Bocumast Records, the authors of this very intriguing Westword Music Showcase-related quiz, not to mention the recording home of distinguished outfits such as Iuengliss, Astrophagus, BDRMPPL and the Natural Selection, is hosting a most excellent showcase of its own on Saturday, June 6, at the Meadowlark. The lineup includes the…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of Denver’s finest hip-hop acts paying tribute to the finest in that genre’s storied history, The Denver Art Rock Collective is paying tribute to the musical mastery of the one and only Britney Spears. Come again, now? Yes, that is right. Saturday, June…
Whygee is on a pretty good streak as far as projects are concerned. He’s still getting props from the Suicide Watch project with Sunken State and Kid Hum, his collection of rare and unreleased material in the Saga of Mr. Bitches with RocktheDub, and his appearances on a variety of…
The 38th annual CHUN Capitol Hill People’s Fair, one of the biggest downtown community events of its kind, takes place this weekend in Civic Center park. From the looks of it, there will be no shortage of entertainment this year. Check out the full line-up after the jump…
If exuberant, classic pop is your thing, tonight’s CD-release show from Super Seed should scratch your itch nicely. The band, which comprises several former Lazyface and 5 Complaints members, has gotten some radio play on 93.3, broke into the top ten in the 2007 Hometown for the Holidays competition and…
If you miss the halcyon days of blues-based rock with just a hint of psychedelic haze, then tonight’s CD-release party for the Hawks of Paradise album Skeleton Key will make you very happy. We’ve compared this outfit to Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground, but what you really need to…
Tonight at Bender’s Tavern, the men of Fell (profiled this week in Jason Heller’s excellent feature story) are unleashing the band’s second disc, A Farewell to Echoes, on the world. To mark the occasion, here’s a free download of the title track from that disc, a slow-burning minimalist slice of…
In support of Yes, their tenth full-length album(!), synth-pop kings Pet Shop Boys have just announced an eighteen-date North American tour, to begin at the end of August. The show promises to be filled with plenty of costumes, capers and theatricality. Unfortunately, the tour schedule is focused on the coasts,…
13th Planet Records, founded by Ministry’s Al Jourgensen, has released a free EP for digital download via Vampirefreaks.com. The EP includes five unreleased tracks and remixes by Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Prong, False Icons and Stayte, plus a video from Ascension of the Watchers (founded by Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell)…
Leonard Cohen Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison Thursday, June 4, 2009 Better Than: Cohen probably was fifteen years ago. Something must have happened to Leonard Cohen these past several years, because the performance the man gave on Thursday was stronger, more confident and even better developed than he has often sounded…
By now you may have heard about the Fray’s “dress rehearsal,” as it’s being called, this weekend. The band has been running through its live show all week at Broomfield Events Center in preparation for its summer tour, which kicks off next Friday in Atlanta. The week’s worth of rehearsals…
Update (Thursday): Just received word from AEG Live that some great seats to the show tonight, which was rescheduled from Tuesday due to inclement weather, have just been released. Tickets are available at all TicketMaster outlets.(Posted Tuesday): Due to the inclement weather we’re experiencing right now in the Mile High…
Let’s be honest here: At six years old, I was doing well to tie my own shoes and speak in full sentences. Looking back now, I can’t even begin to imagine sitting in with a band full of grown men and not just holding my own, but being the focal…
Well, that didn’t take too long. Back in March, we had the unfortunate displeasure of reporting that after a great run, the members of Animo had decided to part ways. This week, we received word that the three of the four members have regrouped under a new name, Heart and…
Gotta love Denver, man. At the risk of sounding like a homer, the creativity here is invigorating. It seems cats are constantly striving to come up with compelling ways to put on shows, Stand By Your Band at the hi-dive, Denver Does Denver and now Hip-Hop Bites Back, an idea…
While we’re on the subject of name changes today, it has come to our attention that the distinguished gentleman and bewitching lasses that currently answer to the name Paper Bird are in the process of modifying their name. It seems another outfit in Austria staked claim to that moniker some…
Over the weekend, we entered all of the songs that we’ve played on the show into a database. It was quiet eye-opening. Since launching back in December, we’ve played somewhere around 450 songs. Minus the songs we’ve played more than once, we’ve played more than 350 songs by 350 artists,…
For reasons that are seemingly innumerable, the outfit formerly known as Shitwolf has rinsed off its fur and will now be known simply as Undead Uglies. Too bad, Shitwolf was such a memorable moniker. Besides the fact that the name looked, uh, killer on fliers (check out past handbills on…
I could handle seeing the original sign for the Rainbow Music Hall still standing even though a Walgreen’s had taken over the space of the legendary music venue years ago. It was a little piece of music history that I could still hold on to, considering that most of my…
I had my big thirtieth-birthday party the other night,” says Josh Wambeke, singer/guitarist and leader of Fell. “I just bought a new home in Arvada, and we’re surrounded by older people, so we had to make sure they were going to be okay with it.” Respecting your neighbors isn’t exactly…
A strong police presence near a bar definitely makes you think twice about drinking too much. It can also make you feel safe — or make you mighty suspicious of a saloon’s clientele. Particularly when three squad cars are constantly circling a place, as was the case at the grand…
At Denver Does Denver, some of the most talented and interesting musical projects in town will do an entire cover set of material by another Denver band or songwriter. With at least two dozen bands playing on four stages in two venues half a block apart (Old Curtis St. Bar…
