If you’ve always wanted to learn the ins and outs of record production, your golden opportunity has arrived. Randall Frazier, chief engineer at helmet r00m recordings, is teaching a class on basic audio production at the Colorado Free University. The three-session class will cover the basics of audio theory, microphone…
Sunday, March 22: I’m not keeping up with these entries, because it’s damn near impossible to find any time to write down here. I’m about two days behind right now, so I’m going to attempt to just cover everything between Thursday morning and right now. As a disclaimer, my memory…
Saturday, March 20: The sun burned off most of the cloud cover as the crowd continued to swell. In the Bat Bar, the Von Bondies tuned up all of their gear for a DirectTV taping, then launched into a near perfect set of fuzzy soul blues mixed in with a…
The Epilogues gentlemen shot some video of the slackers (yes, slackers! dudes were supposed to keep a tour diary but ended up flaking and passing off the task to the Epilogues) in the Photo Atlas performing at SXSW. From the looks/sounds of it, the guys were in pretty decent form…
Saturday, March 20: So we’re here in Austin, Texas. We’ve been getting “Austonian,” if you know what I mean. Heh. The drive down was pretty fresh …well, for at least the first few hours. By the eighteenth hour, we were rockin the B.O. Sport for sure. It was nice riding…
Saturday March 21 – Day 4: So here we are. Our last day in Austin. Going to try and take it easy today, seeing as how we have to drive to L.A. tonight, but I’m sure we’ll still get into some trouble. We’ve got a show at 9 p.m. tonight…
And the hits just keep coming for Pictureplane, the musical vehicle of Travis Egedy. On Wednesday, Pitchfork reviewed “Trance Doll,” the A side of Pictureplane’s new Lovepump United 7-inch and gave it a six rating, which in the Pitchfork Universe is pretty decent praise. The best part of the review,…
Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You Capitol Alright, Still, Allen’s 2006 debut, was plenty enjoyable, but it didn’t seem like the kind of album on which to build a career. Just goes to show how far effortless charm can take someone. On her latest, the Divine Ms. L chatters…
While everyone here is busy regretting not being at SXSW, I’m busy looking forward to regretting not being at the other giant music-industry party that kicks off next week. That’d be the Winter Music Conference in Miami for all you non-dance music loving freaks out there. If, like me, you’re…
Those on the Fray’s mailing list may have noticed that Denver was conspicuously missing from the act’s exhaustive list of upcoming tour dates this summer. Rumor had it this was due to the fact that the band was going to be performing at the Mile High Music Fest. Well, that…
I do so love it when I come across something local that’s freaky enough to make the cut on Freaky Friday. And let me tell you lovers of weird shit, I cut no corners on today’s entry. To the contrary, this actually bounced a great entry from the ’70s that…
I’m a little stunned by the controversy surrounding ridiculous screamo-hip-hop also-rans, BrokenCYDE. If you haven’t heard, earlier this week, a post on Loud Hawk Press called for the removal of the band from this summer’s Warped Tour, on the basis of two offenses: 1) they suck, and 2) their lyrics are…
What better way to spend the second half of March is traveling around Europe rapping for a bunch of French, German, and Dutch hip-hop heads? That’s exactly what Colorado rappers Ancient Mith and Calm. (which consists of Time and Awareness) are doing, and the two MCs are documenting their tour,…
Friday, March 20: I arrived in Austin on the evening of Wednesday, March 18th. I had played SXSW last year so I knew what to expect. But this time around, I am hired to play bass for 3OH!3 — you know, that small band from Boulder? The band who still…
Rachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I’m now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that’s true in cliché form as well, then the show at GlobGlobGlob on…
All right, I’ll admit it. I’m all kinds of bummed out. Not only am I feeling like two crates of ass specially flown in from Assville right now thanks to some stupid throat/sinus/ear infection, but I’m reeling from reading all the South By Southwest coverage from my colleagues (including a…
We’ve just learned that one of our favorite acts from the Springs is hanging it up. After four years of churning out exceptional guitar-driven pop, A Novel Form is giving up the ghost, frustrated, evidently, by numerous line-up changes and the fact that the members haven’t arrived a point where…
If you ever dreamed about being in a hip-hop video, Dankside Entertainment’s B-Blacc wants you. The rapper will be filming a video for his song “Clap” this Saturday, March 21, at 12:30 p.m. at City Park. “Clap” was produced by Mo Heat and is featured on Blacc’s latest project, Blacc…
Just got word of a Wovenhand acoustic show at Swallow Hill on Friday, May 29. If the name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, it should. Wovenhand is the current project of David Eugene Edwards, of Denver goth-country legends 16 Horsepower. Wovenhand pretty much picks up where that act left off,…
Kurt Elling and Eliane Elias, both Grammy-nominated vocalists, headline this year’s JazzFest Denver at Dazzle this weekend. Elling’s warm baritone can stretch over four octaves and he honed his chops by listening to Mark Murphy, Jon Hendricks and other crooners before him. The guy’s a mad scatter, as well as…
Picking up a thread I started on Tuesday, in which I confessed to judging a band’s performance based on elements that, honestly, had nothing to do with the music, I’d like to turn now to the flip side. Last weekend, I decided I liked an act before it even took…
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the members of Alan Alda are joking. Engaging the threesome is like stepping straight into a steady barrage of inside jokes, tongue-in-cheek pop-culture references and friendly sarcasm. Levity is clearly part of this group’s inner workings. But the casual tone shifts abruptly to earnestness…
