TV on the Radio has always genre-blended its sound to encompass forward-thinking electronics and reverse-engineered soul. The band’s newest effort, Nine Types of Light, might not be the expansive and lush experience of previous endeavors, but it’s still better than most releases the major labels have put out recently. Despite…
Most of the free world — including Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, we hear — would probably love to see Robert Plant move past his recent O Brother, Where Art Thou? phase and get on with a full-scale reunion of (what’s left of) Led Zeppelin. No dice. Ol’ Bob…
Seals are adorable. Just look at them, with their slick little fat bodies and their puppy-dog faces. When you go to the zoo, they do their cute little tricks and make their cute little guttural noises and clap their little fins like adorable little retarded children. Seals are about as…
For the sake of this review, the bands that the members of Il Cattivo used to be in will not be mentioned. While there are a lot of them, the names will not be listed here, out of respect — because Il Cattivo’s debut album is better than anything those…
Vitamins has never sat idle for long, and this EP is proof of that. At first, “No Notion of Anything Only Whatever Is What” sounds like the kind of breezy indie pop that the group did so well on its last album, 2008’s Calliope — except it also appears that…
The Dave Matthews Band has influenced a number of acts in these parts, and some wear it on their sleeves more than others. Midnight Vine is one such act that doesn’t apologize for the Matthews influence but rather fully embraces it. On Jack, the band’s third recording, Midnight Vine takes…
A feeling of terror dominates Modern Witch’s latest release, Unknown Domain, in a way that sonically captures what it must be like to watch the avant-art duo of Mario Zoots and Kristy Foom at work as collage artists. Their shared eyes and ears fashion tracks like “Hollywood Babylon” and “Julia…
At this point, John Gross and John Rasmussen are the godfathers of the Denver noise scene. Since starting their long-running noise project Page 27 in 1994 while still in high school, and running their old zine, Lady in the Radiator, Gross and Rasmussen have worked with various collaborators, including, in…
In 1983, Tommy Largo began crate-digging, looking mostly for old disco, funk and soul records. And as electronica lovers know, there’s a fine line between disco records and house music, which Largo discovered in 1986. Now based out of the Netherlands, Largo has played all over the the planet and…
You can’t help but love Travis Egedy. The Pictureplane maestro is always up to something. He’s always got a smile on his face and doesn’t seem to care what anyone thinks. His latest hijinks involve him going door to door at a hotel inviting unsuspecting guests to a concert. In…
When John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997, then Governor Roy Romer ordered that all the flags in Colorado be lowered to half-staff in his honor. So it only makes sense that the singer (born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.) has been chosen to be the first person inducted…
If you happened to be walking in the Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood this weekend, you may have noticed a curious little booth that was brightly lit and featured Simon Cowell’s trademark scowl. Opened on Saturday by Studio One Media, the MyStudio interactive recording studio is now offering aspiring singers…
Rory Block (due April 21st at Rock and Soul Cafe in Boulder and on April 22nd at Swallow Hill in Denver) was fortunate to be at the epicenter of the roots music explosion of the late ’50s and early ’60s as a child in Greenwich Village. Block rubbed shoulders not…
Born a year after MTV’s inception and surviving the Headbanger’s Ball-era, Death Angel (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Four Horsemen and Steel Blades of Vengeance) is an integral part of thrash metal’s history. The band members were in their early teens when the 1986 demo, Kill As One,…
Over the past year, Bad Weather California has been hard at work on two albums, Sunkissed, recorded in Detroit with Akron/Family, and Demos and Live Takes for the Fans, recorded at bandleader Chris Adolf’s home. The latter is being released this Saturday, April 23, at the Larimer Lounge, with A…
Sole has been very hard to ignore recently. He’s been releasing tons of content in a variety of formats for free or cheap as he’s preparing for his next album in the Mansbestfriend series (due May 15), as well as a new release from Sole and the Skyrider Band (Hello…
MiM0Sa With Mista Mista and Archnemesis Boulder Theater | 4.16.11 With help from Mista Mista and Archnemesis, Mimosa sold out the Boulder Theater last night for the second of what some merely assumed would be a two-show stop. In light of the greatest holiday a music fan could ever ask…
Zeds Dead With Nick G. and Sage B. Ragin, Zeno and 2DUBAII Ogden Theatre | 4/15/11 Last night at the Ogden Theatre, Zeds Dead threw down for an energetic crowd in which the music was nonstop, the decibel meter slowly rose with each subsequent artist and the crowd gradually seemed…
RISE AGAINST Bad Religion • Four Year Strong 04.15.11 | Fillmore Auditorium View more photos from last night The Rise Against show at the Fillmore began with a line that stretched from Colfax down Clarkson and east onto 16th Avenue — at 6:30! The crowd was littered with people of…
GREAT AMERICAN TAXI The Shwillbillies • Oakhurst 04.15.11 | Cervantes’ The crowd last night at Cervantes brought their dancing shoes for a bluegrass breakdown. The Shwillbilles were up first, and the quartet came out fast and furious building the energy up for the intimate crowd with intricate banjo and mandolin…
In a little more than a month, U2 is playing at Invesco Field. May 21, to be exact. Yeah, we’re pretty psyched, too. Even more so now: Did you happen to notice anything significant about that date? Know what else is going down then? Um, just a little thing called…
Erik “Ripley” Johnson first came to prominence in the rock underground with his San Francisco-based band, the Wooden Shjips. That project’s hypnotically dark, droning psychedelia became a favorite of fans and critics alike. In 2009, Johnson teamed up with Sanae Yamada to form Moon Duo (due at The Hi-Dive on…
