Music

When half-brothers Patrick Wilson and Nicholas Blake were looking for a concept for their new club, Rock Star Lounge (940 Lincoln Street), they found inspiration in Nickelback’s “Rockstar” video. “It appeals to every single person,” Blake explains. “You’ve got construction workers, valets, policemen, supermodels and Playboy bunnies. And everybody just…

Before he spent time in a cabin on Long Island writing what would become the debut EP by Small Black, Josh Kolenik was in a rock band called Slowlands that played around New York to some acclaim. But when Kolenik moved on to writing his synth-centric material as Small Black,…

Lately, Seattle has become known for lush folk rock in the vein of Fleet Foxes or hammer-headed, Band of Horses-style dreamscapes that caress the soul but punish the ears with shimmering noise. The Moondoggies, however, look the lumberjack part but hit a bluesy guilty-pleasure spot with chugging lo-fi AM rock…

Supposedly started as a joke band of sorts, Arsonists Get All the Girls became more popular than its members’ more serious projects. A sampling of songs from the group’s catalogue doesn’t make the joke immediately obvious, because these guys sound like a serious death-metal band, with electronic sounds stitching everything…

In 2010, it’s a good time to be a rapper who doesn’t fit the usual narrative. Needless to say, J. Cole is off to an excellent start. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole took an academic scholarship to go to St. John’s in New York…

All the pieces are here for this band to be the next Fillmore-filler birthed from the jam-friendly loins of the Centennial State. While the act’s sound is clearly organic, a natural byproduct of its members’ influences — Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Allman Brothers, Otis Redding, and Black Crowes, according…

There’s plenty here: ’70s AM gold, big band, new wave, piano ballad, funk. But in forty minutes of run time, nothing especially coherent emerges. The album feels a lot like a room full of shouting people. The standout tracks, by a mile, are a pair of covers for which Meantoad…

I felt like I was joining Guns N’ Roses and Axl kept trying to teach me ‘Sweet Child of Mine,'” says Brothers O’ Hair bassist Joe Mills, recalling the early days of his band. “I was like, ‘Come on, man, it’s Chinese Democracy time!'” Although the group, fleshed out by…

GHOSTFACE With Sheek Louch • Frank Dukes • Black Pegasus • Liquid Assassin 11.06.10 | Summit Music Hall Ghostface swooped through Denver over the weekend for a performance at Summit Music Hall with Sheek Louch, Black Pegasus and Liquid Assassin. The venue, with its blue lights and dark interior, created…

LOTUS With Infected Mushroom 11.06.10 | Fillmore Auditorium I arrived at the Fillmore a little early to make sure I didn’t miss a beat of Infected Mushroom, an act whose shows I’ve damaged many pairs of dancing shoes at over the years. Founders Erez Eizen and Amit Duvdevani began as…

As host of ¡Chale Vato!, Laru Loud — better known to some as Raul San Miguel, the nightlife photographer who’s shot your band, your fashion show and probably your epic party — brings the bass to the Squire Lounge tonight. This once-a-month gathering is a must for dubstep fans and…

DOOMTREE With Yonnas Abraham 11.05.10 | Marquis Theater Doomtree, the hip-hop consortium out of Minneapolis, rocked the house for a sold out crowd on Friday at the Marquis. There’s seven members of the rap crew (nine, including producers), so what began as individual displays of rap endowment sectioned off in…

Whoever pointed out that the cover of Tennis’s forthcoming Fat Possum debut, Cape Dory, appeared to be an homage to Lisa Hartman’s 1979 album Hold On was right on the money. We caught up with Patrick Riley to get more details on the record, and he confirmed as much. “We…

Earlier this year Thurston Moore made a bit of, ahem, noise when he gave a dissertation on white noise to children between the ages of eight and twelve-years-old in New York City. It looks like he’s now moving on to students a little older for his next round of teaching…

BROKENCYDE With Millionaires, Kill Paradise, and The Hit 11.07.10 | Summit Music Hall, Denver View full slideshow from Brokencyde Last night’s Brokencyde show is the sort of package tour common in the world of teenager-targeted internet music, and the formula is simple: Stick a bunch of similar-sounding (and looking) bands…

YODA’S HOUSE With Married in Berdichev • Hot White • Hideous Men 11.06.10 | Rhinoceropolis Things got started fashionably late at Rhino with Married in Berdichev. The first song sounded for all the world like a Brittany Gould original, with all the gorgeously lush and delicately textured grandeur enveloping you…

YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE 11.07.10 | 1STBANK Center, Broomfield See the full slideshow It would kind of rule if all concerts were split into two half-hour sets with a twenty-minute break between — but unfortunately, not all shows are geared toward four-year-olds. Yesterday’s Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! was, however, and…

KATE NASH With Peggy Sue 11.06.10 | Ogden Theatre Kate Nash, it turns out, is fucking punk rock. Yes, the Kate Nash with a single called “Merry Happy,” the one with the dress-up music videos and glossy studio singles. An understandable first glance might lead you to believe she is…

PAUL OAKENFOLD With Zen Freeman 11.05.10 | Ogden Theatre See the full slideshow Paul Oakenfold, who headlined the Ogden Theatre last night, has been spinning steadily to crowds around the world since the late 1980s. He has quite a track record, having founded the Perfecto imprint in 1989, the responsible…