For nearly thirty years, Mickey Melchiondo’s been making music under a moniker. As Dean Ween, one of the eponymous creative forces behind Ween, Melchiondo’s carved out an ambitious musical niche since founding the band with Aaron Freeman – aka Gene Ween – in the 1980s. In advance of Ween’s Halloween…
BrikAbrak, the vinyl-slinging, Al Green- and Old Dirty Bastard-mixing DJ, can most often be found rocking a party to high heaven or backing up one of Denver’s premier MCs on any given night. On the daily, though, you can find him at 3237 East Colfax Avenue, watching dough rise and…
Considered one of the “big four” of the thrash metal era, Anthrax (see our preview here) put New York on the map with its inventive take on infusing metal with a punk rock spirit. When singer Joey Belladonna joined in time to record 1985’s Spreading the Disease, that band had…
Last year, PS I Love You, from the university town of Kingston, Ontario, made some waves beyond its immediate environs with the release of a split 7-inch with Diamond Rings. The energy and spiky sound of the duo’s songs are at times reminiscent of Hüsker Dü and Pavement. Singer and…
Chrissie Hynde is not one to romanticize the past, but she’s done plenty that almost anyone else who has done even a tenth as much would be right to feel proud about. In the mid-’70s, Hynde moved from her home town of Akron, Ohio, to London, England, and landed in…
This past Saturday night at Beta, during Red Bull’s Thre3Style competition, celebrity judges ?uestlove and Jazzy Jeff closed the night out with a live drum and DJ peformance. Before the competition kicked off and before ?uestlove and Jazzy Jeff set the place on fire with their impressive finale, the pair…
PHISH – NIGHT TWO 10.11.10 | 1STBANK Center Settling in for night two of three at the 1STBANK Center, the crowd and the members of the band seemed to be making themselves at home. Anastasio flashed a smile before sending the opening chords of “Runaway Jim” bouncing around the arena…
PHISH – NIGHT ONE 10.10.10 | 1STBANK Center One night after the Fourmile Canyon Benefit warmed up the 1STBANK Center, Phish turned the arena into a steam bath. The band took the stage just after eight, and aside from two suites that were going unused, the 6,500 seat arena was…
FOURMILE CANYON REVIVAL BENEFIT Yonder Mountain String Band • Big Head Todd and the Monsters The String Cheese Incident • Leftover Salmon • members of Phish 10.09.10 | 1STBANK CENTER The Fourmile Canyon Revival Benefit started its quick life as a small, Thursday night production at the Boulder Theater and…
This Saturday night at 1STBANK Center, four of Colorado’s biggest bands — Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon, Big Head Todd and the Monsters and the String Cheese Incident — take the stage, along with members of Phish, to raise money for victims of the Fourmile Canyon fire last month…
Lenny Lenn has an opinion, and he’s not afraid to express it. He frequently makes big, bold statements about seemingly everything. One moment he’s speaking in a quiet, humble tone about his technical training in post-production, for instance, and the next he’s comparing himself to Andre 3000 with no shame…
These days, the legendary folk-rock band Fairport Convention isn’t as widely known as it once was, and yet Richard Thompson, the band’s most storied guitarist, is often cited as an influence by a wide range of musicians and frequently included on the short list of the most talented living guitar…
Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) has been hyper-productive lately, releasing three albums as part of a trilogy in just over a year. He says each album (last year’s Hombre Lobo and this year’s End Times and Tomorrow Morning) are each about a distinct human emotion — desire, loss…
Coming from roughly the same Montreal scene that produced bands like the Dears, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Stars, the Besnard Lakes recorded with members of those bands on its Polaris Prize-nominated 2007 album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse, at singer/guitarist Jace Lasek’s Breakglass Studios. Starting out as…
The Parlotones is not a household name in North America, but it is one of the best known bands out of South Africa. With hit singles in its native country, the Parlotones started to make waves outside South Africa with its second album, 2005’s Radiocontrolledrobot. Hailing from Johanesburg, the Parlotones…
The big news here is that the Heyday have a new EP out and will be playing a CD-release show on October 1st at the Gothic. But the Denver foursome has a lot more going on than just that. In this extended Q&A, bassist and vocalist Peter Wynn goes more…
When Bruno Mars was picked up for suspicion of cocaine possession earlier this month in Las Vegas — or “Busted for Booger Sugar” as TMZ reported, gross — it wasn’t the arrest that was so engaging, it was the mug shot. He looked downright giddy in his photo, almost creepy…
After Sleep broke up in 1998, singer/guitarist Matt Pike formed High on Fire with drummer Des Kensel and bassist George Rice. Initially evoking more of a doom rock sound, High on Fire evolved into being more of a straight ahead metal band without either dumbing down the music or taming…
Years ago in an interview with BET, rapper Jadakiss was asked the age old question: Why do you rap? He answered, with shrewd honesty, for the money. Innerstate Ike (aka Michael Hope) works under that same premise. A Coloradan to the core, Ike makes music specifically for the streets and…
Jordan Burns, the drummer for Strung Out, is one of the most influential modern-rock drummers ever. His timekeeping skills have been recognized by magazines such as Modern Drummer, and most recently DRUM! magazine, which tapped him as best punk drummer. The bionically gifted Burns has carved out an enviable career…
Many people heard the Cult after its breakthrough album, Love, which contained the classic single “She Sells Sanctuary,” was released in 1985. But the Cult increasingly became a worldwide phenomenon with its following two albums, Electric and Sonic Temple…
Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino met as students at Pratt Institute, and when they started playing music together after becoming immersed in the New York DIY music scene, they quickly became known for their infectiously energetic live shows…
