In the print edition of this week’s paper, I saluted the Class of 2009, artists that I think are worth keeping an eye on in the coming year. After the jump, as promised, here’s a few more picks. This list has become something of an annual tradition around here. So…
As promised in last Friday’s Mile High Makeout, I just had the opportunity to crash a practice session by the newly reconstituted Curious Yellow. Though founder Adam Lancaster has lost count of how many lineups have flown beneath this flag, I think it’s safe to say that this particular version…
Les Claypool visits the Fillmore March 14 as part of the Oddity Faire Tour with the Yard Dogs Road Show, Saul Williams and Secret Chiefs 3. After a slow holiday season of show announcements, things are starting to pick back up with a lot of spring concerts announced this week…
Local DJ/producer Kostas K is climbing up the charts at Beatport with his new release “Change We Can.” It’s an Obama and MLK sampling monster of a swooshy, chugging progressive track that’s currently at number 12 on Beatport’s charts. Pretty impressive for our scene, which is awesome but hasn’t had…
Neil Young’s live recording from 1968, when he was just 22, tops Twist & Shout’s bestsellers list, with a strong showing from local acts Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) and Paper Bird. Also good to see Tom Waits in the Top 10 with an album he released just…
Aaron Thackeray hit up the grand-opening party of Club 303 (2301 Blake), and came home with plenty of photos. See them at westword.com/slideshow…
Buzzard and FanaticsFriday, January 9th, 2009Carioca Café, DenverBetter Than: A show where everyone is a chin-stroking tourist.When I finally got to the venue, Buzzard, which was playing its farewell show, had already started its set. I’d unfortunately missed Clusterfux, but the crowd wasn’t crazy yet, so I made my way to the…
I just received an email from Cowboy Curse’s Benjamin Bergstrand, hipping me to an exciting showcase of frontmen-turned-singer-songwriters, coming up at the Meadowlark. Jonathan Bitz and the gang at the ‘Lark have always gone out of their way to spotlight the talent of local sad bastards, but this one is…
Update (01/12/09): Stream Nathaniel Rateliff’s appearance after the jump.Gonna go out on a limb here and say that by the time most of you read this, Nathaniel Rateliff will have already wrapped his appearance on Matt Pinfield’s morning show on New York’s WRXP, the station otherwise known as101.9 RXP, the New…
Oh, man, gang! Lock up your liquor cabinets. We just caught wind that the combustible former members of the Blackout Pact will be reconvening next week for a show — their first since splitting up over two years ago. While we knew the guys were getting back together to record…
Update (01/12/09): Links to Friday night’s show at the Meadowlark added.While we’re going to be unveiling our own section of live local recordings on the blog shortly, in the meantime, we stumbled onto a great blog called the Flat Response. Some of you are already no doubt well aware of its…
This was very active week for music in the three-oh-three. Hell of a lot of stuff going on. Put it this way, we feel like we earned that cold one we’re about crack by blogging our backsides off. No really. I have no ass. Ask around. I’m all front, no…
Joanna Krupa, voted the sexiest top model in the world, hosts Club 303 grand opening Jan. 10. On Wednesday night, a bulletin from Club 303’s MySpace page was sent out stating that the club was closing. Turns out, that was the work of the club’s former marketing director, who was…
Immortal Dominion, the monster metal unit out of Fort Collins, has recently completed tracking its brand new album. After spending five weeks in the studio with renown producer Sterling Winfield, who’s overseen albums by Mercyful Fate, Pantera and Hell Yeah, among others, the platter has been shipped off to Airshow…
I was there, and you can hear it In case you’re not familiar with it, archive.org is a giant Internet archive of all kinds of stuff — old websites, tons of free audio and video, etc. It’s one of my favorite Internet sites, largely because of the absolutely ginormous collections…
Nothing I could possibly say would add to this video in the slightest, so let me just say thanks to fellow Westword scribe A.H. Goldstein for putting this horrible thing on my MySpace page, inspiring me to share it with you all. Push play and bask in the incredible power…
If you were planning on pounding beers with Kamtin Mohanger, the dance floor wrecking machine otherwise known as the one-half of the Chain Gang of 1974, at shows this summer, you better pack a bag. Kam’s going to be on tour — again. With 3OH!3. Hold on. Not like last…
Everything is still coming up roses these days for A Shoreline Dream. After roaring out of the gate in 2006, wisely aligning itself with Paste and Filter Magazines and Urban Outfitters, to then earning a nod in Urb’s Next 100 issue last spring and collaborating with Ulrich Schnauss, the act has…
This just in: TV is the new radio. Another area artist has had a song placed on One Tree Hill, the CW network’s benchmark teen serial. When Tim Hanauer’s new tune, “Miss,” airs this Monday, January 12, he will join a growing list of local luminaries whose songs have already…
I was very excited to receive an instant message yesterday from Adam Lancaster, of Morning After Records, announcing his return to live performance. Adherents of the Denver music scene will remember that Lancaster fronted his own loud, energetic, melodic rock band, Curious Yellow, until about four years ago, when other life priorities — like…
Although it hasn’t been said as much outright, it sounds like Spools of Dark Thread’s days may be numbered. Chris Thomas, Spools’ furiously talented frontman (far right), revealed this afternoon that he and his mates are discussing whether or not the band will continue. Let’s hope so. Spools has produced…
In between playing a flurry of dates all across the state, the Indulgers have found time to record a brand new album. In advance of the new disc’s release, the shamrockers have made the title track from the new album, Whiskey Tonight, available for free download. Have at it, mates…
