PURE SUNSHINE II @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 3/2/12 It would be hard to have picked the star attraction for this show because the crowd changed and switched throughout the show with some people sticking around for everything. But chances are, no one had seen Spell since its last show in…
If you’re going to SnowBall Music Festival this weekend, we’re guessing you’re already amped, having read our Bassnectar profile, our piece on Wear the Party and the Q&A we did with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles, and no doubt you’re full prepared for the elements, having absorbed our handy…
Fresh on the heels of being named as a member XXL Magazine’s prestigious Freshman 2012 Class earlier this week, alongside Macklemore, Machine Gun Kelly and Hopsin, among others, the Los Angeles-based rapper known as Kid Ink comes back to Denver tonight for a show at the Ogden Theatre with DJ…
You wanna party? Oh yes you do. It’s Friday and you don’t have anything better to do! It’s the third day of the Greatest Show on Turf celebrating DJ Ktone’s birthday, the Analog Space crew is getting down at Meadowlark, there are tons of reggae parties tomorrow, as well as…
After weeks of anticipation, the top thirteen contestants of American Idol were revealed. Last night’s episode, however seemingly straightforward, wasn’t short of Adele-drenched drama, though. Spoilers: Jen Hirsh, Reed Grimm and Brielle Von Hugel all had to sing for their lives — and all fell flat. Von Hugel even had…
’57 Lesbian (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) came about when Matt Bischoff of the Fluid and the Frantix had some downtime and got together with his old friend and former Frantix drummer, Dave Stewart, and started a stripped down rock and roll band with former Twice Wilted bassist Chanin…
Welcome to the weekend! Whether you’re making your way up to the mountains for Snowball Music Festival 2012 or staying behind in the city, there’s an abundance of musical choices: Tonight at the Fillmore Snoop Dogg throws down before heading up the hill himself for a slot at Snowball, while…
There is a ridiculous amount of talent in the state this weekend, and we do mean ridiculous. Between the Crystal Method, Bassnectar and the renowned Tigerskin (aka Dub Taylor), you’d have plenty to choose from. SnowBall Music Festival kicks off this weekend in Vail with Rusko, MiMOSA, Major Lazer, MartyParty…
On the heels of its Winter Carnival at 1STBANK Center this time last year, String Cheese Incident will be returning to Red Rocks this summer for a three night stand that kicks off on Thursday, July 5 and runs through Sunday, July 7. Presale tickets are on-sale through the band’s…
Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists in an entirely…
For close to a decade, Dave Simonett has stuck with Trampled by Turtles for all the ups and downs. From just a mere thought of starting a band to selling out venues across the country, the Minnesota-born bluegrass quintet is steadily amassing a legion of fans across the country with…
It took many years and countless headlining acts before Don Strasburg felt secure about the financial future of the Fox Theatre. Along with fellow investors Dicke Sidman, Dave MacKenzie, Jon O’Leary and James and Charles Hambleton, Strasburg had taken a big risk investing in the former movie house, dancehall and…
SnowBall Music Festival is about to hit Avon again. We were there for the icy, snowy, steamy, crammed and all around awesomeness of the inaugural edition last year, and just in case you weren’t, or you need a refresher of what to expect, we compiled this Survival Guide just for…
Over two days of competition, three American Idol contestants took on Adele — Eben Franckewitz, Elise Testone and Jen Hirsh. Adele’s not easy to sing, as Franckewitz proved two nights ago, but the ladies brought the vocal power last night to do the British soulstress justice. Testone’s take on “One…
A few assumptions come to mind when thinking of engineer students: They love to study, hate to party and they speak in words, which to an untrained ear, can sound like gibberish. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with CU engineering student tapped to design the official T-shirts…
Another show going on sale this week that you should know about: Das Racist, no strangers to the Front Range, its making its way back to the Centennial state for a gig at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Saturday, April 21. While it’s been a minute since we kicked…
Yet another big week for Adele, who continues to dominate the charts. With a ninth consecutive week at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, the 22nd week overall, Adele’s second album, 21 recently supplanted The Bodyguard soundtrack in the record books and now the album has is closing in…
As is the case with many musicians who got their artistic start in another field, Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion intended their project to be more than just musical: Nouvion’s visual aesthetic lends Memoryhouse’s output a bit of its sense of space and shadings of mood, while Abeele’s classical training…
DJ Ktone’s fifth annual Greatest Show on Turf begins this evening at Sutra Night Club with Denver Got Next, a showcase of the hottest up and coming hip-hop talent coming out of the town. On the fifth edition of his annual week-long birthday celebration, Ktone is out to make this…
The Monkees started as an experiment in pop music and television, a musical outfit whose image was precisely controlled and whose music drew freely on formula. Davy Jones played a big role in the look, feel and sound of the 1960s musical act whose Saturday morning television would refine the…
Black History Month 2012 has been a doozy. Beginning with the tragic and shocking death of Don Cornelius to dealing with equally troubling news of Whitney Houston’s passing as the month wore on. Most interesting about this time is the ways in which the music healed us. When Whitney died,…
It’s that time again. South By Southwest is a mere two weeks away, and truckloads of locals are preparing to make their way down to the Lonestar state to showcase their wares. While all the individual acts will be playing various shows (which we’ll have a full rundown of in…
