For reminding me of the Golden Age of movie lobby posters, this flier for local promoter Zombie Rock’s show tomorrow night at Cervantes’ has earned the nod for flier of the week. Its bold, stark colors, simple, line-illustrated style and suggestion of unspeakable horror proved to be an irresistible combination…
As pointed out in yesterday’s Record Store Day preview, which focused on Vetiver, Sub Pop Records has kept the art of the jukebox 45 alive for two decades-plus — generally with assistance from actual bands. As for Flight of the Conchords, the duo is sort-of actual, sort-of not. But the…
In an interview for a Westword profile in advance of an April 15 Oriental Theater gig with Mates of State and Judgement Day, Reggie Youngblood, lead singer and songwriter for Black Kids, talked at length about his buzzy band and plenty more. Get into his head after the jump…
Recognize the dudes pictured above? If you do, then you’re probably pretty stoked right now. That’s right — Built to Spill will be headlining this year’s Showcase. Hold on. There’s more… you know we always have more than one act on the mainstage, right? Well, how about some Mudhoney? (No,…
Three more shows were added to this upcoming season’s quickly expanding line-up at Red Rocks, including a date featuring the Allman Brothers with the Drive-By Truckers on Saturday, September 5, a show with Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal on Sunday, August 30, and Yonder Mountain String Band’s Friday, August 28…
The Photo Atlas and the Still City will be playing this Thursday night at the Marquis Theater. In itself, that might not seem so noteworthy. Sure, the Photo Atlas has been receiving some great national press lately, and the Still City is one of the best bands I haven’t seen…
The Auraria Students Against Poverty have partnered with Denver’s Road Home and the Denver VOICE for “Heading Home,” a benefit concert featuring Colorado artists. The show, which is slated to take place on Thursday, April 30, at the Oriental Theatre, features hip-hop trio 3 the Hardway and Achille Lauro (who’ll…
Sub Pop has broken plenty of ground during its more than twenty years of existence. But even as bands on the imprint were shaking up the status quo, its Singles Club was keeping the era of the jukebox single alive — and today, seven-inches by the likes of Nirvana, Mudhoney,…
On Friday night, I caught an entertaining, thought-provoking and extraordinarily heady bit of theater out at Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The play, directed by award-winning Denver actor and skilled chef John Arp, is called The Visitor. Written in 1993 by French playwright Eric Emmanuel-Schmitt, the piece finds God on…
All right, so we’ve been promising/threatening to launch this feature for quite some time now. Well, here it finally is. And bygod what better way to set things off than with the complete live recordings of Dualistics’ Nirvana tribute show this past weekend? With the blessing of our good friend…
In the May 2009 issue of Alternative Press, the Photo Atlas is the subject of two write-ups, one detailing the band’s trajectory since parting ways with Stolen Transmission, its previous label, and the other is in the form of a a four (out of five) star review of the act’s…
Pioneering clown rockers KISS just keep on pioneering. Today, the 35 year old band announced a revolutionary plan to put the tour destinations for their next tour up to a vote from the fans. That means that Denver KISS fans (and in my discussions with local bands and music lovers,…
Here are the playlists from the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows this week. This week marks the addition of 99.5 the Mountain’s Home Grown Show, whose playlist we’ve added to in additon to the others we’re already tracking: Radio 1190’s long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query inspired Heavy Rotation, one of two new features we’re debuting this week. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, starting today, I’ll…
Mono’s fifth studio album, Hymn From the Immortal Wind, moved up from the third spot to the top of Wax Trax’s best seller list for the week ending April 6. Dan Auberbach, Kylesa and MF Doom were also in the top five while local acts the Omens, Eyes & Ears…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ brand new album, It’s Blitz, topped the best seller charts Twist & Shout for the week ending April 6 while new albums by Diana Krall, PJ Harvey & John Parish, Leonard Cohen and the Decemberists also grabbed slots in the top five. See the full breakdown after…
UGK’s latest album, UGK 4 Life, grabbed the top spot at Independent Records for the week ending April 6. The Dream and Slim Thug held on to top five slots again this week while Keri Hilson’s A Perfect World moved to the ninth spot after being number one week. See…
Single File, Epilogues, Set Forth, Frequent SeaFriday, April 3Gothic TheatreBetter than: Celebrating Denver’s native music scene at home alone.An almost palpable sense of native pride seemed to float through the Gothic Theatre during Single File’s CD release show Friday night. The feeling of homegrown accomplishment came through in the dense…
Jenny Lewis and Elvis Costello are into sharing. “Carpetbaggers,” the A-side of a vinyl single up for sale on Record Store Day, is a Lewis cut from her Acid Tongue album that features Costello on backing vocals. In contrast, the B-side, “Go Away,” is a Costello cut from the Momofuku…
Ah, man, feels like weeks since our last Fray-related post, doesn’t it? Just when we were all starting to experience the pangs of withdrawals, along comes news that our hometown heroes will be doing a flyby tonight on the idiot box. Set your TiVo to stun. Should be on sometime…
Well, it’s the end of the week and time to wrap up this little tutorial on how to begin sinking slowly, satisfyingly and inextricably into the local music scene. We’ve barely scratched the surface, of course, but it’s time to move on to other pressing issues. So far, we’ve talked…
Although the Break Mechanics never really officially announced that they had broken up, the notion became clear as the members each split off from the collective to work on their own projects and pursue other interests. It was a shame, because the crew never got a proper sendoff. So it’s…
