This week, we’ve got enough rap to make your head spin and then some. Check for hot new music from the Foodchain, Myke Charles and Spoke In Wordz murdering a dope boom-bap hip-hop beat, Myrical Child and the latest smoker’s anthem to keep in heavy rotation, a peek at the…
See Also: • Studio 54 opened 35 years ago today • Randy Rhoads: Thirty years ago, a tragic accident took the life of a legendary guitarist • Sex Pistols sign with A&M outside Buckingham Palace 35 years ago • Today in History archives Lester Bangs mother was a Jehovah’s Witness…
EARTH, WIND & FIRE @ NATIONAL WESTERN EVENTS CENTER | 4.28.12 Earth, Wind & Fire is infallible. The band — which has been playing beautifully crafted, soulful pop for more than four decades — can’t have a bad show. Last night at the National Western Events Center, the group proved…
ALTITUDE MUSIC FESTIVAL @ BALCH FIELD HOUSE | 4.28.12See Also: • Altitude Music Festival slide show • Q&A with Gramatik • Snowball Music Festival 2012, Day One and Day Two • CU WelcomeFest 2011 • Sonic Bloom pre-party slideshow featuring GRiZ CU Program Council and Insomniac Events blew the walls…
See Also: • Lulacruza wraps up Communikey on April 29 at BMoCA • Q&A with Brian Williams of Lustmord • Q&A with Nick Zammuto • Q&A with Morton Subtonick • CMKY brings electronic arts and music to Boulder for a fourth year Sun Araw (due tonight at the Boulder Museum…
LAMBCHOP @ FOX THEATRE | 4.28.12 See Also: Q&A with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop No one goes to a Lambchop show expecting a circus. Fans know that taking a ride with frontman Kurt Wagner and his crew will be a slow one. But last night at the Fox, the band…
REAL ESTATE @ GOTHIC THEATRE | 4.27.12 See Also: Q&A with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate “That’s all from us,” Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney told the crowd, which stood nodding before him as the last notes of the encore washed across the Gothic Theatre. His voice conveyed no more…
See Also: Best of Denver 2008: Best Singer-Songwriter Since moving to Denver in 2000, Joe Sampson has been a highly visible member of the scene, but it’s always been either as member of bands like A Dog Paloma or Bad Weather California, or collaborating on projects like Wentworth-Kersey or playing…
See Also: • (Photos) Neon Knights at the Meadowlark • Weekend’s best dance/party bets: Communikey, Unified Field, Brown Suga Youth Fest • Best of Denver 2012: Best VJ Team Audio Visual Violence Club • Double//Shadow appeals to the weeping romantic in you For the last year and a half, DJ…
With all that’s going down this weekend between Communikey — which is already well underway, and bringing a legion of talent to Boulder over the next three days — Unified Field, the Sonic Bloom pre-party, Brown Suga Youth Fest, and the various other parties around town being hosted by DJ…
See Also: • Cobraconda goes on Spring Break • Q&A with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate • Q&A with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate • Q&A with Jules Bethea-Rateliff and Joe Sampson • Q&A with Carbon Choir • Q&A with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop Welcome to the weekend! You’ve worked…
See Also: • Warlock Pinchers return to CU more than two decades after being banned • The Warlock Pinchers are still playing devil’s advocate • Warlock Pinchers: An extensive oral history straight from the jokers’ mouth • (Review) Warlock Pinchers at Gothic, 8/6/10 • (Review) Warlock Pinchers at Gothic, 8/7/10…
The gradual shift in musical sensibility for Arctic Monkeys (due at 1STBANK Center with the Black Keys on Monday and Tuesday) can be traced through the guys’ aesthetic: They wear sunglasses a lot now. They wear them in music videos and on stage, and sometimes when it’s not really sunny…
Following a strong showing on Wednesday night by almost all of the Top 6, Elise Testone, one of the best of the Queen-covering bunch, was sent home during last night’s results show. She was joined by Skylar Laine and Hollie Cavanagh, only the latter of whom belonged there. Nevertheless, someone…
“Nashville’s most fucked-up country band” is back. The oft-quoted tagline of Lambchop (due at the Fox Theatre tomorrow night) sounds straight out of ringleader Kurt Wagner’s lyric book: It’s at once self-effacing, boastful and mischievous, and is truth-in-advertising on their latest record, Mr. M. Four years have passed since the…
Real Estate (due tonight at the Gothic Theatre) was formed by some friends who grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. They were guys who graduated from college in the early ’90s just in time for a severe economic downturn, when it became obvious that the prospects as a new college…
We expected a lot from the collaboration between Ke$ha and The Flaming Lips — something rocky, guitar-heavy and feisty, Ke$ha bringing the personality and The Flaming Lips bringing an unmatched quirkiness. What we got, however, was the first decidedly brilliant collaboration Ke$ha has ever done. Even 3Oh!3 must realize this…
JEFF MANGUM at OGDEN THEATRE | 4/26/12 See Also: • Jeff Mangum comes to the aid of a distressed fan at Coachella • Neutral Milk Hotel books a room in Denver. • The Apples get set to reap the fruits of their labors Jeff Mangum has not returned to Denver…
See Also: • Randy Rhoads: Thirty years ago, a tragic accident took the life of a legendary guitarist • Sex Pistols sign with A&M outside Buckingham Palace 35 years ago • Today in History archives Other than the gas shortage and a (relatively) poor economy, the second half of the…
See Also: • (Profile) The Epilogues story has a happy ending • (Profile) Cobraconda goes on Spring Break • Snake Rattle Rattle Snake partners with Greater Than Collective • Illegal Pete’s and Greater Than Collective’s Second Annual Starving Artist Showcase Since launching Greater Than — the music cultivating partnership between…
See Also: • Madonna’s MDNA falls harder than Lady Gaga’s Born This Way did • Madonna’s MDNA outsells Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee (what year is this again?) Madonna and Lionel Richie — who would have thought that after four weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, only Richie would remain in…
Update 4/27/12: Contest is over. Congrats to our winners, Jese Kitty, Laura Dev, Ben Kurish and Corinne Wiehe, and thanks to everyone else for all the other entries! See Also: • Q&A with Scott Morrill and Jamie Janover • (Review) Sonic Bloom Pre-Party at Cervantes, 4/29/11 • (Review) Sonic Bloom…
