Kicking off last night, Titwrench Fest 2011 is now in full-swing at the Mercury Cafe tonight with bands, dance performances and informational workshops running through the weekend. The four-day festival brings avant-garde, experimental and (mostly) female musicians and performers from across the country front and center for a weekend of…
One of the best parts about living in America is freedom. The freedom to sing, dance, play in the streets, wear duct-tape skirts, paint your face for televised events and, most importantly, worship false idols. That’s right, American Idol has invaded Denver yet again in search of that one voice,…
As this time of year generally tends to be, July was a heck of a month for concerts with Tech N9NE, The Avett Brothers, Soundgarden, Umphrey’s McGee, Katy Perry and plenty more gracing the stages. We’ve got so many photos, it might be hard to sift through them all, but…
The Fixx’s show with with Naked Eyes at the Summit on Saturday, August 6 has been canceled. The outfit had to cancel seven dates on the tour between July 23 and August 6, including Denver. While there’s no official word on why the shows were canceled, there were reports that…
Doom metal is alive and well in Denver. And what better time to bask in the realm of doom as we enter into the thick of holiday season than to have an entire evening devoted to downtuned guitars? Precisely. Needless to say, our little hearts were brimming with inextinguishable glee…
After a respectable seven year run, a Melodic Daydream has called it a day. But rather than just quietly striding off into the sunset, the Fort Collins-based duo of Lnz Kayd and Chris Newton has opted to go out on a high note, quite literally. The pair has left behind…
Paper Diamond’s stock just rose significantly. The Boulder-based act led by Alex B. (aka Alex Botwin) of Pnuma Trio and Elm and Oak, has been added to the Outside Lands festival happening a few weekends from now in San Francisco. Have you seen the lineup? He’ll be in some pretty…
It’s hard to believe that Suburban Home Records has been around nearly two decades now. Seriously. Where does the time go? The label — home to heralded bands like the Gamits and Drag the River over the years — has weathered a lot of storms and this coming September, it…
Born in Chicago in 2004 as a duo, Walter Meego (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with ManCub and C.S.Q.) makes the kind of sweet and accessible electronic pop perfect for the television medium — which, as it turns out, is where the now-trio received initial mass exposure…
Leave it to the often brilliant, overstimulated, complicated mind of Yonnas Abraham to come up with something completely creative on the fly that nobody else would even remotely have thought of — much less be able to facilitate — to turn what might otherwise be just another show for any…
You probably don’t generally equate going CD shopping with 7-Eleven, but with record stores disappearing everyday, a direct-seller called Mall Jamz is trying to change the way we think of buying music by selling it at the same place where we buy Slurpees. Some 7-Eleven stores across the metro area…
Update (7/28/11): We just received word from LiveNation that due to an overwhelming demand, additional dates are being added to the Watch the Throne tour, featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West. The tour is slated to hit Denver on Monday, October 10. The additional dates are due be announced on August…
Move over, tryptophan: Thanksgiving has found a much better bedfellow, one that will put you in a trance but won’t necessarily leave you listless, laying on the couch. Behold Otis Taylor’s Trance Blues Jam Festival, featuring Otis Taylor, of course, along with “Steady Rollin” Bob Margolin, Tony Trischka, Don Vappie…
Have you started thinking about New Year’s yet? What? Too soon? Well, yes, now that you mention it, it is only July. Nonetheless, if you’re a fan of Ween, we have a feeling you’re going to want to be at the Fillmore around then to ring in the New Year…
The term “Dad Rock” is something that gets thrown around a lot these days, and no bands breathe the rock of our fathers like Styx and Yes. Last night, both of these classic bands made a stop at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Our resident photographer, Brandon Marshall, was on hand to…
Heading up a laundry list of acts, Norma Jean comes through the Summit Music Hall tonight with Sleeping Giant, the Chariot, War of Ages, Close Your Eyes, Texas in July, I, the Breather, the Great Commision, Sovereign Strength and As Hell Retreats on the Scream The Prayer tour. The post-hardcore…
KATY PERRY at 1STBANK CENTER | 07/26/11The crowd at Katy Perry last night was exactly as expected. Armies of sprayed and glittered bodies evoked every variation of Perry’s persona over the last half-decade: girls from preschool to high school, donning blue Bettie Page cut wigs, candied and bejeweled corsets and…
Here’s some nerdtastic news to help hype up your humpday: “Weird Al” Yankovic, the crown prince of parody, is coming back to Denver. While that’s swell in itself, it gets better. Guess where he’s playing? Ready? The Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Uh-huh. How ’bout them apples? Send the tuxedo shirt…
Colorado brewers love their music, whether they are talking about it, naming beers after it or rocking it in the brewhouse at volumes loud enough to malt barley on its own. Boulder Beer recently worked with String Cheese Incident keyboardist and song writer Kyle Hollingsworth on a beer called Hoopla,…
Late last year, after a European run, former Enemy Reign frontman Sherwood Webber quietly parted ways with the local metal act. His exodus was preceded earlier that year by the departure of bassist Cassie Begay, who split with the group that spring and was subsequently replaced by Phil Turner of…
Katy Perry (performing tonight at 1STBANK Center with Robyn and DJ Skeet Skeet) truly needs no introduction. Whether you’re seven or seventy, you known Perry’s glossy image from somewhere in pop culture — her music is everywhere, and she can be caught on everything from infomercials to MTV. The first…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In September, Zac Brown is due at Red Rocks, followed by Jay-Z and Kanye West at the Pepsi Center and Neon Indian at the Bluebird in October. On local radio, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Flashlights and King…
