It’s been a few years since Linkin Park toured the States, but the band, which recently finished a European tour, is gearing up for a North American jaunt that kicks off in January and wraps up at the Pepsi Center on Saturday, February 26. The band’s set list is slated…
Mystery solved: In case you’ve been wondering what goes into making one of those Deadmau5 heads, we stumbled across this helpful clip starring Michael Cobra, clearly the coolest dad on the planet, creating one for his young lad out of everyday items you can pick up at your neighborhood Lowe’s…
With all the hype surrounding Kanye West’s latest effort, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, it’s not surprising that disc, released last week on Def Jam, debuted at number one at Independent Records and Twist & Shout. But West didn’t make the top ten over Albums on the Hill, where Metallica’s…
John McLaughlin says he was nervous as a kitten and had sweat pouring down his back the first time he played with Miles Davis on the In a Silent Way sessions in 1969. McLaughlin had just moved to the United States from England to join Tony Williams’s Lifetime group when…
Jay Chadrom has spiced things up at Opal, his sushi restaurant and lounge at 100 East Ninth Avenue. On Friday nights, he now brings women into the lounge who stand on tables and have their bodies painted by Karolina McLean, of McLean Art and Design, who also has paintings on…
What do you do if you’re from Boulder and you don’t entirely buy into the town’s clean, wholesome image — or you’re just someone who prefers some real edge to the music you make instead of mellowing out, brah? If you’re a member of Black Acid Devil (due at the…
This band from Perth, Australia, started life as Dee Dee Dums before lineup changes and an evolving sound resulted in a change of name in 2007. These guys always get called “psychedelic,” and that’s fitting enough — if by that word you mean music that stretches out conventional song structures…
Miranda Lambert has struck a delicate balance: Together with kindred artists like Jamey Johnson, she’s made country music palatable once again to the sanctimonious scads of big-city, Tea Party-loathing dissenters, infusing the genre with a newfound sense of authenticity missing since the days of her legendary outlaw forefathers. At the…
The Black Angels have always resembled the stoners whom other stoners fear, and maybe that’s the truth. Their riffs sound like heavy metal being played through an impenetrable waterfall of boiling toxic waste, but on their new Phosphene Dream, the Angels have honed what was previously unrelenting sludginess into jagged…
Before entering Serbian mythology as the “Adversary of God,” the third- and fourth-century Roman emperor Diocletian saw himself as a restorer of traditional values and religion. His widespread persecution of the Christians in trying to do so earned him lasting infamy. Clearly inspired in part by the more lurid stories…
This one’s almost all guitar — big, distorted, consuming guitar, the kind that you’re forced to brace yourself against. Cassidy Gates’s vocals must be shouted to compete with the noise. He keeps it simple: This is rock and roll, not poetry, so long vowels and exclamations work just as well…
Before he became the keyboardist of the Nicotine Fits, Chris Bullock performed around the Front Range as Tall City. Part musical project, part literary vehicle, Soft Sunlight is a typical Tall City release. Bullock has found a way to fit the cadences of his poetry into the context of what…
Sarina Simoom has existed in various forms since 1995, when Jenna Herbst started the band in Washington, D.C. Herbst has been in Denver more than ten years now, and the band has been sort of on and off during that time. Currently, Sarina Simoom is Herbst on guitar and vocals,…
Before becoming the bassist for Queens of the Stone Age in 2007, Michael Shuman played in the bands Jubilee and Wires on Fire, the latter of which still benefits from his musical prowess. In 2009, Shuman formed Mini Mansions between obligations with Queens, and in sharp contrast to his work…
San Francisco-based dubstep producer/DJ Antiserum is aptly named: His dark, wobbling bass lines and heavy beats might just prevent infection from the dripping-with-cheese, over-the-top trance-heavy lineups prevalent across town this season. He’s been at the forefront of the West Coast dubstep movement, touring across this country and Canada as well…
As the leader of Sepultura for over a decade, Max Cavalera helped put Brazil on the map. From the beginning, the outfit was clearly influenced by punk rock as much as it was by other metal bands, as evidenced by its socially conscious lyrics, its grassroots efforts to get its…
Wolf Blitzer, the white-haired politico from CNN, can usually be found musing on the hysteria of world politics. Last night, however, he stole the show at the Soul Train Music Awards by hitting his illest and meanest “Dougie,” the dance craze sweeping the nation — and, it appears, the Situation…
December marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first show by Minor Threat, one of the best American punk bands that formed on these angsty shores. To commemorate the occasion, we’ve come up with a list of the top five current straight-edge hardcore bands that are keeping that spirit alive…
Hot on the heels of the Limewire injunction, an appeals court in Sweden recently upheld the copyright convictions of three of the men behind the file-sharing repository Pirate Bay. The appeal, which was filed in reply to the conviction in April of 2009, contends that the site’s owners were not…
A few weeks ago, we joked about Prime Element cats, uh, getting prime exposure with the Dew Tour. But seriously, at this point, the dudes might want to just go ahead and change their name once again to Prime Exposure. In addition to the notice they’re sure to attract with…
Tonight’s hi-dive show headliner Freelance Whales are great and all, but we think tour mates Miniature Tigers are equally worth a mention. Part Ben Gibbard, part Kevin Barnes, bandleader and backbone Charlie Brand creates the kind of intelligent pop music that can only get better with time…
Based out of Queens, New York, Freelance Whales (due tonight at the hi-dive with Minature Tigers) play the kind of atmospheric, experimental pop music that is often lumped under the umbrella genre title of “chamber pop.” That’s probably because the band actually seems to take care to craft songs that…
