Need a robot to harmonize on your latest opus, but Autotune got you down and vocoder too kitschy and retro? Well, local electronic music mastermind CacheFlowe (aka Justin Gitlin) has got a treat for you! As of today, his custom vocal processing software Rob.Vox is available for the low, low…
From the Dirty South of the ATL to the fields of Kentucky and Nebraska to places as far away as South Africa, rapper and musician Proxy has been many places sharing his music and his service. Throughout his travels, though, Proxy says he became the man he felt he was…
Alright, now this is a frightening proposition, just utterly frightening — and mind you, this is coming from a guy who files taxes each year with somebody who actually has Elvis’s visage tattooed on her person. I, perhaps more than most people, have a firm grasp on maniacal, inexplicable fanaticism,…
Hollywood-based Andrew Bagg, aka DJ Cobra, touched down in Denver around 9 p.m. Friday night and was spinning records at Suite 200 downtown a few hours later. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the party…
It has been a while since we’ve seen a new genre on the music scene, but thankfully miniature-juggalo Violent JJ, who is the son of adult juggalo and Insane Clown Posse member Violent J has given us baby-wrestling-rap, or BWR for short. It’s a new form of music that melds…
20:12 Mixtape and Video Release Party 07.30.10 | Casselman’s Bar and Venue Maybe it was the free vodka. Or maybe it was the hundreds of ladies dressed to the nines. Or perhaps it was the unmistakable family vibe. Hard to say. Whatever it was, though, 20:12’s release party at Casselman’s…
Miniature Tigers • Sprinto Band • The Dont’s and Be Carefuls 07.30.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver At this point, the Dont’s and Be Carefuls’ “new” keyboardist, Dane Bernhardt, formerly of the Silver Cord, is fully integrated into the band. At least that’s how things sounded this past Friday. These guys…
Reverend Deadeye 7.31.10 | Paris Wine Bar It just takes one glance at the Reverend Deadeye’s rig to get a good idea of what’s in store for his gigs. There’s the washtub snare with a tambourine attached to it, a kick drum, hi-hat with a mannequin hand on top, an…
Michael Franti & Spearhead with Brett Dennen 7.31.10|Red Rocks Amphitheatre Since 1986, Michael Franti has been making music with a social conscience — from his industrial punk days in the Beatnigs to the hip-hop leaning Disposable Heroes to his current (and most commercially successful) project, Michael Franti & Spearhead, which…
Live! with Regis and Kelly? Naw. We’re good. Not that anybody’s asking us, but if they were, we’d have to take a pass. That’s just us, though. What do we know? Hell, it was probably pretty cool to meet someone who was actually around when dinosaurs roamed the earth (just…
Rumors have been swirling recently that Nick Cave may have signed on to rewrite the screenplay for The Crow remake (ouch that sentence hurts our heads). Cave is a favorite around here for his music, but we’re a bit hard pressed to find anyone who’s actually made it through a…
Oh and speaking of local hip-hop videos: We just got a sneak peek of the new 20:12/Spoke In Wordz video for “Por Aqui, Por Alla.” Premiering tonight at Casselman’s, the clip is directed by esteemed director Eric Heights, from a track from 20:12’s self-titled album, which carries a timely message…
The ending to Lost left many mysteries unexplained, such as where did those damn polar bears come from? after you watch today’s video, you’re going to have even more mysteries to ponder, mysteries like how did this polar bear find a Dharma jumpsuit, get off the island, learn to play…
Ever had your heart broken? I mean, just absolutely shattered, utterly smashed to pieces to the point where you can’t tell up from down and it’s all you can do to find the strength to pick yourself off the floor? In “I Can’t Stop Crying,” one of my all time…
Hours after dissing Twitter in a freestyle at Facebook HQ, Kanye West became a part of the Twitterverse, joining ranks of millions of other users of the micro-blogging service. Since then, he’s already produced nearly a hundred tweets, ranging from the inane to, well, the really inane. He’s already gotten…
The music of Miniature Tigers sounds like it has its roots in the sunnier, more upbeat end of ’60s guitar rock, utilizing spare melodies with melodic atmospheres that have an nostalgic immediacy — as though your future self could sing a song to you with words of compassion and comfort…
Nofrendo (aka Joseph Meezy) is the beat making equivalent of Nina Simone. Built on his love for soul and all things raw and gritty, his production style begets welcoming anachronistic melodies. Quite different from the sped up soul sample moves of many producers, he takes the properties of a record…
Spilling Over Every Side: That’s the name of Pretty Lights’ latest release, and what a perfectly fitting title it is. Derek Vincent Smith simply just doesn’t stop. Smith, of course, is Pretty Lights’ mastermind. When we last checked in with Smith in March, he had just released his new EP,…
Reverend Deadeye started his wild-eyed, tent revival, country-gospel-blues one-man band in 2002, just as one his previous projects, the dark, gnarled post-punk outfit, the Bedraggled, was coming to an end. Embracing the music he grew up with as a child on a northeastern Arizona reservation, Reverend Deadeye (aka Brent Burkhart)…
Growing up in rural Missouri, it’s doubtful that the prospect of being written up in the pages of prestigious publications like the New York Times ever crossed Nathaniel Rateliff’s mind. That said, you’ve gotta think that the thought of one day having his music reviewed in the pages of Mojo,…
To be honest, it could have gone either way. I don’t exactly spend a ton of time at Tracks, I’ll admit, and the venue might — and probably did — have had something to do with it. One thing’s certain, though: There were a lot of freaks at Lady Gaga’s…
There’s something to be said for a singer or band who can compel their fans to not just buy a T-shirt or sticker or button, but to actually dress like them, as well. Usually these fanatics, as a whole, earn a nickname like Army or Legion or Nation. With the…
