Last night on Jeopardy!, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame was immortalized by Alex Trebek. During Final Jeopardy, the contestants were posed with an answer in the category of singers: “On the eve of Earth Day, he became the first performer inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.” The…
Put on your best dancing shoes and prepare to hit the town this weekend; those who like a little slower soul to their groove will be pleased to hear that Bonobo is once again in the area, and house-anthem enthusiasts will storm the dance floors when Sharam takes the stage…
Mary J. Blige has the same pain and grit in her voice of having lived a very full life as artists like Billie Holliday, Etta James and others. For a burgeoning hip-hop generation, Blige’s voice and signature style of taking a hip-hop beat and adding her soulful vibe to it…
It’s that time again. This year’s edition of Westword Music Showcase is quickly approaching…okay, so it’s not actually taking place until Saturday, June 23, so maybe it’s not approaching that quickly. But still, it’s time to start getting amped: For one, tickets go sale on Monday, March 5, so you’ll…
Fourteen of the 24 semifinalists were revealed last night on American Idol. For most of these, it was fairly predictable whom was going to be sent on and whom was going to be cut, but that didn’t stop Randy Jackson from again having his fun with the contestants’ emotions. The…
John Popper seems stunned by the fact that Blues Traveler boasts a longer lifespan than a legal drinker. Popper, who helped launched the band as a quartet in a New Jersey garage in the mid ’80s, has seen the outfit go through fundamental changes. The commercial success of the album…
Let the comparisons to the late Whitney Houston begin. As of yesterday, Adele, the vocal powerhouse and people’s champ of 2011, has broken Houston’s record for number of weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart. As 21 logged 21 nonconsecutive weeks at the top yesterday, 365 days after being released,…
Heavily inspired by mob movies and king-fu cinema, Wu-tang Clan began in Staten Island, the brainchild of the brilliantly sharp RZA, who brought his brothers and their talents together to form a hip-hop conglomerate whose rhymes are as much based on the science of everything in life as they are…
The son of a blues legend, John Lee Hooker Jr. has overcome many personal travails over the years, from addiction to doing time, and has been striving ever since to make a mark of his own in the blues world in the tall shadow of his late father. And he’s…
The only difference between Whitney Houston and the guy who pissed himself in his cot and died last night in the Salvation Army shelter is that nobody knew that guy’s name,” says Jef Otte in this week’s video sidebar to his “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” weekly column,…
See Also: Megadeth live review at Fillmore and interview with David Ellefson When Megadeth plays the Fillmore next Tuesday, February 28, it will be a homecoming for guitar prodigy Chris Broderick, a Lakewood native and alumni of the University of Denver, where he studied classical guitar. A onetime member of…
If you’re a hip-hop head in Denver, there is simply no place else to be tonight than Beta for #TheSolution5’s kickoff event, the Solution’s 6th Annual J.Dilla Celebration, which of course is a celebration centered on the life and music of the late J. Dilla. Actually, if hip-hop’s your thing,…
The day has come for us to celebrate the Purple One. Prince Rogers Nelson is as provocative as he is talented. A startlingly prolific songwriter and a virtuosic musician, Prince has written a slew of mesmerizing songs over the course of his career, both for himself and for other artists…
Twin brothers Charly and Vincent Fasano believe that art belongs on Broadway. “Showing your work at a Santa Fe gallery is like having Mom and Dad home during a party,” says Vincent. “I like my art to be surrounded by punk-rock music; I’d take that over a gallery any day…
Counting Crows evidently have a new record coming out on Tuesday, April 10, called Underwater Sunshine. To commemorate the occasion, Adam Duritz and company are hitting the road and will make their way to the Mile High City a little more than a week after the platter drops, on Thursday,…
As an accurate reflection of his life, the music of Hunter Dragon remains both erratic and inspired. You never can tell what the backpacking one-man noise circus will be up to next. He could be settled down and employed with a residence one minute, then out on the road, playing…
The Jealous Sound (playing tonight at the Marquis Theater) came together when former Knapsack guitarist and singer Blair Shehan got together with some of his friends who had also been members of melodic punk bands of the ’90s, including Padro Benito of Sunday’s Best, John McGinnis of Neither Trumpets Nor…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring the Beach Boys, Florence + the Machine, the Walkmen, Passion Pit and Justice were announced; Coles Whalen, Caleb Slade, FaceMan and the Apples got spins on local radio; and recent albums from…
Fresh off his Grammy win for best R&B album and dropping a pair of remixes with Rihanna, Chris Brown was attacked by seagulls Sunday while on vacation in Miami. The Daily Mail (of course) has a pretty hilarious photo essay of the whole thing. Why did this have to happen…
Okay, after hearing the full version of Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake (Remix),” featuring Chris Brown, we’re in utter shock. If Tina Turner heard this damning pop, which essentially gives Brown a pass for what he did to Rihanna three years ago, we’re pretty sure she’d be shaking her head like us…
It’s funny,” says Keith Curts of Glass Hits. “It’s been said a million times, and I know it’s completely trite, but punk totally did save my life, because I found people somehow, the people that became my friends, that came from broken homes or were latchkey kids.” Growing up in…
Charles Ballas is the kind of record nerd a lot of people wish they were but could never be. He’s probably heard most things you’d throw his way, but he’s too good-natured and smart to be a jerk about it. While attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, he was…
