In the early ’90s, Liz Phair (due at the Bluebird Theater this Tuesday) started releasing tapes she called Girly Sound. These early tapes revealed a wide-ranging and playful musical creativity and helped to establish Phair in the underground music scene in Chicago. Somehow these tapes made it into the hands…
Yesterday, the Canadian equivalent of the FCC decided to ban the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” from the radio because of the use of a certain slur. Fair enough, but it seems like they might be a little late to the party, as we’re pretty certain Mark Knopfler and…
Molina is an MC, lecturer and artist who is rooted and steeped in hip-hop from a purist and cultural point of view. Having spent most of the year touring and building his brand from his many multi-faceted projects, including a poetry/hip-hop fusion project with female voice and artistic phenom, Aju,…
Fancy yourself a hard-core fan? No, seriously. We mean hard-core as in die-hard — and a fan of hardcore the music. Good. You’re going to need to be to appreciate what this. Over at Artifacting.com, they’ve just posted 24 hours of hardcore, everything from Denver’s Bum-Kon to MDC to the…
Oblivion Fringe, the local imprint run by Alert, is releasing some brand-new tracks today from up-and-coming producer/DJ (and Whomp Truck innovator) Just Ben, whose dubstep sensibilities are proof that this genre isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Click through to stream/download tracks…
A couple of days ago, we posted the first track from Spoke In Wordz forthcoming effort Power of Wordz and speculated that it has all the trappings to be a heater. Suspicions confirmed. We’ve come across three more tracks, and they’re all bangers. Spoke doesn’t mince words on the first…
Colorado’s easy-going persona has always been a magnet for transplants, and hey, if we had a beach, our population would probably rival California’s. But for Raven and the Writing Desk — a band who’s founding members, Julie Libassi and Scott Conroy, landed in our fair square state via Boston in…
Joe Thunder is steady grinding. Lazy Sundayz Volume 5 and Mile High Madness Volume 3 are just about under wraps, and the Box State Music mastermind blessed us with a couple of exclusive tracks for you. The first cut, produced by DealzMakesBeats, is a rhodes-inflected tune, smoothy smooth with a…
Sole, aka Tim Holland, is looking for a little help from fans to fill the streets with Tea Party extras this weekend for his newest video, “White Rage.” The filming will be going down Saturday at a currently undisclosed location downtown around 2 p.m. Click through for full details if…
The folks in the Whiskey Bottles may be based in Boulder, but they clearly have an affinity for Southern-flavored alt-country and Midwestern Americana. Ain’t No Crime, the quintet’s debut, is absolutely brimming with equal amounts of grit and twang. Singers Molly Orlando and Dylan Ward pleasingly trade off lead vocals…
Jimmy ‘Stx’ Blair, drummer for Heart & Soul Radio (formerly Animo and Dork), just issued a statement that took a tremendous amount of guts to make. “If I have learned anything recently,” he states, “it has been that there is no time like the present and complete honesty is always…
There’s no question that Wiz Khalifa has a loyal following. That much was evident when his Taylor Gang invaded the Ogden last fall. What we didn’t know was that his reach stretches all the way to the playground. Witness Houston’s Young Lyric (aka Lyrikkal) — emphasis on young; shorty is…
After last week’s Poptimystic in which we questioned the value of Next Big Sound’s new Billboard charts, company co-founder Alex White got in touch to clarify some things. Our complaint with the more compelling of the two charts, the NBS25, was that it never features the same artists twice, and…
Okay, so here’s a nutty idea. Last week, Taylor Swift topped the Billboard charts once again by selling 52,000 copies of her Speak Now album — an industry low, reportedly, taking the title from the Dreamgirls soundtrack, which previously held the distinction with 67,000 sales…
A date has finally been set for the premiere of Denver Undiscovered, the eagerly awaited documentary project spearheaded by Dane Bernhardt of Crazy Horse Studios and our own Tom Murphy, focusing on the high points and underexposed aspects of the Denver scene. The film, which is being presented in concert…
The hip-hop scene has been incredibly busy these past few weeks churning out visual components to coincide with their individual projects. Don’t miss Mr. Midas and his chartered plane on “Run My Town,” a shirtless Pries in the snow on “I Don’t Care,” a pair of sparse cityscape clips from…
Before the womp-womp of dubstep, there was the brap-brap of drum-and-bass. Tonight, Beauty & the Bass brings drum-and-bass back to the forefront, with massive sounds provided by local movement heads Despise, Fresh Breath Committee’s DJ Skip Rip, and Nofrendo — whose multiple sonic talents we profiled last summer — on…
Soulja Boy is struggling. His latest album, The DeAndre Way, posted anemic sales figures, and he’s only still making news by picking painfully stupid fights way out of his weight class. Many people in the world have always hated him, and for them, watching the man flail around in 2011,…
The majority of the fliers we see are deadly serious affairs, but thankfully, the crew over at Bocumast knows how to make light of a situation while still retaining the essentials of a well put together flier. The fact this one has Neil Armstrong on it just seals the deal…
As reported yesterday, several people headed out on Jam Cruise were busted for trying to bring drugs on board the ship. Like this is a surprise. Jam bands and mind-expanding drugs go together like…like…look, if I have to explain this, you just ain’t gonna get it, man. So we got…
Oh, Mike. What would we do without your insanely high productivity level and generous demeanor? The singer-songwriter has gifted us with three EPs of free downloading pleasure to say thanks for a great 2010. Plus, he’s started a new band — name, members and other pertinent information to come –…
All right, the next time you think of stereotyping jam band connoisseurs as dirty weed smoking hippies, you might want to reconsider. Just after the first of the year, the Jam Cruise, a six-day musical excursion to the Caribbean, with Boulder’s Big Gigantic, Bob Weir, Robert Randolph and Galactic, among…
