A few months ago, the curious questions started circulating via tweets and Facebook comments. Everyone wanted to know where are these headshot sketches of Colorado’s most notable hip-hop artists were coming from? Who was responsible for putting in so much artistic time for so many people?…
Earlier this week, a Wichita man died at the Vans Warped Tour in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Although the cause of his death has yet to be determined, it’s a safe bet that prolonged heat exposure might have had something to do it (temperatures reportedly climbed over a hundred degrees that…
In honor of our recent discovery of the “baby wrestling rap” of ICP progeny Violent JJ, we decided to fish around the fetid sewers of YouTube to see what other “baby rap” genres are out there, and sweet lord, did we find the mother lode. Meet Mini Daddy, baby reggaeton…
#COHipHop Unity Concert 2 08.05.10 | Quixote’s True Blue A strong hip-hop vibe permeated the air at Quioxte’s last night — fitting, since we were all there for the #COHipHop Unity Concert 2. Before everything got going in earnest, a cluster of performers and beat battle contestants chopped it up…
Few bands in the annals of underground music in Denver have garnered as much notoriety as Warlock Pinchers. Beginning in 1987, the Pinchers made a name for themselves early on as a charmingly obnoxious outfit of musical pranksters whose legacy of creative mischief is as memorable as its shows and…
Tonight, Thursday, August 5, Quixote’s True Blue — that’s the place to be if you love local hip-hop. Presented by Yoseph of Fly Magazine, Dent and Shedrick Garrett, #COHIPHOP Unity Concert 2 is going down. The aim, as you’ve probably deduced from the name of the event, is to bring…
Update: DJ Etronik from Pico Rivera, California, ended up taking home honors over the weekend as the winner of this year’s DMC US Finals in NYC. This Saturday, August 7, another chapter will be added to the annals of hip-hop history in New York City. On what will presumably be…
A week from tomorrow, the new St. Elias disc Altered Beast will be released at the hi-dive, in the company of other fine bands such as Accordion Crimes, Ideal Fathers and Alan Alda. Said new disc is sporting a sweet cover, seen here, by local artist Adam Reker and a…
You’ve heard this sound before. It’s nothing new or even particularly novel. At least it won’t strike you as such, particularly if you own the first three U2 albums. Just the same, by god, does it sound absolutely fanfreakingtastic! These dudes just completely smash it on this cut! It’s a…
Montreal’s Arcade Fire, whose Grammy-nominated 2004 debut LP Funeral was the indie hit of the last decade, throws somewhat of a curveball on its new, sixteen-cut album, The Suburbs. Thirty-year-old Win Butler earnestly — and patiently — comments on modern America and his band’s rapid, meteoric stardom on the new…
Yesterday, CNN reported that Wyclef Jean has entered himself into the bid for president in Haiti. This doesn’t mark the first time a celebrity has run for office, and while we wish him the best of luck, we have to wonder what qualifications he has other than being a member…
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?” So 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…
They were always the band I thought should have been really big,” declares Dale Crover of the Warlock Pinchers. “Certainly they were doing metal mixed with rap before it became popular, and they were also a lot better than a lot of those later bands. More like if rap was…
In April, Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst after six years and moving the concept to Playa del Carmen. Over the next week, he remodeled the space at 1512 Larimer Street, reopening it as Dive on Fifteenth. But now Dive has taken a dive, and the spot turned…
Spilling Over Every Side — that’s the name of Pretty Lights’ latest release, and what a perfectly fitting title. Derek Vincent Smith simply doesn’t stop. When we checked in with the Pretty Lights mastermind this past spring, he had just released his new EP, Making Up a Changing Mind, had…
Like a thermometer crammed up the rectum of punk rock, the Warped Tour has been taking the temperature of teenage rebellion for fifteen years now. This year’s prognosis: typically cold-blooded. As usual, though, the day-long festival has a couple of hot spots on its gazillion-band bill, and one of them…
Too mathy and precise for a lot of hardcore fans and too weird and noisy for a lot of metalheads, the Dillinger Escape Plan has nonetheless carved a niche for itself in both realms. Starting in Morris Plains, New Jersey, the Plan quickly made a name for itself with frenetically…
Way back in 2006, patchy duo Crystal Castles began a rise to high-art infamy based mostly on the negative hype of its supposed 8-bit plagiarism. Along with getting slammed for stealing artist Trevor Brown’s “Bruised Madonna” imagery for unauthorized merchandise (not to mention unsanctioned use of the Chanel logo), the…
George and Caplin’s latest release is one of a dying breed — an album that demands to be listened to as an album. Yes, there are some fine songs on it that can stand alone (particularly “Wilderness Eyes” and “Wanderin'”), but when taken as a whole, the disc really shows…
If Lou Reed had lived in the ’30s and had an affinity for moonshine instead of heroin, he would sound dangerously close to the delicate rootsiness of what Chris Jeffries is creating. Combining the swagger of Mr. Reed with the bad-luck living and roaring fingerpicking of folk stalwarts like Lead…
On Bobby Walker’s tenth album, 2008’s Git It, the whiskey-rasped singer proved that he definitely still had it after four decades of being in the biz. On his new EP, Way Back When, Walker digs into the past and lays down five cuts he grew up with. He and his…
Starting out with a subtle drone of cycling sounds, like time-lapse clouds streaming across the night sky, side one of this album slowly evolves into darker territory, conjuring a rainy weather pattern moving in with the summer breeze. Textured low end later in the mix suggests the sound of helicopters…
