This week’s flier caught our eye a few days ago, since the main image of it is Adam Reker’s cover art for the new St. Elias CD Altered Beast. It’s a CD cover! It’s a flier! And if you go to the CD release show this Friday at the hi-dive…
J-Blev, the latest act out of Colorado Springs, has elevated his sound with the help of Turf DJ Ktone. The title of his latest mixtape, And Then There Was Me, alludes to the solitary nature of being a rapper, in which an artist must step out on his own to…
Remember back in the good ol’ days when the only person doing parody rock was Weird Al Yankovic, and it took years for these songs to hit the airwaves? We’re pretty sure that no artist on the face of the planet has been parodied, spoofed and generally made fun of…
As half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento played bass lines with his feet and held down organ and Wurlitzer parts with separate hands. But in the trio format, he’s completely at home behind the piano, which he says is totally his ax. The forward-thinking Benevento makes captivating music by…
This is distinctly American music. Working with a lineup that’s fluctuated between six and ten and has included members of Jurassic 5, Ozomatli has for some fifteen years been blending Latin rhythms and hip-hop influences for a sound that’s as big as it is varied and multicultural. The U.S. State…
Weirdest thing: It was just the other day that we were thinking, “Man, the world needs more hip-hop-inflected tunes that use video game samples for the beats and video game metaphors to explain life.” And then today, guess what we find? Yep, that exact thing. Coincidence?…
Crystal Castles • Rusko, Sinden, and Destructo 08.09.10 | Ogden Theater, Denver, CO Whatever happened before or after Crystal Castles’ set last night at the Ogden really didn’t matter. In fact, Destructo and Sinden’s pre-sets and whatever Rusko followed up with need not to have happened at all, for you…
Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is…
The Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, released last week on Merge, claimed the top spots at Albums on the Hill and Twist & Shout while checking in at number five at Independent Records. The Books’ latest effort, The Way Out, meanwhile, and the Black Crowes’ Croweology, a double album of the…
Indie troubadour Sufjan Stevens, who’s set up a month-long fall tour that will include some of the country’s most historic theaters and venues, is set to visit the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, November 2. Stevens will be performing fully realized versions of songs he initially debuted at small clubs late…
Props are due to the Foodchain, which has reportedly signed a distribution deal with Statik Selektah’s Showoff Records imprint. Statik delivered the news himself last week during his Showoff Radio program on Sirius’s Shade 45 channel (listen after the jump), when he played “Rich Girl Song,” a cut featuring Big…
As reported here last week, nearly half of the finalists competing for the US DMC title in New York City this past weekend hail from Colorado. Unfortunately, none of the five local contestants, who battled it out in front of a celebrity crowd against some of the most talented and…
Warlock Pinchers Magic Cyclops • Hot White • Melvins Lite • Taun Taun • Itchy-O 08.07.10 | Gothic Theatre | Night Two Before taking the stage, Magic Cyclops or someone was playing a bit of the music from the movie Fletch over the P.A., which was amusing on its own…
WARLOCK PINCHERS Cap’n Fresh and the Stay Fresh Seals • Murder Ranks • Dressy Bessy 08.06.10 | Gothic Theatre | Night One Because some of its shows are so absurd, it’s hard to tell if Cap’n Fresh and the Stay Fresh Seals is some kind of a comedy act or…
A book about the neuroscience of the brain might sound daunting and unapproachable, but Oliver Sacks’s 2007 novel, Musicophilia is a collection of genuinely fascinating stories about the brain’s reaction to music. It’s too bad it took three years to actually get around to reading it (look at the cover…
It’s been three years since Radiohead released In Rainbows, and fans are getting kind of itchy to hear some new material. This past weekend at England’s Big Chill festival, Thom Yorke scratched that itch — maybe. He played a newish song called “Give Up the Ghost” (debuted in February, apparently,…
As Warped Tour winds down for another summer, Aaron Thackeray shadowed the hardest partier on the tour, Andrew W.K., capturing his average day. Below are a few highlights; check out the full gallery of AWK’s day in our slide show: Day in the Life: Andrew W.K.’s Denver Warped Tour…
Since Crystal Castles first pissed its way into my heart with the irritatingly catchy “Alice Practice” in 2007, I haven’t been at peace with my manic devotion to a duo that seems to take pride in being total assholes. These total assholes, however, keep making great records that I can’t…
Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin is in Chicago this weekend for Lollapalooza. Here are photos from Saturday’s sets. More coming Monday…
Day one of Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago is in the books. Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin brings back these photos from the festival…
Acting on impulse is a great way to succeed. Shira is an answers-first-figure-out-the-questions-later type of lady who know this all too well. Some years ago, she and her band decided they wanted to play The Warped Tour. Rather than sitting around waiting for an acceptance letter, ShiraGirl brazenly parked their…
Music and marriages have one major thing in common. By normal standard, the average life expectancy of either is around the three or four year mark, and sometimes ends due to a wandering eye, financial woes or just a blatant mismatch in chemistry. Fortunately for the Alkaline Trio, this isn’t…
