Styles Davis (aka Noah Parman) has been an integral part of the musical and cultural landscapes of this city for several years, so it’s no wonder that his DJ sets get so many asses shaking on the dance floor. Davis began his career behind the decks in the late ’90s,…
Not since the emergence of the Game on the national hip-hop scene has Los Angeles had such a promising new rapper as Nipsey Hussle. The onetime member of the notorious Rolling Sixty Crips from the Crenshaw and Slauson neighborhood of L.A. has steadily gained attention over the past couple of…
Sonic Bloom has had several homes since its inception in 2006. Now, just in time for its sixth-year anniversary, the Cervantes’-sponsored electronic music festival has found a dream location in Georgetown, at a place called Shadows Ranch. We talked with festival organizers Jami Janover and Scott Morrill to get the…
Jack White has been a busy bee lately, producing records for Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson and now, Jerry Lee Lewis. We’re starting to get the feeling he might view himself as a sort of Rick Rubin-type character, but instead of making older musicians darker and more introspective, he’s just making…
Just one of the many acts birthed in the last half-decade thanks to YouTube, thirteen-year-old Greyson Chance — due at the Gothic Theatre tonight with Cody Simpson and Camryn — could still be considered a bit of an anomaly in his own right. Unlike his pop contemporaries, the ‘tween’s adoration…
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE The Architects • Neon Trees 04.09.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Walking into the Fillmore, I was greeted by a writhing sea of wildly dressed teenagers and hundreds of their parents awkwardly trying to fit in while performing chaperone duty. Seeing scads of girls holding up homemade ‘Happy Birthday”…
METHOD MAN & REDMAN With Dj Cavem and MTHDS City Hall | 4/9/11 City Hall’s amphitheater stood under a cloud of smoke last night for the finale of a three-night stay in Colorado for Method Man and Redman. Openers Dj Cavem and the MTHDS were given the opportunity to prime…
ARCADE FIRE With Local Natives 04.09.11 | 1STBANK Center View Arcade Fire photo slide show The trailer for the 1979 film Over the Edge, which featured a fourteen-year-old Matt Dillon in his film debut, played on the screen behind the stage at 1STBANK Center just before Arcade Fire came on…
BEATS ANTIQUE Inspired Flight • the Tailor 04.08.11 | Boulder Theater Beats Antique sold out of tickets for the Boulder Theater up to the very last minute. Whether everyone showed up for the music or the belly dancing, it’s a safe bet that the venue full of gypsies, scenesters, dancers,…
HELLBOUND GLORY 04.08.11 | Pete’s Monkey Bar There’s a time and place for kick-ass country music, and Pete’s Monkey Bar was the place to hear it last night…
With a number of Grammys under his belt, and being named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association six times in the last decade, Kurt Elling is one of the world’s top jazz vocalists. On his latest effort, The Gate, released in February on Concord, Elling teamed…
Bring on the dirty for Friday night! And by dirty, we mean dirtybird label’s own Claude Von Stroke and J. Philip getting down at the Gothic tonight night. Get your minimal house & techno fix — also warming up is Denver’s own Bones. ($25 at the door, presales on Ticketmaster,…
Last night, after kicking it at the Red Bull Thre3Style competition at the Boulder Theater, (which DJ Vajra won, by the way) we decided to kill two birds with one Boulder, if you will, and headed down to the Fox Theater where Red Man and Method Man were getting underway…
RED BULL THR3STYLE TOURNAMENT 04.07.11 | Boulder Theater Last night at the Boulder Theater, the Red Bull Thre3Style tournament was live and absolutely direct. Beyond the blazing marquis outside and the multi-Mini Coopers with the gigantic Red Bull attachment, the energy was electric and the competition was stiff. Many came,…
Philadelphia’s Ryat (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis) started as a solo project for multi-instrumentalist avant-garde songwriter Christina Ryat before Tim Conley joined the sonic adventure that is making music in this unit. With both Ryat and Conley benefiting from backgrounds in improvisational and experimental music, their collaboration has produced a richly…
In a music world of blog-hyped bands, Internet sensationalism and an over-commitment to the next big thing, Boldtype flourishes through the idea that there will always be a need for fast, raw and rowdy three-chord rock. Touring with Guttermouth and surviving over a decade together, the local act — due…
It just keeps growing: Last year, the annual Global Dance Festival expanded from one rave-tastic night at Red Rocks to two — and the Triad Dragons have just announced a third GDF night at the premier outdoor concert venue in the country. Headlining will be Australia’s Empire of the Sun,…
Tonight when the clock strikes midnight, you should expect calamity, destruction and famine to sweep the nation, because word on the street says the government is shutting down. Word to Chicken Little: A bunch of awful things are supposed to happen…we think. They don’t pay us the big bucks to…
The Beastie Boys have been men for quite some time now, but they’ve clearly never lost their sense of playfulness. The group’s long-anticipated upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (no, you didn’t miss part one), is shaping up to be quite an event, judging by the just-released “Fight For…
Think back to your teenage years. Chances are, if you were like any of us, you spent the majority of your time listening to music, reading the liner notes through and through and playing air guitar half-naked in your room. Doesn’t sound that depressing? But a recent study in Pediatrics…
For those who choose to start their weekends a little early, we’ve composed a list of the hottest places to be and the choicest events to attend in Denver on the eve of date night number one. Riding the Wednesday wave into Thursday truly means you are a renaissance partier,…
Ten years ago, My Chemical Romance (due at the Fillmore this Saturday) was just another aspiring band in a van hoping to make it big. With a handful of three-chord punk rock songs hastily written and recorded in the attic of a house in New Jersey, the young outfit had…
