I don’t know who came up with the idea for this day. But seriously: genius. And why not celebrate it in a way that not only allows you to indulge your love of all things Star Wars, but also helps you identify who exactly is on your same Jedi-wavelength? Seriously,…
May 4, 2010: As good a day as any to say that Nathaniel Rateliff has made it. His sparse and powerful In Memory of Loss has been available digitally for a week, but today it appeared in physical form in record stores across the country. Rateliff grew up in Missouri,…
Trent Reznor has revealed How to Destroy Angels, his first post-Nine Inch Nails project. It’s a collaboration with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, formerly the frontwoman of West Indian Girl and it was mixed by Alan Moulder, a name familiar to industrial fans. So what does it sound like?…
The latest release from Zachary Tipton’s I am the Dot project has arrived and, in case you’re keeping track, this makes the fourth release since his first Dot EP last November. The latest release is a three-song called Minimal Love and it may be the best thing he’s released yet…
There’s a clear trend in music right now that makes the oncoming disappearance of LaLa — which has been absorbed by Apple and is subsequently going the way of beepers by the end of the month — all the more unsettling: Music fans, it seems, prefer to preview an entire…
Denver Noise Fest 04.30.10-05.01.10 | Old Curtis St. Friday, April 30, 2010 New Mexico’s Raven Chacon performed with the expected harsh noise soundscaping at first — a combination of pummeling and shrill sounds textured like a nearly intangible sculpture that flooded the room and made the walls and the floor…
As part of The Wall’s thirtieth anniversary, Roger Waters is bringing the Pink Floyd rock opera in all its epic glory to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, November 23 with a new band and a newly-mounted state-of-the-art production. Waters has performed The Wall, which is still among the Top 5…
On June 29, 3OH!3 is slated to release Streets of Gold, the eagerly anticipated and sure to be stupefying follow-up to Want, the act’s 2008 Photo Finish debut. What we know about the record thus far, to wit: It will presumably contain a song called “House Party,” a tune that’s…
Atlanta-based rapper B.o.B.’s Adventures of Bobby Ray, which dropped last week on Atlantic, claimed the number two and three slots at Albums on the Hill and Independent Records, respectively, while Gogol Bordello’s fifth studio album, Trans-Continental Hustle, released last week on Columbia and produced by Rick Rubin, took the top…
As the headline touts: Saturday night was indeed a thrilling night for homegrown hip-hop in the Mile High City, even as it was also a study in contrasts. Starting the night off at the Walnut Room and catching the masterful floorwork of BreakEFX, fresh off its stint on America’s Favorite…
When we were in grade school, our choir used to sing old chestnuts like “Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” which is probably why joining the choir seemed like slightly less fun than getting our lunch money stolen. But the times, they are a changin’. At least in India, they are. Yeah,…
DMC Regional Turntable Battle 05.01.10 | The Walnut Room How do you know there’s been a four year gap since the last Disco Mixing Club (DMC) battle? When the valiant effort of a kid from Highlands Ranch is completely eclipsed by the DJ Notch, who breezed through his set with…
Paean • Bad Weather California • Mehko & Ocean Birds 04.31.10 | hi-dive Paean spent eighteen months working on its debut full-length, Songs For Us To Sing. Three of the band’s six members are siblings, and the album was recorded in a studio in their parent’s garage. So there was…
Update: Madson has apologized to Oswalt, and in the process told about 74 different lies about why he stole Oswalt’s and other comics’ material. God we hope this guy’s not our fucking neighbor. Original item: We caught wind of this from our pals at the A.V. Club, who keenly observed…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Don’t miss The Pirate Signal’s CD release show tomorrow night at the Marquis with The Sunset Curse, F.O.E., Karma and Haven (of Blackhearts), Flowers From Her, DJ Musa & Peter Black. Forget everything you know about The Pirate Signal. Okay, well, perhaps not everything — that’s probably a little extreme…
We all remember those “This is your brain on drugs” ads, right? Featured a frying egg? Did that ever convince anyone to not use drugs? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Today’s video though? If the Partnership for a Drug Free America had this, they might have been able to claim…
If you haven’t had a chance to read Andy Thomas’s excellent piece on Lion Sized in this week’s paper, we’re pleased as punch to let you that the band is back with a brand new album called Cough Up Your Teeth, which you can hear in its entirety after the…
Take a look at this picture. Not much to see here, right, just a plank of octagon-shaped wood with a few metal straps and some sort of contraption on top? Look closer. This is precisely what they (whoever coined this maxim) had in mind when they urged us not to…
This just in: Evidently, it’s not all puppy dogs and rainbows in the porn industry. As these adult entertainment stars point out, “We made it just for you,” assuring us that, “We in the adult entertainment family love and appreciate our fans,” or the real kicker, “We work hard to…
Mark Farina|Miguel Migs 4.29.10 | Gothic Theatre Downtempo guru Mark Farina has been touring with deep house DJ Miguel Migs, but fortunately for Denver, his stop at the Gothic added two local players to the bill. First up was Half Color, a two-man group out of Fort Collins playing downtempo,…
Lupe Fiasco • B.o.B. 04.29.10 | Ogden Theatre B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco collaborated on “Past My Shades,” which appears on the former’s just released, soon to be number one album, B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray. Yet the two did not play the song together during either set last…
