Since launching in 1994, much has changed about the Warped Tour. For everything that’s different about the annual traveling punk-rock caravan now, some things such as the hairdos have, for the most part, stayed refreshingly the same — surprising, considering that the majority of attendees this year were babies when…
AGAINST ME! at WARPED TOUR | 8/5/11Without delving into the history of the Vans Warped tour, it can be argued that a lot about it has changed. What started as a tour meant to showcase punk-rock rebellion has now become a major cog in the corporate machine — attaching itself…
BLKHRTS at OLD CURTIS ST. BAR | 8/6/11In advance of this show, BLKHRTS spread the word that there would be a sacrificial ceremony to kick off its tour. Considering the names of the opening acts and the lyrical content of the band’s music, this “sacrificial ceremony” promised to be tongue-in-cheek…
Ellie Goulding (performing tonight at the Ogden Theatre with Bag Raiders) may have only been on the international radar since 2009, but the English singer-songwriter has all the trappings of a star with some serious longevity. In a world of copies of pop star copies, Goulding shines brightly as both…
As smartphones have opened the door to amazing mobile applications, the sheer amount of them being released makes it difficult to keep up with the best of them. So to help filter though all of it, we take a look at the best and tally them up here. This round,…
FLUX PAVILION & DOCTOR P at FILLMORE | 8/6/11Sub.Mission, Colorado’s leader in the dubstep production movement, teamed with Triad Dragons to present Flux Pavilion and Doctor P at the Fillmore Auditorium. Backed by a strong team of locals including Dodger, RumbleJunkie, DJ Ishe, and Coult-45, the night proved to be…
Fresh off the heels of a European tour and with a new album in the can, Down, fronted by Phil Anselmo of Pantera and Superjoint Ritual, is coming back to Denver on Tuesday, September 6…
Oh, MTV. There has been no greater platform for fuckery’s finest and the brilliance of unfiltered musician craziness than Music Television’s many segments. Whether drunken freestyles, acceptance speech interruptions, or classic moments in live performance, hip-hop rightfully lived and thrived right in the heart of the MTV studios. We’ve got…
As you know, MTV turned thirty this week, and man, oh man, what a three decades it’s been. No matter who you are, or what side of the music spectrum you represent, the influence of Music Television on popular culture cannot be denied. This is true especially in the development…
How do you honor a musician when awards and certifications aren’t enough? By naming something in his honor, of course — be it a bridge, a street, an asteroid or even a whole day after the guy. But in naming something after a musician, it’s easy to forget that while…
In the constantly evolving world of jam, bands are increasingly being overshadowed by DJs who rely on samples to formulate their sound. After nearly a year-long hiatus, the Frozen Movement returns to the scene to remind us of the merits of live instrumentation (Mike Stewart uses seven keyboards on stage)…
It’s Friday again! Do you have your dancing shoes on? Do you know where you’ll be showing them off yet? Well, we’ve got some ideas for you! Keep reading to see what’s on our Dance Card. Forever Fridays at Beta return for another week with DJ Petey spinning pop hits…
Stepping into August, it looks like the summer concert season is far from slowing down. Tonight, Houses kicks off the first in a two-evening stint at the hi-dive to celebrate the release of Winter, the forth and final installment in its seasonally themed EP series. Over the course of this…
For some bizarre reason, Jay-Z and Kanye West have decided to make their upcoming Watch the Throne collaboration available to two of the biggest retailers in the country, Best Buy and iTunes, for a pair of exclusive promotions. Starting August 8, the album will be available in iTunes, followed by…
After debuting on March 10, 1986, 120 Minutes became a showcase for non-mainstream music of various stripes until around the year 2000 when it first got shuffled to the side in favor of reality programming. But during its heyday, 120 Minutes introduced a generation and more to music by artists…
THE FLAMING LIPS + PRIMUS at RED ROCKS | 8/3/11″This will probably go down as one of the greatest shows at Red Rocks – ever!” So declared Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne as part of his introductory rundown on what would be happening over the course of the evening before…
That’s the question posed by reader Wade Sears in reaction to Cory Lamz’s piece published on Wednesday about Morrissey’s comments comparing the shooting in Norway to slaughterhouses used by fast-food chains. (Moz, as fans know, is a staunch vegetarian.) Read the full comment by Mr. Sears below…
Paleo (performing tonight at the hi-dive with Glowing House and John Davey) is the chosen stage name for David Strackany, a singer-songwriter who once lived out of his car while traveling the country and playing hundreds of shows. There isn’t much to his music in the way of instrumentation or…
Correction: DMX performs on September 10 at the Gothic. An earlier version of this post had the incorrect date. Fresh out of the clink, DMX is making his way to the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, September 10. After serving most of a year-long parole violation sentence in Yuma, Arizona, the…
There is a point at which, I think, we all start to discover music on our own. I was around twelve or thirteen when the shift from pre-teen radio sex jams to discovering albums I would fawn over (and eventually learn to play) occurred. Up to then, I was listening…
While the U.S. has been floundering a bit with its copyright law, the British government has just announced its plans to reform and update its own. Its certainly not the most important issue facing the U.S. government right now, but it was a platform during President Obama’s campaign and remains…
After a riot ensued at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre last week for the premiere of Electric Daisy Carnival Experience documentary, nearly all of fifteen local theaters that were originally slated to show the film have backed out of showing it. So now if you want to see the film, which is…
