Every night, people clapped and they were very kind,” says David Eugene Edwards about Wovenhand’s stint opening for Tool last year. “Of course, we had a few diehards in the front row that don’t want to see anybody but Maynard, you know. They were like, ‘Get the fuck off the…
After 45 years in the bar business, seventy-year-old Chuck Persichetti is ready for one more round: He’s resurrecting Brewski’s, a bar at Highway 36 and Pecos Street that he ran for ten years and sold a decade ago. “Once you get something in your blood, it seems like it just…
Clearly there are some nods to Nick Drake in the way that the May Kit’s Max Winne puts a song together. It’s there in his ability to conjure images of flights of fantasy — the kind that strike you during your workday in a moment of reprieve from the prosaic…
You can’t throw a vintage Western shirt these days without hitting another Americana revivalist — and few are worth the faded plaid they’re dressed up in. Then there’s Jackie Greene. Nimbly sidestepping the inherent corniness of too many contemporary twang-mongers, Greene has used his association with the jam scene —…
Based in Minneapolis, Zoo Animal has sometimes been identified as a Christian band, but you’re not going to get vapid Songs 4 Worship fare or the sort of thing that gets featured at a Cornerstone festival from this act. Instead, Holly Newsom’s plaintive vocals and the group’s introspective, minimalist pop…
Lissie is what Taylor Swift claims to be. It’s going to take the rest of this to dig out of that analogy, because she’s nothing like the Taylor Swift you know. What she is: A singer with country roots and pop leanings, singing about youthful love and loss. But there…
Darwin Smith, like certain prominent musicians on the indie circuit of recent years, once attended Wesleyan University. Either there’s an alien virus on campus that imparts a knack for an inventively catchy pop song, or it’s pure coincidence. As part of the band Darwin Deez, Smith and his Deez-surnamed compatriots…
There seems to be a big influx of reverby, neo-garage rock everywhere lately. School Knights fares better than many bands because its youthful exuberance is not a pose. It’s obvious from these four songs that this duo has listened to more than its fair share of No Age and Siltbreeze…
Hungry, simple, unpolished, unposed: Indie rock used to be a beautiful thing. But all is not lost in the age of hipster Hyundai commercials. For instance, there’s Makeout Point. Or at least there used to be: The outfit broke up recently, soon after the release of its latest EP, Don’t…
Bigwheel Electrosoul’s The Guac Vol 1. features the intricate live instrumentation you expect from Bigwheel, boosted by the turntable skills of DJ Vajra, who chops things up and keeps them fresh and full. The ambience of the set, recorded live at Lola, is perfect for a progressive brunch crowd. Not…
Mr. Midas has finally put his stamp of approval on his debut, Son of the Crack Era, which details the ills and spills of the crack epidemic on society from a hip-hop perspective. Not only is Midas using his laid-back, honeyed voice to create a line of storytelling that will…
After releasing a short run of independently released cassettes titled Girly Sound in the early ’90s, Liz Phair quickly garnered critical acclaim for her offbeat sense of humor and knack for quirky, inventive pop songs. On the strength of those releases, Phair signed to Matador Records, which released her debut…
Whether or not you dig the heavily trance-influenced livetronica group the Disco Biscuits, you should give the Biscuits’ side project, Conspirator, a fighting chance: Instead of trance-jam-band fusion, Conspirator draws heavily from trance, downtempo and drum-and-bass, creating soundscapes that are eerier, subtler and more interesting to the trained electronica ear…
For some bands, touring is a natural state of being. This is absolutely true for Louisiana’s Cowboy Mouth, as the quartet comes through Denver tonight on it’s 16th annual “Mardi Gras tour.” Making country-twinged pop-rock since 1990, the band pulls from influences like The Clash — heard loud and clear…
Hey, what do you know? Performing at the Showcase can actually be beneficial to your career. Well, so to speak. In a roundabout way, playing at the Showcase helped the men of Boldtype land an opening slot on the upcoming Guttermouth tour. Well, it sealed the deal, anyway. We’ll let…
Ah, here we are again, a new year. You know what that means? Yep. Time to start the South by Southwest countdown. The first bands have been announced, and although there will likely be a bazillion more announced, of the groups announced so far, three local bands have received official…
Call it a hunch, but we’re going to venture a guess that the members of Churchill are falling more on the happy end of the Happy/Sad spectrum these days now that their like-named, fan-funded full-length is under wraps…
We’ll have whatever these folks are having, and make ours a double. Seriously. Having suffered through what was, without question, one of the worst Broncos seasons in our lifetime, we were simply hoping that the team would just go gently into that good night against the Chargers. Not so with…
Even if Dave Aude’s name isn’t immediately recognizable, it is impossible to have missed his work over the past two decades. The prolific DJ and producer has worked with Katy Perry, Mary J. Blige and Lady Gaga on Billboard-charting remixes this year alone, and put his precise ear to task…
After graduating high school in Boulder and obtaining a bachelor’s degree in music from UNC in Greeley, where she honed her piano and vocal skills, songwriter Shenandoah Davis moved to Seattle. That was nearly four years ago, and she’s done anything but sit still since…
Dispatch is back together, and it’s playing its first show in four years at Red Rocks. That’s a pretty big deal. Dispatch, in case the name isn’t immediately familiar, is arguably one of the most successful independent bands of all time. To wit: The band played what was then thought…
When Hideous Men had its van broken into last summer, the husband-and-wife duo was forced to re-evaluate how they made music. Along with losing equipment, they lost several new songs that were on their MacBook, which was stolen. Almost six months later, the two are still making music…
