After reading the above headline, you’re probably thinking: Denver needs another tattoo parlor and art gallery like it needs another dispensary, right? Hold on. This one’s a little different. For starters, it’s being run by Emily Francis, a cherished member of the local music scene…
Okay, pretend we’re taking a road trip together. (Yes, we know this is unlikely what with gas prices being the way the are now all all, not to mention, we’d need a troop transport or something to chauffeur us — but work with us here, will ya?) What tunes would…
This might be some of the weirdest copyright related news we’ve run across in a while. FilmOn founder Alki David has teamed up with a slew of musicians to file a lawsuit against CBS Interactive and CNET over CNET’s distribution of LimeWire. Back in November, a federal judge had to…
One listen to The Black Angels (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with Sleepy Sun) and it is almost unfathomable that the band was concieved in 2004. The Austin quartet isn’t a tribute to the psychedelic rock — it defines the decades-old genre with dark organ echoes, heavy percussion and…
Bust out your sombreros hombres, it’s time to bailar en la dance floor. In addition to being the official unofficial start of the weekend, this Thursday also happens to be Cinco de Mayo. If you haven’t already found another Cinco event in which to get your drinko, take a gander…
Jorge Rendon, known as Morning Star on wax, has a notable duality about him. With a moniker that comes with references in the Bible to both Jesus and the Devil as the “morning star,” it seems as though he embraces both characters. On one hand he is a proud Mexican,…
Jessica Lea Mayfield has risen through the songwriting ranks with one foot in the old and the other in the new. She got her start touring with her family bluegrass band, but after a stroke of luck, she was suddenly pushed into the spotlight with high-profile tours accompanying the likes…
Even though most of our moms aren’t rock stars, some of them sure as hell seem like it. With their busy schedules and insane ability to multi-task, they deserve screaming fans and scads of cash. We know it’s hard being just a suburban mom trying to juggle work and a…
Weird Turn Prose may be the name of Gene Davis’s main band, but it’s also a pretty fitting description for the music he’s been making lately with a group called the Que Pastas — well, not weird so much as unexpected. When Davis interned here a few years ago before…
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, a day commemorating the Mexican army’s defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla. In honor of the occasion, rather than randomly heading off to your closest Mexican restaurant or bar to drink some tequila, we’ve come up with a list of things to…
tUnE-yArDs (playing tonight at the hi-dive with Buke & Gass and Papa Bear) is the off-kilter moniker of Merrill Garbus, a multi-instrumentalist whose voice is her biggest asset. Although the songstress is often backed by live percussion and strings, she plays the ukulele and the drums while simultaneously creating beats…
DANZIG 05.03.11 | Boulder Theater The first time I went out to see Danzig, over a decade ago, as a teenager in Pittsburgh, the concert was inexplicably canceled minutes before showtime, and I returned to my ’89 Pontiac Sunbird to find it towed. Last night in Boulder, I feared a…
Pink may very well be one of the most underused colors on fliers, and there isn’t a real logical reason for it. It pops out in ways that draw your eyes immediately, and it offers a welcome change of pace to the usual color scheme. Of course, when your band…
One of the most coveted spots in town has been snatched up. The building at 1446 South Broadway that had been Cafe Cero and then Open Tap will reopen as the Black Crown Lounge late this month. Business partners Mark Cameron and Brian Grace have been busy transforming the space…
In the last decade or so, many metal musicians realized that while writing songs about demons and wizards was kind of cool, it was also a little silly. So they turned to largely instrumental music with titles that hinted at that world without the potential embarrassment of having to come…
Joan of Arc may be one of the most pretentious bands in existence, but it also puts on a kick-ass live show. The group doesn’t come off its throne above the city of Chicago often, but when it does, it almost always ends up snagging a few converts along the…
Waka Flocka Flame is an artist known just as much for his antics on stage as off. The rapper (born Juaquin Malphurs) hit the scene in 2009 with a monster single, “O Let’s Do It,” which not only spawned a new era of down-south bounce rap, but also ushered a…
Formed in Lafayette, Louisiana, this Bay Area band will immediately sound familiar to anyone who has been paying attention for the last handful of years to acts like Washed Out and Small Black, mainly because there is a similar effervescent, sun-washed flavor to Painted Palms’ electro-pop. But there is also…
Circuses are creepy. At least, clowns are creepy. On a philosophical level, the subtle menace of clowns is partly the result of the mask that separates them from the realm of normal society; basically, the clown is not quite human, but rather a grossly exaggerated caricature of one aspect of…
“Looking Down the Barrel,” Altitude Sickness’s opening track, leads with a Celtic feel and a tinge of bluegrass, with the fiddle pulling the melody along. James Campbell’s vocals seem informed by hip-hop in both his delivery and the flow of the lyrics, but the music never really crosses over into…
With Ninth and Lincoln’s 2008’s self-titled debut, founder and composer Tyler Gilmore pushed the boundaries of what a large jazz ensemble could do. But that album feels somewhat conservative compared to Gilmore’s compositions on Static Line. He’s developed considerably as a composer in the past couple of years, moving further…
The Roadside Profits have crafted an work of more-than-good production, slightly off-kilter rapping — in the pleasing sense — and a ubiquitous undertone of rap nostalgia with Roadside Saves. The album weighs in at a hefty fourteen tracks, with more than a few of those slowing down the record’s progress…
