Music

Update 11/02: Just received word that Dashboard Confessional has postponed its upcoming tour due to “a family situation that is beyond our control,” including a scheduled appearance at the Fillmore on Monday, November 9. No word on when the dates will be rescheduled or how this new development will impact…

The Siren Project Sunday, November 1, 2009 The Church Better Than: The Project has been in a long time. Having a show at the Church is a bit of a losing proposition not because it’s not that a cool place to have a show — although it’s a beautiful building…

David Bazan, Say Hi November 1, 2009 Hi-Dive Better Than:Dreaming about an open mike night during a nap. “Do you guys want to hear a joke?” asks Say Hi frontman Eric Elbogen maybe three songs into their set. We do, of course. “Clean or dirty?” he asks. He gets a…

For a project that initially began as a home recording project, Fell, led by Josh Wambeke, has sure turned a lot of heads, from Camera Obscura label head Tony Daley, who stepped up to release the act’s music virtually sight unseen, to the producers of the indie film The Purest…

Just a bit ago, Blackhearts, the thus far super secret collaboration between Yonnas Abraham of the Pirate Signal, F.O.E. and Karma, made its online debut with a track called “Bloodlines of That Gangsta Shhh.” According to Abraham, the still burgeoning outfit will expand to include collaborations with other artists such…

A group of engineering students who are passionate about music? The mere notion seems incongruous, like, say, a group of accountants forming an art appreciation club and then getting together periodically to discuss the works of Van Gogh and Michaelangelo. Nonetheless, that’s exactly the basis for Something Like Sound, a…

If you weren’t paying attention, there was this little thing called the 5280 Urban Music Awards that got the Colorado hip-hop heads all riled up (see the commentary here). But despite the reaction to the nominees, the show went off without a hitch, as evidenced by the video recap above…

Ah, snow. I hate it. I am not a skier, not a ‘boarder and I sure as fuck don’t snowshoe. And it’s not because I am some pansy-ass, warm-weather transplant from SoCal or something. I grew up in Wyoming and I’ve been in Colorado for almost thirteen years, so I…

Here’s something to brighten your day: An allegedly African rapper named Bangs — “Superstar hip hot artist,” according to his web site — laying down “Take U To Da Movies.” It reminds me of “What What (In the Butt),” which is too bad, since I was hoping to never be…

Gotta love record companies, especially the majors. What moxie, eh? Even in the midst of steadily declining record sales, that get progressively worse each year, and despite the fact that we’re smack dab in a recession with record unemployment, they’re still trying to squeeze every penny out of us with…

On the third floor of a giant, dilapidated Victorian mansion on Franklin Street just south of Five Points, Andy Wild and Joe Ramirez are mixing. The soft gold of the evening lights up the massive yellow structure, restoring it to a bit of its former majesty: It towers over the…

I’m rarely carded these days: I’m nearly twice as old as the legal drinking age, and what hair I still have is starting to go gray. So when the bartender at Hai Bar (3600 West 32nd Avenue) asked for my ID on a Thursday night, I gave her such a…

Less a band than a loose agglomeration of musicians engaging in a performance-art piece, Spellcaster’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Time Travel Committee (due at Rhinoceropolis on Friday, October 30) brings the danger back to an indie-rock show like few have since the Kindercide last performed. Spellcaster puts aside his usual noise…