Tommy Metz is at something of a crossroads with his main project, Iuengliss: He’s talking about going fully instrumental on the next album, and the The Blossom Frontier sounds a lot like a musical release valve. True to the form of his previous work, there are two types of songs:…
The same year the Sex Pistols broke up, John Lydon dropped the stage name of Johnny Rotten and formed what was arguably the most influential band of the post-punk era with Public Image Ltd. The band’s second album, 1979’s Metal Box, still seems brilliantly out of place and out of…
Comprising veterans of Denver’s punk-rock scene, the Pitch Invasion took its name from the phenomenon of a crowd at a soccer game getting unruly and invading the field, also known as “the pitch,” and taking events into its own hands. This weekend, the band — made up of Mike McCrory…
Megasoid got its start as a Montreal-based mobile sound system with a predilection for turning illegal and unconventional spaces into after-hours parties. The duo’s aggressive street sound is based in hip-hop beats wrapped in edgy, innovative production that blends old-school electro and new-school noise into a unique, playful, bass-heavy sound…
D’oh! We were so caught up gushing about The Pirate Signal’s stellar new album, No Weak Heart Shall Prosper, that we almost completely forgot to mention that Matt Morris’s song “Live Forever” is going to be featured on American Idol tonight during its two-hour Idol Gives Back fund-raising show. Not…
For those not attending Jonsi’s show at the Paramount this evening, Julian Casablancas, frontman of the Strokes, with whom we spoke with last week, is due the Ogden Theatre, where he be bringing his solo album Phrazes for the Young to life. How would you and a guest like to…
Minimalism, abstraction and a clever design combine perfectly in this week’s top flier. There’s not a lot going on here, but what little there is goes a long way. The cascading boxes are the key to the whole thing. If you were to scrub the text off this, leaving just…
Welcome back to Our Van Could Be Your Life, a semi-regular feature where we shoot photos of the tour busses stopping in Denver and draw unfounded conclusions about the bands that ride in them. This week, Phoenix, who need a separate bus just for synthesizers. That’s not actually true, but…
Tyler Ward: Shameless coattail rider or shrewd, talented musician fueled by ennui with a plethora of equally talented friends, a readily available recording facility and ample time on his hands? You make the call. Personally, although we’re leaning more toward the latter — given the other videos posted on h…
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…
By now you’ve heard about the loss of Keith “Keithy E” Elam, aka Guru, who passed away yesterday. If you’re reading this right now, you’re probably grappling with the tremendous loss and reflecting on the monumental impact Guru had on rap music — despite the fact that he never really…
Could tonight be the night that he finally does it, the night that his royal airness Magic Cyclops finally realizes ultimate air guitar supremacy? After years of vying for the title and coming up just short of earning bragging rights, Cyclops, a perennial contender, is set to once again catch…
We introduced you to Tangled; We Weave a couple of months ago, but if you missed it (and can’t be bothered to click that link to catch up), it’s a music and photography collaboration between Seattle-based photographer Jennifer Brookes and Denver Musician Eric Peterson (Houses, Old Radio). Every week, Brookes…
This isn’t your daddy’s Woodstock, your hippie cousin’s Bonnaroo or your yuppie Chicago Uncle’s Lollapalooza. This is Coachella, man, and it attracts the most pretentious music fans on the planet, who all choose to gather in grassy polo fields and endure intense desert heat for the same reason. We’re here…
All right, so last week’s edition of Guess Where I’m Peeing was a little bit too challenging, it seems. While there were several great guesses — seriously, had we not been there and taken the picture, you could easily have sold us on it being at the Meadowlark — no…
Them Crooked Vultures • Mini Mansions Fillmore Auditorium | 4.19.10 The rawk fist (index and pinky for horns, thumb tucked) is a tricky little bugger. It’s a totally sincere expression of rock-induced euphoria with all the subtlety of a billy club. Them Crooked Vultures earned thousands of rawk fists Monday…
Sometimes it takes us a little while to notice things that happen in the obscure parts of the far-off internet world. Such is the case with the Littles Paia discography, which has been slowly making its way onto an oft-missed corner of the web over the course of the last…
Kids’ shows have always had small jokes designed to go over the heads of the little ones and appeal to the parents in the audience. Or if not the parents, at least to the creative teams on the shows themselves, as they try to stave off serious depression after realizing…
Another half dozen new shows were added to the Red Rocks schedule, including John Mayer, Paramore, STS9, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Pretty Lights and Widespread Panic, who will be at the venue from Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27, a month after its eleventh studio album, Dirty Side Down, hits…
While the Flaming Lips and Stardeath & the White Dwarfs’ fascinating interpretation of the Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon has been available on iTunes since December, the colored vinyl version, released on Record Store Day, took the top spot at Twist & Shout and came in third at…
If you don’t like LCD Soundsystem, the new song “Drunk Girls” probably isn’t going to change your mind — it’s the same kind of shouty, indie dance thing he’s been doing since the beginning. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch the video embedded above. To the contrary, if you…
So this is pretty rad: Evidently, if you act quickly, you can score yourself tickets to see Jónsi of Sigur Ros at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday for just $7. There’s no catch, near as we can tell. You just have to sign up, and then you’re provided with a…
