A little over a month ago, we reported that Immortal Dominion was seeking a new drummer to fill the slot vacated by Ben Huntwork, who parted ways with the group after fifteen years. Evidently, Huntwork was displeased with the band’s decision — at the behest of producer Sterling Winfield –…
Last month, The Sun reported that Shane MacGowan got himself a new pair of dentures to stop his face from “falling apart” after 35 years on the thrash. Sure, the dude’s been known as a drunkard of the highest order, he’s missed a few planes to gigs over the years…
Yes, it’s been more than 20 years since the Beastie Boys were licensed to ill, and in those intervening years, the trio’s output has been, on balance, fantastic. Sure, there have been a few duds along the way, but every album has been worth hearing. That’s why I still get…
By now you’ve probably heard that Sunny Day Real Estate, one of my all-time favorite bands and an act whose influence can not be overstated, is reuniting and heading out on the road for twenty dates with the original line-up. We just received word that the tour, which kicks off…
Even though L.I.F.E. Crew member Deca has been spending the last year or so living in California, we can’t deny his Colorado roots.The gruff-voiced rapper has filmed a video for a song called “Movement,” in California in the midst of a wind farm. We’re not sure where the song is…
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 long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is…
In case you’re like us and got just completely jacked at the Hot IQs farewell show at the Bluebird on Friday night, forgot to set your DVR and thus missed 3OH!3 on Jimmy Kimmel, here’s the video. From what we can gather from the boys, evidently, it’s still never a…
I just received a press release from the Salt Lake City Arts Council (cue the Pace picante sauce dudes asking incredulously, “Salt Lake City?!”) informing me of their Twilight Concert Series. Evidently, the concerts, which are free and take place every Thursday night at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt…
Of classical music’s many charms, vitality is hardly one of them; most of the big names are long-dead white guys. So Eclectic Concerts, a chamber music series now in its third year, is remarkable for including music from around the world and from this century alongside the powder-wigged Europeans…
Update: We’ve just learned that the Locals special mentioned below only runs through the end of June, so you better get over there soon! Stylists will also reportedly be on hand at the Epilogues show this Saturday night to hook cats up with a cut and style. On a related…
Sonic Youth’s new album, The Eternal, grabbed the top slot for the second week in a row while George Harrison’s new greatest hits collection, Let It Roll, came in second for the week ending June 21. Steve Earle’s Townes, Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown and Mos Def’s Ecstatic rounded out…
Grizzly Bear’s latest disc, Veckatimest, nabbed the top slot at Wax Trax for the week ending June 21. The late-’70s Colorado punk compilation Rocky Mountain Low continues to stay in the top ten while new albums from Mos Def and Sonic Youth also grabbed spots in the top five. See…
For the fifth week in a row, Eminem’s Relapse grabbed the top spot on Independent’s best seller list for the week ending June 21. Tech N9ne’s Sickology 101, which has been a top seller since it was released April 28, moved up the second spot while new discs by Black…
All right, so my sister’s getting hitched this fall and so I’ve decided to trim down a little. Since I’m in the wedding, I figured I don’t want to look like a big guy in the, uh, little coat when everybody breaks out the cameras, if you know what I’m…
Update: Early bird tickets are gone. If you snoozed, you losed (yes, we know that’s not a word, but “lost” didn’t rhyme). On a related note, Monolith, which added Chromeo to the line-up last week, earned a nod from Outside Magazine as one of the best summer music fests. Yay,…
Because of his outsized persona, Yonnas Abraham is the face that most people generally associate with the Pirate Signal. If you look over dude’s shoulder, though, there’s another cat that cuts an equally impressive figure in his own right on the ones and twos. That distinguished chap’s name? Alejandro Martinez,…
Fresh off the performance at the Westword Music Showcase this past weekend and little more than a week before the release of Broadcast, their major label debut, the men of Meese have premiered their video for their first single, “Next In Line.” There’s three versions of the performance driven clip,…
Your appreciation of today’s clip is likely to be wholly dependent on your affection (or lack thereof) for foul-mouthed puppets rapping about old-school video games. If you read that and said ‘Holy shit, I can die happy now,” you will be thrilled — otherwise, this may not be quite your…
Remember way back in January when we speculated that Spools of Dark Thread was headed for a dirt nap, only to rescind our prediction a few weeks later when we received word that a few members had designs on soldiering on? Little did we know then — especially given the…
The Fray, this nifty little pop band from Denver, dropped in on Jimmy Fallon’s soon-to-be-short-lived late-night show on Thursday to play a little ditty. If you were reading the Tweets of Fallon’s house-band leader ?uest Love, you probably expected Isaac and Co. to play their bizarre cover of Kanye West’s…
As previously reported, tonight’s the night when Hot IQs retire their jerseys after an estimable six year run. A distinguished, iconic band that earmarked an era, the outfit is immortalized in the pantheon of local music alongside other dearly departed, homegrown legends such as the Fluid, the Czars, the Gamits…
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago — okay, so, five years ago, if you’re being persnickety — a storied Denver band called Carolyn’s Mother called it day. Led by Rhett Lee, who subsequently went on to front another great outfit called Ten Cent Redemption, Carolyn’s presided over…
