“Run for Your Life” is the Fray’s the follow-up to “Heartbeat,” the debut single from the act’s third record, Scars & Stories. The video is directed by Declan Whitebloom, who’s worked on videos with Taylor Swift and Sugarland, among others. Although the imagery strikes the right emotional chords, there’s no…
Maulskull (born Jonathan Messinger) is in the midst of one of the more impressive undertakings we’ve seen in local hip-hop. His Death by Thr33s series is a massive collaborative effort between himself and more than twenty other artists. Every week for the last eighteen weeks has included the release of…
Madonna nabs the top spot on the Billboard 200 with her new album, MDNA. The set, her twelfth studio album, is also her eighth number-one; Madonna is now second only to Barbra Streisand with the number of top albums, and even then Babz only leads by one. MDNA shifted 359,000…
Explosions in the Sky (due tonight at the Boulder Theater) is an instrumental rock band based out of Austin, Texas. For the last thirteen years, the quartet has been creating a kind of anthemic, instrumental guitar rock that sparkles with impressionistic melodies building to a cathartic apex, not unlike a…
It’s official: Flobots are no longer without a label. After parting ways with Universal Records in December 2010 — the label that issued the band’s last full-length, Survival Story — the band has officially been picked up by Shanachie Entertainment, a prominent independent label founded in the mid ’70s by…
With Choice of Weapon, The Cult’s first studio album in five years, slated to hit stores on May 22, the band kicks off the first leg of its North American tour in San Diego on May 25 and hits the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, May 30. The Cult’s current line-up…
Of all the occupations listed on Bono’s resume (humanitarian, hotel owner, British Knight, world bank advisor, anathema to any rock fan under thirty), one that has never been considered was historian. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 44 years ago today, an event the U2 singer attempted to document…
Update 4/5/12: “Swear I’m Innocent” video posted below. Earlier today, the Photo Atlas premiered its brand-new video for “Swear I’m Innocent” on Spinner.com. According to Alan Andrews, the band’s frontman, the high-energy, performance-based video was shot at the Inca house by the folks at Love Drunk, whom the band met…
Oh, now, this is rich: In an effort to thwart the efforts of any would-be paparazzi on her upcoming tour, which hits the Pepsi Center on Thursday, October 18, Madonna has reportedly contracted a cluster of Madonna-bes to impersonator her in various cities. If indeed true (for what it’s worth,…
Enemy Reign guitarist Nick Guenther will spend the next six weeks in a leg brace after an on-stage accident at Vaporfest last weekend, and it’s partially my fault. The animated Guenther was rocking out at the Summit Music Hall when suddenly, three quarters of the way through Enemy Reign’s first…
Hailing from Detroit — a city where punk rock, hip hop and blues all grow out of the same soil — Maria Kohler is giving Denver a taste of her rhymes and her eclecticism. “I think everybody has a pretty wide variety of music that they like,” explains Kohler, Kitty…
There weren’t too many people trying to play in rock bands around Cody, Wyoming, when Wes Roemmich, Levi Wells and Tyler Merkel were growing up there. They eventually crossed paths in high school, but they didn’t start playing music together until after they moved to Denver a couple years ago…
Another fresh batch of local hip-hop this week: D’Girl brings in a few of her homegirls on her latest video for “Sex Show,” ProCyse lets his flow loose over a laid-back beat, the Kool Crue spits lines over Drake’s “Headlines,” and we introduce you to a fresh new face in…
Over the weekend, American Trash Republic’s Concept One premiered his new video for the track “Smile Now, Cry Later,” from his new album, Beautiful Disaster. Directed by Jeremy “Konsequence” Pape, the clip perfectly encapsulates the duality of the Greek tragedy/comedy masks that informs the Chicano iconography that ultimately inspired the…
mr. Gnome (due tonight at the Hi-Dive) tours more than most bands. The act’s music is often thrown under the umbrella term “psychedelic.” But clearly this Cleveland-based duo isn’t really trying to sound like another psychedelic band. From the way Nicole Barille and Sam Meister present themselves in their press…
While legendary Chicago-based punk band Screeching Weasel has broken up and re-formed a number of times since being founded in 1986, frontman Ben “Weasel” Foster, the only constant member, is hitting the road with a new line-up as part of the band’s Heard You Were Dead tour, which stops at…
Jason Mraz is coming to Red Rocks on Monday, September 24, as part of his tour in support of his forthcoming album, Love is a Four Letter Word, due out Tuesday, April 17. Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter and Atlantic label mate Christina Perri opens the show. Tickets ($39.50-$59.50) go on sale to…
This past Friday night, MCA Denver opened its Search & Destroy exhibition, which displayed everything from the works of photographers Bruce Conner and Richard Peterson to old copies of MRR to posters and large-scale Black Flag art. Backbeat cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was there and brings back his interpretation…
Skream & Benga’s show at the Ogden Theatre, originally slated for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4, has been moved to the Bluebird Theater. All tickets for the Ogden show will be honored, and tickets ($26.50) are still available through AXS. Hijak, Plastician, Sgt Pokes and Jackmaster are set to open the…
Jimmy Cliff at the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, June 19. Tickets ($34.95 plus fees) to see the reggae legend, whose career spans five decades, go on sale this Saturday, April 7, at 10 a.m. via Axs.com. On his most recent effort, the Sacred Fire EP, released last November, Cliff collaborated…
Yo! We’ve got a hip-hop whodunit on our hands. Well, maybe not a whodunit, but still, there’s a mystery afoot in the world of rap. And if there’s anything we love more than rappers, it’s mystery rappers! Who the hell is this Benjamin Butters cat? Do you know? We need…
It’s telling that one of hip-hop’s most braggart raps from one of its most unpredictable MCs possesses 2012’s most ridiculous breakdown: “Dick in your face/Put my dick in your face.” A lyric like that, unique as it is, says a lot — mostly, there ain’t no one that does it…
