Massive movement: Just received word that Massive Music America, the independent promotions firm launched in 2003 in association with Helmet Room Recordings, which has handled campaigns for an array of artists including the Legendary Pink Dots, Beta-Lactam Ring Records and Edward Ka-Spel, among others, is shutting its doors. The company…
Metal fans rejoice, for you have much to be thankful for this week, especially tonight! In case you happened to miss it last week, we published two in-depth Q&As with two of metal’s most revered acts, both of which just happen to be playing our great state tonight. Down south,…
Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup that features drummer Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age), guitarist/singer John Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss) and bassist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout with their self-titled debut, released last week on…
Recalling the frayed pop sounds of New Zealand indie-rock bands of the ’80s and the angular, contorted psychedelia of Pavement, Pacific Pride has always focused more on quality over quantity. Beginning in 2004 after the dissolution of the original lineup of the May Riots, Pacific Pride played few shows and…
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…
Over the weekend, Dan Aykroyd was in town signing bottles of Crystal Head vodka at Applejack Wine and Spirits. Blues Brothers fans who were undoubtedly thrilled at the prospect of being able to press flesh the one and only Elwood Blues on Saturday afternoon, would’ve positively lost their dang minds…
We’re sure you enjoyed our Q&A with Vaughn Harris of Nitzer Ebb last week. But maybe you were wondering why we didn’t ask him about that one b-side off the band’s second single, or why they never remixed Madonna, or how much practice it took to perfect those pouty/scary looks…
Puscifer, Uncle Scratch’s Gospel’s Revival Saturday, November 21, 2009 Paramount Theatre Better than: Watching old reruns of Hee Haw. It would have been hard to predict the format and content of Saturday night’s Puscifer show based solely on the outfit’s studio recordings. A side project of Tool frontman Maynard James…
Sun Circle, Epileptinomicon, Temples, Sterile Garden and nervesandgel Friday, November 20th, 2009 Glob Better Than: A noise show comprised entirely of purist noise projects. Epileptinomicon opened the show with just Mike Reisinger feeding his vocals through a series of effects pedals into the PA. The result was an amplified white…
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. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what we missed in the…
Some quick news bites from the local scene…Oh my!: Recognize these striking dames? Yeah, us neither. That boa helmet and weird, red, veil, feathery thing kind of obscures any chance we have any sort of face recognition. This pic was snapped a few nights ago at mtvU’s Woodie Awards, which…
This fine evening, Blue Million Miles is sharing a bill at 3 Kings Tavern with Lion Sized — whose members will be taking some time off to hangout with kinfolk and write and record a new record, which means this will effectively be its last show of the year –…
There’s nothing wrong with white people doing hip-hop — if it was ever in question, I think Eminem proved that. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with rappers loving Jesus. I mean, how many hip-hop albums don’t thank the Christ, his dad, or both in the liner notes? So it logically…
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…
Sleeping with band dudes doesn’t make you famous.” The words scrawl across a closed door after the stock “band slut” walks in behind the drummer in All Time Low’s new video for “Weightless.” Just a few years back, the four Baltimore-based post-punkers wouldn’t have known anything about that sort of…
Yesterday’s news that the Monolith Festival is in financial straits and in need of a rather large infusion of cash just to continue wasn’t completely shocking, especially given the modest turnouts and the fact that AEG Live opted out of helping produce and promote this year’s fest, which seemed to…
Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face show originally scheduled for Sunday, November 22 at the Pepsi Center has been pushed back to February 22. Any tickets purchased for this Sunday’s show will be valid for the rescheduled date, and refunds are available at point of purchase. The two…
Just in time for the release of the second installment of the execrable Twilight series (New Moon opens tomorrow, in case you somehow managed to block that horrible truth from your consciousness) we’re proud to bring you a vampire-related offering that doesn’t suck. It’s PJ Stroller’s minimal tech remix of…
Mama mia!: Mama, the outfit led by frontman Jeff Leonetti and Jonny Barber (aka Chris Barber, frontman of Spiv and the Velvet Elvis), has signed a distribution deal with Steve Vai’s Digital Nations imprint. The label, an offshoot of Vai’s Favored Nations, will handle worldwide distribution of Bayoutopia, the act’s…
In response to an overwhelming demand from fans looking to pitch in after yesterday’s news that the annual fall Festival is struggling financially, Monolith organizers have set up a Kickstarter account and have set an initial two-week goal of raising $38,000 in donations towards an overall goal of $200,000 to…
Slayer and Megadeth team up for KBPI’s Midwinter Melee on Monday, January 25 at DU’s Magness Arena. It’s the first time the two bands have co-headlined in two decades, and as a bonus for diehard metal heads, Testament gets things started. General admission floor seats are $49.50, while reserved seats…
Michael Jackson’s This is It came in first at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending November 15 while Gov’t Mule’s By a Thread and Triple C’s Custom Cars & Cycles grabbed the second and third spots respectively. Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 and Creed’s Full Circle rounded out the top five. See…
