Although physical albums are on their way to being rendered completely useless, there was a time — believe it or not — back when telephones still had curly cords, that all recordings were only available in a tangible form. As such, you developed attachments to your favorite records, and yes,…
Power metal fans rejoice! Spools of Dark Thread, one of Denver’s favorite on-again, off-again metal bands, led by charismatic frontman Chris Thomas (Random Friend Generator, Omniism), is back in the saddle again. Yessir. Mark your calendars. A date has been set for the act’s triumphant return: Saturday, March 12 at…
Marie Litton has always had such a lovely voice. It was a sad day for all of us when Ghost Buffalo broke up a few years ago. Inevitably, though, as is typical with these sorts of things, we ended up with two great bands as a result of the split:…
Fort Collins’s Candy Claws has been able to achieve international attention in large part because they have been so adept at finding creative ways to reach potential listeners. The act’s latest venture, a weekly show called Candy Claws in Dreamland that the members will shoot, edit and write the soundtrack…
Now into its third decade, Sarah McLachlan’s career seems to be burning brighter than it has in a long time. The singer-songwriter was instrumental in bringing women to the forefront in the ’90s with her female artist-focused Lilith Fair tour, a festival that flourished at a pivotal time in popular…
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…
Queens of the Stone Age, who will re-release an expanded and remastered edition of its self-titled debut, visits the Ogden Theatre on Friday, April 8, as part of short tour that only includes fourteen North American dates. On this tour, Josh Homme and company will be playing the entire first…
The Decemberists latest effort, The King is Dead, continues to hold on the top spot at Twist & Shout, while Gregg Allman’s Low Country Blues, released last month on Rounder, came in first at Albums on the Hill for the week ending February 13. Akron/Family’s new album, meanwhile, S/T II:…
DeVotchKa’s latest offering, 100 Lovers isn’t due out on Anti- Records till March 1, but the fine folks over at NPR’s All Songs Considered are streaming the new record in its entirety until its release. The record, produced by Craig Schumacher, features DeVotchKa’s trademark, Eastern European inspired sound, but Nick…
BEST COAST With Waaves and No Joy 02.14.11 | Fox Theatre Opening the show with “Ghost Blonde,” No Joy provided the perfect blend of noisy garage rock and dream pop. The title track to the group’s debut full-length is one of its best songs and a strong introduction to the…
A year before Trombone Shorty (aka Troy Andrews) scored a number jazz album with his major label debut, he was already sparring with lions. Just check out the eight-minute YouTube clip of the young Shorty trading trumpet licks with Wynton Marsalis at the House of the Blues in New Orleans…
Salmineo Martin — or Big Sal, as he’s known in the professional wrestling community — built a strong reputation with Juggalo Championship Wrestling and Primo’s Hardcore Wrestling; he even went on tour with the Insane Clown Posse. But while he still spends time in the ring, he’s now grappling with…
If Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds had been born in the ’80s or ’90s, they probably would have written their songs entirely in private and recorded them on their computers before unleashing them on the public. The music of Nick Jones (performing under the Thrifty Astronaut moniker this Thursday, February…
Young the Giant possesses songwriting wisdom and craft far beyond that of a band whose oldest member is only 22. The California quintet is made up of guys who started playing music at a young age and have already amassed more indie-rock cred and mainstream clout than most players who…
Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads is not exactly redefining punk, but these dudes may be responsible for breathing life back into it — or at least one of the labels that helped shape the genre. In February 2010, the foursome signed with punk stalwart Epitaph Records, which will release the…
Going by the moniker “Dee Dee” these days, Kristin Gundred once fronted experimental pop band Grand Ole Party. After that band split in 2009, Dee Dee formed Dum Dum Girls and dispensed with the post-punk of her former band in favor of the kind of singing and songwriting that allows…
Considering its disparate parts — spastic, nearly chaotic song dynamics with angular but wild guitar antics, asymmetrical drumming, a bass that locks in with its eccentric rhythms, and a singer who can’t really carry a tune in any conventional sense — Deerhoof shouldn’t work. And yet the act manages to…
By the time Brazil native Carmen Sandim was seventeen, she had already won national competitions in both Brazilian jazz and classical piano. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, she went on to win several awards for the compositional work she did for television and radio. So it’s no…
Here’s the fake backstory: German pop duo Chön and Biktor have a few favorite things — notably, traveling to space, courting women in extremely ill-advised ways and making ’80s electro jamz. The actual story is that three dudes from Denver — Randy Washington (Chön), Adam Nix (Biktor) and Evan Nix…
Name & Town, Molina’s collaboration with New Mexico’s Diles, is like a rhythmic trip through a psychedelic desert. The track “Meditation,” for example, almost floats out to you with tribal-flute harmonies mixed in with hip-hop beats, eloquent DJ cuts and the deep, warm voice of Molina. As far as features…
Few bands have had as wide-ranging and unlikely an influence as Swans. Starting in 1982 with an early incarnation that included Thurston Moore, the band created music that was like the perfect evocation of anguish and desperate release, with brutally pounding rhythms and seething, atonal sounds to accompany singer Michael…
Walker Barnard’s funk credentials extend back to his childhood, when his father (who made music videos for Motown artists) took him to the set of Rick James’s “Super Freak” video. He’s only gotten deeper into the genre through the years, playing bass in L.A.-based funk band Mobius Trip in the…
