Esme Patterson’s new release. From the pop-love warmth of “My Young Man” to the mournful “All the Days,” All Princes, I travels an arc from juvenile romance to painful wisdom, with Patterson crooning the apt…
Twelve years ago, Dale Bruning released Reunion, a two-disc live album with one of his more famous students, Denver native Bill Frisell, who studied with Bruning for close to five years in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Just Between Us, recorded live during two nights at Dazzle last March,…
“Thus Pat Garrett on the Battlefield,” which appears on the Wonderful Evils side of this split cassette, combines the shimmering vibrancy of the late-afternoon air in summer with a sense of motion. The intricate guitar work is reminiscent of John Fahey, or Jorma Kaukonen’s instrumental “Embryonic Journey.” There’s an organic,…
If you find those roads that diverge in the wood and end up taking the road less traveled, what kind of music do you expect to hear on your journey? Maybe some kind of really weird genre mashup, like “extreme chiptune dance metal”? (Hey, we said this road was less…
Pete Bones (aka the Shaker) has more than earned his nickname; this DJ/producer has been upheaving dance floors since he turned his residency at the Hand & Spear in Surrey, England, into a legendary party night back in 1990. Since that time, he’s gained worldwide acclaim with his own releases,…
Update 10/24/12: A Bob Weir solo date with Jackie Greene has been announced for Thursday, December 13, at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets for the show ($37.50-$56, plus fees) go on sale this Friday, October 26, at 10 a.m. So now that the final debate’s over, we still don’t know who’s…
It’s the end of an era. This news comes on the heels of the Lancer Lounge’s closing, and word that Bender’s Tavern and the hi-dive are changing hands: After this weekend, Rockbar is going dark. Spurred by the city’s recent decision not to renew Rockbar’s liquor license, which expired at…
Ron Carter has played on over 2,500 albums and secured a spot in jazz history as one of the world’s finest bassists. Doing much more than merely helping anchor the rhythm, Carter is quite the melodic master. In his five-decade-long career, he’s played with countless jazz legends, including a five-year…
If the Lumineers haven’t already gone supernova, by god, they’re about to. The locally-based outfit, which got its start humbly playing shows at the Meadowlark, just received word that their hit single “Ho Hey” has officially sold one million copies, while the self-titled album the song appears on is close…
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…
So as many people were stoked for the Romney/Ryan Victory Rally last night at Red Rocks (more than ten thousand folks reportedly showed up and thousands were turned away), not everybody was jazzed for the event, including a group of commenters. “Interesting that a dude who got his start in…
Last night at Red Rocks, presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan held their optimistically titled Victory Rally at Red Rocks. More than 10,000 people reportedly showed up and thousands were turned away. Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins both played a batch of acoustic songs. According to Brandon Marshall who…
Safe Boating is No Accident’s Leighton Peterson and the estimable gents behind the laudably local music series Brass Tree Sessions are preparing to embark on the second season of their live performance series. We’ve got a sneak peek of the first episode, featuring Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, recorded this past…
