From the sounds of it, the Pirate Signal has been working overtime. Fresh on the heels of wowing crowds at this year’s Sundance film festival, preceded by a string of dates supporting 3OH!3 last fall, the act is headlining a stellar bill at the Marquis Theater this Saturday, March 14,…
The summer concert season is beginning to take shape. A lot of great shows were announced this week, including Neil Young’s show at Magness Arena on Monday, April 27, Depeche Mode’s show at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 27, and Keith Urban’s show at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, July…
It’s finds like this that make me glad I am a pathetic, house-bound loser who spends all his time surfing the Internet. The good folks at Amazon.com got into the MP3-selling business a while back. Not only are there formats better than the ridiculous iTunes formats (for example, no DRM,…
When DJ K-Nee and Style-N-Fashion started doing So What! The Club back in 1993, at the old City Spirit Cafe on 15th and Blake, the point was to get away from the straight-up club music and hip-hop of the usual DJ scene, and focus on jazz-influenced cuts and rare grooves. I…
I was very sad to hear that we might be losing last year’s Best of Denver winner for Best Non-Conventional Venue. Laura Goldhamer, hyper-creative mastermind behind the diverse programming that happens in the basement of Brooks Center for Spirituality, sent an e-mail last week to her mailing list, explaining that,…
The Bad Plus The Soiled DoveMonday, March 9, 2008Better than: the last time I saw the trio. There’s a live recording of Rahsaan Roland Kirk where he talks about how he’s going to play two entirely separate songs on two different saxophones. One was Dvorak’s New World Symphony and the…
Here are this week’s playlists from the area’s local-centric speciality shows. We’re still in the process of trying to track down the playlist from KCSU’s Loco Local show. With any luck, we’ll be able to post that next week. In the meantime, we’re still tracking Radio 1190’s long-running Local Shakedown,…
U2’s brand-new album No Line on the Horizon also claimed the top spot at Independent Records this week, bumping Lamb of God’s latest down to the number-two slot for the week ending March 8. Elsewhere, Independent’s top ten this week is filled out by the likes of T.I., Soulja Boy…
U2’s No Line on the Horizon and Neko Case’s Middle Cyclops, both released on Tuesday, March 3, showed some of best numbers at Twist & Shout in many months. The Fray moved back up into the top five, followed by Van Morrison and Beirut for the week ending March 8…
Tauntaun, Kingdom of Magic and Wetlands Friday, March 6, 2009 Bluebird Theater Better than: banging your head against your steering wheel Friday night’s Bluebird crowd came prepared to rock, and they certainly weren’t disappointed. As metal reasserts itself in the mainstream Denver music scene, fans of nosehair-singeing rock are lucky…
Cut Off Your Hands Sunday, March 8, 2009 Hi-Dive, Denver Better Than: Not seeing this band before they’re playing bigger venues. Cut Off Your Hands plays pretty straightforward pop rock. Just the same, frontman Nick Johnston displayed considerable amount of vigor, leaning into the mike and gyrating as though he…
As if you needed another reason to head up to Nederland tomorrow for Frozen Dead Guy Days, we just got word that Denver’s own raucous psycho/psychedelic rock pranksters deadbubbles will be playing at 4:30 p.m. as part of the frozen festivities. Word is they’ll be playing without a drummer, from…
Today slice of World Wide Weirdness comes courtesy of the videography of Ceven Knowles, the musical act Stark Effect, a girl named Miriam and the bizarre phenomena of mic-in tracks. See, back in the ancient days of file sharing, a popular MP3 program used to name its recordings “mic in…
Well, it’s finally here. Almost a year after offering up a sneak peek of the music being made by Tauntaun, the defacto supergroup profiled in this week’s issue, led by former Gamits frontman Chris Fogal and featuring Ian O’Dougherty, Matty Clark and Dave Barker, the outfit is unveiling its debut…
For those skeptical about Colorado’s hip-hop scene, the folks at the Colorado Rap Report blog have assembled some of the finest local acts on one compilation — including the Pirate Signal, ManeLine, Ichiban, Whygee, Distrakt, Dent, Deca and 3 the Hardway, among others — in an effort to showcase how…
Last night, I was bellied up to the bar next to Jason Cain at Sputnik, and he was telling about this show that his band, Astrophagus, has coming up on Saturday, April 4, at the hi-dive. If you look on the hi-dive’s calendar, it’s billed like any other show –…
Much has been written about the Game’s dysfunctional past. He grew up in a Santana Blocc Crip neighborhood in Compton, and his mother was affiliated with the Crips. After his sister accused his father of sexually molesting her, the family was split up, and Game spent time in foster homes…
Colorado’s very own outright zany and just plain weird torchbearers of the Dead Milkmen school of punk rock, Little Fyodor and Babushka, celebrate their twentieth anniversary as a band this month. Frontman Little Fyodor also celebrates his 25th year as a radio DJ at longstanding public-radio station KGNU, headquartered out…
Just got word that Elitt Beat, a new house-music act incorporating live instrumentation, is debuting its act at the Funky Buddha. The brainchild of Casablanca-born DJ Elitt (aka Simo Fellah, pictured), Elitt Beat incorporates violin, percussion and saxophone into its international house stylings. Joining DJ Elitt tonight will be David…
Conrad Keely, frontman for the indie-rock vets in …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, is among the most articulate and opinionated figures in music. He earns this reputation anew it in the following Q&A, conducted for our profile of the band, “…And You Will Know Us…
It’s basically the metal we wish would have happened after ’86,” says Tauntaun guitarist Ian O’Dougherty of his band’s music. “After ’86, metal went in crazy ways, everywhere, and we didn’t like anywhere that it went. This is the record that we thought should have come then. If we were…
Halfway through my senior year in high school, I got a call from a military recruiter, who said something about how the Marines would pay for college if I enlisted. The offer sounded so promising that I actually went to his office and took a written test, which I aced…
