Bobby Walker has been playing professionally for close to four decades, and Git It feels like a document of his time touring around the States, Japan and Germany. In his whisky-soaked rasp, you can hear the miles he’s traveled on this mini-travelogue of the blues, from the funky blues of…
One of the most memorable turns of phrase from the past few years of original rock music has to be “Jesus saves, I spend,” from St. Vincent’s 2007 debut full-length Marry Me. Born Annie Clark, the 26-year old multi-instrumentalist — who has toured as a guitarist with the Polyphonic Spree…
The studio work by rootsy singer-songwriters who are lucky enough to have long recording careers tends to grow more urbane as time goes on. That’s certainly true of Middle Cyclone, the latest offering by Neko Case, who’ll share the Chautauqua spotlight with Joey Burns and John Convertino. “This Tornado Loves…
Since the 1967 release of Songs of Leonard Cohen, this widely admired songwriter has become synonymous with the concept of cool like few others since Miles Davis. More a prolific poet than jazz/folk songwriter, Cohen’s inimitable voice really does sound like it’s coming from someone who understands the rough times…
The gulf between mainstream rap and indie hip-hop can be breached with ease. Indeed, there are plenty of tracks on Murs’ latest recording, 2008’s Murs For President, that would cause the typical T.I. fan to start nodding his head if he gave them a chance, including “Lookin’ Fly,” co-starring will.i.am…
Early on in its career, Camera Obscura endured endless comparisons to revered fellow Glaswegians Belle & Sebastian. At this point, however, any comparison threatens to make the latter look bad: Among scholars of the heartache and growing pains of bookish, precocious youth, Stuart Murdoch’s got nothing on Camera Obscura vocalist/guitarist…
A little over a month ago, we came up with this crazy — and some now say ill-conceived — idea that we would give ourselves a mulligan in terms of the bands that were overlooked when the nominees for this year’s ballot were revealed and add five acts to this…
In this week’s issue, we’re running a short profile on Tim Pourbaix in Rough Mixes, based on a lengthy interview Eryc Eyl conducted with Pourbaix. The singer-songwriter had much more to say than could fit into that smaller piece. Subsequently, we’ve opted to allow Pourbaix to tell his story –…
If you’ve gotten around to reading this week’s issue, you might have seen my gushing review of the incredible new record from the Jim Jims. Now, it isn’t often that I do this (and by isn’t often, I mean I have never done it before and may never do it…
Jane’s Addiction & Nine Inch NailsTuesday, May 26, 2009 Fiddler’s Green AmphitheatreBetter Than: Seeing Dave Navarro hanging out with porn stars. Near the end of Nine Inch Nail’s set, frontman Trent Reznor said this current outing with Jane’s Addiction would be NIN’s last tour. It seemed like an odd way…
Last month, in advance of its headlining show at the Gothic Theater celebrating the release of its major label debut, Common Struggles, we profiled Single File. We also reviewed the show that night and posted some pictures the following Monday morning. Well leave it to those guys, the quintessential do-it-yourself-even-though-they’re-on-a-major-label-now…
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…
With so many music festivals to fill up your summer and drain your pocketbook, we put together a handy rundown of Denver’s fests, in order of their appearance on your calendar. Which are you looking most forward to? What should concertgoers know about each? Use the comments section below –…
As previously reported, Tori Amos will stop at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, July 21, in support of her new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which was released last week. Blues Traveler, who’s made an annual tradition of playing Red Rocks on July 4, returns again this year. Tickets for…
Eminem’s Relapse, released last week on the rapper’s own Shady imprint, knocked Green Day from first down to the fifth spot at Independent Records for the week ending May 24. New releases by Method Man & Redman and Busta Rhymes grabbed the number two and three slots. See the full…
After coming in second to Steve Earle’s Townes last week, Green Day moved took over the top spot with 21st Century Breakdown at Twist & Shout for the week ending May 24. New releases by Tori Amos, Eminem, Iron & Wine and Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood rounded out the…
Metric’s Fantasies grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax for the week ending May 24. St. Vincent’s Actor, Peaches’ I Feel Cream and the Colorado late-’70s punk compilation Rocky Mountain Low each held ground in the top ten. See the full breakdown after the jump…
During the morning and night newscasts on Channel 2, the station has been showcasing local acts on their Guitar Center-sponsored stage. All of the acts thus far have been rock-oriented with nary a hip-hop artist — until last week. On Friday morning, the Deuce reached out to ManeLine and asked…
Moderat May 23, 2009 Beta Better than: Much of clearly unengaged crowd deserved. As if to signify this would not be a typical club set of techno, the three-man operation that is Moderat had set up along the side of the room that’s usually the main-room bar at Beta. This…
Iwrestledabearonce, Human Abstract and Vanna Friday, May 22, 2009 Marquis Theater Better Than: A full-on emocore show. Human Abstract started the show off with a blend of death metal and proggy screamo. Singer Nathan Ells switched between the death metal growl and higher-register distorted screamo vocals seamlessly. For the most…
Trouble Andrew, Natural Selection, Boyhollow Monday, May 25, 2009 Bluebird Theater Better than: Celebrating Memorial Day outside in the rain. Talk about having the odds stacked against you. In addition to playing on a holiday, the acts at the Bluebird on Monday night had to compete with the Nuggets playoff…
If you’re looking to get get a jump start on the Memorial Day barbecue action, Rockbar (3015 East Colfax Avenue) is firing up the grill in their parking lot tomorrow night starting at 7 p.m., and the Greatest Hits Band starts playing at 8. The Nuggets game will be on…
