ENGLISH DOGS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2/19/12 Throughout the show, Adie Bailey of English Dogs came off the stage and sang with the crowd just over the barrier and encouraged people to sing into the mike. But it was halfway through the show that Bailey figured he could trust…
WALE @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2.17.11 With the Summit Music Hall packed to the gills, Black Cobain was standing on stage in a blaze orange knit cap and a white t-shirt telling the crowd “everybody put your middle fingers up.” To the casual passerby, it might have looked like…
Update (2/17/12): Contest is now over. Congratulations to our winners, Kyle Pawlak, Rhonda DePalma and Donaven Lindstrom. You and a guest will be our guests at Artopia this Saturday. Thanks to everybody else for the entries. Are you ready to party? What are we saying? Of course you are. You’re…
Nina Simone was a classically trained pianist and learned to hone the depths of her voice after taking up a gig where the restaurant owner wanted her to sing as well as play. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933, Simone was raised in the church, and…
Over the last two years, Soulive has set up shop at Brooklyn Bowl for the band’s annual Bowlive residencies, which have also featured guest appearances from heavies like by Maceo Parker, John Scofield and Ivan Neville. With this weekend’s Snowlive, Soulive will be at the Fox Theatre for a three-night…
Breathe Owl Breathe (due tonigh at the Hi-Dive) is from East Jordan, Michigan, a relatively remote place that forced the members of the act to turn inward for inspiration in its music. This explains the unique sound of its albums including its most recent, 2010’s Magic Central, which falls somewhere…
So Dave Grohl, through his peeps at Nasty Little Man, just clarified the seemingly incendiary remarks he made during his acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards last weekend when he was picking up his Gramophone trophy. Turns out, as suspected, he wasn’t ripping on dance music specifically, his comments were…
For the past three decades, the space at 2265 West 84th Avenue has held various incarnations of Babe’s: Babe’s on the Hill, Babe’s Country, House of Babes and, most recently, Babe’s Restaurant and Lounge. But the Babe’s brand was finally put to rest on February 1, when longtime manager Glen…
This weekend is ready to grab you by the hand and whirl you around on a dance floor or three. The party lineup is looking gloriously funky and melodic, from DJ Mu$a’s celebration of black music tonight at Euphoria to the one-year anniversary of the Massive Reggae party at Funky…
Welcome to the weekend! You made it! While we’re assuming we’ll be seeing you at Artopia tomorrow night, if for some reason we don’t, there’s a pretty diverse lineup of music on tap otherwise for the next three days, including two more nights of Phil Lesh at 1STBANK Center, two…
PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS @ 1STBANK CENTER | 2/16/12 – NIGHT ONEPhil Lesh played the first of a three night stand last night at the 1STBANK Center, bringing with him some extremely talented friends and an energy and enthusiasm in his playing that brought fresh breath to the timeless Grateful…
American Idol hit a high point last night. For the first time in the season, it was about the music (a change in focus that has needed to happen since day one of the preliminary audition rounds). Contestants who deserved to be pushed through to the next round do, while…
EXCISION @ OGDEN THEATRE, 2/16/12 Last night, Excision, the Canada-bred dubstep monster, carried the Ogden Theatre on low frequency bass waves that were so powerful the ceiling is probably still resonating this morning. He opened his set with the title track of X-Rated, which immediately sent the eclectically clad (neon…
TENNIS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 2/2/12For a band whose music is so bright and sunny, the tinge of melancholia that swirled around “Waterbirds” gave this Tennis performance an otherworldly feel. The breakdown section in the middle was one of the most evocative moments of the entire night. Patrick Riley and…
The biggest news in dance music this weekend is undeniably Doc Martin, who’ll play an intimate set at Bar Standard tonight as part of Full Flavor Fridays. But if house isn’t your cup of tea, there’s plenty of bass, minimalist techno and more to soundtrack your weekend. If you feel…
Lauded as the greatest performer of all time, Michael Jackson was a dancing, singing, performing phenomenon, and we are not likely to see another performer of his caliber ever again. The life of Michael Jackson is well documented, his struggles, imperfections and sometimes bizarre behavior, but one thing that has…
Tonight at the Bluebird, Tennis is celebrating the release of its second record, Young & Old, by playing a hometown show with Mike Marchant, Samurai Buck and Moon Tides. In advance of the Valentine’s Day release of the Patrick Carney-produced platter, we caught up with the band about how the…
This past Sunday during his acceptance speech on behalf of his band the Foo Fighters for Best Rock Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy awards, Dave Grohl made some comments that stirred the ire of some folks. Lauding the fact that Wasting Light, the album in question, had been recorded…
THE DARKNESS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2/15/12If you are one of the four original members of The Darkness, a band that hit its peak in 2003 but never seemed to care, where in the set do you strategically place “I Believe In a Thing Called Love”? Saving your monster…
American Idol is really coming down to the wire now. As last night marked the last episode of Hollywood week, we saw many contestants fold under the pressure — a pressure which plagued the episode as either stage fright or actual illness. And while the judges managed to stay clear…
This week’s video sidebar to Jef Otte’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” column — “Johnny Cash’s covers album has the gravity that Paul McCartney’s doesn’t” — talks about country music and destroying a 1979 Volvo 240 in rural New Mexico with the “Murder” cassette from Johnny Cash’s Love,…
Illegal Pete’s really, really cares about bands. This much was clear from the moment the restaurant launched its Starving Artists Program, in which Pete’s feeds hungry touring acts heading through Denver. But what about the bands that tour here all the time? What about the acts that are from here?…
