Tanya Morgan, once a group with a following confined to the East Coast underground hip-hop scene, has seen several layers of artistic success since first coming onto the scene. Anyone affiliated with the following of Donwill and Von Pea can assert the mainstream success of artists like Kid Cudi and…
The Matchbox is set to open tonight in the former Orange Cat Studios at 2625 Larimer Street. Squire Lounge owner Sudhir Kudva and partners Justin Anthony and Lisa Vedovelli spent a few months overhauling the spot, putting in new bathrooms and a garage door window in the front and demolishing…
Noise shows seem to happen in spurts in Denver. One weekend there will be seventeen different shows going on and then there won’t any for a month and half. Thankfully, Backwards Records has decided to resurrect the monthly series first started by Jonathan Canady and Matt Jones in 1997. Night…
After a seventeen-year run, Austin’s Asylum Street Spankers have embarked on their final run, which they’ve affectionately dubbed the “Spanks for Everything” tour. During its storied history, jazz-folk act has gone through some fifty members and now tours as a seven-piece. In advance of the band’s three-day run in Colorado…
There is no way Mike Relm could be confined by the simple title of mash-up DJ — the San Fransisco-based artist not only cuts and pastes music together in mutated forms, but he deftly brings video to disjointed life, too, with on-the-spot edits. The multi-media performer manipulates music videos, commercials…
American Idol reunited JLo and Diddy last night, when the latter came to perform on the show now judged by the former. In case you need a refresher, the two had a very public, very volatile relationship ten years ago…
Epitonic.com was one of the first sites to host MP3 files of legitimately. Launched in 1999, it also happened to be the epicenter for all things indie, with a comprehensive list of bands, solo projects, off-shoots, record label details and plenty more. After a seven-year hiatus and a Kickstarter fundraising…
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT Winter Carnival, Night One 03.10.11 | 1STBANK Center Read reviews of Night Two and Night Three The String Cheese Incident has played eleven shows since partially disbanding in 2007. The few shows they have played since then — six of which have been in Colorado — have…
Lords of Acid stopped by the Summit Music Hall last night with Radical G and Angelspit for a colorful evening that was all kinds of sweaty and sexy. Our resident shutterbug, the ever intrepid Aaron Thackeray was on hand and captured the whole thing for posterity. Click through to give…
Ever wonder what a thrash band sounds like without all the screaming and the guitars, just drum and bass? Wonder no more. (Spoiler alert: It sounds about like what you’d think it sounds like.) Thanks to the, er, wonders of modern technology, you can see and hear for yourself. Local…
Denver Got Next, the jump off for DJ Ktone’s five day long birthday bash, went off without a hitch last night. Sutra was the place to be to see some of the city’s hottest new acts and more than a few pros. A top shelf celebration, Denver Got Next boasted…
Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man, the subject of this week’s feature, will officially release its debut album, Joie De Vivre, on Saturday at the hi-dive. It’s a thrilling nine track affair, clocking in at just under thirty minutes. McTurnan told us he set out to make…
Slap the folk label on a band is kind of a sweeping generalization — simplicity in instrumentation and a focus on vocals might be a better way to describe Portland’s Priory, who come through Denver tonight for the second time in the past few months. Reminiscent of Wolf Parade and…
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW With Radical Knitting Circle • The Tanukis 03.09.11 | hi-dive A Hawk and a Hacksaw is not, in any certain terms, the type of band you yearn to see live. The outfit plays Eastern-European infused music with hat-tips to Middle Eastern and klezmer-inflected music with…
Today marks the anniversary of the day that the world lost the greatest rapper of all time. Christopher Wallace’s untimely death on March 9, 1997, had a significant impact on the rap game. If Biggie had lived, for instance, his presence would have essentially erased the need for Jay-Z. Unstoppable…
This week’s sign of the music industry apocalypse: Atlantic has signed singing hobbyist Gwyneth Paltrow to a $900,000 deal. This, of course, is total batshit lunacy for every reason, starting with fact that there is no way this relationship is worth $900,000 to either party and ending with the fact…
Everybody knows Randy Newman — his comforting, sometimes scruffy and bubble-throated voice has been a recognizable movie soundtrack staple for years. The ragtime piano player has scored over two dozen films — like this year’s Oscar winner for original song, “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 — making him…
Ah, Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G. There hasn’t been — and as long as hip-hop is a genre, won’t be — a quiet passing of March 9. Similar to when Buddy Holly took the fateful flight that inspired a nation to observe the day the music died, the day…
Sometimes hurt feelings and death threats bring people closer together — that definitely seems to be the case of the former web editor at our sister paper in Los Angeles, Erin Broadley, and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, who once threatened to kill her. After the two met, they came to the…
Purple: Perhaps the least popular color in the Crayola box next to taupe and coral. Save for fans of Prince, the Minnesota Vikings, the Fluid and Grimace, it’s not exactly the most enticing color in the world. Amazingly, however, the Uncertain Sea has combined purple with a sort of sea…
Deep in the heart of Texas, about seventy bazillion bands and at least as many tastemakers are converging in Austin for the annual South by Southwest celebration. It’s a symbiotic relationship: The bands have high hopes of being fawned over (or at least remembered fondly) by the tastemakers, whose meager…
DJ Ktone’s birthday celebration is being hailed as “The Greatest Show on Turf,” and with it’s five days of celebrations featuring some of Denver’s most prominent hip-hop artists, it’s tough not to believe the hype. There are autograph signings, red carpets, Moolah Boyz and rap tactics galore…
