Yes, it’s been more than 20 years since the Beastie Boys were licensed to ill, and in those intervening years, the trio’s output has been, on balance, fantastic. Sure, there have been a few duds along the way, but every album has been worth hearing. That’s why I still get…
By now you’ve probably heard that Sunny Day Real Estate, one of my all-time favorite bands and an act whose influence can not be overstated, is reuniting and heading out on the road for twenty dates with the original line-up. We just received word that the tour, which kicks off…
Even though L.I.F.E. Crew member Deca has been spending the last year or so living in California, we can’t deny his Colorado roots.The gruff-voiced rapper has filmed a video for a song called “Movement,” in California in the midst of a wind farm. We’re not sure where the song is…
In case you’re like us and got just completely jacked at the Hot IQs farewell show at the Bluebird on Friday night, forgot to set your DVR and thus missed 3OH!3 on Jimmy Kimmel, here’s the video. From what we can gather from the boys, evidently, it’s still never a…
I just received a press release from the Salt Lake City Arts Council (cue the Pace picante sauce dudes asking incredulously, “Salt Lake City?!”) informing me of their Twilight Concert Series. Evidently, the concerts, which are free and take place every Thursday night at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt…
Of classical music’s many charms, vitality is hardly one of them; most of the big names are long-dead white guys. So Eclectic Concerts, a chamber music series now in its third year, is remarkable for including music from around the world and from this century alongside the powder-wigged Europeans…
Update: We’ve just learned that the Locals special mentioned below only runs through the end of June, so you better get over there soon! Stylists will also reportedly be on hand at the Epilogues show this Saturday night to hook cats up with a cut and style. On a related…
All right, so my sister’s getting hitched this fall and so I’ve decided to trim down a little. Since I’m in the wedding, I figured I don’t want to look like a big guy in the, uh, little coat when everybody breaks out the cameras, if you know what I’m…
Update: Early bird tickets are gone. If you snoozed, you losed (yes, we know that’s not a word, but “lost” didn’t rhyme). On a related note, Monolith, which added Chromeo to the line-up last week, earned a nod from Outside Magazine as one of the best summer music fests. Yay,…
The Fray, this nifty little pop band from Denver, dropped in on Jimmy Fallon’s soon-to-be-short-lived late-night show on Thursday to play a little ditty. If you were reading the Tweets of Fallon’s house-band leader ?uest Love, you probably expected Isaac and Co. to play their bizarre cover of Kanye West’s…
Paper Bird just put the finishing touches on a brand new disc. We recently had the privilege of giving it some advance spins, and wowee, wait til you hear it! Simply adorable (natch), the new EP, titled A Sky Underground, will be unveiled to the world at large this Wednesday,…
The Church w/Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody Thursday, June 18th, 2009 The Gothic Theatre, Englewood Better Than: A show you’d normally expect from a band 29 years into its career. Adam Franklin’s bass player had to perform sitting down due to a broken foot, which may have had something…
Es-Nine of 3 the Hardway is one of most talented hip-hop producers in the state — just listen to the Set in Stone album if you need proof. Now the producer is offering up a collection of instrumentals showing a more laid back side of his production style. The collection,…
The Denver music scene lost another major contributor over the weekend as DJ/producer/promoter Mike Wilson — better known as Mike Honcho and/or Meka One — was found dead at home by his roommate. Mike was well known and well loved within the electronic music community — this 24-page thread over…
Fresh off their homemade, sandwich-board-wearing stint at Showcase, the Epilogues are getting ready to embark on a short tour of the West Coast by way of the Pacific Northwest, and to kick things off, as you’ve probably deduced from the headline and the above graphic, the act is playing a…
At the regional Air Guitar Championship, everything is ridiculous. There’s a guy onstage wearing a fur vest and a rhinestone handgun belt buckle, taking shots of Jack Daniels and diddling the air three inches in front of his crotch. But the most ridiculous part is less what’s going on tonight…
When Johnny Hill first picked up a guitar, he probably never figured that being murdered would end up being a boon to his career, much less that he would enjoy the experience. “It was fun,” declares the Skyfox frontman. “We got covered in blood, meat and poo.” Cleary, Hill isn’t…
A sweet little blonde straddled the drummer while he played “Margaritaville,” but somehow he was able to lay down a steady beat while she rode his lap like a mechanical bull. And this was after she’d dirty-danced and rubbed up against everyone else in the band at the Frontier Club…
These days, any two-piece, blues-based rock band is compared to the White Stripes instead of the Flat Duo Jets. But American Relay really doesn’t sound like either of those bands, though it shares similar roots with the energetically playful jangle of R.L. Burnside and the freewheeling exuberance of Howlin’ Wolf…
When the Church formed in Australia in 1980, its ringing, soaring post-punk should’ve made it as big as, say, Echo & the Bunnymen. Of course, the Church did reach that level of success in its home country on the back of early hits like “The Unguarded Moment,” which also happens…
As far as we know, a starmaker/Svengali didn’t have anything to do with the formation of Hey Monday, currently touring with Stereo Skyline, the Bigger Lights, the Friday Night Boys and This Providence. But the Florida group’s members seem to have been as carefully cast for their roles as the…
Deriving its name from a song by Japanese art terrorists Hanatarash, Minneapolis’s Cock E.S.P. is one of the premier noise bands in the United States. The trio, which counts among its collaborators Thurston Moore and Merzbow, has inflicted its mixture of power electronics, field recordings, white noise and distorted ambient…
