There comes a point in the career of any musical act where the only reasonable thing to do is to follow the trailblazing example of the King. By this we mean: Buy a lot of jumpsuits, move your bloated, fat ass to Las Vegas and basically become an ersatz version…
What’s that you say? You can’t get enough of hip-hop in the park after the Mighty 4 Denver b-boy jam this past weekend? Say no more. We hear ya like you’re screaming. Hip-Hop Congress is helping keep the Spirit of Hip-Hop alive in the Mile High City this weekend with…
If you haven’t seen the 1959 film On The Beach, you might want to tune out now before we spoil anything. It’s a post-apocalyptic emotion-drain that chronicles the last days of humanity in a painstakingly slow manner — which is to say it’s a bit slow in the hips but…
Got your tickets to Mile High Music Festival yet? No? It’s a month away — what are you waiting for? Ah, you have to work on Sunday, and you can’t afford a two-day pass? Good thing you waited. Starting today at 10 a.m., you can purchase single day advance tickets…
Crowded House, whose new album Intriguer hits stores today, visits the Fillmore Auditorium on Thursday, September 9. Intriguer, the band’s follow-up to 2007’s Time on Earth, will also be released as a two-disc deluxe edition that includes a bonus DVD. Tickets ($39.50 advance, $45 day of show) go on sale…
Oh, man, the moment you’ve been waiting for all of your young life has finally arrived. What? Uh, no, Match.com hasn’t yet. Found a match for you, that is. Hang in there, though. There’s someone for everyone, we hear. In the meantime, here’s the next best thing: We just learned…
While national acts like the Roots, the Black Keys and the Wolf Parade continue to be strong sellers at local record stores, local acts came in on top at two stores for the week ending Sunday, July 11. Danielle At the Sandwich, who gave an in-store performance at Twist &…
Since Speakerboxxx/The Love Below showcased Outkast’s individual talents, André 3000 has generally been regarded as the auteur of the duo. And while that might be true — André 3000 does tend to be weirder than his colleague Big Boi — there’s something to be said for consistency, as the latter…
Oh, man, bummer news coming from the Candy Claws camp today. The outfit, in the midst of an East Coast tour, lost all of its gear yesterday, along with their merch and a good deal of personal effects in car fire somewhere on I-76 in Pennsylvania. No word yet as…
Back in college, perhaps you found yourself loading up Kazaa and Limewire after a drunken night of revelry, trying desperately to find a copy of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” before passing out at your desk, not realizing you were sharing an entire library of music the whole time…
Well, alright! Hows about that? Pitchfork has its sights set on Colorado again this morning. Specifically: Woodsman garnered a 7.7 rating from the site for its new Mystery Tape EP. Aside from being a bit stereotypical from a geographical standpoint (“The instrumental psych-leaning quartet Woodsman hail from Denver, an urban…
Mighty 4 Denver was mighty, mighty indeed. When we stopped by, there were smiles for miles in Skyline park, with people from all walks of life paying homage to the homegrown hip-hop scene. Looking on as a parade of incredibly talented b-boys battled for supremacy, it literally felt like we…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
On Fire. That’s the headline of the latest issue of Fly magazine touting homegrown hip-hop. As you can see from the esteemed cats assembled on the dual covers (Rockie, Adam Duncan and Whygee on one, and Gamer Life and Black Pegasus on the other — see that one after the…
You learn something new everyday, right? Isn’t that what they say? Well, just moments ago, thanks to the above clip from Black Pegasus, from his forthcoming album, Brass Knuckle King, we learned something new, namely the definition of “snicker licker,” a term we were previously oblivious to. Not sure where,…
When it comes to hip-hop, Denver has a rich and vibrant history that extends back to the ’80s. From seminal b-boy crews like D&S Connection, Radio Active and Dancers Unique to latter day torch bearers like LOF (Lordz of Finesse), Our Scenario, GWT (Get With This). Can’t forget the first…
Lindsay Lohan cried this week in a sentencing hearing when she was ordered to spend ninety-days in jail, followed by probation. Harsh. All the same, with no less than two DUIs under her belt at age 24 — and honestly, it’s not like she couldn’t afford someone to chauffer her…
So here it is, the first video from Matt Morris for his song “Live Forever” (directed by Matt Stawski, art by Serge Gay Jr.) Not sure if we quite understand the concept here, but we dig it. The clip finds Morris walking the streets of some non-descript suburban neighborhood, presumably…
Today’s journey into the freaky detritus of the music world is short, sweet and strangely surreal. It seems to come from some far off Russia-type place (at least, the Cyrillic writing on the YouTube page we found it seems to indicate such a thing) where ninjas play the accordion, and…
Superstar DJ Keoki, who’s done his share of gigs in Denver, recently moved back from Los Angeles to Golden. With some help from his business partner John Bogard, he just opened Club Exile at 753 Santa Fe Drive. The space has been renovated, but as of right now, just the…
Alright so when most out-of-town entities produce a tip sheet for a given locale, they generally blow it, pointing folks to places that either everybody goes to or places that no one actual goes to. That is, of course, unless they’re smart enough to tap someone to help them curate…
We heard this pair of deadly MCs were collaborating this week somewhere in South Florida, and now we have visual confirmation: King F.O.E. and SP Double are indeed putting in work at the studio. Watch the pair put it down live and chop it up with the cats right now…
