Take a look at this picture. Not much to see here, right, just a plank of octagon-shaped wood with a few metal straps and some sort of contraption on top? Look closer. This is precisely what they (whoever coined this maxim) had in mind when they urged us not to…
Mark Farina|Miguel Migs 4.29.10 | Gothic Theatre Downtempo guru Mark Farina has been touring with deep house DJ Miguel Migs, but fortunately for Denver, his stop at the Gothic added two local players to the bill. First up was Half Color, a two-man group out of Fort Collins playing downtempo,…
Lupe Fiasco • B.o.B. 04.29.10 | Ogden Theatre B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco collaborated on “Past My Shades,” which appears on the former’s just released, soon to be number one album, B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray. Yet the two did not play the song together during either set last…
Didn’t get tickets to Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. at the Ogden? Bummer, kid. It’s sold out, from what we hear. No worries. Mark Farina’s at the Gothic tonight with Miguel Migs, J Flash and Half Color, and there’s still tickets left for that show. Farina, in case you’re not familiar,…
Below Bar is re-opening tonight as a gay bar with Rockstar Aaron at the decks. Bill Ward has revamped his two-year-old, subterranean spot at 1422 Larimer Street — from changing out some furniture to adding a lot of mirrors — and turned it into a gay bar at the request…
Okay, so even though we’ve been doing this Showcase for sixteen years — sixteen!, can you believe it? — we still haven’t perfected this ballot process, even if we think you’ll agree that we came closer than ever to nailing it this year. Still, a number of acts — and/or…
After a two year-stint as Senger’s on the Fax, the bar at 3014 East Colfax Avenue closed quietly last July, then reopened the next month as 3014, under the ownership of Nick O’Sullivan, one of the brothers responsible for Brothers BBQ, with former owner David Senger back running the joint…
Jazz has long been music reserved for the best players and has produced some of popular music’s most memorable eccentrics and rebels. While not a jazz show in the purest sense, Jazz at the Root (taking place this Thursday, April 29, at the Meadowlark with a wealth of talent on…
As one-third of Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould would have been important solely for having been in one of the most influential bands of the 1980s — a band that arguably established “alternative” music as commercially viable in the world beyond the American underground. But after the group’s breakup, Mould went…
Fucked Up seems to have a little crush on Denver. Besides playing a now-legendary show inside the cramped confines of Wax Trax Records last February, the Canadian punk outfit even chose a photograph submitted by Wax Trax co-owner Duane David to grace one of the alternative covers of the band’s…
Champaign, Illinois, hardly seems like a catalyst for noteworthy bands, but Hum came from there and so does Common Loon, an act that occupies similarly atmospheric territory. A quick listen to any of the music from the band’s new album, The Long Dream of Birds, reveals that these guys might…
As one who’s embraced musical technology for over three decades, guitarist Pat Metheny has put a completely new spin on an old idea with his latest album, Orchestrion. With some help from inventors, Metheny took the player-piano concept to a whole other level by using devices like pianos, drum kit,…
There is no shortage of super-earnest bands with a dozen members and twice that many instruments in Colorado. Paean, probably the flagship band of Fort Collins label Act So Big Forest, is one of the better entrants in the category (real number of members: six). Live, the act is consuming…
In one of the best scenes in the spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood tells the old undertaker to “get three coffins ready,” then blows away a few of the Baxter clan for laughing at his mule. While this band might have borrowed its name from that film,…
On her debut album, Dare to Be…, Boulder-based singer Lisa Bell put modern spins on jazz standards, and there was still a fair amount of jazz on her second album, It’s All About Love. On her third and latest effort, Dancing on the Moon, Bell holds on to her jazz…
Forget trying to decide whether or not this music is just grind or a combination of crust and grind. What this record does from beginning to end is comment on the horrors of the modern world by embodying them in feral, distorted vocals and slashing yet pummeling guitar riffs. Where…
The idea of “noise” as a form of audio art can be traced to the early-twentieth-century avant-garde. In the larger realm of music, the aesthetic of noise and its sound can be heard in the work of bands like Sonic Youth and newer acts like HEALTH. In Denver, noise is…
First known as Oblio Duo and then Oblio Duo + the Archers, the newly christened Oblio’s Arrow makes music as mercurial as its name. Over the past few years, the ever-shifting outfit — which revolves around singer-songwriters William Duncan and Steven Lee Lawson — has crafted a body of work…
Trance DJ, producer and radio host Matt Darey is probably best known for his 2007 hit “Beautiful Day,” but he’s been a force in the dance-music world for close to fifteen years: He was releasing tracks like “From Russia With Love” and remixing such trance classics as Binary Finary’s “1998”…
Ever been pelted in the face with anything before? Doesn’t matter what it is — snow, water, spitballs — it smarts a little, doesn’t it? So why would someone to allow himself to be blasted in the face with a paint cannon over and over and over and over again?…
Guess who recently resurfaced after having unceremoniously dropped off the radar for the better part of the last year? If you said David McGhee — wait, what? How’d you know? Oh, he’s already been in touch? Yeah, he’s good like that. Good dude. A little quirky, but a good dude,…
In case you just joined us, Flobots are notorious when it comes to fighting injustice and standing up for the rights of all human beings. So it comes as no surprise, really, to discover that the act’s outspoken frontman Jonny 5 has taken it upon himself to update Public Enemy’s…
