As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, tonight the biggest names in entertainment are coming together for MTV’s Hope for Haiti Telethon, a unified relief effort to raise much needed funds for the disaster torn country, devastated by the recent earthquake. The relief effort is wide reaching and beyond massive. In…
Local mishmasher and futurist Pictureplane has released a free new mix over at Dummy Mag called Trance Gender Mix and it’s all you’ve come to expect from him. The mix comprises a rather diverse set of songs, hopping from Bjork to Lil B then straight into House of Ladosha, all…
Starting in December 2002 with former members of Fourth Gear Blue, Mustangs and Madras may not have had the most illustrious of beginnings but after recruiting a new singer a few months later, Mustangs solidified a line-up that went on to write some of the most striking post-hardcore music of…
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…
Pepsi — a stalwart in the high-stakes Super Bowl Sunday advertising game — is bowing out this year, leaving a MacGruber-sized hole in the commercial breaks. So, while crossing our fingers that Bud Light doesn’t bail, we dug up some of Pepsi’s better efforts from years past…
Star Bar, one of the state’s classic dives at 2137 Larimer Street, has gone dark to due to a liquor violation by the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses. No word on yet on when it will re-open…
I haven’t the foggiest clue if it’s cool to be into Hawkwind right now, or if it ever was or wasn’t, but I can say with a certain sense of conclusiveness that ten years ago, while working in a record store I spotted my first Hawkwind album cover and I…
After a decade-long run, it appears that one of Denver’s biggest hip-hop clubs has closed its doors. At least that’s what we gather from this sign, which was posted in the window this afternoon when we drove by. Formerly the Blake Street Baseball Club and then the LoDo Music Hall,…
Patti Smith provided an interesting definition of punk rock in the current issue of New York magazine: “Punk rock is just another word for freedom.” That got us thinking about what punk is and was, and how, as with all abstractions, you get to make up your own definition. As…
If there’s a film equivalent to the punk rock movement, it’s got to be Troma Films. In titles such as Toxic Avenger, Redneck Zombies, Class of Nuke ’em High and many, many, many more, Troma took a punk approach to filmmakeing — forget the technical expertise, who cares if we…
While Vampire Weekend’s Contra is dominating the charts nationally and locally, it came in second to Young Money’s We Are Young Money, which has held the number one slot at Independent Records for a month now. Snoop Dogg’s Malice N Wonderland, meanwhile, and Gucci Mane’s State vs. Radric Davis and…
Welcome to Poptimystic, our latest feature where we lead you on a leisurely stroll through the world where pop music actually means popular. This week, hometown goofboys 3OH!3 make a return to the top of the Hot 100, and early returns have Vampire Weekend besting all comers. Huh? The 3OH!3…
The membership roster of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake includes former (and current, in the case of Andrew Warner) members of bands that left an indelible mark on the underground music scene in Colorado, acts like Space Team Electra, Red Cloud, Bad Luck City, Monofog, Hawks of Paradise and V-Tech Orchid…
Ever since the launch of Harmonix’s Guitar Hero in 2005 there has been an ongoing debate between musicians and gamers about the legitimacy of the multi-colored guitar peripherals in regards to teaching people how to play. We’re not going to weigh in on the debate, but with the introduction of…
You haven’t lived until you’ve huffed paint fumes on the front lawn of an old folks’ home. Good times. Just ask the Still City’s Brian Knab. Relax. This was no COPS episode. Knab and his bandmates were on tour in Minnesota and stopped to visit Knab’s grandpa just outside of…
At some point in the life of everyone who ever got into punk rock after the ’80s, there was that band that wrote anthemic songs that seemed to perfectly articulate how you felt about everything. Those songs were written to be catchy and to be sung along with by the…
Greensky Bluegrass takes bluegrass to a new high by weaving psychedelic rock into a roots-oriented go-for-broke approach. While retaining a good dose of backwoods authenticity on genre standards as well as its own earthy creations, Greensky marks live gigs with crowd-pleasing interpretations of the music of Pink Floyd and the…
As longtime keyboardist for Chicago’s Sonia Dada, Chris “Hambone” Cameron added some tasty playing to the band’s hybrid of rock, soul and R&B. For his new project, JamBón, Cameron recruited fellow Sonia Dada singers Michael Scott and Shawn Christopher, as well as Liquid Soul guitarist Tom Sanchez, Weather Report percussionist…
As a guitarist and frontman for Swervedriver, Adam Franklin helped to write electrifying and expansive rock songs that went further than — and rocked a lot harder than — the “shoegaze” label they received from many fans and critics. Even after the alternative-rock backlash of the mid-’90s, Swervedriver continued to…
Unlike many of its brethren in the realm of neo-psychedelic garage rock, White Denim decided not to bother with a retro sound at all. The band’s bubbling, urgent rhythms and often angular guitar work sometimes sound like an accidental rediscovery of post-punk — but rather than embrace a stark aesthetic,…
At least this band delivers on the promise of its name. From the opening track, “Battle of the Rabbits,” you feel as though you’ve time-warped back to a fictional past when the club Tech Noir wished it could play music this frenetic. If Mr. Pacman fronted the Nails and ditched…
“Won’t you dance with me?” is the first line that comes oozing out of the speakers from Eyes, the new disc by Almost Legends. That might as well be the statement of intent for the entire CD: Rife with smoothly jazzy funk, breathy hooks and tinges of singer-songwriter cheekiness, tracks…
