After a seventeen-year run, Austin’s Asylum Street Spankers have embarked on their final run, which they’ve affectionately dubbed the “Spanks for Everything” tour. During its storied history, jazz-folk act has gone through some fifty members and now tours as a seven-piece. In advance of the band’s three-day run in Colorado…
American Idol reunited JLo and Diddy last night, when the latter came to perform on the show now judged by the former. In case you need a refresher, the two had a very public, very volatile relationship ten years ago…
Adele, the soulful British pop diva who’s had this coming for a long time, has the first blockbuster album of 2011 with 21. She’s atop the Billboard charts this week, having sold 350,000-odd copies. This is a welcome development no matter how you look at it: Take a tour through…
TREY ANASTASIO BAND 03.01.11 |Ogden Theatre Whenever I think of Phish singer/guitarist/composer Trey Anastasio’s most powerful solo work, my mind always turns to “orchestral funk” — the term Anthony Keidis used to describe the Talking Heads’ large-band era (with Adrian Belew on searing lead guitar) when inducting the art-rock legends…
It’s been a big week in the inexcusable career resurgence of Chris Brown. Rihanna allowed her restraining order against him to be eased. Apparently someone sitting on some unreleased photos of the damage Brown inflicted on his former girlfriend thought this would be a good opportunity to share them; they…
Alex B is no stranger to the electronic scene. The producer has been making music since he was nineteen. A member of Pnuma, he first started making music on his own as Paper Diamond. That project, which is signed to the Pretty Lights Music imprint, became increasingly popular without him…
Linkin Park does not need an introduction. From Hybrid Theory to their newest album, A Thousand Suns, LP has continued to progress and grow as a band, giving its eager fan-base something to look forward to with every new release. In advance of the band’s show this Saturday, February 26…
A decade after starting the Jayhawks with Gary Louris, Mark Olson left the band in 1995, the same year Tomorrow the Green Grass was released, to look after his then-wife Victoria Williams, after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. While the Jayhawks continued to tour without him until the band…
Emerging from the no-wave scene in the New York underground in 1982, Swans became known for music that was forbidding, terrifyingly intense in its execution and lyrically uncompromising in its depiction of the darker side of human existence. Although an influence on industrial music and much of post-punk thereafter, Swans…
Yeah, the guys in Smith Westerns (due tonight at the Larimer Lounge) are young, and their attitude on stage and in interviews seems to be filled to the brim with youthful exuberance with a touch of bravado. But none of that would matter if this Chicago band didn’t write fundamentally…
Kevin Kain (aka Kevin Henderson) can typically be found posted up in the VIP area of the hottest clubs on any given weekend night, and occasionally a Thursday appearance at Club Vinyl’s Reggae on the Roof…
Denver has made quite the name for itself as one of the holy lands for American turntablism. After all, almost half of the national DMC competitors were from Colorado this year. While none of the locals placed in the competition this time around, scratch culture continues to thrive in the…
FOE, a staple in the hip-hop scene in Denver is working on a new campaign to not only extend his brand as FOE (which stands for “Father of Enemies,” BTW), the MC is out for unabashed truth. Always unafraid to say what’s on his mind, FOE says the “Fuck FOE”…
Marie Litton has always had such a lovely voice. It was a sad day for all of us when Ghost Buffalo broke up a few years ago. Inevitably, though, as is typical with these sorts of things, we ended up with two great bands as a result of the split:…
A year before Trombone Shorty (aka Troy Andrews) scored a number jazz album with his major label debut, he was already sparring with lions. Just check out the eight-minute YouTube clip of the young Shorty trading trumpet licks with Wynton Marsalis at the House of the Blues in New Orleans…
The most derided of the major award shows came and went last night in a flash of epileptic strobe lights, fake fire effects and surprise winners. We’re referring, of course, to The Black Keys’ win for Best Package. Oh, and some Canadian band on an indie label won Album of…
Churchill is releasing its debut full-length, Happy/Sad, tonight at the hi-dive. It’s been a long time coming — the band has been around for more than two years, and this album has been in the works for half that time. The album, partially funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, is…
Lady Gaga’s back with “Born This Way,” which was officially released to much fanfare on her web site. It’s a ridiculous, home-run swing of a pop anthem, replete with about a thousand keyboard tracks and a full-choir chorus that gets an a capella breakdown the last time through. Gaga, somewhat…
On this eve of the release of Justin Bieber’s movie, Never Say Never, I felt it would be an appropriate time to discuss how I feel about him. Simply put, Justin Bieber makes me uncomfortable. This is not a dislike of him as a person or a hatefulness toward his…
With DeVotchka’s forthcoming album, 100 Lovers, the Denver quartet has released possibly it’s finest album to date. Frontman Nick Urata says they spent about a year making the album in Tuscon, and let the songs cook a bit longer and ferment than on previous efforts, which might explain why the…
Nyke Nitti (aka Nate Johnson and formerly known as Nyke Loc) is a veteran in the Denver hip-hop game. With over eight years of rap lore under his belt, he has watched the rise of some of the best who have helped shape the city’s scene. From Innerstate Ike, whom…
The 53rd ceremony to determine the absolute best music! It’s Grammy time, people, when we all leap off our couches to buy that Lady Gaga album from 2009 once we all realize it’s the best album of 2010. But seriously: the only people paying attention to who wins are people…
