While we’re not exactly the type of folks to ever wish ill will on anyone, here’s hoping that karma is indeed a boomerang this time around and that the presumed lowlifes who burglarized our friends in Ghost Buffalo burn in hell — or at least get a flat tire or…
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), an act profiled in these pages back in December and who just performed at Artopia, our gigundous annual arts celebration, over the weekend, earned the distinction this week of having its latest platter, the Great Collapse, listed as the tenth most added disc…
“I believe I’ve transcended,” Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during the second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously mercurial, 63-year-old Irish singer-songwriter seemed…
Feeling a little uninspired? Need a midweek pick-me-up? Craving your fix of electro-disco-hip-hop-emo-crunk? Sure, we all are. Luckily for all of us — especially those who live in the Denver area — there’s the Band Formerly Known as Prince…
This past weekend, I found myself at a Grand Junction Borders book store, which was selling off its remaining stock of 2009 calendars for $1 apiece. And smack in the middle of the stacks was an item that seemed time-capsule ready — a sixteen-month calendar featuring pop sensation turned tabloid…
Beirut’s new double EP March of the Zapotec grabbed the top at Wax Trax Records last week while the Dark Was the Night compilation, which features Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Bon Iver and more, came in second. Local bands Git Some and Eyes & Ears also made the…
The February 26 Westword profile on the Photo Atlas only scratched the surface of our interview with singer Alan Andrews Jr., guitarist Bill Threlkeld III, bassist Mark Hawkins and drummer Nick Miles. At the house where the band practices and where Hawkins and Miles live, they spoke at length about…
Leonard Cohen’s concert at New York’s Beacon Theatre last Thursday marked his first American performance in fifteen years. As he took the stage, AEG Live announced a run of North American dates that, as of now, concludes with a stop at Red Rocks on Tuesday, June 2. It was one…
You know those scenes in all those classic ’80s movies like Pretty In Pink or Better Off Dead, where some nameless outfit performs at a school dance while the young protagonists work out whatever assorted teen angst they happen to be grappling with at the time? As we remember it,…
Marc Grabowski, the erstwhile frontman of Corruption, has just been named as the final member of Demonica, the thrash-metal outfit founded by Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann. After playing with Corruption for the better part of the past two decades, Grabowski had his sights set on retiring from music altogether…
The Yerkish guys have always had a knack for making some of the best posters in town, and this latest flier touting thier March 7 show at the D-Note proves no exception. You’ll notice the re-emergence of the monkey imagery. For a while there, with the release of the new…
All right, we know what you’re thinking: Ugh! Another mash-up, right? Wait a sec. This one — assembled by the furiously talented pop tart known as Tyler Ward — is different. How so, you ask? Well, for one, he played all the instruments and sang all of the parts. When…
Rapper T.I.’s Grammy-nominated album Paper Trail knocked Bobby Valentino off the number one spot on Independent Records top seller list for the week ending February 22. The Fray moved up to the number two spot from number four, while Lil Wayne and Ludacris still remain in the top ten. See…
Morrissey’s new album, Years of Refusal, released last week on Decca, grabbed the top spot on Twist & Shout’s top seller list for the week ending February 22. Andrew Bird, M. Ward and Beirut also performed strong while the Fray’s latest album dropped from its number one position for the…
Due to illness, tonight’s Airborne Toxic Event show at the Bluebird Theater will be postponed until Wednesday, April 15 at the Ogden Theatre. All tickets to the Bluebird show will be honored and refunds are available at point of purchase. Henry Clay People, who were supposed to open the show…
DeVotchKa just got tapped to open for David Byrne, who visits Red Rocks Saturday, June 20 as part of his tour playing songs from his collaborations with Brian Eno, including tunes from Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Byrne played a stellar show…
The lovable pop-punk scamps in Animo are debuting the first of a dozen epsiodes documenting the recording of their upcoming album tomorrow on the band’s MySpace page. The band promises “a closer look at our writing process, how and where we record, playing and prepping our instruments, and all the…
Here’s this week’s playlists from the other local-centric music shows around your radio dial, including Radio 1190’s long running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Local’s Only and the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is rebroadcast all over Colorado. If there are any others you’d like to see us track, let…
Two Cow Garage w/Colder Than Fargo, Raleigh, Six Months to Live and Jon SnodgrassFriday, February 20th, 20093 Kings Tavern, DenverBetter Than: A five band bill has any right to be.Colder Than Fargo opened this show on a snowy, icy night with its brand of warm, sentimentally-tinged music, part Americana, part…
All right, so we’ve reached the end of another work week in the Mile High City. While we can no longer brag about having the best selling band in the country, from what we can tell, Denver music is still on the minds and in the ears of at least…
If you love a cappella versions of funny, smart-guy piano tunes (and really, who doesn’t?), the world is smiling on you today. Ben Folds is releasing an album of covers of his tunes by college a capella groups — I know, what took so long, right? It’s due to hit…
Last month, we mentioned Robert Schneider’s new project Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine. And earlier this week, Schneider, the ever prolific Apples in Stereo mastermind, released his debut under the Robbert Bobbert moniker, and already the whimsical, kid-centric project seems to be gaining truckloads of momentum. We just learned…
