For his latest project, Left Lane Music Vol. 1, DJ Ktone pulled together a slew of different rappers with different styles. Featuring the likes of Tone Skarfo, Mr. Midas, FOE and Aires Jackson, among others, the first installment of the comp and its planned followup (due out sometime in the…
Not to get all sorts of heavy on you here on this otherwise happy hump day (seriously, isn’t the weather just picture-perfect today?), but this song by Martina McBride hit me in just the right way as I was driving earlier this morning, in the same way that countless others,…
For the past few months, Bop Skizzum has been quietly searching for a replacement for Erin Jo Harris, the band’s vocalist, who is departing the group to pursue other projects. While we imagine the prospect had to have been a bit daunting given Harris’s considerable voice and presence, the band…
YELAWOLF at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/4/11Yelawolf put his country grammar on full blast last night at the Bluebird on the first stop of his two day tour through Colorado (Yelawolf’s due tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder). The Alabama MC stalked onto the stage amid deep-blue lighting and tons…
If we know you (and let’s face it — we know you well, probably better than your mom), your plans for Halloween have already begun to take shape. Yes? Well, before you move that entry from pencil to ink on your calendar, there are a few more enticing options to…
CUT COPY at THE OGDEN THEATRE | 10/4/11Dan Whitford, lead vocalist of Cut Copy, is the guy you want at your party. The way he bounces around the stage, you get the sense that he’s the guy bringing the energy on the dance floor, busting some pretty sweet moves whether…
While Glass Hits is still finalizing the details on the vinyl release of its first full-length record, Pioneers Get Arrows, Settlers Get the Land, the band has put up a digital version for free. We don’t want to go and spoil anything too quickly, but if you’re a fan of…
File under: Couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Inspired by a New York professor’s recent head-slapping conclusion that 92 percent of the songs that made it to the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained some form of “reproductive” messages, Jef Otte wrote up the 10 Best Reproductive Messages in Songs…
Just in time for the two Colorado dates for OFF! this weekend comes the music video for “Crawl,” one of the best tracks off the band’s First Four EPs collection. It’s ninety seconds of one of the best skateboarders in the world, Leo Romero, eating it, wiping out and scraping…
Former Tickle Me Pink drummer Stefan Runstrom recently moved to Chicago. Before heading off to the Windy City, though, the timekeeper evidently made a stop at Colorado Sound with his former bandmate, guitarist Joey Barba, and Randy Ramirez of the Heyday, where the trio recorded a two-song EP under the…
The trailer for Mile High Madness Volume 6, which features “Get It,” a new track from Yonnas Abraham, FOE and Whygee, is pretty much the most gangsta thing you’ll probably see all week. In addition to appearances by a slew of local hip-hop acts, including DJ Ear Attent, DJ Shor-T,…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, a show at the Paramount Theatre featuring Puscifer was announced, along with a Kulwicki Twins Foundation benefit at the Bluebird Theater in January being headlined by Mudhoney and The Fluid. On local radio specialty shows,…
During the 1980s and into the ’90s, Duran Duran (due tonight at the 1STBANK Center with Neon Trees) was one of the most popular and successful rock bands of that time. It was the kind of band for whom people would camp out outside hotel rooms to get autographs. Its…
State University of New York professor Dawn R. Hobbs recently concluded that 92 percent of the songs that made it to the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained some form of “reproductive messages.” The conclusion is unsurprising: Sex sells. What is mildly surprising, however, is the statistical degree to which…
Marcus Church’s newest EP, Minutiae, is up for a free download right now on Bandcamp. The record, recorded sporadically over the last year or so, features a much fuller sound then we’re used to from this once-one-man act, and it’s fused with perked-up pop sounds, the occasional driving riff and…
Over the weekend at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, there was a triple bill featuring what’s left of Night Ranger, Foreigner and Journey. Stephanie March had fun, and while Spaceplace, who posted our comment of the day, agrees that it was fun, there were plenty of other things he didn’t appreciate, from…
Maybe Jesus wanted it to happen,” says Keith Morris, explaining how his new band, OFF!, was formed. He’s kidding, of course. But somehow a simple question about his band’s formation spirals into a half-dozen tangents: A notorious talker, Morris finds creative ways to answer questions about everything from a band’s…
Brit Chambers, a former Los Angeles stylist, has gone on a lot of house calls where the client invites her girlfriends over and the appointment turns into a party, complete with cocktails and multiple coiffures. These events inspired her to create a similar scene at Fluff (1516 Wazee Street), the…
Cephalic Carnage, Vale of Pnath, To Be Eaten, Swashbuckle and Rainbowdragoneyes are all names that anyone paying attention to the better end of death metal and grind in Denver should recognize immediately. Some of the guys from those bands got together last year and created Collapse, an outfit that demonstrated…
Best known for its abundant cornfields and rich basketball tradition, Indiana might not seem the likeliest place for the emergence of a major dance-music talent until you consider the state’s proximity to Chicago and Detroit, the respective birthplaces of house and techno. Troy Pierce grew up in those Indiana cornfields,…
Though renowned among fans of bizarro punk rock in the West, Melt Banana is still somewhat unknown in its home of Tokyo, where J-pop still reigns supreme. Early in their career, the members of Melt Banana heard the No New York compilation, and it sparked their collective interest in taking…
Michael Monroe made his name as the charismatic frontman of seminal Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks. Before the tragic death of drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley in December 1984, Hanoi Rocks had established itself as a powerful live act. With a look and sound that would be superficially familiar to most…
