Since Derek Vincent Smith has made such a stead climb over the years, making his way up from theaters to arenas, such as 1STBANK Center, where he’s playing a pair of dates on New Year’s, it’s easy to take for granted that everybody knows who he is and holds him…
CHROMEO at the OGDEN THEATRE | 10/7/11On a technical basis, nothing about Chromeo should really work. The rhythm half uses a talk box, and their genre of music is most often classified, without irony, as “electrofunk.” The singer is the hypothetical result of the Fonz and Potsie immaculately conceiving a…
MELT BANANA at the LARIMER LOUNGE | 10/8/11Nothing can fully prepare you for the sounds coming off stage at a Melt Banana show unless you’ve seen the band before. Between the breakneck rhythms, Yasuko Onuki’s demented and rapid-fire vocal delivery and Ichirou Agata’s ability to meld noise with experimental guitar…
Sweet Jesus! He did it! This afternoon in London, DJ Vajra competed in the 2011 DMC World Final against thirty other turntablists from all over the globe. If you haven’t heard yet, he bested all of the other contenders to be crowned the 2011 DMC World Champion, meaning he can…
Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago everyman rapper scheduled to play the Fillmore tonight, made an early stop on his tour of the city to support the Occupy Denver gathering in front of the state capitol earlier this afternoon. Fiasco has maintained an increasingly public profile about his support of the Occupy…
While we know you’re still busy trying to nail down what you’re doing for Halloween and you probably haven’t even really given much thought to where you’ll be celebrating New Year’s yet, we’ve just received word that Pretty Lights is setting up shop at 1STBANK Center for a pair of…
Rocktober is living up to its name so far, especially this weekend: On Friday, Chromeo electrifies the Ogden, while Frank Turner throws down at the Marquis and Lupe Fiasco raps at the Fillmore. On Saturday, there’s some agonizing decisions to make between seeing OFF!, which features Circle Jerks frontman Keith…
Due to a re-route of its tour, Wavves played a short-notice show last night at Moe’s Original BBQ in Englewood. Below is a video of the penultimate song, “So Bored” (the band ended with “No Hope Kids”), and a look at some creative merch for Wavves weed-heads…
For the past three years, the members of the Flobots have enlisted a bunch of their friends to lace up their bowling shoes and hit the lanes in the name of charity. In past years, the event their buddies in bands like the Fray and Rise Against and Tickle Me…
And now for something completely different… Noe DeLeon, whom you probably know from any number of local rock bands over the years — Dropsound, Ion, the Crimson Red and Life in Electric — shared a new song earlier today called “Gotitas De Amor,” the bassline of which we’re most assuredly…
If you didn’t happen to make it or if you just want to relive the experience, Suburban Home Records has let loose a free compilation of music recorded live at the label’s 16th Anniversary Party last month. That’s 28 tracks from several bands, recorded by James Freeman from That’s the…
There are some changes brewing in the local underground scene when it comes to residencies: First, House Revival has been moved from the every-so-often fifth Saturday of the month to the more frequent second-Saturday slot; and Beta’s Beatport Lounge and P.U.N.C.H.I.S. are launching PM/AM, a new event concept that starts…
Belly dancing, heavy drums, performance artists and live music create the environment surrounding Beats Antique, who we’ve just learned will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, December 3. Talk about making moves: Around this time last year, the act was opening for the Glitch Mob on Halloween, but this…
As reported yesterday by Stephanie DeCamp, the Mile High Horror Film Festival added a music component to this year’s festivities in an effort to spread the word about the fest. The music portion, which is free, kicks off tonight starting at 7:30 p.m. with performances by Marty Lindsey, Pythian Whispers,…
While the Grizzly Rose has been bringing in country acts since the 1989, the venue has had a lot of success bringing in ’80s-centric rock bands like Dokken and Brett Michaels. So it makes sense that the same folks behind the Grizzly Rose plan to open their own rock club…
The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, October 7. “This is its own little entity to promote the festival,” says…
The most intriguing rumor we’ve heard lately is that Houses frontman Andy Hamilton may be putting together a project with Eric Halborg, long-time frontman and bassist of the Swayback, and Chuck French, lead shredder for Git Some and one-time member of the now-mythic Planes Mistaken for stars. Hamilton confirms that…
When the Foo Fighters pull into the Pepsi Center on Sunday, they’re expecting Mexican food — and “not just chips, salsa and some microwave burritos.” The dudes are from SoCal, and apparently consider themselves connoisseurs, so the production crew is well advised to be on their toes. So warns the…
We’ve been keeping an eye on exfm since it launched as a Google Chrome browser extension a little while ago. When it made the jump to the iPhone, we started getting excited, but it still wasn’t quite there yet. Now it has launched as a full browser experience at ex.fm…
When Cut Copy was here a few nights ago, the Australian outfit transformed the Ogden into a sweaty discotheque. Everybody in the house dancing with complete abandon until the “set ended anti-climactically after a long instrumental interlude,” as Laura Shunk puts it in her review. According to Joey B, who…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All is a group of hard-core hip-hop hooligans who came to pillage, plunder and cause chaos with their rhymes. Led by the enigmatic Tyler, the Creator, the entire crew — Hodgy Beats, Domo Genisis, Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt (whose whereabouts are unknown at…
Andy Monley started playing live music in Denver in 1981, when he was still in high school, with his first band, the Joy Division-inspired Church and State. When that group dissolved, he formed Acid Ranch, a project directly influenced by the Birthday Party. But it wasn’t until the inception of…
