THE APPLES IN STEREO With Fol Chen 10.22.10 | Bluebird Theater Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider has described the band’s latest effort, Travellers in Space and Time, as “retro-futuristic super-pop,” a tag which could just as easily be applied to some of the band’s earlier material. It’s also an…
BASSNECTAR Dan Deacon • Ott, That 1 Guy • Brother Ali 10.23.10 | 1STBANK Center Full slideshow from Bassnectar at 1STBANK Center Lorin Ashton, the DJ and producer also known as Bassnectar, speaks loudly and carries a big bassline. Loosely defined as dubstep, Bassnectar’s signature sub-heavy style — which pulls…
So the story goes: Derek Miller met Alexis Krauss one day when he was serving her and her mother at a restaurant, and Krauss’s mom pushed her into working on music with Miller. Until a few years ago, Miller had been living in southern Florida where he was a member…
Overcasters are one helluva band, and with The Whole Sea is Raging, its latest effort, the outfit has notably kicked things up a few notches. Last night at the Weather Center, their homebase on 14th and Zuni, Kurt Ottaway and company kicked off the Gathering of the Clouds festival, which…
Next Saturday, October 23, at Lucky Strike Lanes in Belmar, Flobots are hosting their second annual Bring It On Bowling Ball. Last year, the outfit challenged members of the Fray, Flogging Molly and Single File, along with some Nuggets and Rapids players and KTCL personalities, to a bowl-off to raise…
Sara Thurston (aka DJ Sara T.) is in town from Los Angeles this weekend for another edition of Danceotron — her “No Bullshit” dance party, now in its eighth year — and she’s also hard at work editing footage of Lust-Cats of the Gutters’ “Nothing Cool Happens on Dates” video,…
This weekend’s Sneaker Prom and Shoe Shine are easily becoming among the most popular sneaker events in the country. Having involved over 200 artists and businesses over the years, both are outstanding community-oriented events, as well as a can’t-be-missed showcase the most sophisticated stylings in sneaker art. If you’re serious…
Judging by Jersey Shore alone, becoming famous isn’t particularly difficult these days. Still, a leg-up is always welcome, and if your parents are already stars, you’re pretty much guaranteed to at least get a chance to shine. Case in point, Willow Smith. Besides the fact we don’t actually understand what…
Over the past few years, quite a few acts from these parts, including Paper Bird, Young Coyotes, Nathaniel Rateliffe have recorded Daytrotter sessions. More recent sessions have included Tennis, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, who recorded tracks there last week, and Drag the River, whose session was uploaded yesterday. “There’s a…
CURREN$Y Big K.R.I.T. • Smoke DZA • Corner Boy P 10.21.10 | Marquis Theater It was little testy last night at the Marquis. Things got off to a tense start with a heavy-handed security presence combined with a restlessness on the part of the crowd as they waited for the…
Like most weekends in the Mile High City, there’s no shortage of great shows to see in Denver in the next few days, from Overcasters Gathering of the Clouds festival to Apples in Stereo at the Bluebird to Bassnectar’s 1STBASS Center (with Emancipator and Dan Deacon) to Of Montreal at…
NATHANIEL RATELIFF 10.21.10 | Lost Lake Lounge Nathaniel Rateliff struck a delicate musical balance in his tribute to Leonard Cohen Thursday at the Lost Lake Lounge. His two-part solo performance spanned several albums and eras from Cohen’s storied musical career. Armed simply with a nylon-stringed guitar, a music stand and…
BrikAbrak, the vinyl-slinging, Al Green- and Old Dirty Bastard-mixing DJ, can most often be found rocking a party to high heaven or backing up one of Denver’s premier MCs on any given night. On the daily, though, you can find him at 3237 East Colfax Avenue, watching dough rise and…
Hankering for something exceedingly cool to do tonight? Yeah? Write this down: Lost Lake Lounge (3602 E. Colfax). That’s the place to be for what should be just a stellar evening of live music. Hot on the heels of his show at the Gothic a few weeks ago, Nathaniel Rateliff…
Ari Up (aka Arianna Foster), a founding member of the Slits, passed away yesterday at the young age of 48. John Lydon, who is married to Nora Foster, Up’s mother, delivered the disheartening news rather succinctly on his website: “John and Nora have asked us to let everyone know that…
Apples in Stereo: Memba them? What are we saying? Of course you do. Only one of the most righteous bands to ever come out of this square state. Despite the fact that Robert Schneider broke countless hearts around here when he moved (most of) the operation out of state, the…
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM With Hot Chip 10.20.10 | Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO It’s surprising that Hot Chip isn’t more popular in Colorado. Priming the stage for LCD Soundsystem last night at the Fillmore, the U.K. band’s music is definitely electronic at its base, but layers of guitar and living drumming lean…
Last week, on the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles, a previously unknown rap-rock group called Imperial Stars stopped traffic so they could play an impromptu gig on the roof of a panel van. Appropriately, the Imperial doofuses performed a song titled “Traffic Jam 101.” This über-lame, Airheads-worthy publicity stunt…
If you’re anything like us, streaming music services like Pandora or lastfm don’t ever seem to really get things right. They’re always cool for a little bit, but inevitably, they end up repeating things to the point that we get bored. We’ll turn on the radio here and there as…
HOLY FUCK Indian Jewelry • Gauntlet Hair • Peter Black 10.20.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO As usual, Peter Black set the stage for what was to come with what seemed like sonically appropriate remixes. Right before the first band took the stage, it sounded like some kind of experimental…
When Derek Miller was in pioneering metal-core band Poison the Well, he probably didn’t think he’d be a member of an up-and-coming noise-pop band from Brooklyn, especially one that released its debut album on M.I.A.’s label. However, it was Miller’s desire to do an entirely different style of music that…
Okay, so we picked a winner for the pair of LCD Soundsystem tickets we had for tonight. If your name isn’t Brandon Saranik and your submission wasn’t “Liquid Courage Dancing,” we’re guessing you’re slightly bummed. (If it’s any consolation, there were a ton of responses we dug — Lethargic Cares…
