For anyone else, releasing an album titled Suite #420 on 4/20 would be overkill. For Devin the Dude, it’s an understatement. The veteran MC has made a career of rapping about pot in all its glorious and manifold forms, though that career has been less than blazing lately: After starting…
Scott Hutchison started Frightened Rabbit in 2003 as a solo project. The name came from Hutchison’s mother, who saw how he would retreat into a corner like a “frightened rabbit” in social situations. Clearly, Hutchison has managed to leap the hurdle of social anxiety enough to perform in front of…
Anyone who’s ever met Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco will tell you he’s an intense dude. He’s the type of guy who perpetually appears to be pondering something profound. Whether he’s actually ruminating on something of consequence, of course, is anyone’s guess. But his intensity is palpable. He’s also an immensely…
The genre of Americana is in as much disarray as America itself — but rather than try to impose order on that chaos, Oblio’s Arrow embodies it. Drawing from country rock, psychedelia and the singer-songwriter tradition of the ’70s, the group formerly known as Oblio Duo + the Archers has…
Largely released digitally, this latest full-length from Sandusky includes different artwork for each song when played on the computer. “A Prayer for the Unification of Bootgazers” opens the album as a statement of purpose: Much of the album’s material is post-rock, yet it manages to be genuinely haunting rather than…
Andy Guerrero returns to his funk act after shutting it down to focus on his work as a guitarist for the Flobots. This is his return home in a lot of ways, and mainstream success has left its mark: This is squeaky-clean music, more broadly influenced than before, crafted by…
Adam O.N.E. Duncan, formerly of the Infinite Mindz collective, has launched his solo career with The CA, a stylistic undertaking with progressive sounds and beats. The production is largely handled by Food Chain’s Mass Prod, and the texture of the album, a mixture of synth and velvet, is smooth and…
Man, oh, man! As Zen Ultra Lounge and DC10 before that, 940 Lincoln has seen its fair share of scantily clad club gals over the last few years — but not a lot of nearly naked guys. That will all change, though, when Hunks the Show celebrates its grand opening…
French-born, Miami-based Cedric Gervais crafts a brand of house that weaves threads of electro and progressive house into a big, shimmery, club-smashing tapestry of late-night abandon. On hits such as “Spirit in My Life,” Gervais displays a talent for slick, vocal-driven progressive house that would make fellow Frenchman David Guetta…
For three and a half years, the Jimi Austin was one of Fort Collins’s most celebrated acts —and that whole time, there was tension brewing within the band. Frontman Chris Anderson wanted to explore a more laid-back approach to songwriting, while guitarist Ian Haygood and drummer Shane Zweygardt were pushing…
It’s not often that we hear from DU’s online student radio station, KVDU. But for more than a year now, the station has hosted a greatest-hits collection of local bands for an interview and in-studio performance series. Series curators Eric Peterson, of local bands Old Radio and Houses, and Whitney…
A few years ago, a band called Small Objects changed its name to Blue Million Miles. Inspired by a new lineup and a slightly modified sound, the core songwriting team of guitarists Sam McNitt and Jeff Shapiro issued Of Building Walls, a dreamy yet forceful album of emotionally charged, cathartic…
As expected, B.o.B.’s Adventures of Bobby Ray is the number one album in the country this week. Of course, it only needed to sell 84,000 copies to do it. As Billboard notes, this is the first three-week run of no albums breaking 100,000 since February of last year. Cue alarm…
And the winner for oddest yet most exhilarating cover of a song from a Colorado-based act is … Marina and the Diamonds, an act we were turned onto by Perez Hilton, of all people. We caught the group, signed to Alexandra Patsavas’ Chop Shop imprint, a few months back at…
Last month, we took a trip up north for the second annual FoCoMx. Our experience was quite different from the one depicted above, namely we ended up spending the bulk of our time on a walking tour of Fort Collins. In our infinite wisdom, we chose to see shows that…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, and the…
Great fliers don’t have to always involve meticulous design work, professional illustration and cutting-edge aesthetics. Sometimes, a little, earnest sketch is all it takes. As in today’s flier, which gives us a little sunshine, a little weirdness and a good vibe for a show at the Glob. Who among us…
As you may or may not be aware there is an entire scene of people demaking popular songs into 8-bit blips and bloops. While chiptunes, in general, have always attracted the most circuit-minded of musicians, the demakes themselves are a genre all their own. As the Tron clip above demonstrates,…
Get a load of this lineup: Godsmack, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Stone Temple Pilots, the Swayback, Hinder, Wolfmother, the Eagles of Death Metal, Skillet, the Jim Rose Circus. Hold on. We know what you’re thinking — what … the… eff, right? We know! Can you believe it? We’re as stunned…
Danielle Anderson is the latest local artist to take an unconventional approach to financing her new album, joining the Heyday and Choke the Word on the fansourcing bandwagon. To generate funds for her new album, Two Bedroom Apartment, Anderson, whom you know better by her nom de tune of Danielle…
Being a junior in high school is all about experiencing things for the first time — your first girlfriend, your first kiss, your first car. But seventeen-year-old Cherry Creek High School junior Zach Heckendorf is clearly not your typical high schooler. While his peers are still trying to figure out…
After all the work that went into compiling this year’s Westword Music Showcase ballot, we needed a break last weekend. A break that involved watching Pretty in Pink, a flick we hadn’t seen in a dozen years or more, on VH1. Although it wasn’t quite as good as we’d remembered,…
