Paul Piciocchi has been a busy guy. After opening Mix Music Lounge, Drink and Rack & Rye, he moved Tryst down to Playa del Carmen and recently opened in Dive on Fifteenth in its place. He’s also behind Chances, a new bar and grill at 1135 Bannock Street that is…
When a thirteen-year-old picks up a guitar and plays a song, what do you expect? Clumsy fumbling? Maybe mild competence with the occasional touch of style? yeah, us too. That’s why this clip is so mind blowing. The kid playing is Trace Bundy protege Sungha Jung, a thirteen-year-old wunderkind from…
Sometime in August, Cheapo Discs — one of a handful of locally owned record stores still operating in Denver — will shutter the doors of its location on Colorado Boulevard, ending a fifteen year run. But it’s not all bad news — owner Ron Lusk says he’s close to a…
Since time immemorial, we’ve liked our artists deceased. The fame, the money, you may experience those in your lifetime. But the respect, that only comes after you die–preferably young and in an unexpected way. From Vincent van Gogh to Robert Johnson, the list on artists who passed on to the…
Well, Warped Tour is officially underway, wending its way through California on its first handful of dates. Sunday, Warped will be in Ventura, California and on that particular date (and no other, if this is to be believed) 3OH!3 will bring its patented brand of madness to the pop-punk throngs…
Original Kinks bassist Peter Quaife died yesterday at age 66. The cause of death is yet to be determined but he had suffered from kidney disease for more than a decade. Quaife was a member of the band from its founding in 1961 until 1969, when he quit due to…
In honor of the US’s best World Cup soccer performance in, well, ever, Weezer has weighed in with “Represent,” the unofficial US soccer anthem. Don’t get too excited though — there are no vuvuzela solos in the song. Instead you get a somewhat forgettable tune — pounding drums, big riffs…
DJ Ginger Perry kicks off Kitty Kat Social tonight at Beauty Bar (608 East 13th Avenue), which just celebrated its grand opening last weekend. Perry will head up the weekly ladies nights on Thursdays and bring in a rotating crew of DJs including Vajra, Mike Deez, Jah Rocker, Klaw and…
Now, here’s a cool idea. Take all those thousands and thousands of useless, forgotten and worthless, but oh-so-shiny CDs, and use them to make something beautiful. In this case, a giant piece of public art called “CDSea” in Kilmington, UK by artist Bruce Munro…
The opening of Beauty Bar last weekend was apparently cool enough to capture the eye (or lens, more to the point) of LastNightsParty.com. The infamous party photo site has a deluxe sized assortment of photos up from the event, featuring a variety of Denver music personalities and a much larger…
This is the weirdest studio record for us, for sure, in every way,” guitarist Nels Cline says of the Nels Cline Singers’ latest effort, Initiate. “I came into the session with almost no music finished. I had all these sketchy ideas, and I had this desire to make this different…
The 15th Street Tavern is still a legend in this town, even though the downtown bar/club closed three years ago. And ever since, Mykel Martinez has been trying to resurrect it. He was going to open a place on Park Avenue West, but his liquor license application was denied; then…
Ron Cole may not be a name that immediately comes to mind when you think of the best, most well-known electronic artists coming out of Colorado, but that will probably change a great deal in the next year as his music, released under the name Hollagramz (playing Friday, June 25,…
Do thumping club tracks move better when they’re being pumped out by a couple of guys donning gold Jason Voorhees masks? Maybe. In the four years that Toronto duo MSTRKRFT has been supplying thick electro-house, its two producers have kept some impressive company. They’ve famously remixed everyone from the Yeah…
With so many bands seeking new ways to reinterpret the sound of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin for the modern era — blissfully unaware of similar efforts in the ’80s — Free Energy wisely took a different route. The outfit, which hails from Philadephia (three of its four members played…
Long tagged as the supreme warlords of sludge, the Melvins have crawled out of that primordial birthplace and undergone a weird yet compelling evolution over the past few years. Perhaps emboldened by signing to Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records — the home of many an experimental rock band — or simply…
Chances are, if you’ve been paying attention for the past seventeen years or so, you know who Tool is. You probably also know some really obnoxious idiots who worship this band mostly for its darkness and the brutal precision of its instrumentation — that, and its supposedly misanthropic themes. This…
Julie Geller bills her latest release, You’re With Me, as “a unique blend of folk and Jewish music” — but unless you count one song that kind of sounds like a Yiddish version of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and a couple of pop numbers in Hebrew, it doesn’t really…
A few songs into King for a Day’s latest effort, The Light Is On and Shining Brightly for the Masses, the band launches into “Down All the Days” with a propulsive beat and a bass line that recalls “Question of Temperature,” a tune originally done by the late-’60s garage-rock outfit…
The latest release from Nocturnal Dirt Surfers Alliance is a compilation of live recordings conducted at the Oriental Theater over the course of three days in late January 2010 minus an audience. With no overdubs offered, it may be a bit of a lo-fi effort, but some of these artists…
The scope of Grant Gordy’s freshman release is ambitious, to say the least. Swinging echoes of Django Reinhardt, dense guitar melodies worthy of Bill Frisell, Doc Watson-inspired flatpicking and counterpoint experiments straight out of a Debussy suite all find a place across the thirteen instrumental tracks. It’s a brainy musical…
Jakob Dylan’s brand-new collection, Women and Country, is by far the most interesting release by the former Wallflowers frontman. It’s subtle, funny and intimate without being hermetic, not to mention a good contemporary take on the grand old country tradition. Likely first impression: “Wow, Jakob Dylan made the best Springsteen…
