VENDETTA FESTIVAL Saturday, September 26, 2009 Bar Standard Sunday, September 27, 2009 Exdo Events Center This past weekend marked the third annual Vendetta Festival, a gathering of some of the best industrial and dark dance acts from around the world. We made it to two out of three days of…
Tap, tap, tap. Ahem, attention: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important message about free beer. We’ve just received word that the band Synthetic Elements is shooting a music video this evening at LoDos in, well, uh, LoDo. And evidently, the shoot, which is happening at…
It’s been a few years since Katie Herzig hung her hat here, but we still very much consider the former Newcomers Home singer to be one of our own. The Fort Collins native has made quite a name for herself since moving to Nashville, including having a number of her…
Just in time for the seasons of ghouls and goblins, when kids of all shapes and sizes don scary costumes and cram their faces with every assorted sugary confection they can get their grubby little mitts on, the String Cheese Incident has announced plans to release Trick or Treat, an…
Jeremy Gregory had some innovative ideas for this weekend’s Endotrend Festival – such as silk-screening t-shirts as admission rather than issuing hard-tickets. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a little while longer for some of those ideas to take flight. Just a week before the event, being billed as the country’s…
Aspiring remixers take note — your chance to shine and get really drunk is here. Beta is sponsoring a remix contest for “Matt and Zane’s Snarky Sloot Bday Throwdown,” a party this weekend in the Beatport Lounge featuring Zane, Beekay, Fonzie and Bat Mowers in honor of Matt and Zane’s…
Update: Congrats to Chris Gary. He and a guest will be our guests at the show this evening. Tonight, in support of his just released album, Us, Brother Ali hits the Ogden Theatre in the company of Evidence, Toki Wright and BK One. We’ve got tickets to the show. Wanna…
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…
The new Billboard Hot 100 keeps coming out, and despite an alarming gain by some guy named Jay-Z, the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” remains on top, further proving that the Peas are the greatest pop ensemble ever assembled (even better than those old guys above). Don’t believe that…
Update: Congratulations, Mike Long. You and a guest will be our guest at the show this evening. Have a great time!Tonight, in support of its latest release, the Steve Albini-produced Journal for Plague Lovers, Manic Street Preachers stop by the Bluebird Theater in the company of Nico Vega. Wanna go?…
Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 was Independent Records’ top seller for the third week in row and Five Finger Death Punch’s War is the Answer, released last week on Prospect Park, and Pearl Jam’s Backspacer nabbed the second and the third slots. Brand New’s latest effort, Daisy, and Lil Boosie’s Superbad:…
Monsters of Folk, which features M. Ward, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout with their self-titled debut. Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, and Mark Knopfler’s Get Lucky came in second and third while Brand New, Muse and…
The Denver House Authority are closing up shop on their weekly Friday-night party on the rooftop of Vinyl. After three months holding down the primo spot for their weekly event, the crew is being forced out and will be replaced by the burgeoning popularity of the Friday-night Latin night, which…
Backspacer, Pearl Jam’s ninth studio effort, grabbed the top spot while David Gray’s Draw the Line and Mark Knopfler’s Get Lucky nabbed the second and third slots at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending September 27. Monsters of Folk (M. Ward, Jim James, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis) and…
DJ Craze spun his fist-ever set at Beta on Friday. Photographer Uriah West was there and checked in with these photos…
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…
Bryan Adams Saturday, September 26, 2009 Paramount Theatre Better Than: A sonically faithful retro-tour performance. Bryan Adams was definitely a rock star when I was in high school, so I didn’t know what to expect from this acoustic performance. It could have been a ploy to make some cash on…
As mentioned earlier today, this weekend marks the third annual Vendetta Festival, slated to take place over the course of three days in three different venues. There’s still time to enter for your chance to win a weekend pass if you haven’t already. In the meantime, as promised, to get…
Are you familiar with “Slash” fiction? It’s a venerable strain of Star Trek fan fiction that posits a homosexual relationship between Kirk and Spock. Well, today’s video cuts up episodes of the old animated Star Trek series in such a way as to suggest the glory days of slash fic,…
Yes, we know. That’s a loaded question and also an unreasonable query. Best of anything is relative. Music is subjective. It isn’t and shouldn’t be a competition. While we tend to agree with all that, we feel compelled to inform you that the folks at KBPI are once again in…
Platinum records? A sold-out tour? Countless songs licensed? A female following that presumably rivals Oprah’s? Pffft — all things that time will inevitably erase. Now, a tattoo, on the other hand — that shit’s forever, man. Apparently no one mentioned that to the lovely young lass pictured at left, who’s…
Update: Congratulations Jessica Martinez.You and a guest will be our guests at this weekend’s Vendetta Festival. Check your e-mail for details.Ah, dark days are here again. This weekend, Denver is playing host to the Vendetta Festival, the biggest festival of its kind in the United States and the third largest…
