Love’s lost album from 1973, Black Beauty, is finally going to see the light of day when its released in June. The album was their first with a new lineup after Arthur Lee left the band, but the record label went bankrupt before it was ever released. It’s certainly not…
Well, we’ve now officially lost our incentive to watch this season of American Idol — not to mention our faith in America. See the smiling faces in picture right there? That’s Idol’s Top 13, as revealed last night. Notice one that’s missing? One belonging to a certain bewitching Colombia-born, Denver-School-of-the-Arts…
Earlier this week when we announced the headliners for this year’s Westword Music Showcase, we mentioned that you’d be able to pick up tickets for just ten bucks. Ten bucks for Chromeo, Yo La Tengo, Del the Funky Homosapien with a full band, Murder By Death, Young the Giant, Epilogues…
Fucking MTV. On the heels of its “extreme” strategy, we just heard the network is introducing another awards show that is apparently supposed to celebrate the “migration of music to the digital space.” The show will honor tweets and best apps…uhhh…what?!? This isn’t an awards show; this is an extra-fees-will-apply…
As last weekend’s LOVE event indicated, the underground electronic-music scene in the metro area is alive and kicking. This month alone, three new residencies are kicking off at various locales; keep reading for the details…
We all know that Kim Kardashian sucks. What we didn’t know is the vast range of her sucktitude. Have you listened to her new “Jaaammmm?” Because it is terrible and awesome. It is terr-awesome. It is the Hindenberg in skinny jeans. Oh, the humanity. It’s always wickedly entertaining when reality…
Lisa Shaw’s smooth, sultry voice is utterly unmistakable. Arguably the most noteworthy singer in contemporary house music, the modern-day diva has worked extensively with the one-and-only Miguel Migs on numerous tracks for Naked Music and Migs’ newer label, Salted. Shaw’s ubiquitous vocals are practically synonymous with deep, soulful house. Fans…
Adele, the soulful British pop diva who’s had this coming for a long time, has the first blockbuster album of 2011 with 21. She’s atop the Billboard charts this week, having sold 350,000-odd copies. This is a welcome development no matter how you look at it: Take a tour through…
Jeff Austin is an integral part of the worldwide jam and contemporary bluegrass community — the staple mandolin player is a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band, and over the years, he has played with the likes of Keller Williams and members of String Cheese Incident and North Mississippi…
Does anyone actually give a shit about what MTV has to say about music anymore? Didn’t the network abandon that whole “music” portion of its brand not too long ago? The outlet is banking on somebody giving a shit, because it’s just partnered with Sony’s “Extreme Music” library to help…
Happy 303 Day, y’all! (Or is it Merry 303 Day? We can never get it straight). Today, in case you haven’t noticed is March 3 — or 303, if you’re into that whole brevity thing — which just happens to be the area code of our fine city and the…
Don’t know if you happened to catch Idol last night. If you didn’t, you missed “Girls’ Night” in which all of the top twelve ladies had a chance to perform individually. Despite being early boosters of Julie Zorrilla, if we’re being honest here, we have to say it just wasn’t…
It’s Only Blood, the debut release from six familiar faces led by Stuart Confer, is about apathy. All four songs address not feeling when you should, and let’s just say the perspective isn’t exactly hindsight. The title track starts the seven-inch out quietly, building to a pop about halfway through…
Good lord, sounds like the Ogden’s got some pretty sweet shows lined up in the coming months. Just before he heads off to Bonnaroo and High Sierra, we hear that Warren Haynes is slated for a two-night stand at the Ogden on May 24-25, and we’ve also confirmed that Cake…
With the recent passing of Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan’s first muse, we thought it only appropriate to give a shout out to a couple of other famous ladies. The muse position is demanding and the position can vary (physically and figuratively) — it’s not all about getting a song named…
In the independent hustle of hip-hop, the mantra is: Get in where you fit in. It’s all about expansion, new business ventures and more compelling promotion of the music. Under this guise — and similar to the quarter-water-turned-multi-million-dollar-business-venture of 50 Cent — Innerstate Ike is launching his own brand of…
TREY ANASTASIO BAND 03.01.11 |Ogden Theatre Whenever I think of Phish singer/guitarist/composer Trey Anastasio’s most powerful solo work, my mind always turns to “orchestral funk” — the term Anthony Keidis used to describe the Talking Heads’ large-band era (with Adrian Belew on searing lead guitar) when inducting the art-rock legends…
Music streaming services look more and more like they’ll eventually do to MP3s what MP3s did to CDs, and what CDs did to tapes, and so on. We’re still a long way from a paradigm shift, but as the popular European streaming service Spotify makes headway in its mission to…
Oh, the magic of sibling collaboration. Why band members seem more interesting when they are related, we’re not sure, but Los Angeles folk-ish brother-sister duo Belle Brigade definitely have that going for them. Beyond that, they also carry some Joe Cocker coolness through sister-half Barbara Gruska’s soulful vocals…
Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…
Sometimes all a flier needs to do to win our hearts is be as adorable as possible. This comes together amazingly for the Snowball Festival up in Vail this weekend, which is filled to the brim with an array of acts, local and national…
Good morning! And what a good morning it is! We’ve got some major news to share with you regarding the Westword Music Showcase. We’ve just solidified the lineup for our Showcase, which takes place this year on Saturday, June 18, and it’s pretty stellar if we do say so ourselves…
