Saturday, March 18 Over the last six years playing SXSW, I’ve watched the “Denver parties” grow more and more every year. Last night, as the Illegal Pete’s Starving Artist Showcase pushed the walls of Peckerheads to the limits with a one in, one out line around the corner, Denver has…
Friday, March 18 Another one for the books… honestly, the worst part about today was that it had to end… After an ample five hours of sleep, the household hesitantly woke up, made coffee, and loaded the trailer in anticipation for our Illegal Pete’s Starving Artist Showcase at Peckerheads on…
Saturday, March 19 (or Friday, March 18 — since the night just isn’t over) Let me first start today’s travelogue by saying how amazing a time it has been here in Texas. It’s 4 a.m. currently (technically, still the night of Friday the 18th, but whatev), and I am writing…
MEN With Hideous Men 03.18.11 | hi-dive Before any bands played, DJ Sl8er and Piper Rose, the dynamic duo behind Titwrench, played a variety of records that could loosely fit into the context of dance music, if you go back just over thirty years, including some Joy Division and Tones…
Drawing inspiration from eccentric 1950s bandleader Spike Jones, as well as from found sounds and field recordings, Sean O’Neal (aka Someone Else) is an experimental minimal techno and house producer who is really doing his own thing. Having performed at the world’s greatest nightclubs, including Fabric (London), Yellow (Tokyo), Rex…
Friday, March 18 Here we are again in Austin for the least “Texas” thing that the state has to offer… thousands of liberal, godless musicians showcasing themselves to the world. We did a small tour on our way to SXSW this year with our dear friends and enablers, The Photo…
Break dancing took Denver by storm in the mid ’80s, drawing 10,000 people to a competition at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where this paper’s founder and editor Patricia Calhoun was a judge…
Cafe Europa’s general manager, Adam Azeris, is bringing a little piece of Brooklyn right here into Denver. The coffee shop at Penn and Bayaud has been respectfully dubbed “Wu-Ropa,” in honor of one of the most legendary rap groups of all time…
Oh dear Lord, brace yourselves: Charlie Sheen is bringing his winning ways to Denver. His Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not An Option tour — or as we like to call it, his “Holy Shit! I Really Fucked Myself there But Good, Didn’t I? Better Come Up with a Cheap…
The music industry has been marked for death for a long time now, but amazingly, nobody has managed to come up with a concrete reason as to why. Sure, it’s easy to assign blame, but the real reason the music is dying is still a mystery to most people in…
Have you ever heard a band cover “Ace of Spades” at 8 a.m.? If you were one of the few hundred or so people packed into Lodo’s Bar and Grill at 19th and Market yesterday, you can proudly answer yes. If you remember it…
Friday, March 18 Morning: 1000 miles and over eighteen hours in a van with five man children. Our trip from Denver began at 5 a.m. yesterday with packing, grumpiness, excitement. Aaron puked at 7:10, and at 7:20, Aaron and Andy had a tickle fight in the back seat of the…
The National and Sharon Van Etten recorded a song for the Win Win soundtrack. It leaked yesterday, but Fox Searchlight has pretty well scrubbed the legal-ish streams. Regardless, the two artists are a good fit, Matt Berninger’s sleepy baritone makes a seamless companion for Van Etten’s own honeyed hum. The…
It is somewhat hard to believe that Good Charlotte has been together — and, with few line-up changes, to boot — since 1996. But the proto-mall punk band found its not-too harsh edge early into its career and has been riding that sweet spot ever since, with radio-ready songs about…
BASS FOR FREE J. Wail and Chuck Morris • Future Simple Project • Eminence Ensemble Flinch • Dirt Monkey • Matamorphic • Rodway 03.17.11 | Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Otherside Last night, Cervantes’ threw a hell of party with J. Wail and Chuck Morris, Future Simple Project, Eminence Ensemble and…
Last night at the the Austin Music Hall, we helped music fans and industry nerds cross a few groups off their bucket lists, as well as see another singer-as-DJ and hear the ear-ringing guitars of a few of the best new rock bands. In that order, it was Wu Tang…
Thursday, March 17 From the outside looking in, South By Southwest — at least to those who haven’t experienced it yet — might seem like an event that only those who can afford to flip for the nearly $800 badges get to enjoy. Not so much. There’s a ton of…
Thursday, March 17 And it begins … 4 a.m. we arrive in Austin, Texas, at Casa de Epilogues greeted by hugs and cases of Upslope, after an amazing day of riding rollercoasters and playing three sets at Six Flags-Dallas and an awesome run of shows with the Epilogues, which included…
Friday, March 18 SHIT! I swore last night that I would not be sitting here tonight at 3:00 a.m. in front of the computer working on the blog — there are after parties to be had people! — but alas, here we are together… I’m feeling distracted by my own…
Thursday, March 18 Uh, hey. It’s Danielle Ate the Sandwich. I’ve been on the road and away from home a couple of days now, and am officially one hour from Austin and ready to go. Today, I play at Bar 512 for the Spokesbuzz Showcase. I’m excited to play with…
Thursday, March 17 We left for Texas early Sunday morning from the band house about 6 a.m (we planned for five, but we’re never on time to shit) packed in tight in our two vehicles, Julian’s black Jeep, which we deemed the “Pedro Negro” and Taylor’s red Jeep, aka “The…
Hate it or love it, like a cockroach covered in leopard-print spandex, ’80s arena metal has crawled forth intact after surviving grunge, boy bands, ringtone rap and now Bieber. Last night, twenty-somethings who looked like they fell out of a time-traveling telephone booth from 1989 flocked to the Bluebird Theater…
