If you were desperately hoping for a Tuesday afternoon diversion that combined your love of music with your love of tacos, have we got great news for you. Welcome to the wonderful world of Album Tacos. WTF are Album Tacos, you ask? It’s exactly what it sounds like: Your favorite…
Brooklyn-based dance-punk duo Matt and Kim’s new single, “Cameras,” was released on the group’s website today. They play here on September 24 at the Ogden Theatre…
Sorry about the headline. We just couldn’t resist. Also considered: “Vinyl is officially dead.” At any rate, if you’re looking forward to spending your Tuesday afternoon writing out your last will and testament, then we have a suggestion for you: Have your ashes converted into vinyl by And Vinyl…
While last week’s big announcement included Phish’s three-night stand at the 1STBANK Center, a number of other shows were recently announced, most which are on are sale now. In addition to Kottonmouth Kings, Joshua Radin, Combichrist and Soulfly, lead by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, are all slated to hit…
Cory Casciato wrote in his preview DJ Dave Aude’s show at Beta on Saturday night: A little bit trance, some big, shiny house, and a whole lot of whatever the kids are digging at any given time. The DJ with nearly fifty #1 dance tracks on Billboard, including eighteen in…
DENVER DOES DENVER 08.28.10 | Meadowlark view full slide show This second installment of Denver Does Denver took place on Saturday night at the Meadowlark, both upstairs and downstairs, as well in the Flobots Community Space. The bulk of the acts I caught played in downstairs at the Meadowlark, beginning…
SERAPHIM SHOCK The Siren Project • Lola Black 08.27.10 | Gothic Theatre, Englewood Used to be you could count on the opening bands at a Seraphim Shock show to be pretty awful. But in the last several years, this trend has been bucked. For evidence, you need look no further…
Denver Does Denver sounds more salacious than it is — though we’re sure there’s a sexualized metaphor in there somewhere that was intended. If you haven’t heard about it, Denver Does Denver, slated to take place tomorrow night at the Meadowlark, is a rad little show put together by the…
BOCUMAST RECORDS RESIDENCY 08.05.10 – 08.26.10 | Lost Lake Over the last month, Lost Lake handed over the booking keys for Thursday nights to Bocumast Records. During that time, the imprint was tasked with scheduling shows and providing rock, all while keeping it fresh — a complicated endeavor, and one…
The Denver Cruisers — the bicycle club open to anyone — stuck a thumb in the eye of Dan Maes last night with its United Nations themed bike ride through the city. Maes, the Republican candidate for governor, made comments earlier this summer that Denver’s participation in the B-Cycle rent-a-bike…
Daytrotter’s love affair with our fine, rectangular state continued and deepened this week. Their latest session, just posted yesterday, is a five-song set from Paper Bird. The session includes “Spit Spot,” “Yellow Sun” and “Riches to Rags” from When the River Took Flight, “Pennies” from Anything Nameless and Joymaking and…
For Cory Eberhard, the liberation of playing reggae hasn’t come solely from the music’s messages of political activism and rebellion. The greater freedom, he says, has stemmed from a much more basic part of Eberhard’s role as the drummer for Dubskin, the reggae outfit he started in Fort Collins three…
Just a year after taking over the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, the owners of 3 Kings Tavern have thrown in the towel and put the historic 700-person venue up for sale. Jim Norris, one of those owners (and now also part-owner of the new opened Rockaway Tavern), says…
If you’ve been a cognizant observer of local bands at all, you may see these guys take the stage and think, “Oh, no, it’s another one of those local-band supergroups!” Rather than try to list the other projects that have contributed to this sextet, let’s just say that Hindershot (due…
David Longoria, Matt Simon and Jason Chronis could have rested on their laurels as former members of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and Voxtrot, respectively, and waxed into the familiar. Instead, the trio teamed up with Alan Schaefer, son of famous Austin guitar maker Ed…
After a string of R&B hits in the ’60s and stints touring with James Brown and Otis Redding, Bettye LaVette’s career hit a brick wall when Atlantic shelved her 1972 album, Child of the Seventies, which was recorded with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. A disco hit, “Doin’ the Best…
The Black Crowes have been remarkably durable, wisely cultivating a blues-rock and Americana fan base after summiting alt-rock radio in the early ’90s. But after twenty years of commercial peaks, commercial wanes, pubic-hair album art, hiatuses, movie-star marriages and countless bales of weed, and on the heels of their apt…
Ray LaMontagne is a notoriously reclusive artist. When it comes to giving interviews, he may well be music’s JD Salinger. Okay, maybe he’s not that isolated. But, seriously, how many in-depth profiles have you read about the guy? Precisely. Good for him, then, that his music needs no introduction. With…
Black Heart Revival opens with a track that recalls Seraphim Shock’s ’90s period, when the band used enigmatic samples to set a dark mood before foreboding instrumentation exploded into razory metal riffing over the soaringly melodic and sepulchral vocals of Charles Edwards. From there, though, the album lunges toward the…
The self-titled debut from Boulder’s 18 Switchbacks is essentially the very pleasing result of several former Deadheads and Colorado Americana/jam-band veterans getting serious about bluegrass songwriting. The romantically dusty lyrics and harmonies of dual singer-songwriter-guitarists Matt Wallwork and Tim Johnston are continuously beautiful throughout the seven-track EP, and upbeat bluegrass…
Although half-brothers Eli Battles and Drew Thurston grew up six years apart with completely different musical interests, music ended up being a connector between them when they formed Laslow. On the inside cover of the duo’s debut, A Quality of Light, there’s a photo of Thurston playing a dual-neck MIDI…
The first two tracks of this album, “My Shell” and “Poor, Poor Vivian,” wouldn’t be out of place on a far-better-than-average pop-punk album. “Green Eggs and Ham,” meanwhile, is obviously influenced by early-’90s grunge, but with more power-pop flavorings — gritty like Cheap Trick could be in the early ’80s,…
