The War On Drugs (due Sunday, October 30, at the hi-dive with Purling Hiss and Carter Tanton) started to take shape when Adam Granduciel moved back to the East Coast from Oakland to settle in Philadelphia. Once there, Granduciel began to play music with various people in the area, including…
Update 10/28/11: Contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations goes out to Jess Dealme. You and a guest will be our guests this weekend. Please send an email for info on how to claim your tickets. Psst… Hey, there. How are you? Snow putting a damper on…
Sometimes, you just don’t have the cash lying around to splurge on that expensive Halloween costume. Fear not, young heathens! We have compiled a list of costumes for you that cost nearly nothing. In fact, you probably have the materials lying around the house. Click through for some ideas. And,…
Update 10/28/11: Contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations goes out to Christopher Weston. You and a guest will be our guests at the DeVotchKa show tonight. Send an email for info on how to claim your tickets and wrist bands for the after show meet-and-greet. This…
Just in time for the annual National Western Stock Show, which will be wrapping up around then, Brad Paisley is slated to return to the Mile High City with the Band Perry and freshly minted American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Tickets for this stop of the Camobunga Tour (don’t ask…
This weekend is huge. It’s one of those, “If you aren’t here, then you aren’t having as much fun as me” kind of weekends. The deck is stacked with amazing things to do, so pick a card — any card. We’ve got some passes to Designer Drugs at Club Vinyl…
PORTISHEAD at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/11For the last show of its tour, Portishead put on one of the finest performances anyone is likely to see this year or any year. The band’s energy, urgency and intensity kept building and building until the end when the instrumentation seemed to collide with…
The popular (and Denver loving) music website, Daytrotter has announced a switch from its previously free-to-download model to a paid, subscription based service. It’s not the first time the site has toyed with paid services; last year, it introduced high-quality paid downloads, but now it’s moving toward a purely paid…
If you think Occupy Denver and Tim Tebow are the most polarizing topics in Denver these days, well, you’re absolutely right. In local music, however, at least judging from the heated exchange in our comments section, few things are as provocative it seems as the 5280 Hip-Hop Awards. While the…
Update (12/6/11): KTCL Hometown for the Holidays 2011 finalists revealed. Is it that time of year already? Yep. Afraid so. Only 58 days until Christmas, which means that KTCL’s annual Hometown for the Holidays promotion is just around the corner. The station has officially begun accepting submissions to see which…
According to his Twitter page, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack broke his nose last night. The break must’ve been pretty significant, as we received word just a bit ago that the band is putting its remaining tour dates on hold, including a stop on Wednesday, November 16 at the…
Last year’s 5280 Hip-Hop Awards program was a spectacle in so many ways. Every single rapper, producer and videographer in the scene was on hand for the ceremony. This year’s edition of the awards, slated for December 11, promises to be bigger and better than ever. For starters, it’s taking…
Update 10/27/11: Suite contest is officially over. Thanks for all the entries and for sharing your stories! Congratulations to Erik Johnson, Michelle Beth Cavanaugh and Juliette Jones. You and a guest will be our guests tonight at the Portishead show at 1STBANK Center. A pair of suite tickets and a…
Ten months after the release of his debut EP, Victory in Defeat, comes the premiere of Caleb Slade’s first video for the song “Always On My Mind.” Like Slade’s music, the video, directed by the Duckduck Collective, has an inherent, romanticized, cinematic quality to it that’s both poignant and elegant…
PAUL SIMON at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/26/2011It was not late in the evening when Paul Simon began to play. It was exactly 8:22 p.m., in fact — and it’s interesting to note that, when he penned the story of his journey as a musician in that song more than thirty…
Update (10/27/11): If you haven’t seen it yet, a Facebook event page has been established with details of Bryon Woodard’s Celebration of Life service. On Saturday, November 5, a celebration of Bryon Woodard’s life is planned from 1-4 p.m. in the Vogt Center Auditorium at Mile High Church in Lakewood…
The Protect IP Bill (S. 968), which was introduced back in May, was delayed after Sen. Ron Wyden argued it might infringe on free speech. While it appears that bill has been halted for the moment, it has been replaced with a similar one, The Stop Online Piracy Act (aka…
Over the course of your life, there’s a handful of bands that have a certain transcendent quality about them, where they somehow manage to go from just being just a band that you the like, to one whose music embeds itself into the fabric of your life. The magnetism of…
Tonight’s Theory of a Deadman show with Pop Evil at the Ogden Theatre has been canceled. The Canadian rockers are unable to make it to town because of adverse weather conditions and road closures on I-80. Refunds are available at point of purchase…
Portishead (due Thursday, October 27th, at 1stBank Center) wasn’t the first band associated with the aesthetic of trip hop but it is the most commercially successful with major hits in the 1990s. The thing that made the band so remarkable was that the sound it crafted wasn’t one that was…
CHECK YO PONYTAIL 2 at THE SUMMIT | 10/25/11The highlight of the evening last night came in Big Freedia’s set when she showed the audience that she wasn’t one to just tell people how to bump, but that she knew how to do it herself, and as she proved, she…
Last night in the Mile High City as the snow and cold arrived right on schedule, Opeth, one of Stockholm’s most fascinatingly complex metal exports, brought plenty of heat up enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Ogden Theatre. Our resident metal maniac, Brandon Marshall, was on hand, and he brought back…
