Music

Extreme-metal purists can say what they will about Five Finger Death Punch. There’s a reason that former Denverite Ivan Moody and company have managed to steadily work their way up to headlining arenas and tours such as this week’s Trespass America Festival: Their hard-edged, melodic brand of metalcore, akin to…

When someone writes the inevitable book on chillwave, a handful of artists will be discussed in terms that treat their songwriting with the respect it deserves, while others will be dismissed as bandwagoneers. Teen Daze will probably be in the former camp. Sure, there are shades of the aesthetic territory…

Big K.R.I.T., the Mississippian with the silken rap voice and candy-coated production, will roar into the Mile High City this week with fresh material (his long-awaited album, Live From the Underground, was just released last month) and a smoldering intensity. Fighting the drudges of mainstream music with all his might,…

Back in the days before MTV nailed down the formula of finding the worst assholes of any given demographic and putting them on television — back even before The Real World ushered in that glorious era — the network came up with some truly weird shit to air between music…

It’s a shame the HBO series Carnivàle was canceled in ’05, because Bonnie and the Beard’s new album, Cascavel, would have made an excellent soundtrack for the gothic dust bowl of romanticized madness. Thick with a whiskey-and-humidity aesthetic, Cascavel is an appropriate release for the relentless triple-digit afternoons we’ve been…

No need to check your equipment if you’re listening to this record at night: Those are crickets you hear on the recording — or an electronic analog of crickets. Did John Gross and Todd Novosad sample animals for virtually all of the sounds here? Possibly. It’s also entirely possible that…

Apothic Nights, Vol. 1 is a collaboration between a pair of underdogs from two different crews: Mid Wes_T from Da Krew and Zé from Diamond Boiz. The sharp production makes for an easy listen, but the sounds hit a little harder than the rhymes; the beatmaking, handled largely by TC…

There is nothing subtle about the Pretty Sure’s new EP. From frontman Arlo White’s gritty, basement-show vocals to the showstopping guitar to the je-ne-say-what lyrics (“I’ll be a werewolf for you, mama”) that permeate the entire album, this quartet betrays a distinctly Black Lips attitude and blues-punk aesthetic chased with…

Jason Horodyski got a bit of a step up early on, playing shows with Ian Cooke and Emily Frembgen. From the onset, his literary approach to songwriting shone through, and the subtle resonance and clarity of his songs spoke to a spare style that gave the melodies and textures space…

The Denver production superstars behind Sub.mission continue to put this city on the map by bringing in internationally known dub-driven acts to wobble and whomp up local clubs, and they’ve recently increased their profile by booking Digital Mystikz, the dubstep production duo comprising Mala and Coki from South London’s Norwood…

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If you haven’t heard, DJ Low Key has a new daytime party on the patio of the Meadowlark called Goodness. The third installment is slated for this Sunday, July 8, from 2-8 p.m. and will feature Low Key with Es Nine from Prime Element and DJ Discord of the Crunk…

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