Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…
WU-hah! If you’re going to SXSW this year, be sure to mark Thursday, March 17 on your calendar with a big fat red circle. Austin Music Hall is the place to be from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. for our annual Village Voice Showdown, being co-produced by Frank 151. This…
There’s a PBS special called Marketing Cool that explains how businesses and retailers tell consumers what’s cool, then have them buy it. It’s all about the “Cool Factor.” Twitter is all about that same cool factor. But it’s only effective if it’s used wisely…
The next incarnation of Brewski’s Pub & Grill opened at 2100 East 104th Avenue in Northglenn. Chuck Persichetti — who ran the old Brewski’s at Highway 36 and Pecos Street for a decade, as well as several other spots during his 45-year run in the bar business — opened the…
Renegade producer FreQ Nasty is now on the Monsters of Bass tour with MartyParty (one half of PantyRaid) and Opiou; they’ll stop at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom on Wednesday, March 2. To help get you in the mood for the bass, we’ve got two downloads for you today: FreQ Nasty’s “Dread…
Okay so by now you’ve had a chance to absorb the deflating news that the Mile High Music Festival is being put on ice this year, and you’ve even offered up with some suggestions of how to make Mile High more enticing if the festival returns next year, which organizers…
Denver Noise Fest may very well be the loudest, most chaotic event that Denver sees on a yearly basis. It can give you tinnitus in the span of four minutes, cause an upset stomach in ten and rupture your bowels in twenty. That is to say, it’s the most fun…
The most rock and roll cellist in Denver has released a new song titled “The Race.” Ian Cooke, in conjunction with producer/manager/guitarist Ian O’Dougherty, also released all twelve parts of the song as separate tracks, and they’re inviting you to “Play, Record, Manipulate, Mix, Remix” at your leisure. “We’ve been…
Look, we’ll be the first to admit iOS is a treasure-trove of useless crap, but every once and while one of those pieces of useless crap steps outside the boundary and does something remarkably cool. Case in point, this Jackson 5 remix app called Musicshake that lets you completely reconfigure…
Forming at the tender age of fifteen in the early ’00s, there’s no doubt the Coronas sound was shaped by The Strokes and their ilk. At times, the still youngish four-piece even channel a little of that Gin Blossoms’ movie soundtrack charm — guitars and piano merge dramatically with drums…
Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on…
Adele’s new album 21, released last week on Columbia, debuted in the number one spots at both Twist & Shout and Independent Records, while coming in third at Albums on the Hill. Stockholm Syndrome, meanwhile, claimed the top spot at Albums on the Hill with its latest, Apollo, released February…
JOSH RADINWith Laura Jansen and Cary BrothersBoulder Theater | February 28, 2011 “The Radin audience is an audience that loves music,” said Laura Jansen in the middle of her opening set. And, I would add, chick flicks, even if, like me, they’d vehemently deny that under oath. But only the…
In case you’ve noticed that the Mile High Music Festival hasn’t announced its lineup yet for this year and you’ve wondered why — first of all, congratulations on being astute, but secondly, the lineup hasn’t been revealed because, well, there is no lineup this year. There is no festival. After…
When I lived there, I saw a dead person after he was shot,” recalls Catch Lungs of living in Phoenix as a kid. “There was blood dripping all over. I was a kid, and seeing a dead body like that up close was crazy. It was a weird perception to…
“We’ve got a jukebox here, and we’re just kind of keeping it more of a neighborhood bar,” says David Senger, the owner of 3014, which last year took over the space at 3014 East Colfax Avenue previously occupied by Senger’s on the Fax. He recently laid off the guys who’d…
Like a lot of young punkers, Red Vs. Black drummer Sam Tallent and bassist Clay Dehaan were infected with the bug when they connected with early hardcore bands. But unlike many of their peers, Tallent and Dehaan don’t treat their music like a cultural accessory to cast off in early…
After a four-year stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that included being the band’s musical director, alto saxophonist Bobby Watson went on to play on nearly thirty albums as a leader and close to a hundred recordings as a sideman with jazz heavies like Max Roach, George Coleman, and Wynton…
There’s nothing at all ironic about this band embracing ’70s power pop. In the ’80s, too many acts who were heavily influenced by the gritty glam rock of Slade and the sharp hooks of Sweet produced some seriously shlocky material. Bare Wires, meanwhile, seems to have taken stylistic cues from…
In contrast to the deafening blog-shouting that accompanied the Cold War Kids’ 2006 debut, this year’s release of their third LP, Mine Is Yours, prompted little more than a squeak. Now largely dismissed as simpering riders of a long-since-crashed wave of toothless indie pop, the Kids are getting older and…
Anyone living in the United States after 1970 — when Randy Newman’s classic 12 Songs was released — has heard Randy Newman somewhere, somehow. Because of his hit songs, including “Short People” and “I Love L.A.,” and his scoring of numerous movies and television shows, Newman’s presence and his knack…
Falling somewhere between Tin Pan Alley and bluesy Americana, this debut from Bonnie & the Beard sounds as if the band spent last year on an extended journey, collecting adventures and experiences along the way. The songs are the sort that come from people who once had dreams of running…
