Greensky Bluegrass (playing tonight at the Bluebird with White Water Ramble) is a band best experienced live. Though the group has put out a handful of records in the last decade, its traditional bluegrass instrumentation and jam-like improvisation comes to life outside of the studio. Greensky is well aware of…
If, for whatever reason, you don’t happen to be working next Thursday, May 26, and you’re in the Broomfield area, Broomstock 2011 is slated to take place at Broomfield County Commons Park, with two dozen acts performing on two stages. Along with familiar names like No Fair Fights, The Skyline…
While the correct answer (as evidenced below) appears to be endlessly debatable, the answer we were looking for is Norman Bailer. Congrats to Kyle Bassett, the winner of the Bright Eyes prize pack. Everybody else: Thanks for playing! Bright Eyes has sure come a long way since we saw him…
When we think of monthly electronic music series, we tend to assume they’ll follow a very specific theme throughout their existence. That’s not exactly the case with 187 Ultra, the new musical series being curated by Sole and Pictureplane at the hi-dive — although you could argue that eclecticism is…
System of Down (due tonight at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre with Gogol Bordello) played its first show in five years last week at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Early reports suggest the band is back in fine form — at least from the reviews and the fan-shot clips that appeared…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, Phish is closing out its tour at Dick’s on Labor Day weekend, Roger Daltrey is performing the Who’s Tommy at 1STBANK in October, Return to Forever is returning the Paramount and Sugarland is stopping by Comfort Dental…
Columbia’s Bomba Estereo (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with ManCub and Izcalli) began as the mostly electronic solo project of bassist Simon Mejia, but after his first release under the moniker, he expanded the dance project to a full band. Carried by the punchy, bratty vocals of Liliana Saumet,…
Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray’s new album. UPDATE (5/24/11): Our original interview item from last week has been updated with Isaac Slade’s post-show impressions opening for U2 at Invesco Field this past Saturday. Isaac Slade sounds at greater…
When it comes to metaphors and posters, we like things that are easy to understand and relatively simple. That said, we’re not sure exactly how we’re supposed to feel about this image of a seemingly diseased heart and lungs, but it’s so damn fitting for Roger Green’s style of Americana-melancholia…
Update (5/25): Video clip of Nathaniel Rateliff performing “We Never Win” on Later with Jools Holland this past Tuesday added below. Just in time for the arrival in local bookstores of the issue of Q featuring him, we’ve received word that Nathaniel Rateliff is slated to play Later With Jools…
Great news regarding the Time Capsule tapes we wrote about a few weeks ago: We’re happy to report that all of the reels were able to be salvaged and have since been entrusted into the care of the folks at Decibel Garden Studios, who have graciously agreed to serve as…
To say that New Orleans collective My Jerusalem (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with Michael Kingcaid and Sour Boy, Bitter Girl) is a supergroup would be a mild understatement. Led by Jeff Klein, the group features members who have played in bands such as Cursive, the Twilight Singers, the Polyphonic…
With the exception of the main headliners (Dennis DeYoung and the Gin Blossoms) and a handful of new local acts, the lineup for this year’s Denver Day of Rock Concerts for Kids (taking place for free on five stages along the 16th Street Mall, between 15th and 16th Streets, on…
Still riding high off the success of his full-length album, Son of the Crack Era, Mr. Midas is gearing up for a Memorial Day release of his latest project, a mixtape titled Flight Risk. Conceptually, he says, the mixtape is an extension of his debut, while others open doors to…
CRYSTAL STILTS Overcasters • Force Publique 05.16.11 | Larimer Lounge While it was a bit of an odd choice for Force Publique to open for a reverb-drenched indie pop band, Cassie McNeil and James Wayne’s industrial-tinged goth pop sounded as good as it did when we last caught the duo…
When we last caught up with the folks at ZetaKaye, they were in the process of gathering songs for a compilation album they were putting together. This week the free comp has arrived, and it’s filled to the brim with 22 tracks from local musicians. It’s being offered for download…
For the past two years, the Burning Angels have been stoked if we get fifty people in the room,” says Casey James Prestwood. “We’re even more stoked if twenty of those people are paying attention or even dancing. So playing with Drive-By Truckers at the Ogden recently, that was a…
While Forest Room 5 (2532 15th Street) has booked its share of live music over the years, manager Jordan Hubner says the place just didn’t have room to do it right. But now the back area is being overhauled to create a 120-capacity performance space, complete with stage and PA,…
In early 2010, Itchy-O started crashing house shows and other events with a “surprise” visit from a full marching band and a dancing, Chinese-style dragon. While not the first-ever guerrilla marching band, Itchy-O (due at Sutra on Sunday, May 22) is probably the first to fully embrace experimental music as…
Formerly one-half of the German DJ duo Wighnomy Brothers, Gabor Schablitzki is known by a number of monikers, but most notably as Robag Wruhme. A hard-drinking party DJ with a knack for reading and responding to pumped-up crowds, Wruhme is also an accomplished producer who individually crafted all of the…
If you stop and think about it, a rock guitarist doesn’t need more than three strings on his guitar, and a drummer doesn’t need more than three drums and three cymbals. Case in point: JEFF the Brotherhood, a band whose entire purpose is to strip down rock music to its…
Shilpa Ray rocks on the harmonium like other players do on guitar. But she and her Brooklyn-based band, the Happy Hookers (no intentional reference to Xaviera Hollander), are currently making the kind of rock music that seems unencumbered by any direct connection to Americana, despite the presence of a harmonium…
