See Also: Q&A with Peter Black Q&A with Porter Robinson Aw, yeah, weekend’s here! There’s a heady mix of local and international talent brewing on the dance scene this weekend, including Peter Black’s official retirement party and tunes by Porter Robinson, Danny Daze, Sascha Dive and Paul Oakenfold. On the…
See Also: Tonight: Peter Black at the Meadowlark Peter Black (aka Peter Gurule) first gained renown as a DJ as part of the long-running and legendary club night, So What! Since then, he’s made a name for himself not just as a skilled DJ in a very real sense of…
See Also: The Foodchain pushes its live energy into the studio Hot on the heels of its latest release, Brunch, the Foodchain is back with a whole bunch of new music. The crew will be releasing one song a week for the rest of the summer as a part of…
See Also: Chris Daniels is back after a harrowing battle with illness Q&A with Slipknot’s Clown Q&A with Julie Libassi of the Raven & the Writing Desk Q&A with JT Nolan of Beats Noir! Q&A with Zoe Jakes and David Satori of Beats Antique Welcome to the weekend! A parade…
See Also: – Tonight: Jason Anderson at the hi-dive – The members of Holophrase on working with Ikey Owens on Horizons of Expectation Jason Anderson’s startlingly unvarnished yet well-crafted songs and his intimate and charismatic performance style evoke the sense of a compassionate and unpretentious friend offering nuggets of wisdom…
See Also: Tonight: Youth Lagoon at the Bluebird The best SXSW music 2012 The worst SXSW music 2012 Youth Lagoon (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) began as the solo project of Trevor Powers, who first started making music while still in high school, and whose early recordings caught the…
See Also: Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose’s head Harry Tuft and Barry Fey inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame Red Rocks’ famous hidden tunnel: A peek at the rock star signatures Dan Fong’s unpublished rock photos on display this Friday…
See Also: Tonight: Holophrase CD release at the hi-dive The Mars Volta’s Ikey Owens stretches his wings in Free Moral Agents Rubedo on recording its new album, Massa Confusa, with Ikey Owens Holophrase got its name for the technical term for the sounds infants use to communicate verbally before learning…
See Also: Sunday: Slipknot at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Photos: Umasking Corey Taylor of Slipknot Photos: Women that rock at Mayhem Photos: Mayhem Fest 2011 Photos: Mayhem Fest 2010 Formed in 1994 by late bassist Paul Gray and M. Shawn Crahan (aka Clown, aka #6), Slipknot (due this Sunday, July 8…
Certain liberals will try to tell you that Europeans are more cultured than Americans, that Europeans are refined people who sip tea in fancy ways and visit their various art museums while Americans are fat, vacuous slobs who lap up asinine sitcom entertainment like the grape-flavored corn syrup they enjoy…
Generally, when you speak with someone with strong ties to rock history, you either get an earful of tedious name-dropping or you’re forced to endure an exhaustive lecture about how kids today just don’t get it. This is not the case with Dan Fong, the famed Denver rock photographer who…
UPDATE (7/6/12): We got our hands on a sample cut of “Slow and Low” off of Ishe and DirtMonkey’s new album Turn Up the Ride. Page through and give it a listen. By night, Beta is Denver’s best dance club and North America’s number one dance club. By day, though,…
Some great news coming down this morning from the folks at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre: After being forced to close and subsequently cancel a number of shows due to the High Park fire that raged through Northern Colorado, the Poudre Canyon venue, which was miraculously spared, will reopen for lunch and…
Now that we’re moving into the thick of summer concert season, the fall schedule is starting to take shape with new dates from Peaches, Kottonmouth Kings, Why?, Warrant, Cinderella and Skid Row on the books. Page down for the full rundown on this week’s new show announcements, as well as…
While Squeeze (due at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July 4) has had a few hiatuses in its almost forty year history, singer and guitarist Glenn Tilbrook says the band sounds more energized these days — so energized, in fact, that the group has even started work on…
The image is stark and simple: a vintage truck painted a deep indigo, a battered brick wall behind, and the words “Better Days” spelled out in simple fonts above. For Chris Daniels, the cover art for his latest solo release is open to interpretation. “That’s my old truck. I got…
From his early days as a young DJ at the iconic So What! club nights to his current role as an elder statesman of sorts among live electronic artists and underground bands in Denver, Peter Black (aka Peter Gurule) has been bringing his passion for music to clubs around Denver…
Holophrase (due Thursday, July 5, at the hi-dive) kind of burst onto the scene like Athena from the head of Zeus. Live, the group has a kind of mystique to it, and its members sound like they grew up listening to Chrome, Magazine and Zvuki Mu. Remarkably, this is not…
The first thing you should know about Sascha Dive is that Sascha Dive is actually his real name — no need to pretend. That ethos follows through with the rest of Dive’s abilities: He’s not big on using bells, whistles or other accoutrements to embellish his sound. And that’s good,…
Jason Anderson formed Wolf Colonel in 1996 while a student in Portland, at a time when (and in a place where) he could easily see Elliott Smith before every sweater-wearing fan of indie rock had the chance to do so. Seeing one of Calvin Johnson’s projects was not a rare…
After Youth Lagoon gained steam online, Trevor Powers landed a record deal at the venerable Fat Possum Records, at which point he dropped out of college and quit his job to pursue music full-time. His album, The Year of Hibernation, captures desolation in its purest sonic form: Many of the…
In a time when singer-songwriters are as plentiful — and nearly as indistinguishable — as the corporate coffee shops lining the streets of tony shopping districts, Will Hoge stands out like a homegrown roaster serving his hand-picked beans in a secondhand mug in some bohemian boutique. Hoge’s raspy, soulful voice…
