Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from Insane Clown Posse, the Sounds, Manchester Orchestra and Social Distortion were announced. On local radio specialty shows, My Body Sings Electric, Jonny Barber and the Living Deads, Spires and Gauntlet Hair got some…
There’s a grip of local hip-hop this week, including a a new mixtape featuring The Pirate Signal, a metaphor heavy, tongue-in-cheek joint from Innerstate Ike, a remix of A.V.I.U.S.’s single “Same Ol’ Line,” a video from Mr. Midas featuring Rockie that’s more club anthem than many singles currently being played…
August was a hell of a month for shows and while we had plenty of touring acts come through, the reunion show was king this month with three, yes, three separate reunion shows. We’re pretty nostalgic here in Denver, apparently. We’ve got so many photos from the month, you probably…
Here’s Something to Die For if you’re a fan of a certain lauded Swedish-based indie dance act: We’ve just received word that The Sounds are slated to return to the Mile High City on Wednesday, October 19 for a date at the Gothic Theatre. Tickets for the show are on…
So tonight Deadmau5 is due at Red Rocks with Excision, Tommy Lee and DJ Aero. If you caught Deadmau5’s last fall at the Fillmore Auditorium or shortly thereafter within the decidedly more intimate confines of Beta Nightclub, then you’re well aware of what sort of Mau5-hysteria awaits you tonight. If…
Oh, man, Lil Wayne releasing a love song — we live for moments like this. Not so much because we’re fans of Weezy (due tonight at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre), necessarily, but because we can’t help but marvel at the terr-awesomeness of any rapper giving us their version of musical romance…
Keri Hilson (due at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre tonight with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, the Far East Movement and Lloyd), the gal with the sweet face and grown woman lyrics, first made a splash with the release of her debut album, In a Perfect World in 2009, with features from Kanye…
Austin’s Krum Bums (due tonight at the Marquis Theater with the Bad Engrish, Potato Pirates and Thee S.O.B.’s) has seen its share of line-up changes over the years. Regardless of revolving players, the band — which takes its name from a Simpsons’ reference — led by founding members, vocalist Dave…
In a somewhat hilarious and sad piece of news, China has just issued a list of songs they deem as a threat to their national cultural security. The bulk of the list consists of Chinese and Taiwanese artists, but a few American acts slipped in as well, including Lady Gaga,…
We’ve been following CougarPants around since the band’s inception less than a year ago, and with good reason: Live, this duo is pretty incredible. But best friends and multi-instrumentalists Jessica Hughes and Robin Walker also see to it that their creative collaborations come across in the same textured way when…
This past February, Tony LoVerde and his girlfriend, Megan Fong, were waiting at a stoplight when out of nowhere, a car traveling at about fifty to sixty miles per hour slammed into the back of their vehicle. LoVerde says the other driver never even slowed down. Fong suffered a severe…
Denver’s pedal-powered party vehicles just hit the streets a few months ago, but the road’s been a little bumpy. Denver Pedal Bar was the first sixteen-person bike to start wheeling and dealing, but the company has already changed its name to Denver Patio Ride. “Pedal Pub attorneys wrote them letters…
For a long time, “dance punk” was a bit of a fashionable joke in music. The guys in Ideal Fathers (playing a farewell show this Saturday, September 3, at the Larimer Lounge) ditched the fashion by really, truly not caring about looking foolish and ridiculous, as long as they didn’t…
Someone is bound to compare Balkans to the Strokes because of the spiky, jangly guitar sound and the vocals, which are just shy of crooning. But these guys won’t care. Why should they? Not yet 21, they’re still discovering what their group is about, even as they’ve established a musical…
As Band of Horses has evolved, its sound has become more grandiose and cosmic, like gauzy, gently trippy clouds floating over Ben Bridwell’s naked-soul lyrics. It’s the kind of introspective but dreamily textured and expansive stuff that seems tailor-made for soundtracks and cameo appearances. And indeed, the band’s tracks have…
Dutch producer and DJ Sander Kleinenberg exploded onto the international dance-music scene in 1999 with the release of his 4 Seasons EP, Pt. 1, which contained the ethereal, richly textured “My Lexicon.” One of the finest progressive house records ever made, the track was prominently featured on Sasha’s Global Underground…
With a name that is an amalgamation of “gang” and “aliens,” this Sacramento band has often been lumped in with the summery surf/garage pop that’s been popular of late. But there’s more of the Chills and Echo & the Bunnymen than Best Coast in the act’s freewheeling, driving guitar rock…
Nobody files more frivolous lawsuits than Lindsay Lohan. Her legal grounds are fucking weaker than Kreayshawn. That was a battle rap I just made up about Kreayshawn and Lindsay Lohan (conveniently, their names sort of rhyme) acting like a couple of shameful little pussies — but although my skillz are…
“Lower Than Life, High as the Sky,” the opening track on Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire’s new EP, is built on a foundation of death metal and grind, with a sound that’s stripped down to its rawest components. The ascending guitar line in “Garbage” makes the music…
Every now and then, an album is released that is so bizarre, you have to seriously wonder if it’s real or a joke. The jury’s still out on Pyramids, Delux’s latest offering, but the latter seems the more likely bet. Pyramids finds Delux in the midst of churning out a…
Free Radt co-founder Jeremy Barber has a background in bluegrass, classical and jazz, while singer Katz Romero has jazz roots, and their combined influences make for some intriguing music on Free Radt’s sophomore effort, Love 101. For the most part, the album is a collection of edgy hard rock mixed…
It’s hard for Paper Bird (due at the Boulder Theater, with Dovekins, for the Long Spoon showcase on September 8) to do wrong — especially on a live record like Carry On, where the band’s signature chorus of voices is captured so perfectly in real time. In collaboration with Ballet…
