Okay, so last week, in the comments section of an item we posted about Battleship Agenda’s search for a new singer, there was talk that Kyle Simmons, who fronts Speakeasy Tiger, had parted ways with the act. This claim seemed to be supported by vague comments on keytar player Pete…
A few months ago, Mike Marchant played a CD release show at the Meadowlark with A.Tom Collins, John Common and Ashley Raines. The show kind of turned out to be a misnomer. An unsaid illness prevented Marchant from finishing the album on time, and so he didn’t actually end up…
The above clip probably offers a better introduction to this article than we ever could: “(Hank Williams) is a feller that writes just as many songs as most anybody in the country, and sings them just as well, when it comes to the country style on singing.” Oh, right, and…
As this summer’s Red Rocks schedule begins to fill in, a few more were added this week, including Rush, who will be performing its epic 1981 album Moving Pictures in its entirety for the first time ever on the Time Machine Tour, which kicks off in June. The band, who…
The Big Pink • A Place to Bury Strangers • lo Echo • Boyhollow 04.11.10 | Bluebird Theater Boyhollow opened the show and set the stage for the rock bands that followed with a selection of songs that included some of the latter day melodic post-punk bands. He looked like…
The most important thing to take away from the second annual Fort Collins Music Experience is that it is wonderful: The year’s best tribute to a rich northern Colorado scene. The Experience’s insanely ambitious scope is only made more impressive when you consider that the thing is put together by…
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…
This just in: In case you haven’t heard, 3OH!3 is having a house party tonight. In their house, apparently. Word has it, they intend to pour booze down their mouth. There’s also talk that they may, perhaps, if the mood strikes them, stay up until the wee hours of the…
King Khan & the Shrines • Fresh & Onlys • Eyes & Ears 04.08.2010 | Bluebird Theater When King Khan and Shrines played the Larimer Lounge about a year and a half ago, it was a tough show to shake. All those cats were sweaty and crammed on that stage,…
Mitya • Makeout Point • Night Owl 04.8.10 | Skylark Lounge This week, we’re trying out a new method of recapping shows wherein we pick out the most interesting things that happened and sort them in chronological order. They won’t all look like this, obviously, but we figure it can’t…
Fansourcing: Although the textbook definition of the word applies more to having fans pitch in from a creative standpoint on a specific artistic endeavor, the term probably comes closest to describing this trend we’re seeing revived lately — employed previously by local groups like the Czars and, more recently, the…
As hopes continue to diminish for another installment of Monolith, we couldn’t help but notice this post on the festival’s facebook page, subsequent to the announcement of this year’s Lollapalooza lineup. Funny, we were thinking exactly the same thing, actually: Congratulations to all the MONOLITH alumni playing Lollapalooza this year:…
John Common has a passion for collaborative art. He’s just kicked off the third project asking artists to draw inspiration from his Beautiful Empty album and share it with the world, with the Beautiful Empty Photo Conspiracy…
New Zealander Annabel Alpers, who performs as Bachelorette, opened the show with a set that ranged from folk-pop to indie dance — basically the whole spectrum of what you might expect from a “bedroom” musician these days. Alpers relied heavily on laptop backing tracks, but her Björk-ish voice does most…
A complete list of the notable bands represented in this lineup would be exhaustive. But when you have Rick Kulwicki and Matt Bischoff of The Fluid present, that’s not a bad place to start. Add in John Rumley of Urban Leash, Sam Schiel of Francis Theory, Arnie Beckman of the…
Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, led by frontman Neil Fridd, performs bedroom lo-fi pop taken to the next level of conception and execution. Signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop imprint in 2008, the act is something of an underground phenomenon known for costumed performances where audience participation is not only encouraged,…
Is it premature to call Miike Snow’s “Animal” a ready-made hit? Breathy and quivering, the song’s pop fluency and offhand reggae vibe have already inspired four remixes. (Snag them for free with the original at RCRDLBL.com.) More telling, though, is that the project combines Downtown Records producer Andrew Wyatt with…
Having both worked as producers for M.I.A., Diplo and Switch combined forces under the Major Lazer moniker, a name inspired by a fictional Jamaican commando who fought in a secret zombie war of 1984 and lost his arm, replacing it with a futuristic weapon that became his namesake. The act’s…
Adam Green started his career with singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson in the quirky folk duo the Moldy Peaches — but those who got to know him through the Peaches’ posthumous success on the Juno soundtrack may have had to do a double take the first time they heard Green’s solo work…
This record sounds like the band took an eight-track recorder into a dark Birmingham dungeon and bashed out two songs in a fast, brutal and dirty session, after a late night of raising adrenaline levels by hanging out with Napalm Death. Singer Reed Bremmer sounds like the band’s very namesake…
George Christiansen’s latest effort, Photosynthesis, the followup to his 2006 self-titled debut, is a notably stripped-down affair, with about half of the tracks on the album featuring Christiansen accompanying himself on guitar, with playing that at times veers toward jazz and funk territory. Save for the upbeat and bouncy opening…
Andy Hackbarth is back in Colorado after spending the past four years in Nashville, where the sheen of that town’s assembly-line production evidently rubbed off on his music. Just the same, Hackbarth, the son of llama ranchers, is no country bumpkin. In fact, Hackbarth is tailor-made for hot AC radio…
