Rockie and Adam Duncan premiered a new video this week, and as the name implies, “Cover Girl,” directed by Vital Films out of Aspen, features pretty girls. Lots and lots of them. The only guys in this moving picture, in fact, appear to be Rockie and Duncan, and that seems…
Audio books are all about finding the perfect actor with the perfect voice to read to you while you drive across the country. So, when we heard Will Oldham had taken on the narration of Rudolph Wurlitzer’s Slow Fade, we started thinking about what other artists should venture into the…
Alex B is no stranger to the electronic scene. The producer has been making music since he was nineteen. A member of Pnuma, he first started making music on his own as Paper Diamond. That project, which is signed to the Pretty Lights Music imprint, became increasingly popular without him…
Linkin Park does not need an introduction. From Hybrid Theory to their newest album, A Thousand Suns, LP has continued to progress and grow as a band, giving its eager fan-base something to look forward to with every new release. In advance of the band’s show this Saturday, February 26…
A few days ago, Neko Case sparked an excellent dialog regarding a regular facet of female musicianhood with this simple Twitter statement: “To answer your question, no, ladies in bands don’t get ANY action. Actresses have a lean on all the ‘pussy’ we were supposed to get.” Her subtle but…
The Cool Kids have been stuck in label hell for over a year now trying to get their debut full-length released. Their relationship with previous label, Chicago’s Chocolate Industries, went bad, and none of the majors interested in the album could figure out an offer that worked for everyone. In…
It has been a long journey for Nappy Roots — the hip hop group formed in 1995 as sextet of friends, spent some time in the early 2000s on Atlantic Records during the radio boom of Southern rap and now run their own label as a five-piece…
When we heard about Nervesandgel’s ambitious project to get sounds from friends last week, we started looking into the idea of digitized found sound recordings. A few days later, we finally crawled out of the Internet’s rabbit hole with some interesting results and a peek into the private lives of…
The Naughty Prince had a nice run as “Denver’s premiere dart bar” at 7950 East Mississippi Avenue before it finally closed at the end of last year. Now Mugsy’s Bar has opened in about 1,800 of the 4,500 square feet (three strip-mall units) of space that the Naughty Prince occupied…
Last year, as you might recall, the Swayback landed a gig at Rock ‘N Rev, the largest shindig at Sturgis. Just before Christmas, we posted one of the videos from that trip featuring some rad footage the dudes shot to go along with a tune called “St. Francis” that they…
Psst! Whatcha doing tonight? Really? Funny, we saw your Facebook status just a bit ago, and we could’ve swore it read something like: Very busy evening tonight — eating dinner, folding laundry, watching Idol, and, uh, updating your Facebook status, we presume. Actually, hold on: That might’ve been ours…
Doritos, a 64-ounce drink, a shoulder massage and a fan keeping you cool, all handled by some incredibly lovely ladies — really, does it get any better than that? Probably not. Witness Denver house DJ and man about town Uriah West, photographed at Vinyl. Clearly, being a DJ has it’s…
A decade after starting the Jayhawks with Gary Louris, Mark Olson left the band in 1995, the same year Tomorrow the Green Grass was released, to look after his then-wife Victoria Williams, after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. While the Jayhawks continued to tour without him until the band…
Tim Weilert has maintained the excellent local music blog Something Like Sound for two years now. The School of Mines student will graduate in May and move to Austin, making these his last few months at the blog’s helm. He isn’t leaving quietly, however: Today Weilert released his second Colorado…
Though his debut album, Boy Meets World, came out in 2009, rapper Fashawn has flourished more within the realm of the mixtape, a format he’s been using since 2006. Among his many mixtape releases came Ode to Illmatic, a track-by-track take on the classic Nas album that showcased Fashawn’s uncanny…
It’s that time of year again, when Westword hands the keys over to you for our Readers’ Poll, which serves as an accompaniment to our Best of Denver® 2011 issue (out March 31.) Get your favorite concert, new band, new club, new whatever, recognized in our issue, and get those…
You know what’s awesome about dream catchers? They catch your dreams and turn them into reality. Well, that’s how we’ve always understood it — though we’ve never actually researched it. Anyway, this flier for the Bonnie & the Beard release party might just be a dream come true, as releasing…
SWANS With Wooden Wand 02.22.11 | Summit Music Hall Last night, James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, was joined by two other guitar players — Brian Lowery and William Tyler. And although there were three guitars and the guys were playing through Orange amps, they did not produce a huge…
Country superstar Toby Keith says he used to play in Colorado quite a bit, including five-night stints at the Grizzly Rose, and so it made sense to open his ninth and largest Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Denver. Keith stopped by his 22,000 square-foot Northfield Stapleton…
Reverend Run was on the Auraria campus today talking all about how he parlayed his position from a life of ‘hood proportions, growing up in Hollis, Queens, to one of an almost royal standard. Using his inspirational synthesis, which, if you follow him on Twitter, you can spot from a…
Here’s what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists from a number of different shows, including KTCL’s Locals Only*, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and…
Have plans tonight? You do now, perhaps. We’ve got three pairs of tickets to the Swans show tonight at the Summit Music Hall with Wooden Wand. Would you and a guest like to be our guests? To see the show on us, let us know which directors Michael Gira mentions…
