Music

Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: Tyler, the Creator himself confirmed the two local Odd Future dates in October we mentioned, we also got word of the official onsale date for the three Ween shows we told you about, and learned Duran Duran is coming to…

ICEAGE at RHINOCERPOLIS | 8/2/11When Iceage, from Copenhagen, Denmark, took the stage (or floor in this case) at Rhinoceropolis last night, there was a palpable air of anticipation and excitement, and certainly the members of the band had a quiet intensity about them that they unleashed in full from the…

The Flaming Lips and Primus co-headline Red Rocks Amphitheatre tonight for a special show. Yes, the Lips are covering Dark Side of The Moon in its entirety, but the band has also asked Denver’s own Lizzie Allen of Vitamins to join them. In fact, the local vocalist has already joined…

A PERFECT CIRCLE at RED ROCKS | 8/2/11It seems more than a bit paradoxical that A Perfect Circle’s frontman prefers to perform in background. With Tool, his primary band, and with A Perfect Circle, Maynard James Keenan is an enormous presence. His voice is the driving force of both acts…

Okay, so a woman walks into a Guitar Center… Sound like the perfect setup for a sexist punchline? It’s not, but it very well could be. As long as there’s been a music industry, women have been treated as lesser-thans often viewed as supporters and sideline cheerleaders, not key players…

BJ’s Carousel, Denver’s longest-running gay bar, finally closed its doors at 1380 South Broadway at the end of July, leaving a big hole in the local drag-queen scene. Now Delilah Winters, Sable West Lamar and Cher West are moving Divalicious and the Way Out West Revue, two of the biggest…

If you’ve been to the right places over the past couple of years, chances are you’ve caught Maria Kohler playing solo or as a collaborator in whatever projects Mike Marchant has been involved with at any given time. And if you heard her, you know that Kohler’s soulful voice and…

Over the past twelve years, My Morning Jacket has gone through the kind of perfect organic growth that you wish every band would go through. Starting as a ragtag bunch of longhairs from Louisville, Kentucky, who loved Skynyrd and Neil Young alike, the band proved early on that it could…

John Digweed has been living the dream for decades; at age eleven, all he wanted in life was to be a DJ. Suffice it to say, he reached his goal — and then some. Alongside famed collaborator Sasha, Digweed was a resident at Twilo in New York City; he appeared…

Jimmy Tamborello is probably best known for his work with Ben Gibbard in the Postal Service, where his pioneering, glitchy electronica provided the beautifully textured backdrop to that band’s songs. The basis for that sound was one he’d been developing in other projects, including his main musical priority these days,…

Typhoon is currently capping its membership, touring and otherwise, at twelve members. While this may seem like a gratuitously sprawling lineup, one listen to any of the band’s releases makes it obvious that each member is making an important contribution to the deceptively simple but lushly textured sounds on each…

Recall, if you will, Coyote McCloud’s 1984 novelty hit “Where’s the Beef?,” based on the Wendy’s commercial that employed the same catchphrase. Now multiply that song by several full-length albums. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Congratulations! You have mathematically solved T-Pain’s entire career. It was just a couple of weeks ago…

Able Archer’s latest effort starts out on a grandiose note with “No Goodbyes (The Mass Tremendous).” The elegant instrumental is a chorus of synthesized strings, a classically formal passage spelled out on the keys by Matt Huseman that leads into “Plane Crash.” That brief tune’s epic feel is a fitting…

David Rynhart drew from a diverse pool of influences, including folk, blues and Eastern European music, on his excellent solo effort, By the Hollow Tree. He also founded the traditional Irish quartet Bodha. Kevin Larkin, one of Rynhart’s bandmates in Chimney Choir, released music under the Pineross moniker, which fused…

One of the more energetic live bluegrass bands around these parts, Spring Creek brings a fair amount of that energy to Hold on Me, the quartet’s fourth release. On spirited and foot-stomping cuts like “Mockingbird,” “See Me On” and “Chase the Sun,” the bandmembers, who’ve played at some of the…

With song titles evoking images of alchemy and the occult, Josh Powers seems to have tapped directly into hermetic knowledge, creating tones that get under your skin in the same way that Skinny Puppy’s “Smothered Hope” does. “Character Map” sounds like a peek into Innsmouth after the introduction of futuristic…

Flashlights started in the basement of Ethan Converse’s house in Four Mile Canyon shortly after he graduated from college, when he and Sam Martin met through mutual friends. Inspired by Martin’s desire to break away from his background in rock groups and propelled by Converse’s realization that a creative endeavor…