It’s becoming increasing more popular for celebrities and pseudo-celebrities alike to think the public still gives a rats-ass what they have to say. And it’s no secret that Twitter is a giant bathroom stall waiting for the sharpie attack of a bored ex-rocker, but every once and a while it…
This week’s flier of the week is not one flier but three fliers, one for each of the members of Lion Sized. This first randomly selected (we’re not aware of any particular order) flier effectively sets the tone for the rest of what you’re getting — a splattery, exploded portrait…
This past February, when we started putting together the 2010 Westword Music Showcase, we posted an item asking you how we could improve our annual music festival, this year set for Saturday, June 19, in the Golden Triangle (if you haven’t already purchased your tickets, you can still buy discounted…
Noise lovers, rejoice! This weekend, Old Curtis Street (2100 Curtis Street) will be transformed into a celebration of all things noisy, experimental, grating and possibly hearing-damaging, courtesy of Denver Noise Fest (look for an interview with the festival’s curators Todd Novosad and John Gross in this week’s paper). Almost forty…
This year’s Red Rocks line-up has been filling in rather nicely, and there’s been a few more additions this week, including a second Sting date that’s been added, Blues Traveler’s annual Fourth of July show, the Barenaked Ladies, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Reggae on the Rocks, Celtic Woman and Tom…
I had the fortune of attending the Rockies game on Sunday, and couldn’t help but notice something that I found odd: When Troy Tulowitzki, the Rockies’ studly shortstop, strolled to the plate in the bottom of the first inning, he did it to the poppy sounds of Miley Cirus’s “Party…
Yeasayer | Sleigh Bells 04.24.10 | The Bluebird Theatre If anyone is getting tired of Brooklyn, it didn’t show Saturday — a pair of the hippest bands from the hippest borough in the world packed the hell out of the Bluebird. We’re talking sweaty backs leaving wet prints on strangers’…
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…
Ani DiFranco|Buddy Wakefield 04.22.10|Ogden Theatre It’s appropriate that Ani DiFranco stopped at the Ogden on Earth Day; she revealed during the show that she has a friend in this locale who showed her some springtime joy. When she tours, she said, normally she walks from “bus to basement to stage…
Reminder in case you missed it when we posted last week: The Swayback is pointing the wayback machine toward the place where it all began. Tonight the outfit is slated to play a show at the Lion’s Lair, where it played its very first show way back in the day…
The biggest expense touring bands face is lodging. Motel rooms, even shitty ones, aren’t cheap. Sometime you can sleep in the van, but let’s face it — that sucks for a multitude of reasons, even though it’s cheap. What is cheap and doesn’t usually suck is crashing on the floor,…
Jónsi • Death Vessel Paramount Theatre | 04.22.10 There was a moment during Jónsi set at the Paramount while he was playing the (excellent) single “Go Do,” in which 85 percent of the crowd had risen from their seats. That probably makes sense because Jónsi, whose real name involves a…
Julian Casablancas | Haim 04.21.10 | The Ogden Theater Being a bit of a curmudgeon about the Strokes, it was with something more than a small amount of trepidation that I approached frontman Julian Casablancas’ solo show last night at the Ogden. It’s not that the Strokes are bad (they’re…
Meet Savoy, a dance act with the soul of a rock band. “We did always want to play dance music, but we’re also fascinated with the big-time stadium-rock feel, too,” explains Ben Eberdt. “All of our music is dance-y, but a lot of it is very hard-edged and rock-y. We…
Reprise. A decade ago, Denver had dueling dueling piano bars: Sing Sing, which is still going strong at 1735 19th Street (with the slogan “LoDo doesn’t get any lower”); and, over at 1949 Market Street, the Tavern Downtown was once the piano-pushing Soiled Dove. But now Denver’s about to get…
When Kevin Wesley and Darren Kulback started Hot White, it was more of an experimental noise-rock instrumental duo, with guitar and drums laying into seemingly improvisational pieces that were as angular as the were incendiary. With the addition in the fall of 2008 of Tiana Bernard on bent circuits, Hot…
Someone should seriously kill the term “shitgaze” — but it’s not going to be these guys. Given the scatological name and the release of their 2009 Woodsist Records release, Shitgaze Anthems, it’s clear that they embrace the designation. In 2008, Psychedelic Horseshit was part of an MTV2 mini-documentary about lo-fi…
Even though this Brooklyn-based band took its name from an article in The Onion about the location of Donald Rumsfeld’s secret hideout, there’s nothing sinister about the act’s music. If anything, Fang Island, not unlike White Denim, figured out how to bring together styles that shouldn’t work side by side…
Justin Pearson has made a career out of being annoying — but it’s a brutal, funny, sublime, uncompromising and at times even groundbreaking kind of annoying. With his main band of the past fifteen years, the mighty cyber-grind outfit the Locust, on an apparently indefinite hiatus, Pearson has poured his…
B.o.B. did his time in rap’s AAA league, having brushes with success, remaining one or two degrees of separation from household-name status for three years. But that’s all over now: His proper debut full-length, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, will be in stores next Tuesday, and, more likely than not,…
When Nathaniel Rateliff was fronting Born in the Flood, his voice was strident, powerful and pensive. It was impressive, but not uniquely his own. On “Once in a Great While,” the opening track of his Rounder debut, an unblemished near-falsetto croon introduces the world to the new and improved Nathaniel…
From the opening track, the comically harrowing “Cemetary,” through the playful nostalgia of “Pac-Man,” the Lust-Cats have carved a new chapter in outsider punk rock by updating riot grrrl for the current era. “Stand-up Gal,” especially the chorus (“Can’t wait to see her/Kinda want to be her/She’s a real stand-up…
