In case you missed it, last night at a gig in London at the iTunes Festival, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (due October 9 at the Pepsi Center) stopped his set mid-song and singled out an unruly fan and basically told him in to scram! Beat it, buster! Hit…
Online dating, that cesspool of hilarious stories and perhaps even true love. Sure, you could scour OkCupid for witty About Me paragraphs, be completely charmed by his or her fondness for biking in the rain, and then get to the favorites section. Favorite band is Tool? Nope, not compatible. Or…
The epic monsoon that swept through Denver last night took out more than just trees. The torrential rainstorm also wiped out Peter Black’s entire music catalogue when his car, which contained his Mac Book and virtually all of his music gear, was flooded. A veteran of the Mile High music…
Tons of fresh local hip-hop for you to vibe on this week. We’ve got a snippet of Mic Coats from the Food Chain spitting over a Mass Prod beat from the crew’s new “brunch” project, a new track from Anxious from his forthcoming Almost Famous album, a new joint from…
Ben Folds (performing tonight with Kenton Chen) has had several careers over the last few decades. Playing in bands since the ’80s, the multi-instrumentalist found MTV and radio-friendly success in the ’90s with his piano-led outfit Ben Folds Five. Weathering the storm of mainstream success, Folds continued on with some…
As a musician, is there anything worse than having your gear ripped off? Really? I mean, aside from having your best friend sleep with your girl while you’re on the road, probably not. Talk about feeling violated. Just the thought of somebody else fondling your cherished instrument — few things…
Steve from FaceMan is pinching himself right now. Well, don’t quote us on that. We don’t know that for a fact, but we’re assuming he is. He’s gotta be. This Friday afternoon, his band FaceMan is going to be recording at Bryan Feuchtinger’s Uneven Studio with the Dirty Dozen Brass…
Pardon us for a minute while we marvel at the cover art for the new Snake Rattle Rattle Snake record, would ya? Don’t mean to gush, but… wow! As you can see below, Ravi Zupa simply outdid himself, and Kit Peltzel has put it all together in a way that…
Surveying similar terrain as bands like Autumn to Ashes, No Fair Fights returns after five years with a fierce new album. The Sound of Burning Bridges finds the band even more refined, with impeccably groomed vocals, drums that bear the distinct stamp of Dave Otero — who mixed and mastered…
While some of George Inai’s previous material sounded like what he described as “a Model T built by Toyota in a Mexican factory,” what he’s doing with A Curious Ghost is somewhat different than the gothic Americana-meets-Mexican folk he’s done in the past. On A Curious Ghost Part I, Inai…
It would be a stretch to call this a concept album. Yet on Hello Cruel World, Sole comes back to the theme of how modern society is hostile to intelligence and creativity. But he never prescribes the despair and pessimism he expresses here as the solution. “Hello Cruel World” cleverly…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Denver band on late-night television — or actually watched late-night television, we should say. In case you missed it, too, Breathe Carolina was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! a few weeks ago playing a track from its new album, Hell Is What You…
More than a thousand punk-rock patrons crammed into a sold-out Summit Music Hall to see Alkaline Trio perform in support of its newest album, Damnesia, last night, Monday, July 11. Openers were the Gamits and Smoking Popes. Photos by Aaron Thackeray…
Just in time for its in-store tonight at Twist & Shout (6 p.m.) celebrating the release of its brand new album, Americana, out today on the band’s own Slow and Shirley imprint, Rose Hill Drive just premiered a new video for the song “Psychoanalyst.” The clip stars Josh Blue looking…
Ross Etherton and the Chariots of Judah are in the midst of recording a brand-new record at Trevor Morris’s studio, the Furnace Room (which is also working on new records by the Skeleton Show, Snake Mountain and Hooper, among others), and we got our hands on an unmixed demo of…
So evidently, we should have held off a bit longer posting that scene report yesterday. After that item went live, we received word that Primasonic had reached the end of the road, and this morning, we caught wind of another new group getting ready to hit the scene. Thief River…
I’ve seen probably upwards of seven million shows in my lifetime, give or take five or six. In all that time, there’s been a ton that I’m grateful for having the chance to have seen — Mars Volta at Tulagi, the Killers at the Larimer Lounge, an unreal triple bill…
It is hard to believe black metal band Liturgy (playing tonight at the hi-dive with Collapse and Barnacle) has only been around for a handful of years. The Brooklyn quartet — led by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, whom we spoke with in advance of this evening’s show — sounds like it has…
Last month, we gave you an exclusive sneak peek of the video for Manufactured Superstars’ new club banger, “Serious,” featuring Selina Albright. We didn’t know when the actual song would be released, as certain remixes were still being worked out. Those remixes have evidently been finished, since the song is…
So our most recent Hot Topic post about camera phones at shows generated some interesting responses. Some folks are miffed by the phenomenon, while others, like Dave (no relation, but having that name evidently entitles him to a free entree at Famous Dave’s next month, we hear), our commenter of…
Brooklyn’s Liturgy (due Tuesday, July 12, at the hi-dive with Collapse and Barnacle) started as the solo project of singer/guitarist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, who started writing the music with a drum machine on which he created the “burst beat” — a way of taking the blast beat of much grindcore, death…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In October, Portishead hits the 1STBANK Center, Bring Me the Horizon comes to the Fillmore, and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart is due at the Bluebird. On local radio, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Veronica and Andy Hackbarth got some…
