New Year’s Eve is a little more than a week away. You’ve probably already got plans for that night, right? Of course you do. What about the night before? Bet you don’t have plans for that. That’s what we thought. You do now. As you’ve probably heard, STS9 is playing…
Lindsay Lohan may or may not go to prison (again) because she may or may not have assaulted a staff member of the rehab facility she’s staying in. Her parents must be so proud. Oh, wait…never mind. Lohan, whose music career was brief and mostly predicated upon cleavage, joins a…
Travis Egedy, who performs as Pictureplane and lives in Rhinoceropolis, has maintained a relatively high national profile in no small part due to his incessant, ridiculous tweeting. He just got back from a week-long stint in Alaska, and his social media work from the the 49th state reached unprecedented levels…
As we continue to look back on 2010, we are struck by how new labels for increasingly slippery kinds of music all sound like they were written by high freshman lit majors. Many of these attempts are merely useless, but some are worse than that: they wind up justifying shitty…
Okay, so not a million, but the Swayback frontman is putting down his bass and picking up the acoustic guitar for the first time in a long time, going solo tonight at the Surfside 7 in Fort Collins and December 23 at 3 Kings Tavern. At the request — or…
December 2010 is not likely to be a month Brad Roulier is going to forget anytime soon. As you might recall, the month started off with Roulier and his nightclub being among those named in lawsuit filed by night club rival Regas Christou in U.S. District Court, and it’s ending…
The art of the music video reached new heights in 2010. There was Charlotte Gainsbourg’s amazing collaboration with Beck, Kanye’s hip hop ballet extravaganza for his unanimously fawned-over new record, and a dizzying collection of videos from Tame Impala’s crew. But it was also an outstanding year for the experimental…
After hitting South Africa and Australia in December and January, legendary hip-hop act Public Enemy makes its way to the Ogden Theatre for a co-headlining bill with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe on Saturday, February 19. Jurrasic 5’s Chali 2na opens the show. Tickets ($25) for the 16 and over show…
The NBA has a long and awkward history of team-produced Christmas music. Last year, the Nuggets did “Winter Wonderland” with all the production value of a local car commercial.This year’s edition, released today, is more…well, entertaining at the very least. That’s right, they remade Run DMC’s Christmas classic “Christmas in…
When Meagan Patrick, a former friendly face behind the counter at Pablo’s Coffee on 6th and Washington, got sick, the community within the neighborhood hangout wanted to help. Tomorrow, December 22, longtime Pablo’s employee Jason Cain and longtime Pablo’s customer Sarah Slater are hosting a benefit to help uninsured Patrick…
Last week we took a look at five terrible holiday song parodies that took existing holiday songs and turned them into something else altogether. That’s all well and good, but it’s actually not the worst of what we found. Nope, that honor is reserved for those that turn existing pop…
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sealed his fate as the first rock-and-roller who got too old and joined the Man. The White House meeting between the King and Richard Nixon was the former’s idea — he’d written a six-page letter proposing the visit and asking to be made a…
Whatever your measure of success — whether you define it as adventurous artists making boundary-pushing music and then releasing it themselves, or as acts with commercially attractive songs that get a more mainstream push — you have to agree: A music scene is only as interesting as the music being…
Since it first opened as a movie house eight decades ago, the Roxy Theater (2549 Welton Street) has gone through many incarnations, most recently as a dance club. The building is one of many properties in Five Points acquired by Charles Cousins, who passed away in May 2009. Some of…
It’s a long way from Dallas, Texas, to the United Kingdom, but Gina Star has made the transition with both glamour and aplomb. The DJ/producer has seen several sides of the music business — at one point, she was the director of A&R at Thrive Records, putting her ear for…
As in they ain’t nothin’ to fuck with. The video, for The Hollyfelds’ excellent song “Ain’t It Something,” from 2009’s Black Heart Blue, was a collaboration with the University of Denver’s CAM Records. In it, singer Eryn Hoerig has a one-night stand that’ll wind up on her permanent record. Watch…
Last week, Jonathan and BPro shared the first installment of the “Neon Animated” trilogy, a series of videos the duo plans release separately to make one giant audio and visual megamix. Today, the now-New Yorkers have offered first dibs on “Cash”, a track off J&PB’s self-titled album — available free…
Once again, the new Live From Ebbets Field Vol.4 took the top spot at Twist & Shout, Elephant Revival’s Revival’s Break in the Clouds came in first at Albums on the Hill for the third week in a row and T.I.’s No Mercy topped Independent’s charts for second week in…
Since the release of George and Caplin’s Secluded Malls and Scenic Byways last August, the band has already offered a hard copy of the disc for free for those who sent a text message to a number hidden in a music video. To celebrate the holidays, however, the record will…
The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 years old. Beefheart is survived by his wife of forty years, Jan Van Vliet — and…
LOW With Charlie Parr 12.18.10 | Larimer Lounge Fellow Minnesotan Charlie Parr opened the show and brought a classic blues and folk sensibility to his performance. It was a pretty minimalistic, stripped down set-up but if you paid attention to what Parr was doing on guitar, it was intricate, but…
BUZZOV•EN With Kingdom of Magic • Il Cattivo 12.19.10 | Larimer Lounge We’ll get to that confederate wristband in a bit because Buzzov•en’s Southern hillbilly persona did not define this show at all. Might as well start with first opener Il Cattivo because that set was the most fun of…
