The Avett Brothers’ I and Love and You grabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar again for the week ending October 11. Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 and Alice in Chains’ Black Gives Way to Blue nabbed the second and third slots while Mariah Carey’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel…
With frontman Duncan Barlow currently residing in Florida, d.biddle doesn’t play very often. And so when it does, needless to say, it’s something of an event, particularly when one of the shows happens to fall on Halloween and rolls into El Día de los Muertos. With Barlow looking like an…
There have been a lot of bands in the history of the universe and most of them, at one point or another, have broken up. Surprisingly, we’ve found the majority of them have reformed despite themselves. Another surprise is the amount of bands still playing — Better Than Ezra, Seven…
Wonder if the MySpace page belonging to Candy Claws has seen a significant spike in the past two days. We’re guessing that it has. Around this time yesterday, “Catamaran,” a track from the outfit’s latest effort, In the Dream of Sea Life, which has been remastered and is slated to…
On Naima’s Grass Pajamas, Paul Riola’s Bottesini Project has assembled something of a dream lineup, including guitar legend Nels Cline of Wilco, bassist Keenan Wayne, CacheFlowe, Janet Feder and Glenn Taylor. The musicians recorded a day’s worth of improvisations, then Riola and Colin Bricker spent many additional hours in the…
Update: Congratulations to Bridget Dyer. Her and a guest will be our guests at the show tonight featuring Stone Temple Pilots, who, as correctly noted by everyone that responded, was originally known as the Mighty Joe Young before briefly changing their moniker to Shirley Temple’s Pussy and then eventually settling…
After holding on the top spot for a weeks in a row and then moving down to the fifth spot last week, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 is back on top at Independent Records for the week ending October 11. Mariah Carey’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, which grabbed the top spot…
The quality of videos coming out of the Mile High City these days is pretty astounding. Gone are the days of convincing a buddy with a camcorder to spend an afternoon trying to make something “artsy.” Within the past few years, the quality of videos seems to have risen in…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
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…
If you like playing in “the realm of 32nd notes” in time signatures such as “13/16 and 5/8” and have a great love for all things Dungeons & Dragons when it comes to lyrics, get thee to Lakewood, where “Zack” awaits you as his musical soulmate. Also, you should not…
French electronic duo Air grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax with its latest effort, Love 2, which was released last week on Astralwerks. A Place to Bury Strangers’ There is No Enemy and Built to Spill’s There is No Enemy, both issued last week, nabbed the second on third…
The Used and the Almost played the Fillmore on Sunday. Photographer Aaron Thackeray (we call him the Awesome) was on hand. See his photos on the slideshow page…
Jolie Holland, with Matt Bauer The Walnut Room Saturday, October 10, 2009 Better Than: Walking from Market St. Station to Walnut & 31st in the cold No one shines like Brooklyn-based indie-folk goddess Jolie Holland. Just as Neil Young was the depth and edge of CSNY, Holland was the stand-out…
Yo La Tengo with Cheap Time Saturday, October 9, 1009 The Ogden Theater Better Than: Dreams of flying In concert footage, there are always people near the front, grinning like idiots and swaying back and forth. These people always look like hippies in the worst way. Meaning content to the…
Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire Saturday, October 10, 2009 Fillmore Auditorium Better than: Seeing the Archies, Alvin and the Chipmunks or any other cartoon rock band “There sure are a lot of nerds here for a heavy metal show,” said a friend while overlooking the sea of fist-pumping,…
Butthole Surfers, Psychic Ills, Circle Number DotFriday, October 9, 2009Ogden Theater, DenverBetter Than: The flash freezing going on outside.Circle Number Dot, who opened this show, didn’t sound like they got much more than a mere line check before hitting the stage. It was initially hard to tell if it was…
Longtime Denver dance music stalwart Vitamin D has a new album coming February 24 and, from the sounds of the tracks he has posted on his MySpace, it should be a good one. He announced it back in July and today, he released this image of the album cover. Not…
So, you’ve been driving around, nodding your head and/or snapping your fingers to “Sexy Bitch,” the cheesy, sleazy collaboration between French superstar DJ David Guetta and hip-hop dude Akon. And you’re digging it, but you keep asking yourself, “Why didn’t they release a crazy electro version of this shit?!?” Well,…
Among the many accomplishments of the power of networked computing, I consider the elevation of karaoke from hilarious drunken pastime to even more hilarious high art one of the greatest. See, YouTube and other video/audio hosting services have allowed many, many thousands of aspiring singers to attempt to karaoke their…
Orbit Service, the experimental/psychedelic pop outfit of Randall Frazier, will be appearing on the upcoming compilation MOM. The disc is a benefit for Beta-lactam Rings Records owner Chris McBeth’s mother, who has cancer. “[McBeth and I] have become very close friends over the past few years. His mother was recently…
If you’ve never heard of Owl City until now, you’re forgiven. The brainchild of young pop composer and producer Adam Young, Owl City, seemingly came out of nowhere in the past six months and is quickly becoming a phenomenon. Foisted to the forefront solely on the strength of a strong…
