Concerts

You’re not going to see the Bad Brains of thirty years ago, so go ahead and just get that idea out of your head right now. The ferocious, manic energy of eccentric lead singer H.R. has been all but muted by years of drug use and seeming mental instability. But…

Sammy. Sammy. Sammy. It must be difficult for a rock star in a rad band like Van Halen to be constantly competing with his predecessor, but this who’s-better nonsense has gone on too long and now… too far. Sammy Hagar has just released his autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in…

Pink Floyd is a band that is often imitated. The San Diego sextet known as The Pink Floyd Experience, led by vocalist and guitarist Tom Quinn, takes its version of the seminal band to the next level, as it regurgitates the Floyd catalog with expert precision, while the accompanying video…

The White House has publically stated it’s going to start cracking down on piracy and enforcing IP law, but other than some crackdowns last year, we haven’t seen much in the way of a cohesive strategy. Well, until Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel delivered this twenty page document of…

Before they formed the Purple Fluid, Richard and Roman Kulwicki had rock and roll in their blood. Their father, of course, is the late, great Ricky Kulwicki, of Denver’s greatest rock-and-roll band, the Fluid. The two brothers hooked up with Orie Bender, Henry Solomon and Danny L’Episcopo and formed a…

Just received some pretty major news on the concert promotions front: Peter Ore (pictured right), former Vice President of Booking for Live Nation, has joined the Soda Jerk Presents family. “Working with Peter is going to be a huge step as we continue to grow the company,” says Soda Jerk…

There’s no denying that electronic music is particularly glitch- and dub-heavy these days — and, in an announcement that will no doubt thrill fans of that sound, SubSynthesis and GlitchDrop have released a new compilation album, Bass From Above – Vol. 1…

Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what we are allowed to desire and aspire…

Metal has gone in some diverse directions in the past few decades, and Knoxville’s Whitechapel grows from the harsh and speedy thread of deathcore. The band pulls from an artillery of three guitarists to underlay vocalist Ben Savage’s deep and throaty screams, which come in several tonal layers on Whitechapel’s…

Looks like the Rose Hill dudes are back in action at full throttle. We just received word that the former power trio — now a new and improved quartet with the addition of scene stalwart Jimmy Stofer on bass — is about to hit the road for a string of…

It keeps people up at night, Googling and searching Facebook until they’re bleary-eyed zombies at 4 a.m. There are entire genres of film dedicated to it. And with concert season warming back up, the chances of finding yourself on Craigslist Missed Connections are pretty high, especially if you were pretty…

Even though Jared Mees & The Grown Children don’t write strictly confessional music, even a cursory listen to the band’s songs reveal that Mees and company are certainly heart on sleeve types. To describe the music as merely Americana would be overlooking the group’s penchant for unconventional hooks, which recall…

Ah, yes, no other way to break this to you than to just go ahead and say it, so here goes… April 22, 2011. Mark your calendar. With apologies to Steely Dan and to the unofficial holiday, that’s a day heretofore known as Black Friday, a day you’ll want to…

Last year, 7,000 people turned up for Caffeine, the springtime electronic music extravaganza at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield. Being grizzled party vets, we have some insight on what it takes to have a good time. Here’s a list of ten things you need to know before you go…

Analog Space regular and former resident Lipgloss DJ c.db.sn, aka Chase Dobson, is heading to Los Angeles this week, after landing a gig with pop and R&B star Mike Posner. Dobson will be keyboard and Ableton Live technician on Posner’s upcoming tour, working behind the scenes during shows to make…

Since Alex Lemski started the Creative Music Works in 1989 with the “vision of uncompromising freedom of expression for musicians,” the organization has brought in a number of pivotal artists in the jazz and avant-garde realms such as David S. Ware, Joseph Jarman and Andrew Cyrille, Nels Cline, Larry Ochs…

On record, Telekinesis is essentially the one man show of Michael Lerner, who writes, plays and sings every part. For live shows, however, the Merge recording artist brings a small cadre of musical souls with him to recreate the simple beauty of his straightforward love songs, while he plays the…

If you’ve been inclined to pitch in for the victims of the Japanese earthquake but haven’t known how to do it, there are a few different options this week. One involves playing Rock Band on stage, one involves chip tunes, another involves Taiko drumming and still another is for fans…