Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3, the rapper’s follow-up to his two previous Blueprint albums, nabbed the first slot on Independent’s top sellers list for the week ending September 20. Kid Cudi’s latest effort, Man on the Moon and Lil Boosie’s Superbad came in second and third while Drake and Megadeth rounded…
Mark Knopfler’s sixth studio album Get Lucky, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar in Boulder while Muse’s latest effort, The Resistance, debuted at the second slot for the week ending September 20. The String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth grabbed the number…
Raekwon’s latest effort, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2, grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax while HEALTH’s Get Color came in second for the week ending September 20. Muse’s The Resistance, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the third spot while Pearl Jam’s Backspacer and Polvo’s In Prism…
Like his past two albums, Taking Up Your Precious Time and Filling Up The City Skies, Derek Vincent Smith, who performs under the Pretty Lights moniker, has announced plans to release his next effort, Passing By Behind Your Eyes, digitally. Originally set to drop tomorrow, the disc has been pushed…
Before unceremoniously calling it quits with after a Halloween show last year, Hearts of Palm was arguably one of the brightest acts to emerge from the Denver music scene in the past decade. An outfit with boundless potential, the group, which got its start as Nathan & Stephen, was known…
Spoke Shaver, Big Timber and DualisticsSaturday, September 19, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than: I would have thought possible. Before this show I never liked Dualistics. All of its stage antics and music seemed contrived and derivative to a fault. But it had been a long time since I’d seen the…
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…
What more can we say about Jen Korte’s new CD? As we’ve already expressed, it’s work of sheer beauty that utterly consumed us the first time we heard it. A year in the making, Korte recorded the self-titled disc at Blue Tower Studio with band mate Jim Ruberto. It was…
Since releasing its last album, Resident 303, in October 2006, P-Nuckle has undergone several significant lineup changes. Rather than losing momentum, however, the guys kept their heads down and continued gigging relentlessly, forging ahead with new material. Three years later, the outfit has emerged with a brand new album, Stand…
Okay, that headline may be a tad misleading. The Toad Tavern has actually been around for more than two decades. Two years ago, though, a stalwart of the scene, Brice Hancock, who plays guitar in Rubber Planet and has been involved in a number of other area clubs, including the…
Last night on I-25 as Del the Funky Homosapien (aka Teren Delvon Jones) and his crew were making their way up from Colorado Springs to Denver for a scheduled show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, an Escalade reportedly driven by a drunk driver, rear-ended the crew. Although Del and company…
Today’s video is an object lesson in how good intentions (bringing the diverse children of the world to Jesus) combined with raw ignorance and ethnic insensitivity can, with the benefit of a little time, lead to pure, unbridled hilarity. It’s a clip reportedly taped off a public access show some…
I grew up on a steady diet of metal and skate rock in my formative years along with a total obsession with skateboarding; so bands like Strung Out earned plenty of boombox time back in the day during the endless skate sessions I had with my friends. Fourteen years and…
Speaking of metal bands from up north, Arcanium received some righteous news this week. The Loveland-based outfit, which just a new album titled The Architects, was just tapped as a supporting act on Megadeth’s upcoming Endgame tour with Machinehead and Suicide Silence, which kicks off at the Orbit Room in…
You know the notion that once you’ve recorded an album it’s forever? That’s not always the case, apparently. Witness Immortal Dominion. Remember back in April when the act released its new album, Primortal? Kind of a big deal for the group, which was stoked to have had the chance to…
Bam! Here it is, the brand new video for “Heat and Light” from the Rouge for your screening pleasure. Not much in the way of a storyline here just a plethora of shots of the band interspersed with footage of Josh Vaught manhandling an impeccable body that just makes us…
Coming off a pretty impressive summer of high profile Colorado appearances, including a return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival, a packed tent at Mile High Music Festival and a stop at Red Rocks with the Allman Brothers, acoustic jam band Railroad Earth could almost call Colorado their second home. Add in…
Wow! Live Nation has outdid itself this time. All summer, the concert promoter has been offering up new ticket specials every week, from buy one get one deals to suspending service charges. Today, though, it unveiled its Live Nation Passport, which gains you admittance to a dozen Fillmore shows. Best…
The CSU Marching Band is about to become a million times cooler. In an effort to raise awareness (and money) for the families who are still displaced from Hurricane Katrina, the Fort Collins Music Association (FoCoMA) has drafted the Dirty Dozen Brass Band to march with the unit at halftime…
There are many measures of an artist’s success, but how do you know you’ve truly arrived? Riches? Groupies? Nah, you’ve really made it when you’re so well-known you get turned into the answer for a game show. That’s just what’s happened to 3OH!3, as captured in the filmed-from-the-TV-screen clip embedded…
We never cease to be impressed with the strides that Colorado producer Frank E continues to make. It’s like nonstop! And although he’s been producing hits for a nice range of hip-hop artists like Chamillionaire, Plies, T-Pain and Flo-Rida, he’s doing the pop thing too. Two singles from pop superstars…
All right, a few weeks ago we offered up our take on the ten worst moments of crossover disaster, ill-advised efforts to mate movies with music. Now it’s time to look at the flip side of the coin, the ten movies in which music and Hollywood made great bedfellows, outstanding…
