TREY ANASTASIO @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 2.28.12 The soft, beautiful and, at times, elegant side of Phish’s musical catalogue shone last night as frontman and songwriter Trey Anastasio took the stage at the Boettcher Concert Hall backed by the 65-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Outside, fans dressed in suits, ties…
What do you do if the lead single from your new album campaign drops like dead weight down the charts? If you’re Madonna, you release another single and hope that the club kids don’t notice that you’re treading on old territory. Madge’s lead single from her hotly-anticipated twelfth album, M.D.N.A.,…
The first of the live rounds, last night’s episode of American Idol was a welcomed return to true form. We saw all of the male contestants in the Top 24 perform, including the thirteenth contender who was brought back to compete live, Jermaine Jones, the appropriately dubbed “gentle giant” with…
While the Denver Botanic Gardens summer concert series schedule hasn’t been released yet, the folks at Swallow Hill, who help present the shows, have announced that the B-52s, who are celebrating their 35th anniversary this year, and Squeeze will be at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on Wednesday, July…
MEGADETH @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2.28.12 See Also: Interviews with Chris Broderick and David Ellefson Last night at the Fillmore, Dave Mustaine stopped the show after “Whose Life Is It Anyway,” and the band left the stage. After a handful of minutes, Mustaine came back on and said, “Security guys…
That’s what we’re hearing. According to a post on Blabbermouth.net, Lemmy, Motörhead’s godlike frontman, has reportedly lost his voice and has decided to take the night off. Megadeth and the other acts on the bill are slated to perform as scheduled. We’ve reached out to the folks at Live Nation…
Everyone loves Stevie Wonder. If you haven’t been at a basement party singing along to “I Just Called to Say I Love You” in punch-drunk love and harmony, you haven’t lived. Born Stevland Hardaway Morris in 1950, Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy who has been blind since birth. His…
If Mitt Romney wins tonight in the primaries, he’ll be one step closer to earning the Republican nomination to run against incumbent president Barack Obama. Romney has a ton of money, an impeccable head of hair and a hustler’s spirit. While everybody’s all worried about the economy this and recession…
It’s news to no one that Mitt Romney is having difficulty finding common ground with the voters in his home state of Michigan. His image as a fortunate son of wealth and privilege often clashes with the down-home, middle- to low-class voters of the Great Lakes state. These coupon-clipping, Walmart…
Sleigh Bells are coming the Ogden Theatre on Friday, April 13. On the heels of a new album that just dropped and a Saturday night Live stint that got everybody worked up, Sleigh Bells is making its way back to the Mile High City to no doubt assault and completely…
KORN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2/28/12 The most distracting element of any modern Korn concert is not the spectacle. It’s not Fieldy’s glow-in-the-dark bass or Jonathan Davis’ epileptic writhing or the fact that, completely confident and decked in all black, the nu metal foursome looks like a pack of reggae…
VNV Nation (due tomorrow night at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs) started as a kind of bedroom project for the band’s singer and co-programmer, Ronan Harris. By 1995, he had developed his music to the point that it was becoming part of the next wave of underground electronic pop…
See Also: Megadeth live review at Fillmore and interview with Chris Broderick Megadeth (due tonight at the Fillmore Auditorium) may be one of the Big Four of thrash, but in many ways, its frontman Dave Mustaine is largely responsible for the sound and aesthetic of three of the Big Four…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Girl Talk, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Battles, Bon Iver and Feist, LMFAO, Destroyer, Anders Osborne and Classix were announced; the Swayback, Coles Whalen and Strip the Stars got spins on local…
When I first got going,” recalls Lorin Ashton, “I was into fuckin’ brutal, satanic death metal.” Even with all of his hair, it’s hard to imagine that Ashton, better known in dance circles as Bassnectar, was once enthralled with extreme metal. After all, dubstep, the subgenre he’s essentially helped pioneer,…
Back in the mid-’90s, with the Fluid in limbo after the release of Glue and Roadmouth, Matt Bischoff found himself yearning to get back to playing regularly. He discovered that his friends Dave Stewart, a former bandmate in the Frantix, and Chanin Floyd, who had recently left Twice Wilted, were…
Snoop Dogg is one of the very few performers in hip-hop who can say he’s watched the genre grow old with grace. From his tumultuous times at Death Row Records to a questionable signing with the No Limit label, Snoop has soldiered on through the years to become one of…
Up until the middle part of the last decade, Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez spent time in underground punk and noisy post-punk bands in San Diego, the most noteworthy of which was the Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. That act dissolved in 2006; two years later, the duo…
Ani DiFranco has a solid cult following that dates back to the ’90s, when young women found refuge in her defiant, angst-ridden music. Since then, the Buffalo-hailing singer-songwriter and feminist icon has embraced motherhood and revealed a softer, more vulnerable self in her songs. She isn’t as radical as she…
Most bands offer few surprises more than ten years into their career. While people who never liked the Swayback probably won’t be persuaded by this latest offering, the guys really challenged themselves in making an album like this, one that’s diverse yet cohesive. It isn’t all over the place in…
Having teamed up with Madeline Johnston of Mariposa for this new project, called Year of the Dragonfly, Hunter Dragon embraces a more consistent, accessible sound. The duo’s debut release, Pupil, is a chilled-out gem of an album that explores the intimate, comfortably sad sounds of Massive Attack or Kid A-era…
While some guitarists lower their E strings down to D for a chunkier sound, Miner guitarists Jeff Sollohub and Tim Beattie take things a bit further south to get a super-thick and beefy tone on most of the cuts on the band’s six-song EP, Building a Rocket. These guys share…
