Vanilla Ice — famed rapper-turned-dancer-turned boxer-turned-motocross-professional-turned-remodeler — is reportedly playing Captain Hook in pantomime production of Peter Pan in London. Although he’d probably be a better fit in the lead role (since he, too, refuses to grow up), he’ll instead play Hook using the talents of body and facial movement…
On his grind for almost two decades, Andre Nickatina — who at one time went by Dre Dog — has released over a dozen albums, mostly through his own imprints. On the road now in support of his forthcoming album, Khan! The Me Generation, the cocaine rapper and movie producer…
The James Joyce estate is well known for its nearly-impossible-to-break hold on the copyright of his works. Case in point, 22 years ago Kate Bush asked to use a soliloquy from Ulysses in one of her songs and was denied. Most people would just give up, but she didn’t. Now,…
As singer and guitarist of the Demon Funkies, Ryan Chrys clearly knows his way around a groove, but he’s also well-versed in other genres, as evidenced by his new solo album, The Ambivalent Justice Of… With some help from Seth and Josh Larson of Something Underground, Brent Loveday from Reno…
Chase Dinkler and Zach Jacobsen work IT jobs during the day, but have always dreamed of running a nightclub. Friends since high school, they’ve been throwing parties under the name Palace Entertainment — and now they’re making their dream a reality at the Sound Kitchen, which opened April 1 at…
Boldtype has been a staple in the Denver punk scene for nearly a decade. The band, which formed in 2002, has seen numerous members come and go through the years but has managed to keep its sound and punk-rock ideals intact. Clearly influenced by ’90s punk acts like Millencolin and…
While there are a number of street festivals happening this summer, the first Englewood Eats & Beats might push the envelope a bit when it happens Saturday, June 25. Gothic Theatre owner Steve Schalk, who is also one of the event’s organizers, says that it will have bigger stage than…
So word has it that the dudes from Yerkish (due May 3 at the Walnut Room with the Memorials) may be considering a name change. Faced with the prospect of losing two founding members and gaining two new members, the switch seems logical (although if that logic applied to everybody,…
Way back some twenty or so years ago, in the nascent days of Mile High hip-hop, the burgeoning b-boy scene revolved around two places, Kontents, at Colfax and Logan (later Colfax and Emerson), and La Casa Del Fonk, at 20th and Larimer. If you made your way into either joint,…
In case you haven’t heard, Mama Gaga is going on tour with Lady in hopes of preventing her from going on the “drinking diet.” Apparently, Ma’ga, concerned about her egg-dwelling offspring, demanded she accompany her daughter on tour. We love the idea. Frankly, we think more parents should take an…
There is something about a band that looks like they want to be a band — Atlanta’s the Biters (due at 3 Kings Tavern tonight) certainly do, with Joan Jett-ish coifs and leather jackets to match. But beyond the look, there’s an equally classic sound, and the quartet takes the…
For a band that plays moody, dramatic synth pop, Cold Cave (due at the Larimer Lounge on Monday, April 11) has an unusual pedigree. A veteran of several hardcore bands, including Some Girls and American Nightmare, Wesley Eisold turned to electronics as a way to take more control over the…
Brian Hoffman and Cause Medic Ink have given us two amazing fliers this week, one for the Sin Desires Marie reunion show and another for the Snake Rattle Rattle Snake show on Tuesday, April 12, but the Sin Desires Marie one trumps the SRRS one just barely, mostly because it…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” Whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of all…
At the end of the ’90s, before almost every form of music had been completely compromised, colonized and commercialized, the Pauline Heresy formed and wrote emotionally raw, lyrically confessional music that might have been lumped in with emo two years later. But before that could happen, two of the band’s…
With a name like the Shrapnelles, you might expect a reverb-drenched garage-rock band with a penchant for all things Phil Spector — and you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. This all-female outfit from Calgary plays shimmery guitar pop with one foot firmly planted in classic R&B, as evidenced…
Formed in 2007, North Wales’s Joy Formidable could just as easily have come together ten years earlier. The trio’s sound is, at times, reminiscent of a Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness-era Smashing Pumpkins, carried by guitarist Ritzy Bryan’s anthemic vocals. But its sonic trickery goes beyond genre; with a…
A synth-pop band made up of noise and hardcore vets, Cold Cave debuted in late 2009 with Love Comes Close, a unique collection of frosty, fuzzy, industrial-leaning new wave that boasted a single for the ages in its wistful title track. But where Love Comes Close often felt like a…
LeVar Burton, the man most readily associated with the children’s program Reading Rainbow, is probably unaware of this Reading Rainbow, which presumably lifted the name of that show for its musical experiments. Sarah Everton and Rob Garcia built this project out of the pieces of their old band, Forensic Teens,…
As original bassist and founding member of the Punch Brothers, Greg Garrison obviously knows his way around progressive bluegrass. But on Low Lonesome, his first solo outing, Garrison proves to be a competent jazz bassist and composer as well. Recorded live at the Laughing Goat in Boulder with trumpeter Ron…
The less-is-more idea works for this three-song split between Laser Palace proprietors Kristi Schaefer and Ryan McRyhew as Hideous Men and frequent collaborator Milton Melvin Croissant III, with a quick but deep look into some gorgeous electronic landscaping. Hideous Men’s rave-ish throwback “Sirens” works off a humbleness in Schaefer’s vocals,…
The Kool Crue, the triple-threat team of Concept, Chris and Quinn, is out for lyrical blood. Leaving nothing on the table, the crew gets right to the point with eight very solid tracks, each different from the next. The production, handled here by the whole crew, fuses samples and sounds…
