Dick Dale (due tonight at the Gothic Theatre) is one of the most influential living musicians. If Dale hadn’t blown the first 48 guitar amplifiers Leo Fender had brought to him, guitar amps as we now know them may have taken longer to develop. Dale, who invented surf rock, used…
When (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was released, its presence on the scene was almost as explosive as its creators’ antics. Noel and Liam Gallagher — sometimes jokingly known as Cocaine and Abel — aren’t really brothers as much as they are the antithesis of each other, the most charming…
Growing up in Boulder, Rudresh Mahanthappa (due tonight at Quixote’s True Blue) got an early start on the saxophone and studied with Mark Harris, who opened him to a wide variety of music, before heading to Berklee College of Music and DePaul University to study music. Since moving to New…
Last night, we tagged along with Paul Brandt, aka Paul Basic, as he and Michal Menert were doing a photo shoot with Pat Milbery and the So-Gnar snowboarding monster. Brandt is one of the most recent additions to Derek Vincent Smith’s Pretty Lights Music imprint. Between snapshots, we spoke with…
Update (9/29/11): A few commenters on this week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” alerted us to another video of the incident that has surfaced. This one, which was posted on YouTube today, evidently, is shot from yet another angle, and the footage appears to be from sometime between the subsequent eleven-second…
Wondering what becomes of all the bootleg merchandise that is seized? The clothing items sometimes find their way into the hands of less fortunate individuals through various charity organizations. Such was the case in 2005, when Cousins Entertainment, through its attorneys at the time, the Denver-based law firm, Schwartz &…
This week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” outlines how bands, specifically Colorado favorites Phish, battle the parking lot bootleggers who make money — some it defend as a way to keep following the band on tour, while others says it’s profit-driven — off the band’s likeness, name and image. Below are…
Dave Anver, the pony-tailed man in this video from Phish’s show at Dick’s on Friday, September 2, is the subject of this week’s Westword cover story, “Phish Story.” Anver says his job is “serving federal injunctions against people for selling counterfeit merchandise,” but his methods came into question after the…
The summer being over has not slowed the MC’s down in the slightest. Each week, we deliver the newest, freshest, and dopest tracks coming out of the hip-hop scene, and today is no different. Myrical Child capitalizes off of Floyd Mayweather’s winning streak with a new joint; Turner Jackson’s heart…
In a weird twist of unexpected collaborations, Rihanna just released her newest single, “We Found Love,” which features Calvin Harris on production, last week. Somehow it manages to sound both like a Rihanna song and a Calvin Harris song, and both in their own merit. Could Harris be the new…
Followers of world music in general and healing Sanskrit sounds in particular should be familiar with Deva Premal and Miten, but just in case: The duo has been performing together since they met in India in 1990 — at an ashram, fittingly — traveling the world and using their chanting…
Saturday marks the twentieth anniversary of the monumental Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. In 1991, the world was in a war-charged state of transition. Combat troops were preparing to be sent to the Gulf; the Soviets were in fear of the big chill and their food…
On September 24, 1991, A Tribe Called Quest released The Low End Theory, a beautiful fusion of hip-hop, jazz, and esoteric lyrics aimed at a new generation of hip-hop. Twenty years later, the album sounds just the same in 2011, as it did, frankly, whenever you heard it. Inspiring such…
Andy Cabic of Vetiver (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) started out in more rock-oriented bands when he was a college student in North Carolina in the 1990s, rubbing shoulders with some of the great underground bands of the era, as will be outlined below…
As a record, T. Rex’s Electric Warrior wears both the flickering flame of ageless cool and the glaring time stamp of what was 1971. Flagged as the entry point for glam rock, this second record for T. Rex (the sixth, technically speaking, as the band endured line-up changes and a…
The forthcoming twentieth anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind isn’t just an observance of the release of the 1991 record; it is a tangible marking of a shift in popular culture…
Never Shout Never used to be a band of one — namely, Christofer Drew, the teenage singer-songwriter who began relaying fantastic love songs to his MySpace masses in 2007. Now, at twenty years of age, the Joplin, Missouri, native has given his music a new life and brought in a…
Twenty years after its release, it’s no wonder that many still consider The Pod to be Ween’s most challenging album. Released on September 20, 1991, less than two years after the band’s freshman release, GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, the 23-track EP took the group’s flair for surreal sounds and heady humor…
Her name is Dev. She may roll like a G6, but her sex-drive shtick is totally hot. And the sea of hands touching her naked body doesn’t hurt either. Unlike other dance-pop starlets of today, Dev comes out of left field with a sound that’s more Euro club than Euro…
Although JT Nolan, who made his guitar debut at thirteen by playing Van Halen’s “Eruption,” and Paul Mulikin, who plays for the Boulder Philharmonic, have know each for a decade, they never imagined starting a hip-hop project until last year when they started passing ideas back and forth. The duo…
Michal Menert has parlayed his snowboarding mentality into a music career. It’s all about doing what you love because you love doing it, and Menert embodies that in every way, from the dedicated tours to the free distribution of his music. Tonight, Menert joins RJD2 and Doomtree at Red Rocks…
With his ground-breaking band Joy Division, Peter Hook (due this Monday, September 19, at the Bluebird Theater) perhaps accidentally created a style of playing bass that made the instrument not just a part of the rhythm section but also a carrier of the melody…
