When Mane Rok released The Ugly Truth last year, his goal was to follow up that full-length album with a series of EPs and shorter pieces, working with each different producer who worked on the project. Fresh on the heels of going head to head with authorities in his provocative…
8Ball and MJG (due at Casselman’s this Sunday, September 4) are one of the dopest hip-hop acts to ever come out of the south. The Memphis duo ushered in an entirely new era of hip-hop, unwrapping their lives in layers with vivid tales of pimping hoes, making money and moving…
It was a fairly slow month for bar and club openings, but August did bring in a few new bars and clubs, including the the Three Lions, a soccer pub that opened in the former Bank Bar & Grill at 2239 East Colfax Avenue. As far as closings go, LoDo…
Phish wraps up their summer tour this weekend with three nights at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in lovely Commerce City, ending what many a blogger and message board phanatic have argued is their strongest tour in the two-plus years they have been back on the road. Phish is coming off…
This weekend is absolutely crammed with shows both local and national. Tonight, Phish kicks off its three-night stand at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Ke$ha brings her garbage chic to the 1STBANK Center tomorrow night, and Sunday Blink-182, My Chemical Romance and Rancid stop by Comfort Dental for the Big Gig,…
Between the end-of-summer bash Pitch A Tent and the three-day weekend (party late into Sunday night!) we’re not sure what has us most excited this weekend. Things are kicking off strong with Sunset at the First Friday Art Walk; DJs are getting in on the action at the Infinite Monkey…
Oh, hey there. Just doing some quick math here. Be right with you… let’s see, hold the one, carry the two… Ahem, okay, so if you were as old as the Blink dudes were when Dookie — er, Dude Ranch, sorry! — dropped, the big 40 is staring you down,…
Boyz II Men (due this Monday, September 5 at the Taste of Colorado) is the best selling R&B group of all time. Having sold over sixty million albums worldwide and continuing to tour consistently, even during the group’s more recent down years, the crooning fellas from Philly have enjoyed the…
Borrowing its name from the carousing, profligate brother in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Mitya (due tonight at Larimer Lounge with Young Analogs and Sparkle & Burn) has spent the last handful of years evolving its sound and bringing together angular guitar textures with driving rhythms and dark,…
Bonnie And The Beard (playing tonight at the Walnut Room with Blow The Vault, The Changing Colors and …And The Black Feathers) has a wayward traveler-feel about its sound — if Vaudville Americana were a genre, the local trio would be at the top of it. The band’s stomping, clanging…
It’s not a secret that streaming is quickly becoming the hottest buzzword in music circles, and it turns out two new services are going to be coming into the market — at least in some form. The budget MP3 store eMusic has just announced it’s going to start a radio…
Last year, the Black Crowes announced last year they were going on an indefinite hiatus. Evidently, this meant the brothers are merely taking a break from the band but not music in general. The Black Crowes frontman is bringing his Chris Robinson Brotherhood to the Boulder Theater on Sunday, October…
After two years in the works, Celebrity Lanes, the 50,000 square-foot family entertainment venue that’s something of an homage to Celebrity Sports Center, opened last weekend at 15755 East Arapahoe Road in Centennial. The facility sports 32 bowling lanes as well as two, four-lane VIP Suites with Avalanche and Denver…
Update: Contest is now officially over. We’ve picked two winners (Getz and Joan Rivers), who have each won a pair of three-day, general admission field passes to see Phish this weekend at Dick’s Sporting Good Park, courtesy of Backbeat and our gracious friends at AEG Live. Thank you for all…
Showing support for your favorite band, singer or DJ used to be as simple as wearing their T-shirt to the show, even if meant you were That Guy. Fans of Deadmau5, the Canadian-born DJ born Joel Zimmerman, have taken it to a new level though, donning the giant, cartoonish mouse…
Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke were both important figures in the recent cultural history of Berlin. De Picciotto was one of the co-founders of The Love Parade, a long-running electronic music event, where the participants were part of a parade through Berlin that, within the first few years of…
Now in its second year, Casselman’s Bar & Venue has proven to be a strong venue addition to the Ballpark Neighborhood, especially with its sound and light upgrades. Prompted by an overwhelming demand from promoters, the spot applied for and just got approved for an Underage Patron License by the…
Lupe Fiasco has his LASERS trained on Denver. On Friday, October 7, the Chicago-born MC will return to the Mile High City for a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in support of his latest effort, LASERS (an acronym for “Love Always Shines Everytime: Remember to Smile”), with Tinie Tempah and…
DEADMAU5 at RED ROCKS | 8.30.11Deadmau5 rose to the top of the dance music world over the past several years mostly by catering to the lowest common denominator. His initial claim to fame, the 2006 B.S.O.D. single “This is the Hook,” was written as a joke. When the track rose…
LIL WAYNE at COMFORT DENTAL | 8.30.11It took some time to assemble Lil Wayne’s intricate setup, but as the staging was being put together, people were happily singing along to Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You” and waiting patiently. When the curtain dropped and Weezy F.’s DJ appeared on a platform up high,…
Although Scream (due at the Marquis Theater tonight with Trees and Glass Hits) may be best known as the group Dave Grohl was in before Nirvana, the Washington D.C. hardcore veterans have a story that began long before the Foo Fighters mastermind joined. In fact, it wasn’t until the group’s…
Two of Pirate Bay’s founders, Peter Sunde and Frederik Neij, have decided to play nice with copyright officials by launching a new cyber locker service, Bayfiles. The service is similar to the likes of RapidShare and Megaupload, which, according to a 2010 ruling by the District Court of California, cyber…
