New Year’s Eve is just around the corner. Time to start making plans if you haven’t already. (I know, right?) We just got word of a dope New Year’s Eve show for hip-hop heads: Slick Rick and Too $hort will be rocking the City Hall Amphitheater with a show of…
Feel like dancing? There’re plenty of places to get your groove on this weekend. Tonight, Bar Standard is hosting Spacetime Continuum and DJ ESP (aka Woody McBride) as part of Full Flavor Fridays; expect ambient techno and experimental live PA or vinyl sets from the double-header. Ivy, Brandon Brown and…
Update: Contest is over. Congrats to David Roth. He and a guest will be our guests at Beta tonight. Thanks for all the entries. Happy Thanksgiving. Whatcha doing tonight? Partying, we presume. You do know that next to New Year’s Eve, tonight is the hottest club night of the year,…
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been inspiring almost everyone to speak up and speak out, whether in favor of the abstract movement or against it. Local hip-hop artists have gotten together to release a series of three tracks in support of the movement. Activist and MC Molina kicked off…
It’s time to play the music! It’s time to light the lights! Are you excited? We are. Gosh, we are. We’ve been breathlessly awaiting this day for what seems like forever. But then, we’re nerds like that. You know what today is, right? Why, it’s the day that the new…
Despite being a judge on the American version of X Factor, Nicole Scherzinger has had a rough go in the music industry ever since leaving the Pussycat Dolls. This week, word came down that the release date for her debut album Killer Love, originally slated for November 15, has been…
Sunday was a good day for Taylor Swift. A glowing profile by 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl, followed by her cleaning up at the American Music Awards; she took home the awards for Favorite Country Female Artist, Artist of The Year, Favorite Country Female Artist, and Speak Now won Favorite Country…
Update, 7:54 p.m.: Astoundingly, unless our eyes are playing tricks on us, Five Iron Frenzy appears to have already reached its Kickstarter goal of raising $30,000 to record its new album. Holy crap! That’s got to be some kind of record. So far, this reunion seems to be off to…
Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray’s new album. Update (11/22/11): The full “Heartbeat” video and the Scars and Stories cover art has been added below. And so it begins. The Fray is now in full-on promo mode, ramping up…
Havok has done a great job of helping focus the metal world’s spotlight on Denver, which, if you haven’t noticed, has an incredibly vibrant metal scene. The bands come from all ends of the spectrum, from the extreme brutality of Collapse and Vale of Pnath (two of our current faves)…
If you don’t already have plans for New Year’s, you might want to consider starting your night off at the Skylark around 9 p.m. That’s when The Jekylls, a brand-new band featuring Tony Asnicar and Graham Haworth of the Railbenders, plus Keith and Eryn Hoerig from the Hollyfelds and Jody…
Update (11/22/11): The good news is our pal Jim Norris is back on the mend. The bad news is that his recent hospital stay has left him with a stack of bills. With that in mind, a number of friends are rallying to support the good Rev with a number…
Update 11/22/11: Good news! Chris “Citrus” Sauthoff appears to be on his way to making a recovery from the minor stroke he recently suffered. The sensation in his hand is evidently improving. Just the same, it’s going to be a while before he’s back to 100 percent, and so in…
Foodchain’s new video for “Dear Industry” is a solid visual adaptation of the Alicia Keys-sampled joint from Brunch, the outfit’s latest project, released on 11.11.11. Opening with crew shots of the fellas milling about town and interspersed with performance footage filmed at this past summer’s Global Dance Fest, the Eazy…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from moe., the Bag Raiders and Jane’s Addiction were announced; Monroe Monroe, Elway, Shel and Fierce Bad Rabbit got spins on local radio; and new releases from Florence and the Machine, Drake, Childish Gambino…
As if we don’t have enough to be thankful for already being blessed to live here in God’s country, the land of eternal sunshine and medicinal mary jane, here’s something else to give thanks for this week. This Thursday, Open Air 1340 AM, the freshly minted Colorado Public Radio station…
Everybody thinks I play gloom-and-doom music,” says Otis Taylor, “so I don’t get hired to play during the holidays, because people think my music is too dark. It’s just what people think: ‘You’d get Otis Taylor for a Christmas party? I don’t think so.'” Taylor’s trance-blues shows are actually uplifting…
The fourteen-year-old Dave & Buster’s at 2000 South Colorado Boulevard just became the chain’s first location to get a major overhaul. The redesign is the initial phase of the company’s rebranding, and while there’s no schedule yet for rolling out the changes through the other 56 locations, Sean McCullough, regional…
Everyone in Denver got to take Nathaniel Rateliff for granted for many years — both as the frontman of Born in the Flood and with the Wheel — watching him perform at intimate places like the hi-dive and the Larimer Lounge. But over this past year, Rateliff’s profile grew considerably…
Since releasing 2007’s Like Love Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul, Jesse Sykes has left Barsuk Records, her longtime label, left Seattle, her longtime home; left Sweet Hereafter guitarist Phil Wandscher, her longtime boyfriend; and given up drinking, her longtime salve. Today Sykes is intellectually engaged and ferociously…
Tennessee’s Whitechapel crafts its malevolent deathcore with three guitarists. The down-tuned doom of this act is marked by finger-widdling flurries and false harmonic squeals, Phil Bozeman’s disturbingly possessed post-Pantera vocals and a rhythm section that attacks with a cornered, Gadhafi-esque cruelty. Last year’s A New Era of Corruption is both…
Peter Murphy is probably best known for his role as the charismatic, mysterious, ectomorphic frontman for influential post-punk band Bauhaus. But before that act reunited in the late ’90s and since, Murphy has released a string of accomplished albums under his own name. It wasn’t until his second solo record,…
