Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream, which is the fastest selling album in Britain this year, nabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout for the week ending November 29. Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom Live, released last week on Anti, came in second while Them Crooked…
Global Dance Festival 2009 (Official Video)Monolith may get more press, but of the summer’s Red Rocks festivals, Global Dance Festival is not only bigger and more well-established, it’s also a better place to see lots of gorgeous, half-naked women (see the video embedded above, which may be NSFW depending on…
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…
Syndrome of a Down, Dugout Canoe, Talk Normal and Zombie Bite Saturday, November 28, 2009 Rhinoceropolis Better Than: A show where the experimental bands are experimental in the same way. Playing it’s second show, Syndrome of a Down was a duo comprised of two guys using the pseudonyms “Reeves Impediment”…
Pacific Pride, Weed Diamond, Green Typewriters November 27 hi-dive What it was like: Making the most of a menu of three or four chords. The stark sounds of Pacific Pride’s CD release show at the hi-dive on Friday seemed especially fitting this weekend. Following the sumptuousness and excess of the…
Ah, man, it’s that time of year already? Time to start hearing all about how everybody’s preparing their livers for South By Southwest, yada, yada, yada? Yep. Appears so. Even though it’s still more than three months away, the shadow of Austin’s annual booze and schmooze fest looms large. And…
Earlier this week, we made mention of ManeRok striking out on his own, and now, thanks to director Chad Bardon, we’ve got our hands on the video for one of the first solo tracks to surface from MC, a cut called “A Game,” featuring Es-Nine on the decks, from the…
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…
Singing a cappella is an art — and artform that most of us would be better off not practicing at all. Ever. For any reason. (We’re not being mean here: We’ve heard you singing in the car. Really. Yikes!) Take it from us: It’s best to leave the art to…
Unless you’re a willful and adamant luddite or a conscientious dissenter pop culture trends, you’ve undoubtedly noticed how Twitter has steadily and unceremoniously unseated all the other social networking sites to become the primary means of communication and information dissemination in the Obama era. (Yes, we know some of you…
It’s Black Friday, the day we all emerge from our turkey coma and indulge in an orgy of consumerism. That’s why it felt appropriate to dig out this vintage gem from Richard O’Brien’s Shock Treatment, the little-know follow-up to the infamous Rocky Horror Picture Show. There was something in the…
We’re all about local. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. And so we’re all about buying local (well, aside from the American Spirit cigarettes we smoke, the Circle K coffee we drink and the Hondas we drive). So naturally, we totally appreciate and co-sign the sentiments behind the…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats 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 to them…
Norah Jones’ The Fall, released last week on Blue Note, grabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending November 22. John Mayer’s Battle Studies and Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled debut, both released last week, as well, came in second and third, while Dave Rawlings’ Friend of…
Determination and rock and roll run in the Avina blood. Maybe it’s a consequence of tight times and hard luck, the way families in poverty leaning on each other just to survive brings them a little closer together. Maybe it’s that relentless optimism of chasing the American dream that immigrants…
Two years ago, I made my first visit to Northfield Shops at Stapleton for the grand opening of the Denver Improv (8246 East 49th Avenue). Although Northfield can be seen from I-70 and is just a ten- or fifteen-minute drive from downtown, it still felt like it was in the…
Anyone who saw Jacob Isaacs playing in the legendary Angels Never Answer probably wouldn’t have guessed he’d do music like this. The earliest incarnations of Dugoutcanoe (due on Saturday, November 28, at Rhinoceropolis) used tape samples and Isaacs’s prodigious skill with drums and guitar, looping both, and as the project…
With a slip of the tongue, the name CunninLynguists can change from a description of one of the most respected hip-hop acts in the game to an act that, if performed without discretion, could get you kicked out of most places. CunninLynguists’ Kno and Deacon the Villain have, with very…
Referencing everyone from Silver Apples to Suicide to Young Marble Giants, Iowa City’s Wet Hair takes the keyboard-smeared, minimalist-art-rock-duo shtick to a new extreme of awesomeness. Granted, the sub-subgenre isn’t broad enough to brook much fakery — and frontman Shaun Reed (along with collaborator Ryan Garbes) carves a singular niche…
Hailing from the state that brought you Mastodon, Georgia’s Baroness is likewise a critically lauded metal outfit that seems to have sprung fully formed with the release of its 2007 debut, Red Album. But where Mastodon traffics in massive conceptual gestures and passages of ping-pong prog, Baroness reins in the…
Embarking on a small tour commemorating its twentieth anniversary as a band, the unrelenting and ominous-sounding Season to Risk, from Kansas City, was part of the early wave of bands to mix electronics and experimental hardcore. Peers of like-minded acts Drive Like Jehu and the VSS, Season to Risk shares…
Alex Ebert first came to public attention as the charismatic singer of indie-rock band Ima Robot. After some drastic life-changing experiences, he came up with the idea for this project, which seems to be part creative epiphany and part artistic therapy. Teaming up with singer/multi-instrumentalist Jade Castrinos and other friends…
