Given the quality of her string of featured appearances in the last year, we’re pretty pumped for Nicki Minaj’s debut album, due in no hurry later this year. Above is probably the album’s lead single, and it’s just alright. Somewhere between guest verses on Robin Thicke’s “Shakin’ It For Daddy”…
Whether burning down the house with Leftover Salmon, heating up the keys for the Fox Street Allstars, or catching fire with his own outfit, Papa Bill McKay commands attention. In addition to playing with some of Colorado’s finest roots acts McKay played in an early incarnation of the Derek Trucks…
Leave it to the dudes from A Shoreline Dream to turn their simple road trip to Austin a few weeks ago to perform at that city’s annual South By Southwest festival into a notably artistic, three-minute long dream sequence. In addition to making the journey seem way cooler than it…
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…
March is almost over, which means March Madness is almost over (though, curiously, it becomes April madness for a week or so, but whatever). But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to enjoy Audius’s March Madness Mixset, an hour-long mix of high-energy, wobbly-bass house madness. If anything, it might help…
Tickle Me Pink, due at the Black Sheep and Marquis Theater this weekend, has put the finishing touches on its next platter, On Your Way Down. The three-song EP, produced by Matthew Hager and mixed by Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room, isn’t due out until Tuesday, May 18, but…
Nathaniel Rateliff certainly needs no introduction in Denver. Prior to being championed by Brooklyn Vegan and attracting the attention of Vanity Fair, Rateliff generated reams of praise here as the frontman of Born in the Flood, an act many predicted would fill arenas by decade’s end…
After an eleven year hiatus, Sarah McLachlan has revived the Lilith Tour (originally the Lilith Fair) that she helped found in 1996. In keeping with the original female-centric tours from 1997-99, McLachlan is bringing a number of top female artists including Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert, Emmylou Harris and Ingrid Michaelson…
Our world is full of inexplicable things. Things like the appeal of Michael Bublé. Seriously, can anyone explain his appeal to us? But once you simply stop questioning and accept that yes, somehow Michael Bublé is stupidly famous and getting rich off recording crap adult contemporary pop tunes and nauseating…
The Broken Bells’ self-titled debut, which features the duo of Danger Mouse and the Shins’ Mercer, was a strong seller at local record stores for the week ending March 28. Jimi Hendix’s Valleys of Neptune, a new album made of a dozen unreleased tracks that the guitarist recorded four decades…
Planning to catch Devendra Banhart tomorrow night at the Ogden? Boy are you going to be bummed: Evidently, broseph broke himself over the weekend trying to pull off some gnarly kick flip or ollie or something before his show in Tempe on Saturday and busted a bone in his leg…
Holy undergarments: That was one hell of a weekend. It started on Thursday with an underwear party at Tracks Nightclub (NSFW), and the Hip Chicks Out and Heaven and Hell parties. It continued Friday when Twiztid and the upstanding citizens of the ICP scene descended on the Ogden on Friday…
10th Annual Caffeine Festival 2010 03.27.10 | 1st Bank Center A lot about this year’s Caffeine spring-break blowout was a repeat from last year, from the venue (which, as previously noted on this blog, has improved its sound quality immensely) to a decent portion of the headlining lineup (Dave Aude,…
Twiztid • Potluck • Kung Fu Vampire 03.26.10 | Fillmore Auditorium Walking to The Fillmore and being accosted with, “Yo, Juggalo, can I use your phone for a minute?” should have been the first sign that the normal world was somewhere else. Opening act, Kung Fu Vampire had already performed,…
Xiu Xiu • tUne YarDs • Talk Normal 03.27.10 | hi-dive I’d never known a show at the hi-dive to start before 9, particularly on a Saturday, so I was gravely dismayed when I walked in about five till and saw Merrill Garbus tUnInG up on stage, meaning that I’d…
The Hollyfelds • Hello Kavita • Casey James Prestwood 03.27.10 | Larimer Lounge Jon Pareles, rock critic for The New York Times, went to SXSW and came back with a reality check on glo-fi, one of many micro-genres burning up the blogs. Among many good points he made was this:…
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…
The 2008 release of Andrea Ball’s debut, Beat Beat Pound Poundwas followed by a string of well attended shows and gushing critics. Two years after the release of that album, the singer songwriter is back with a second full length, Dial Tone, that reflects notable growth both lyrically and musically…
The Pretty Lights onslaught continues. After a string of sold out dates here at home and a gig at SXSW this past weekend, Derek Vincent Smith, who performs under the Pretty Lights moniker with Cory Eberhard, has attracted the attention of NPR. The broadcaster included the act in its Ultra:…
Remember the ’80s, when it was totally acceptable to direct your amorous intentions toward homicidal robots, as long as you were an eight-year-old girl? Neither do we! Yet that’s what today’s video seems to document. More to the disturbingly creepy point, it argues that an eight-year-old girl dancing and singing…
Easter isn’t a holiday that’s rife with media and art devoted to it. There are few TV specials of which to speak. Save for Christian rock stations, no radio stations devote 24 hour coverage to Easter songs (which would pretty much amount to replaying “Easter Bonnet” and “Peter Cottontail” over…
Every once and a while we pretend like we want to learn things and watch documentaries, but only if they’re available for free somewhere. Luckily, we just found a new one to watch, and this one involves a band we’ve never heard of (One-Eyed Doll), doing things we never figured…
