Safe Boating Is No Accident has just opened up shop — a little piece of Internet real estate devoted to sales of Isn’t It Fun?, released in September. The band has chosen to go an admirably realistic route, offering fans the option to pay the suggested ten dollars for the…
Ever wonder what a Drag the River album sounds like before it gets tracked with drums and amps? Wonder no more. The band has made almost half of the 24 tracks that are being recorded for a new studio album due out next year available for download on its Bandcamp…
Chrissie Hynde is not one to romanticize the past, but she’s done plenty that almost anyone else who has done even a tenth as much would be right to feel proud about. In the mid-’70s, Hynde moved from her home town of Akron, Ohio, to London, England, and landed in…
John Statz may not be a full-time resident of Denver, but the Mile High City shouldn’t take it personally. The singer-songwriter’s unquenchable wanderlust has taken him from Colorado to Wisconsin to West Virginia to Hungary, and during his travels, he wrote Ghost Towns, a full-length dripping with folk-rock immediacy and…
“More Sunlight” begins this EP sounding like Twitch-era Ministry gone disco, almost like Bronski Beat if it had gone in a much darker direction. The Flashlight guys have figured out how to perfectly mix Ethan Converse’s light and expertly executed falsetto with vintage synths and percussion that sounds like it…
Lissie, who was slated to perform tonight at the Bluebird, had to cancel the show. “Just found out my vocal cords are ready to explode and if I don’t stop talking and singing for at least 2 weeks-possible permanent damage,” she posted on her Twitter account. “But I also want…
We’ve received word that Absolutely Huge Entertainment has signed an agreement to take over the Oriental Theater, which became available in August. Headed up by Anna Muniz, who has over twenty years of experience in the bar and entertainment industry, the group also includes Joe Hendricks, who ran the Fallen…
It was only a matter of time before a film was made about Phil Spector. His life has been bonkers enough to at least warrant a made-for-TV movie. It turns out, this might just end up being the case. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that David Mamet…
Cassettes, in case you haven’t noticed, are once again becoming viable. The number of tape-only imprints that seem to keep cropping up have not only made for decent blogger bait (see our recent Deathbomb Arc item or the recent NPR blog post focusing on Ft. Collins Patient Sounds), but it’s…
Burbank, California’s DIY label Deathbomb Arc began a monumental sonic undertaking this September, offering up over a hundred songs to subscribers of its year-long “Digital Singles Club” for just ten bucks. Taken from the idea behind the label’s past cassette-tape club — which featured Caldera Lakes, one half of which…
Looking for the best place to rock out in Denver? You don’t say. So are we. What a coincidence. Luckily, this morning we happened upon this helpful bing.com billboard, which promises to help make our daunting quest infinitely easier. The hunt, it seems, at least according to Microsoft’s flagship search…
Some of our most loved fliers are hardly decipherable messes of wacky design, so it’s nice to see something readable and simple sometimes. Simplicity was once a staple among concert posters because they needed to convey two simple facts: who was playing and where. Thankfully, this artist showcase manages to…
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, who have released three live albums together, visit the 1STBANK Center on Thursday, December 9, to play stripped down version of Dave Matthews Band classics. Tickets ($85-$95) go on sale Saturday, October 16 at noon. In support of The Grand Theatre Volume One, which hits…
On the heels of their dual CD release party a few weeks ago at the Gothic, Air Dubai and the Heyday claimed the top spots at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 10. Up at Album’s On the Hill, meanwhile, Bad Religion topped the charts with its latest…
Houston is like any other city if you were to take away outside interest, camaraderie and hope,” says Tex Kerschen about the town he calls home. “That is to say, it is a vast, overwhelmingly alienating and inherently negative place. There is no money, no glory, and no future to…
The partners at Wild Ivories, the dueling piano bar at 1400 Market Street, have not been making beautiful music together. On the day the club opened in June, Tim Kirkland, one of those partners, says he got an anonymous “Here’s who you’re doing business with” e-mail that outlined a check-fraud…
“When there’s no god left to pray to, you’ll see what I mean.” In singing those words from “Build a Wolf a Cage,” Benjamin Buttice probably doesn’t mean any harm, but that’s just a taste of the bracing lyricism to be found in his songwriting. Like Bill Callahan in a…
One of the Big Four of thrash metal, Anthrax was formed in 1981 by Scott Ian and Danny Lilker. It wasn’t until a few lineup changes later that the act hit its stride with the addition of talented vocalist Joey Belladonna in 1985. Long before it became fashionable, Anthrax introduced…
Matt Berninger’s warbling baritone has the gruff, amber warmth of whiskey. As intoxicating as his band’s songs are, it’s arguable that his voice is at least 80 proof by itself. Berninger, of course, is frontman for the National, a gorgeously morose outfit that has become one of the brightest talents…
Fred Cole was a teenager in Las Vegas in the early ’60s when he recorded with his band, the Lords. For the next decade and a half, Cole soldiered on through various projects, forming the Rats with his wife, Toody, in the wake of punk rock. But Cole wasn’t following…
This Is Happening, LCD Soundsystem’s third album, has a notable duality to it. Although the music is impossibly catchy and danceable, James Murphy’s lyrics — which have always contained a certain amount of bile — seem a little more toned down, and, well, perhaps a little depressed. But the album’s…
To get a good idea of what Tjutjuna’s self-titled album is all about, look no further than the cover: It’s a depiction of the band’s namesake, the Siberian equivalent of Sasquatch, wearing sunglasses with rainbow lenses, the universe and stars behind him. He looks as if he’s peeled back the…
