Just caught wind of a set of performances that is slated to take place next Friday, August 28, at Skyline Park, downtown just off the 16th Street Mall on Araphaoe, featuring a trio of my personal faves, Speakeasy Tiger, the Pirate Signal and Danielle Ate the Sandwich. If you’ve yet…
All right, just when I completely gave up all hope that Weezer would ever again write a song that I’d dig — seriously, I just had a conversation yesterday with a friend of mine in which I asserted that Weezer just needed to hang it up already — Rivers Cuomo…
While there are quite a few clubs in town that offer bottle service, Wicked Garden (1403 Larimer Street) might be the first on the block to offer table keg service. So instead of dropping a few hundred bucks a bottle of hooch and some mixers in an upscale LoDo club,…
Since rain forced the cancellation of Wendy Woo and Robin Hoch’s CD release party on July 29, the pair rescheduled it for Wednesday, September 2 as part of Swallow Hill’s Shady Grove Picnic Series at Four Mile Historic Park (715 South Forest Street). The show starts at 6:30 p.m. with…
Oh, and speaking of Jen Korte, she’s playing a gig next weekend that sounds utterly killer. The Out East Music Feast, as it’s been dubbed, features Korte and her band the Loss, with a slew of excellent female singer-songwriters, including two of my absolute faves, Angie Stevens and Judith Avers,…
So a few weeks ago, I got a note from my pal Jonathan Bitz, who was raving about Jen Korte & the Loss’s new record. In his succinct, inimitable, articulate style, he told me everything I needed to know about the album in the expanse of just five words: “absolutely…
From September 8 to 11, CU Boulder will celebrate the life and work of avant-garde composer George Crumb at the George Crumb at 80 Music Festival. For those unfamiliar with his work, Crumb is an award winning (a Pulitzer for music in 1968, a Grammy in 2001) modern composer famed…
There’s nothing like having the endorsement of mom — or having her tell you in no uncertain terms that she’s going to kick your ass if you let her or the 2,000 kids who are assembled to watch your band down by not, well, kicking ass. Such was the lot…
This past February, we told you about former Corruption frontman Mark Grabowski joining Demonica, the trash-metal band founded by Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Sherman. As reported, the outfit recorded their parts remotely, with Grabowski laying down his bass tracks at Flatline Audio, Dave Otero’s lauded studio. Otero just finished mixing…
The Dead Weather, Tyvek The Ogden August 17, 2009 Better Than: Porn What’s your Jack White flavor? Are you a vanilla fan, a consumer of the pale white God of garage rock, or would you prefer vintage chocolate Jack, shy and drinking moonshine? Or perhaps you’re interested in our newest…
As reported last week, Van Morrison will be digging through more than four decades of songwriting when the Irishman visits the Wells Fargo Theatre Saturday, September 26. If the show’s anywhere near the quality of his live recording of Astral Weeks, the show should be epic. Tickets run $90-$350 and…
After Placebo’s singer Brian Molko collapsed on stage at the Summer Sonic Festival in Osaka, Japan from a combination of a virus he picked up in Asia and jet lag, the band decided to postpone its North American tour. The band’s September 23 show at the Gothic Theatre has been…
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, the Denver Film Society is hosting Peace & Love on the Rocks tonight at Red Rocks. This special edition of Film on the Rocks includes a screening of Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director’s Cut as well as music by some…
If you’re curious about what the annual Global Dance Festival, now in its seventh year, is all about, but have always been afraid to ask, or to go and be surrounded by all those glowsticks and Vicks, you’re in luck. Local Internet “lifestyle television” site Vista TV has gone behind…
Green Day, Franz Ferdinand Pepsi Center Saturday, August 15, 2009Better than: Hanging out with eleven-year-olds at an indoor recreation center. The members of Green Day and their crew tried with all their might to summon the spirit of an old school punk show in the vast spaces of the Pepsi…
Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Murs and Eyedea & Abilities Red Rocks Friday, August 14 Red Rocks giveth, and Red Rocks taketh away. The sprawling amphitheater is so storied at this point that it tests performers playing it like few venues in the country — and not everyone passes. That was certainly…
Kid Hum may be still getting lots of love for his Fossil Fuels instrumental project and its sequel, Offshore Drilling, which featured emcees over his instrumentals, but he’s still moving forward. This week Hum announced a new project, a compilation album called Wrighterz Block, which he is approaching a bit…
Les Paul’s nose was running. It was during one of his weekly Monday gigs at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York, and I was sitting about ten feet from where he was sitting on stage. He looked at me, pointed at the napkin on my lap and gestured for…
Got plans on Saturday, September 26? Um, we do. We’ll be at the Wells Fargo Theatre. Just caught wind that the one and only Van Morrison will be making his way to the Mile High City on that date, and the only way we’ll miss that show is if …..
SunnO))), Eagle Twin and The AccüsedBluebird TheaterThursday, August 13th, 2009Better Than: Some commentators on SunnO))) would have you believe. The two-piece Eagle Twin kicked off the show in high spirits. Although mining similar artistic territory as Isis, Twin brought its own take on experimental metal. With the sometimes staggered, sometimes…
It’s no secret that we have a soft spot for the Rainbow Music Hall. We were deflated to discover that the iconic sign had been unceremoniously torn down but equally heartened to find that pieces of the sign had been salvaged and were subsequently put on display by the Twist…
If you like music — especially the music of John Common — and have an interest in making film, there’s a project you should know about. In the wake of his successful Common Box Project, a collaborative project that asked visual artists to create a piece of assemblage box art…
