Peña, Cougar Legs and Eyes Caught FireSaturday, April 18, 2009The Rocket Room, Colorado SpringsBetter Than: Missing such a beautiful show due to Colorado’s Jeckyl and Hyde weather. Dave Kurtz and Joshua Trinidad opened the show as Cougar Legs, with the former performing arhythmic jazz percussion in masterful time with the…
Iuengliss, BDRMPPL and Josephine and the MousepeopleFriday, April 17, 2009hi-dive, DenverBetter Than: The mixture of snow, slush and thunder that barraged the city all day. In spite of one of the most schizophrenic patches of weather in recent memory, the show went on at the hi-dive and came as a…
Sizzling hot off the wire: Just received word that Green Day will be bringing its 21st Century Breakdown tour to Denver on Saturday, August 15. The tour kicks off on Friday, July 3, in Seattle, and will mark the act’s first roadwork in more than three years. And it’s been…
Behold our latest weekly feature: Moving Pictures. Like a slideshow, only with sound and motion, Moving Pictures is basically just a quick highlight reel of the things we saw during the week or, in this case, over the weekend. This first edition features clips from yet another extraordinary weekend for…
The second annual Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts, one of the nation’s biggest electronic music festivals, kicks off properly tonight. In addition to a strong lineup of national and international talent — Thomas Fehlmann, Gudrun Gut, KiloWatts, Christopher Willits, for example — it also features an all-star cast of the…
Denver Nuggets DJ and 107.1 FM mixmaster, DJ Bedz, pulled some strings with his colleagues at Def Jam Records to get an NBA Playoff anthem from artist Ace Hood for the Nuggets’ playoff run. The track is called “Overtime” and features T-Pain and Akon. While it’s already a radio hit…
Ah, what is it about the changing of the seasons that brings changes in lineups? One of the more compelling hard rock bands on the front range, Circle # Dot, fronted by former drummer turned frontman Matt Card, is seeking a bass player. If you like bands like Clutch and…
Tonight’s Pennywise and Pepper show at the Fillmore Auditorium, which was part of Jagermeister’s Music Tour, has been postponed due to severe weather conditions west of Denver. The bands plan to reschedule the show and Live Nation will announce a new date as soon as the show is confirmed…
Looks like 3OH!3’s debut single, “Don’t Trust Me,” can now officially be considered a smash, having purportedly sold one million digital copies. For those of you who’ve recently unthawed after being cryogenically frozen for the past decade or so, that is the modern-day equivalent of selling a million CD singles…
Doves Kingdom of Rust Astralwerks It’s not exactly a mystery why Doves remain more popular in the U.K. than on these shores. After all, the band’s music tends toward denseness, not instant accessibility — and Jimi Goodwin and the brothers Williams, Jez and Andy, feel that brevity is highly overrated…
For this week’s slice of the weird, I give you Sir Ivan, and it doesn’t get much freakier than this guy. He’s a fifty-something ex-financier who lives in a castle and maintains a superhero identity called Peaceman (also, Mr. Mitzvah for a short time on SciFi’s Who Wants to Be…
Ran into Tim Pourbaix very briefly last night. When we ducked out for a quick smoke in front of the Sputnik, he informed me that his new record is nearly finished as is the Park-Pourbaix project he’s been working on with Ellison Park. No word on when the latter will…
Got there late and didn’t stay for the whole thing — mostly because I’d already had a full night taking in bits of Reverend Deadeye’s set at 3 Kings and SoundRabbit at the hi-dive, not to mention a few too many cocktails — but I was pleasantly surprised to catch…
Dish Ma Raison de Vivre Ton AmourROA Records Filtering ’60s pop and garage rock through filial rivalry and junkyard percussion, Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar make heartfelt, heartsick indie rock that is clever without being cloying, dynamic without being deafening and poppy without being pablum. The wide-eyed optimism and ingenuity of the…
Plenty of amazing seven-inch singles will be available at Twist & Shout for Record Store Day other than the ones we’ve featured thus far in April — stuff by Sublime, Taking Back Sunday, Tom Waits, Magnolia Electric Company, the Pretenders, the Jesus Lizard (a pack of nine singles, believe it…
All right, so I’ve been meaning to make mention of this, but somehow I keep forgetting: Last weekend, I finally saw Seven Pounds, the Fresh Prince’s latest blockbuster, and I noticed something that I’m wondering if anybody else noticed: Without giving the plot line away, there’s this scene in which…
Speaking with Aaron Howell, the frontman of Forth Yeer Freshman, is a lot like listening to his band’s music: the things he says are generally over the top and somewhat ludicrous, yet you get the sense that there’s a certain amount of earnestness attached to his sentiments. In advance of…
Today I woke up thinking, “Thursday already, and no Flier of the Week to light the way?” Then I saw this delightful work and knew the gods of graphic design had seen my plight and taken pity on me. The muted color palette and sea-creature graphic seem especially suited to…
As with most of our Rough Mixes interviews, we had an abundance of material to work from and a limited amount of space in the paper. Subsequently, the piece on Immortal Dominion in this week’s print edition, barely scratches the surface of our recent chat with guitarist/vocalist Brian Villers. The…
Another fun show last night. Andy was back from tour and as things worked out, we didn’t have any guests, which meant less talk and more rock. In homage to Hot IQs, who recently announced their impending split, we kicked off the show with three back-to-back songs from the group,…
Histoire de Melody Nelson, a 1971 tour de force by eccentric French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, is among the top reissues of this still young year — and thanks for unearthing it goes to Light in the Attic, an imprint that specializes in bringing worthy oddities back onto the market. (Its…
Josh Reichmann Oracle BandCrazy PowerPaper Bag RecordsAfter a perfectly respectable run as frontman of Toronto artsy punk outfit Tangiers, Josh Reichmann set off on his own last year, surprising fans of his earlier work by reinventing himself as a left-field soul man on the Life is Legal EP. With this…
