In case you’ve been living in a hole, Apple announced its newest device, the iPad a couple of days ago. Regardless of the stupid name and its XXL iTouch look, we’ve still got a few hopes for what it can do in the future. Sure, as a music listener it’ll…
Matt Morris’s star continues to rise. While appearances on Letterman and Ellen certainly gave him some great exposure, his duet with Justin Timberlake on last weekend’s Hope for Haiti Telethon did wonders for him in terms of introducing him to the wider mainstream audience. Morris and Timberlake’s version of “Hallelujah”…
Almost a year after taking on the role of director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Adam Lerner is settling into his role. In addition to combining forces with The Lab at Belmar, the MCA has hosted five new exhibitions and spawned the innovative Mixed Taste lecture series under the…
Do you like horses? Sure, we all do. One might even go so far as to say horses are amazing. That’s what this song claims. And in making that claim, it generates so much awesome we had to offer you not one, but two versions of it — at no…
J.D. Salinger died quietly at 91. He was a rare author whose one novel provoked many of its millions of readers to claim that it had changed their lives. Maybe it makes sense to fall so hard for Holden Caulfield and maybe it doesn’t. It is likely that one reason…
File this item under awesome: Just received word that the Overcasters will be heading to Hollywood this May to record their next record with Rick Parker, whose impressive resume includes production on albums by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Von Bondies and GLISS, among others. The Overcasters frontman Kurt…
And now for a poem inspired by Aaron Thackeray’s photos of the Mickey Avalon show, last night at the Church. Hey, Mickey, you’re so fine You’re so fine My tits, you will sign Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey, for what it’s worth, it should also be pointed out that…
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 three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Relive January with the best of our nightlife and concert photos — including New Year’s parties like Beta’s, which featured bartenders dipped in lead (hot!) — in this slideshow…
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…
Denver’s roller derby leagues are on the move. The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, who formerly bouted (that’s what you call a roller-derby-off) at the Bladium Sports and Fitness Club in Stapleton, just announced that they’re moving to the downtown Fillmore Auditorium, in partnership with Live Nation. Their first bout will be…
Video games get a bad rap. It’s all Dr. Phil telling us we’re addicts and President Obama telling us to go outside an play. Well, we call bullshit. Turns out video games may be the greatest boon to society ever. As well as alleviating Terminal Boredom Syndrome and giving us…
Holy hell! Anyone who saw these guy at Monolith last year had to have seen this coming sooner or later. We’ve just heard from our friends in South Florida that Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg last night at a gig in West Palm Beach. Given the unpredictable and…
Anvil (due this Sunday, January 31 at the Gothic Theatre) wasn’t exactly a household name until this past year, despite having exerted considerable influence on bands like Metallica, Guns ‘N’ Roses and Slayer. In the early ’80s, Anvil developed a sound that was faster and more aggressive than most of…
It’s no secret that Blur’s seventh and final album Think Tank polarized critics and fans when it first debuted in 2003. Blur hasn’t ever been a band that lived on my radar. Although I’ve enjoyed a song or two and haven’t ever complained about hearing them, their records have spent…
Okay Fraysayers, sounds like the moment that you’ve been clamoring for all these years may finally be upon us. Just watched an interview that Sir Isaac Slade gave last week at Sundance in which he utttered the magic words so many detractors who have dismissed the band as being boring…
The Informants don’t really play cover songs. They don’t need to. “People seem to think they need a cover because it makes them feel like, ‘If I can hear a cover, I can have a good time,'” Kerry Pastine points out. “We give them a good time no matter what,…
Cole Rudy likes to start his Jazz Expo nights at the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer Street) with the music of Lenny Breau, who was one of the world’s greatest jazz guitarists but also one of the most underrated. A damn fine guitarist himself, Rudy was talking with Jonathan Bitz, who does…
In the liner notes to the reissue of the Raincoats’ debut album, Kurt Cobain wrote about how listening to those songs made him feel like a voyeur into a private world due to the intimacy and immediacy of the music. And while Dream Wagon (due at the Larimer Lounge on…
Upon first listen, it may be tough to discern folk singer A.A. Bondy from contemporaries like Ryan Adams or Jeff Tweedy. A.A., also known as Scott Bondy, stays above water in the overcrowded ocean of singer-songwriters by, simply enough, writing good songs and singing them well. It was this formula…
Lest you think all modern-punk package tours are monolithic blocks of terrible music, look beyond headliners Brand New and Manchester Orchestra — headlining the Fillmore on Saturday — to one of the opening acts: Dusty Rhodes and the River Band. The California-based sextet has somehow gotten away with a rootsy,…
In this economy, it’s hard to begrudge anyone trying to make a buck. Most rock stars, though, only want to rape your wallet — not molest your memories. Open Wings Broken Strings teams up three of the least essential singers of the alt-rock era — Eddie (formerly Ed; apparently Eddie…
