Young this, Lil’ that, MC whoever. In hip-hop, the moniker often packs as much punch as the artist’s lyrics. Take Jay-Z, (Sdot, Jigga, Hov) or any member of the Wu-Tang Clan (Ghostface Killah: Tony Starks, Wally Champ, Iron Man). Despite over-use (and various spellings) of “Young,” all prefixes are not…
Whoa whoa whoa whoah! Holy ’80s flashback! Howard Jones will be performing his first two albums, Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action, in their entirety at the Summit Music Hall on Saturday, October 15. Even if you’re drawing a blank when HoJo’s name comes up (if you were born around…
Bobby Smith of the Mighty 18 Wheeler that a new band is afoot. S.L.U.T., as the new outfit has been dubbed, features Smith and his TM18W bandmate, Bob Rupp, a scene veteran who has played with too many bands to mention, Chris Cheiffo of Dirt Poor Kings, and back from being a face on a milk cartoon, the illustrious Mr. Jeff Black of the similarly monikered Jett Black
Update: Candice, Shanmort3, Hilda and Michelle: You’re our winners. Check your email for details on how to pick up your tickets. If you don’t already have plans and you’re looking for something cool to do this weekend, we’ve got tickets to see Lalah Hathaway, Chaz Shepherd, Anthony David and more…
In a press release last week, Century Media announced it would be pulling its music from the streaming music service Spotify. The metal-centric label is certainly not the first to express its distrust of streaming services, and it probably won’t be the last. As fans and consumers have been pushing…
If you’re a rapper, what’s better than being on the cover of XXL? Um, yeah, not much, actually. Well, maybe being the centerpiece of a mural and still being around to appreciate it — that has to come pretty close, right? Ask Mane Rok and Es-Nine, whose mugs were recently…
Bowling for Soup (due at the Bluebird tonight, with the Dollyrots and Sunderland) tapped into the perfect formula for pop-punk success in 1994 and hasn’t changed much since. But the quartet’s songs about wieners, booze and girls suit fans just fine, and this year the band celebrated the release of…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: A pair of new October dates have Smashing Pumpkins at the Ogden and Bush at the 1STBANK Center, with Chevelle and Filter, while November brings Tedeschi Trucks Band to the Fillmore. On local radio, Air Dubai, Le Divorce, Bop Skizzum…
The music industry has changed in fundamental ways since bassist Robby Takac started the Goo Goo Dolls (due tonight at 1STBANK Center with Michelle Branch and Parachute) with guitarist and songwriter John Rzeznik in the late 1980s. In their more than two decades of existence, the band has tapped into…
Congrats to Katie Koivisto. She and a guest will be our guests this Sunday up at the way sold-out Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. While the prospect of seeing the Civil Wars alone would have our hearts racing and justify a trip up to Lyons just to see them, evidently Katie…
Fresh off a stint at this year’s Lollapalooza, The Chain Gang of 1974 is steadily gaining momentum and garnering tons of attention from every corner of the web. In addition to giving Wayward Fire, the act’s latest effort, a seven out of ten rating and listing it amongst its 20…
LMFAO leads the Billboard Hot 100 again this week, once again blocking Katy Perry from her fifth number one and tying Michael Jackson’s record. But we heard all about that last week. This week, the biggest surprise comes from a half-naked Maroon 5 frontman. Weird, we know. Oddly, and finally,…
Long before Lil Wayne allegedly sampled a track from Sword & Sworcery, independent video-game soundtracks have consistently been topping the sales charts on Bandcamp. It’s gotten to the point that when a reasonably hyped game releases a soundtrack, it’s almost inevitable that it will end up in the top five…
Celebrating the release of its first full-length offering, Sineater, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake throws down at Twist & Shout today during an early-evening in-store performance. Though the band has only been around since 2009, it’s made up of some established local-music veterans, with members hailing from past groups like Monofog…
Now that most of the graffiti has been scrubbed off the walls, no one is likely to ever mistake the hi-dive for CBGB. Nonetheless, for at least one night, the South Broadway bar will summon the spirit of the legendary NYC institution, with a spate of bands paying tribute to…
Today’s a historic day, in case you were wondering. Not only is it the 34th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, but today will mark the day that the Velvet Elvis, one of the country’s top Elvis “emulators,” comes to rest as well. In honor of the occasion, we asked the…
The Pioneer Inn has made a lot of history — and music — since it opened in Nederland four decades ago. During the heyday of the Caribou Ranch, a recording studio that ran from the early ’70s until it was damaged by fire in 1985, musicians in Colorado for recording…
Before some of us knew that Drew Englander made music, we knew him for his beautifully mysterious visual art. His imagery seemed to play around with fantastic homegrown mythologies of the type that children use to people their daydreams. That sort of creative outlook informs Englander’s music, which he makes…
Starting out in Minnesota with no specific agenda, Tapes ‘N Tapes effectively absorbed the DNA of much of ’80s underground rock and’90s indie pop to create the kind of music that seems both fresh and familiar. Friends of the band sent songs off to blogs, and Tapes ‘N Tapes inadvertently…
Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers were teenagers who played mostly traditional rock-and-roll fare in the late 1970s before they discovered punk. The Fingers combined punk’s unrestrained, id-fueled energy with classic pop sensibilities to create music that was a cousin of sorts to what the Buzzcocks had already started the year before…
Boldly seizing a moniker his mother hung on him when social anxiety held him back a year in nursery school, Scott Hutchinson leads a Northern Scotland quintet called Frightened Rabbit that plays earnest, self-searching paeans ringing with the sonorous indie-pop echoes of the Vaselines, Orange Juice and the Delgados. Signed…
There is probably no voice in hip-hop more distinctive than Young Jeezy’s. Once he exploded onto the scene with his brand of “cocaine rap,” inspired by very real life experiences, he quickly rose to the top of the charts with his gravelly, raspy voice. Those looking for beats, rhymes and life need…
