PURE SUNSHINE Overcasters • the Buckingham Squares • the Purple Fluid The Omens • The Geniuses • Git Some 03.26.11 | Bluebird Theater Git Some kicked off night two of Pure Sunshine last night at the Bluebird Theater. The act’s lyrics are often washed out by the torrent of guitar…
FOODCHAIN Mr. Midas, Pries, Rockie, LKeys 03.25.11 | Rockstar Lounge Last night at Rockstar Lounge, there was a plethora of rappers, instruments and singers on hand for a free show being touted as “history in the making” and featuring LKeys, Pries, Rockie, Midas and the Foodchain, who all brought the…
THERAPY DJ AArta, Brett Starr, Rescue, Sami Tee and Styles Davis 03.25.11 | 2200 Brett Starr and Rescue’s new residency at 2200 (look for them on the last Friday of each month) kicked off with a bang last night; the two rooms housed a spectrum of excellent electronica, with Rescue…
Last night at the Bluebird was night one of Pure Sunshine, the aptly named Rick Kulwicki celebration and benefit. Among Kulwicki’s family, friends, fans and many admirers (with Rick, it seems, none of those terms are mutually exclusive), all of the remaining members of the Fluid were of course on…
A little more than a month ago, I attended the memorial service for a Rick Kulwicki at Fairmount Cemetary, the same place where my grandparents and my favorite aunt happen to be laid to rest. The place doesn’t really hold a lot of fond memories for me. Barely ten years…
Full Flavor Music will host an event the last Friday of each month at Appaloosa Grill, starting this week with West Coast/Detroit techno artist Monty Luke. Luke started producing techno in the early 2000s and made a name for himself by the end of the decade with the tracks “Paranoid”…
Updated: More photos of the 1Up have been added to the end of this post. About a year ago, Jourdan Adler started a quest to collect vintage games. Now he’s got close to thirty original uprights, from Galaga to Pacman to Donkey Kong, and they’re all from 1985 and earlier,…
Kostas, Trajikk and Jontron provided the music for the Spring Break Beach Party on Thursday night, March 24, 2011 at Beta. Nightlife photographer Jonathan Shoup brings back these photos from the party and says: “A very energetic crowd and a progressive house soundtrack. Many ladies sported bikinis in spirit of…
Ben Weasel proved his douchebaggery last week by lashing out during a Screeching Weasel performance at SXSW, punching not one, but two women. The show-stopping fracas was caught on tape. The rest of the band was so embarrassed by the pathetic display that they reportedly quit the band, leaving Ben…
Pulling a page from the Shania Twain handbook on pop country, The JaneDear Girls create glossy, hook-heavy songs with an underlying flavor of Bluegrass. As an accomplished fiddle and electric mandolin player, Susie Brown brings the the hoedown feel to guitarist Danelle Leverett’s traditional rock style, while the duo’s similar…
Tonight after the Nuggets put a beatdown on the Washington Wizards, fans are in for a treat. A crew of local hip-hoppers (The Dendrites, Jane Doed, King FOE, Whygee, 1984, Lamp! and Acezi) will be throwing down at the Pepsi Center during the “5th Quarter.” The show tonight will also…
Foodchain, still riding high off the re-release of its Showoff Digital debut, Corpses, and the acclaim the crew has earned from respected rap heads like Statik Selektah, Big Pooh and Talib Kweli, is back with the second video from the record, “Yes Indeed (G-girl).” Before pressing play, you have to…
On the heels of last fall’s thrilling battle at Beta, judged by ?uestlove and DJ Jazzy Jeff and featuring DJ magMANimous (DJ Vajra) against DJs from across the country, the Red Bull Thre3Style is making its way back to Colorado with the legendary DJ Craze in tow. If you haven’t…
Hanging the Hamster. The Five Digit Disco. Jerking the Johnson. There’s a million terms for the ingratiating act of self-love. Look, if we’re being real here, there’s no shame in the game. After all, not everyone can be pleasured by super-fantastic lovers all day, everyday, and sometimes this means having…
Hot on the heels of SXSW and in the midst of spring break, Sara Century and Tom Murphy hit us up with the idea of sending them out on the town for a week of shows and then reporting back to us what they saw/heard, with Sara drawing all of…
You’re not going to see the Bad Brains of thirty years ago, so go ahead and just get that idea out of your head right now. The ferocious, manic energy of eccentric lead singer H.R. has been all but muted by years of drug use and seeming mental instability. But…
Sammy. Sammy. Sammy. It must be difficult for a rock star in a rad band like Van Halen to be constantly competing with his predecessor, but this who’s-better nonsense has gone on too long and now… too far. Sammy Hagar has just released his autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in…
Pink Floyd is a band that is often imitated. The San Diego sextet known as The Pink Floyd Experience, led by vocalist and guitarist Tom Quinn, takes its version of the seminal band to the next level, as it regurgitates the Floyd catalog with expert precision, while the accompanying video…
It’s true: Drums, guitar, bass and a vintage NES can collide and create gorgeous music together. Pete Berkman, the 22-year-old behind the part-chiptune, part-traditional rock band Anamanaguchi says it was as simple as his own high school-age realization that what Weezer and dudes behind Mega Man 2 were doing was…
The White House has publically stated it’s going to start cracking down on piracy and enforcing IP law, but other than some crackdowns last year, we haven’t seen much in the way of a cohesive strategy. Well, until Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel delivered this twenty page document of…
Before they formed the Purple Fluid, Richard and Roman Kulwicki had rock and roll in their blood. Their father, of course, is the late, great Ricky Kulwicki, of Denver’s greatest rock-and-roll band, the Fluid. The two brothers hooked up with Orie Bender, Henry Solomon and Danny L’Episcopo and formed a…
Just received some pretty major news on the concert promotions front: Peter Ore (pictured right), former Vice President of Booking for Live Nation, has joined the Soda Jerk Presents family. “Working with Peter is going to be a huge step as we continue to grow the company,” says Soda Jerk…
