RISE AGAINST Bad Religion • Four Year Strong 04.15.11 | Fillmore Auditorium View more photos from last night The Rise Against show at the Fillmore began with a line that stretched from Colfax down Clarkson and east onto 16th Avenue — at 6:30! The crowd was littered with people of…
GREAT AMERICAN TAXI The Shwillbillies • Oakhurst 04.15.11 | Cervantes’ The crowd last night at Cervantes brought their dancing shoes for a bluegrass breakdown. The Shwillbilles were up first, and the quartet came out fast and furious building the energy up for the intimate crowd with intricate banjo and mandolin…
In a little more than a month, U2 is playing at Invesco Field. May 21, to be exact. Yeah, we’re pretty psyched, too. Even more so now: Did you happen to notice anything significant about that date? Know what else is going down then? Um, just a little thing called…
Erik “Ripley” Johnson first came to prominence in the rock underground with his San Francisco-based band, the Wooden Shjips. That project’s hypnotically dark, droning psychedelia became a favorite of fans and critics alike. In 2009, Johnson teamed up with Sanae Yamada to form Moon Duo (due at The Hi-Dive on…
Although it’s often referred to as a “chamber folk” band, Dark Dark Dark (due tonight at The Walnut Room and tomorrow, April 16, at Odd Fellows Hall in Boulder as part of Communikey) from Minneapolis is a horse of a different color. Yes, its seven members all play acoustic instruments,…
Communikey’s Festival of Electronic Arts has a full weekend of impressive programming in store for you — and there’s plenty going on outside of Communikey, as well. Here are some of the highlights:…
“I love throwing parties and I love house music and music in general,” notes promoter, DJ and man-about-town Uriah West, whose record label, Audio Indika, is hosting its second annual underground 4/20 party tomorrow night starting at 11:30 p.m. “Since we did one last year, and it was 4/20, and…
For the past twenty years, Denver has had a special connection to Antarctica, primarily because the firms that support the U.S. government’s research there have operated here, training the hundreds of employees who spend up to a year on the continent. After spending time on “the Ice,” however, many former…
So you knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. In the film world, Sundance begat Slam Dance, and in music, South By Southwest spawned South By So What and a dozen other alternate festivals. Now with the rising popularity of this weekend’s sold-out Coachella, we’ve got Whoa… Chella…
As a trio, Cave Singers (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Bare Bones) only actually employs one voice — member Pete Quirk’s, to be exact. But along with harmonica and melodica, the band creates some beautiful America-twinged folk songs perfect for singing along to…
NIPSEY HUSSLE KDJAbove • Mr. Midas • TC Crook Tytanik • Mid Wes T • Nyke Nitti • EC3 04.14.11 | Casselman’s Bar & Venue The people got down last night at Casselmans for the Nipsey Hussle show, and not only did the West Coast performer bring out damn near…
Man, what a difference seven months makes. After being completely glossed over last fall along with all of the other record stores on the Front Range, Twist & Shout got a nod this morning from Rolling Stone as one of the Best Record Stores in the U.S.A. Not sure what…
Now that the dust has settled from the first half of the week, we wanted to provide you with some good ways to get started on your weekend. If you want to go drink for cheap, we’ve got that in here. If you want to get down with some bass,…
Black hole sun, won’t you come and wash away the rain? What an absolutely perfect sentiment for a soggy day like today. Well, except for the black hole part — not even sure what that means exactly, black hole sun. Do you know? Anyhow, just got word that Soundgarden, authors…
Fort Collins-born Candy Claws (playing the Larimer Lounge tonight with Gardens & Villa and Flashlights) is like a vacation unto itself. The family-style band creates soundscapes fit for traveling from the forest to the sea with ethereal layers of vocals, bells, and traditional instrumentation. Last year’s Hidden Lands was a…
On Friday, April 29 at Beta, seven DJs will get twelve minutes to rock the crowd in SkullCandy’s Throwdown A DJ Challenge Experience. Up for grabs? A thousand bucks in cold, hard cash. The DJs (Amen, Sick, Bedz, Nick Skeet, Digi, Large Child and Wushu) will be judged on their…
Every year, the Denver Botantic Gardens typically have a lively concert calender, and this year doesn’t seem to be the exception. The season kicks off this summer on Sunday, June 1, with a show from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and culminates on Sunday, August 21 with B.B. King…
Record Store Day is coming up this Saturday, and stores around town have been preparing for the epic event in a variety of ways. The exclusive release list is huge, but so far, most stores aren’t confirming or denying their inventory. The owner of Twist & Shout Records, Paul Epstein,…
Seventeen years! It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago…
There is no denying that Madeleine Peyroux (who plays the Boulder Theater tonight with Sunny War) bears an uncanny resemblance to Billie Holiday. But while the inspiration and gilded jazz vocal similarities are there, the pain is not — Peyroux brings her own whimsical style to the genre with a…
Triple-A fans, rejoice! Chautauqua just announced the lineup for its upcoming summer season, which kicks off on May 21 and runs through the end of August, and with the exception of the odd comedian and pair of indie acts, you can look forward to the type of world-class rock that…
The hip-hop scene has been buzzing with a slew of local rap releases and videos recently. The most compelling of these features Input, with some help from DJ Ear Attent and Caleb Slade, giving a thematic performance on “Gods of Misfortune,” while LKeys draws on the club element for his…
