Susan Boyle, whose I Dreamed a Dream is burning up American and UK charts, grabs the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending December 13. Norah Jones claims the second slot with her latest effort, The Fall, and Rodrigo y Gabriela checks in at number three with…
Question: Although we all know that most bands are not actually playing (well, unless it’s a live clip and they are actually, you know, playing) when being filmed for the live sequence of a video, does it detract from the impact it has on you if you can clearly see…
Strange happenings: We’ve received word that frontman Ryan Malloy has parted ways with Strange Condition, which signed a development deal with Universal Records this past summer. The outfit is keeping the reason for Malloy’s exodus quiet, but has confirmed that his slot is now being filled by Matthew Furlong, who…
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*, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…
Susan Boyle and Tom Waits continue to duke it out at Twist & Shout. Three weeks ago, Boyle took the top spot with her debut, I Dreamed a Dream, and Waits grabbed the top spot with Glitter and Doom Live two weeks ago. Well, Boyle’s back on top for the…
If you’re looking for something to listen to as you slog your way through yet another day of soul-crushing cubicle slavery — or even more soul-crushing unemployment — the Denver Art Rock Collective has got a treat for you. The group has released a nice collection of live sets from…
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Wheel Variety ShowSaturday, December 12, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: The V Ultimate Variety show featuring Wally Eastwood. An estimated 48 musicians took part in the third annual Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel variety show on Saturday night. All of them played brilliantly, some of them played for…
Moore, Blindfold the Devil and Born in Winter Friday, December 11, 2009 Gothic Theatre Better Than: A lot of metal shows I’ve seen. Blindfold the Devil, a four-piece with the lead vocalist also playing guitar, kicked off its set with its speed/thrash metal sound, which contains more than a dash…
Hot Congress Comp. 1 Release Party Achille Lauro, The Vitamins, Fissure Mystic, Action Packed Thrill Ride October 12, 2009 The Oriental Theater Better Than: A community garden, or most other team projects you can think of. There is more than music to address here because Hot Congress is more than…
Today marks yet another bittersweet day for the scene, a day when we bring you word that Tommy Nahulu, a tireless champion of Denver music over the years, is picking up stakes and moving back to his native Hawaii. To commemorate the occasion, the Toad Tavern is hosting the second…
Although Moore has been together for over a decade, it has garnered very little press, mainstream or otherwise, despite being something of an institution in the local metal scene and having put out a handful of albums during its time together. In the last year and a half or so,…
Awkward, fumbling celebrity rap is a very special category of Freaky Friday, and it’s been a while since we featured one (Mr. T’s “Treat Your Mother Right,” August 28). That’s why we’re extra excited to bring you today’s offering, which has the added bonus of being seasonal. How awesome is…
When Josh Friedman’s old band, Sleeperhorse, broke up, he figured it was time for a change. So a few months ago, he moved to Prague to teach English, travel and to move his life forward in a positive direction after having a “pretty shitty first half of the year.” Unfortunately,…
Brooklyn’s Telepathe began when Melissa Levaudis and Busy Gangnes decided that they were tired of playing in a math rock band: The conventional means of creating and performing music in a rock band seemed stifling to the duo, and so they abandoned that method of creating almost entirely. Freely experimenting…
If you’re a fan of the String Cheese Incident, Kyle Hollingsworth needs no introduction. Earlier this week, we posted an in-depth interview with the keyboardist in which he discusses his new solo album, Then There’s Now, how it’s a departure from his work with SCI and the challenges of building…
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…
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…
From the outside looking in, things still look incredibly grim for the Monolith Festival and its prospects for the future. Organizers set up a Kickstarter account a few weeks ago in response to an overwhelming outcry from fans, who offered to pitch in when word first leaked that the festival…
Thanks to a YouTube user named ProblematicAndroid, who posted this unbelievably awesome video of his seventeen-month old son Caddock singing along with Cephalic Carnage’s “Let Them Hate So Long As They Fear,” we now need a new keyboard and monitor. Just seeing the grimaces on the little dude’s face as…
Every season, once Thanksgiving is in the books (and sometimes earlier, god forbid) and the shopping frenzy begins in earnest, my most-hated time of the year comes around: Christmas music season. See, I don’t hate Christmas, per se — I’m no Scrooge. I just despise Christmas music with a passion…
Have you noticed there haven’t been too many new holiday tunes made in recent years? We were talking about that the other day as we were in some store that had the obligatory archetypal Christmas tunes being piped in over the speakers. So what gives? Are any new songs that…
Wowzers! Air Dubai, which began life as a hip-hop duo, has made an absolutely stunning transformation. To our ears, the act already showed tons of potential right out of the gate with the release of its debut long player, last year’s The Early October. But from the sounds of the…
