CIRCA SURVIVE With Dredg • Codeseven • Animals as Leaders 11.13.10 | Summit Music Hall Circa Survive came through the Summit Music Hall on Saturday night for a sold out show with Dredg, Codeseven and Animals as Leaders. Our intrepid shutterbug Aaron Thackeray was on hand to catch all the…
Club 753, which opened in July with some help from DJ Keoki, appears to be closed. The spot at 753 Santa Fe Drive was shuttered Friday night when we walked past, and its phone number has been disconnected. When we spoke with Club 753’s owner John Bogard in July, he…
Since the dawn of live music, artists have canceled shows for various reasons. Gigs have been called for sickness, deaths in the family, dog ate the set-list, etc, etc, blah blah blah. Crypton Future Media based out of Sapporo, Japan, has finally found a way to remedy this situation with…
In keeping with his own tradition of giving away music, Gregg Gillis, better known to the world as Girl Talk, has released his fifth album, All Day, for free download today. 2008’s Feed the Animals came with a similar purchasing premise — the famed Radiohead-style “pay-as-you-wish” option — but this…
You could say Dawes is a little folky, a little country, a little Americana. But the California quartet is also just stripped down cool, playing the autobiographical musings of Taylor Goldsmith — founder, singer and principal songwriter for Dawes. Along with fellow West Coasters Moondoggies and The Romany Eye, Dawes…
TIESTO With Robbie Rivera 11.13.10 | 1STBANK Center Holland’s native son, superstar trance DJ and dance music producer Tiesto, boasts a resume that would be hard not to find impressive. Some of its highlights: Headlining Coachella and Bonnaroo; a Grammy nomination for his 2007 album, Elements of Life; performing during…
SMALL BLACK With Class Actress • Pictureplane • Vitamins 11.13.10 | Rhinoceropolis This was a grittier than ever version of Vitamins. On the first song, it was obvious that someone had triggered a sample or a loop or something generating electronic sounds behind the band. Either way, it filled in…
SAVOY With Trajikk • Kostas • Alex B. 11.13.10 | Ogden Theatre Savoy electrified the Ogden with their crazy dirty, electro beats and a lightshow that made for one of the best productions I’ve seen in ages. The night started off with sets from Trajikk and Kostas of Triad Dragons…
BROTHERS O’HAIR With Weather Maps • The Fling 11.13.10 | Larimer Lounge One year and two months since their first show together, Brothers O’Hair returned to the Larimer Lounge with their first recording in tow. And people noticed. You could not stand within thirty feet of the stage without being…
DANZIG With Withered • Toxic Holocaust • Marduk • Possessed 11.12.10 | Ogden Theatre Atlanta’s Withered set the stage for much of what was to follow with its admixture of death metal and grindcore. But instead of playing with lightning speed, this band seemed to care more about mood and…
VOODEUX With Tanner Ross • Worthy • DJ Hipp-E 11.13.10 | Beta The Roots Dirtybird & Mothership Showcase at Beta featured some of the best house and techno sets Denver has seen this year, all rolled up into one slick package and blasted over an amazing sound system. Tanner Ross,…
HEY MONDAY With We Are The In Crowd • the Ready Set • Cartel • This Century 11.12.10 | Marquis Theater If there was any question as to whether this show was sold out, the line snaking past the Gin Mill just before 7 p.m. dispelled any doubts. Each of…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” Whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of all…
Last week in Poptimystic, we talked about Taylor Swift and her unparalleled ability to sell albums in the current music industry wasteland. But the album is not what it once was, and the ability to sell singles may actually be a better litmus test of an artist’s influence. It remains…
A few weeks ago, Tom Murphy and I were sharing stories, and somehow we got on to the subject of Tornado Dream, a fascinating film chronicling the rise and fall of three great Denver bands, Rainbow Sugar, Orbit Service (an earlier incarnation; Randall Frazier has since brought the band back…
Witch House: Bigger than “Chillwave,” not as controversial as “Rapegaze,” maybe existing somewhere on a plane with the short-lived, but massively influential No Wave? The internet-seeded musical genre took on a life of its own earlier this year, with bands like Salem, Shams and our own Pictureplane being touted as…
Formed in 2009, Weekend started out as a trio comprised of guys from punk and hardcore bands in the Bay Area who wanted to do something with a broader sonic palette. Often compared to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Weekend doesn’t really sound like either so…
Small Black’s debut EP definitely harks back to those great synth-pop songs of the early ’80s with its vintage sound, but with a kind of lo-fi production more in line with a later era in music. The strong songwriting and a keen sense of pacing and melody continued into the…
Everyday is Halloween for Danzig. Tonight, you can see Glenn in all of his dark, shirtless, wavy black-haired glory at the Ogden theatre for just 35 bucks — or enter to win tickets by telling us five souls more evil than Danzig. Danzig has made an admirable , forty-plus year-long…
We don’t generally spend too much time talking about gear here, but over the last couple of days, two incredibly rad and hard to ignore apps made it onto the iPad. We’re talking about the release of ReBirth and the Korg iMS-20 — both of which, even if you’re not…
Danzig is bringing his Blackest of the Black tour to the Ogden Theatre tomorrow night with Possessed, Marduk, Toxic Holocaust and Withered. Do you want to bang heads with me — er, us, rather? We’ve got a pair of tickets with your name on them. Would you and a guest…
The best is yet to come for Kal Cahoone. Which is crazy, because her musical resume is already quite impressive. She began writing songs while living in Chile. There, she collaborated with composer Christian Basso (one of their songs appears in the film Dot The I). When she came back…
