What a difference a year makes. The last time Lady Gaga was in town she played the Gothic. When she comes back to town on Wednesday, July 28, she’ll be headlining the Pepsi Center. No word yet on when tickets when go on sale, but when they do, they’ll run…
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. It had to. No way we could keep Paper Bird our little secret forever. If the folks at Park the Van Records have their way, the rest of the world will be falling in love with (and falling in love…
With more and more bands going the DIY route and foregoing labels, Suburban Home Records is branching out and expanding their business model. No longer just a traditional label that signs bands, makes records and sells them, Suburban has just launched a Label Services wing. It’s a way to apply…
The Buckingham Squares • Receiver Voodoo Stingray • The Nuns of Brixton • 03.13.10 | Mercury Cafe Maybe actually wearing nun habits as part of the stage costume is a gimmick, but for The Nuns of Brixton, it left an impression. As the name implies, the Nuns are a Clash…
Bender’s hosted “March of The Zombies II” Fashion Show, with music from Arms Raised, MF KAAOS and Throwaway Sunshine. See photos by Coleen Whitfield on the slideshow page…
Flobots • The Pirate Signal • Air Dubai03.12.10 | Ogden Theatre We regret to inform you that Friday night’s revolution was not televised. It is, however, available for streaming this morning on Vimeo. The production stars Flobots, of course, in their first local performance in more than a year, with…
Pretty Lights • Lyrics Born • Bobby Collins03.13.10 | Ogden Theatre See more photos on the slideshow page. There is so much sweaty cleavage dangling over the railing of the Ogden’s upper deck. One girl, in her haste to abandon her inhibitions, has rolled her shirt up so high that…
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…
Since the ’80s, the space at 2301 Blake Street has seen quite a few club incarnations. As 23 Parish and The Garage, bands like Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Jane’s Addiction played there. Since then, it’s been Gate 12, Polly Esther’s and, most recently, Club 303, which was open from January…
When the Continental Club opened at 475 Santa Fe Drive in early 2008, it showed a lot of promise, and quickly became our Best New Bar in that year’s Best of Denver. The Continental closed within the year, though, and was replaced by One Eyed Jacks last January. And although…
Sometimes we have to wonder if folks that program for Apple’s App Store are hell-bent on wasting people’s time. We spent an evening with as many artist-specific iPhone apps we could get our hands on and found a few amazing things, a few interesting things and a plethora of pure…
Yeah, that headline threw us for a loop as well. “Dear Family, Friends & Fans,” begins Matt Morris’s Tumblr post yesterday. “There’s some news I have to share. It’s pretty big, so Mom – if you’re standing, you better sit down. As of today, I am no longer a Tennman…
Where to start with Incredibox? Well, you start with a little cartoon guy, like one of the ones you see above. Then you give him a part of the song by dragging and dropping an icon onto him and he starts performing it. That makes another little dude appear. You…
According to the official South By Southwest website only ten Colorado acts (Nathaniel Rateliff, ytcracker, Pictureplane, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Breathe Carolina, Epileptinomicon, Matt Morris, Pretty Lights, A Shoreline Dream and Boulder Acoustic Society) are slated to perform at this year’s festival. Fact is, though, nearly three times as many…
Breathe easy, Team Coco: Conan O’Brien’s “Suck on This, NBC!” tour will stop in Denver/Boulder. Conan will do two shows in May: Sunday, May 9 at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium and Monday, May 10 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, both at 8p.m. From the press release:…
Walt Disney was amazing,” says Johnny Wohlfahrt of nervesandgel without a hint of irony. “His whole motto was, ‘If I want something done and people tell me it can’t be done, I’m going to figure out a way to do it.’ Everything that he did that was a milestone, everyone…
After Brian Haddad and David Weiss bought The Border, a University of Denver hangout for more than three decades, they didn’t waste any time. They closed the deal on a Friday in late January, brought in a lot of people to clean the joint over the weekend, and had all…
When most bands raid the coffers of ’60s and ’70s music, they go in for the Nuggets thing, or hard rock, or the Beatles or the Velvet Underground. Night Owl (due on Thursday, March 11, at Old Curtis Street) didn’t really do that. Instead, it followed in the footsteps of…
Although Fat Possum Records has branched out over the years with the acquisition of bands like the Walkmen, bolstering a roster that already includes such groups as Dinosaur Jr., Andrew Bird, Lissie and Heartless Bastards, really, it’s still about the last place on earth you’d expect to find an act…
Some guitarists borrow from the Hendrix canon, while others simply absorb his music through osmosis. Either way, there’s probably not a guitarist alive who wasn’t affected by the music of Jimi Hendrix in some way. Joe Satriani has said that although he can play every one of Hendrix’s songs, out…
Had Tracy & the Plastics started out in Ames, Iowa, instead of Olympia, Washington, they might have turned out like Leslie & the LY’s. The act combines electronic pop with hip-hop and an obvious streak of playful weirdness that would make Peaches and Cindy Wonderful proud. The band’s live shows…
One thing about Sharon Jones that’s often overlooked: She may be the figurehead of today’s retro-soul movement, but she was also there the first time around. Granted, Jones may not have been strutting around big stages the same time that Tina Turner was tearing up “Nutbush City Limits,” but Jones…
