Concerts

Gotta give it up to the men of Ozomatli for having the cojones to embody their convictions rather than merely paying lip service with vacant platitudes, as so many artists do. These cats are putting themselves out there for better or worse. Witness the track “Gay Vatos in Love,” from…

Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic artwork alone contributed to many of our own doodles of death-dealing knights…

Beltania 2010 05.06.2010-05.09.2010|Florence First things first: Beltania is primarily a festival for people practicing Earth-centered religions — paganism, Wicca, Native American religions, or even a very steward-centered (and non-exclusive, non-judgmental) form of Christianity. The four-day festival in the mountains included rituals for men and women, a sweat lodge, workshops on…

The Epilogues and Della helped welcome the Summit Music Hall (1902 Blake Street) to the scene on Saturday — just one of the things our nightlife photogs captured over the weekend. See the fruits of their labor on the slideshow page…

There’s something comforting about listening to stories while sitting in a dimly lit venue with the stench of too many bourbons wafting from your mouth. Well, comforting and potentially boring — it’s a difficult balance to keep an audience intrigued by random true stories told by random people. It’s a…

Mike Marchant • Blue Million Miles • Old Radio 05.7.10 | Hi-Dive It’s 2010, where we can start show reviews with social media: Approximately ten hours before Friday’s show at which his album was to be released, Mike Marchant posted the following on his facebook page : “just got a…

We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…

Here’s the newest track off the upcoming Bruno Mars EP It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, which comes out May 11. This song started cropping up on YouTube last night. It’s not as good as “Nothin’ On You” or the first single off the EP, which you can hear below…

Well, that didn’t last too long. Remember a few weeks ago, when we posted a video featuring the members of Speakeasy Tiger talking about how everything was fine in their camp, and that, despite rampant rumors, Kyle Simmons was still very much in the band? That, as they say, was…

View Larger Map Anyone who had been to Monkey Mania even once walked away with a story to tell. In fact, choosing just one great show from Monkey Mania is next to impossible. It was a haven for loud-as-fuck rock and roll tailor made to appeal to bands that loved…

So we just received word that single-day tickets to the Mile High Music Festival will be available for purchase this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and will be on sale through Monday, May 31 at 6 p.m. There’s only one way to get your hands on them, however, and that’s…

We’ve just came across some rather sad news. Looks like the Mile High music scene has lost another one of our own. Last Wednesday, Matt Cochrane (aka Mattdullah the Butcher), onetime bassist for Lyin’ Bitch and the Restraining Orders, was found dead in an alley near 14th and High. Cochrane,…

Okay, it was a monumental task but we’ve now had a chance to sort through all the comments — overlooking the ones coming from the exact same IP addresses — and have determined which five acts will be added to this year’s ballot. In no particular order, those bands are:…

Tyler Snow is deservedly best known for his various DJ gigs over the years, most easily witnessed every second Friday at the Meadowlark, during the Disco Nouveau event. But on rare occasions, he’ll perform as Ate Bitten and display his facility with putting together rich layers of sound using bent-circuit…

Originally something of a long-distance songwriting partnership, Mutemath eventually based itself in keyboardist Paul Meany’s home town of New Orleans. Artists from that town seem to be able to pull off eclectic without seeming like musical dilettantes, and Mutemath is no exception. Its popularity with fans of jam bands and…

For anyone else, releasing an album titled Suite #420 on 4/20 would be overkill. For Devin the Dude, it’s an understatement. The veteran MC has made a career of rapping about pot in all its glorious and manifold forms, though that career has been less than blazing lately: After starting…

Scott Hutchison started Frightened Rabbit in 2003 as a solo project. The name came from Hutchison’s mother, who saw how he would retreat into a corner like a “frightened rabbit” in social situations. Clearly, Hutchison has managed to leap the hurdle of social anxiety enough to perform in front of…

Anyone who’s ever met Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco will tell you he’s an intense dude. He’s the type of guy who perpetually appears to be pondering something profound. Whether he’s actually ruminating on something of consequence, of course, is anyone’s guess. But his intensity is palpable. He’s also an immensely…

The genre of Americana is in as much disarray as America itself — but rather than try to impose order on that chaos, Oblio’s Arrow embodies it. Drawing from country rock, psychedelia and the singer-songwriter tradition of the ’70s, the group formerly known as Oblio Duo + the Archers has…

Largely released digitally, this latest full-length from Sandusky includes different artwork for each song when played on the computer. “A Prayer for the Unification of Bootgazers” opens the album as a statement of purpose: Much of the album’s material is post-rock, yet it manages to be genuinely haunting rather than…

Andy Guerrero returns to his funk act after shutting it down to focus on his work as a guitarist for the Flobots. This is his return home in a lot of ways, and mainstream success has left its mark: This is squeaky-clean music, more broadly influenced than before, crafted by…