Sometimes we have to wonder if folks that program for Apple’s App Store are hell-bent on wasting people’s time. We spent an evening with as many artist-specific iPhone apps we could get our hands on and found a few amazing things, a few interesting things and a plethora of pure…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats (and kittens) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up…
Read our recent interview with Lilly Scott, in which she discusses her American Idol experience, and catch her first local post-Idol performance at the Westword Music Showcase with her band Varlet. And then there was none. The stunned faces of Lilly Scott’s fellow contestants last night — particularly Katy Stevens,…
Taio Cruz is a British dude who wrote and produced for A-listers until 2008, when he stepped in front of a mike. Now, two years later, he has broken a Hot 100 record by having the Ludacris-assisted remix of his single “Break Your Heart” enter the chart last week at…
Yeah, that headline threw us for a loop as well. “Dear Family, Friends & Fans,” begins Matt Morris’s Tumblr post yesterday. “There’s some news I have to share. It’s pretty big, so Mom – if you’re standing, you better sit down. As of today, I am no longer a Tennman…
Where to start with Incredibox? Well, you start with a little cartoon guy, like one of the ones you see above. Then you give him a part of the song by dragging and dropping an icon onto him and he starts performing it. That makes another little dude appear. You…
According to the official South By Southwest website only ten Colorado acts (Nathaniel Rateliff, ytcracker, Pictureplane, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Breathe Carolina, Epileptinomicon, Matt Morris, Pretty Lights, A Shoreline Dream and Boulder Acoustic Society) are slated to perform at this year’s festival. Fact is, though, nearly three times as many…
Just screened 20XIII’s new video for the song “Vigilante.” Not much in the way of subtlety here. The title of the track pretty much gives away the plot, which is a quite literal depiction of the lyrics for the song, itself straight out of the mid ’90s modern rock canon,…
A few weeks ago, there was a lot of talk about how underwhelming the Put Yo Money Where Ya Mouth Is MC battle was, both the preliminary and the finals. For those who didn’t make it out, Lenny Lenn put together a highlight reel, so you can see for yourself…
So one more day before Flobots invade the Ogden to celebrate the release of Survival Story, their sophomore release and the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2008’s Fight with Tools. We say “celebrate,” because we’ve learned since posting yesterday’s item weighing in on the act’s first single, “White Flag Warriors,” that…
Breathe easy, Team Coco: Conan O’Brien’s “Suck on This, NBC!” tour will stop in Denver/Boulder. Conan will do two shows in May: Sunday, May 9 at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium and Monday, May 10 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, both at 8p.m. From the press release:…
I’m sorry, but the time has come for me to admit I love Abba. I know, it’s Abba, but you know what? Abba is great, and I was an idiot for ignoring this fact for too long. If I had any sense I would have given the gigantic Swedish pop…
As music critics — and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music — the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to right now?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy…
Walt Disney was amazing,” says Johnny Wohlfahrt of nervesandgel without a hint of irony. “His whole motto was, ‘If I want something done and people tell me it can’t be done, I’m going to figure out a way to do it.’ Everything that he did that was a milestone, everyone…
After Brian Haddad and David Weiss bought The Border, a University of Denver hangout for more than three decades, they didn’t waste any time. They closed the deal on a Friday in late January, brought in a lot of people to clean the joint over the weekend, and had all…
When most bands raid the coffers of ’60s and ’70s music, they go in for the Nuggets thing, or hard rock, or the Beatles or the Velvet Underground. Night Owl (due on Thursday, March 11, at Old Curtis Street) didn’t really do that. Instead, it followed in the footsteps of…
Although Fat Possum Records has branched out over the years with the acquisition of bands like the Walkmen, bolstering a roster that already includes such groups as Dinosaur Jr., Andrew Bird, Lissie and Heartless Bastards, really, it’s still about the last place on earth you’d expect to find an act…
Some guitarists borrow from the Hendrix canon, while others simply absorb his music through osmosis. Either way, there’s probably not a guitarist alive who wasn’t affected by the music of Jimi Hendrix in some way. Joe Satriani has said that although he can play every one of Hendrix’s songs, out…
Had Tracy & the Plastics started out in Ames, Iowa, instead of Olympia, Washington, they might have turned out like Leslie & the LY’s. The act combines electronic pop with hip-hop and an obvious streak of playful weirdness that would make Peaches and Cindy Wonderful proud. The band’s live shows…
One thing about Sharon Jones that’s often overlooked: She may be the figurehead of today’s retro-soul movement, but she was also there the first time around. Granted, Jones may not have been strutting around big stages the same time that Tina Turner was tearing up “Nutbush City Limits,” but Jones…
On the back cover of Thompson Blues, Dan Allen’s latest album, there’s a photo of Allen holding a stack of Jim Thompson novels. While this might be intriguing for fans of the crime-fiction writer, who wrote some gritty, tough-ass books like The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway and The Grifters,…
At first listen, it’s easy to mistake Glowing House’s debut as a vehicle for Jess Parsons, the outfit’s lead vocalist and pianist/guitarist. But the more the sumptuous and heartfelt songs sink in, the more the whole project feels like a real band. And a good band. Sidestepping the trend of…
