The fourth annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Marathon is Sunday. While that’s probably news that gets your heart racing if you’re a jock, for us fat, lazy, non-athletic, beer-guzzling blokes, eyes glaze over, if you know what I mean. Worse, it starts at the crack of dawn — well, 7…
Andrew Young loves the Denver Broncos. A lot. No, seriously, he’s a fanatic. Literally. Broncos football is what this guy lives for. He says it saved his life and gave him purpose. After being hospitalized for marijuana-induced psychosis, his life lost much of its color, but orange and blue never…
KGNU has always been about variety. For nearly four decades, the Boulder-based community radio station has followed a fiercely eclectic on-air approach, offering listeners a daily mix of news, debate and, of course, music. That model is about to change, thanks to the web and a grant of about $19,000…
Happy Thursday! And, oh, what a happy Thursday it is indeed, friend. We’ve got a freshly recorded tune to bless you with today from the In the Whale dudes, an iconic tune by the Violent Femmes called “Add It Up,” a gritty little ditty you probably know better by its…
Throughout the history of jazz, groups have been driven by a single leader. But when the Bad Plus formed thirteen years ago, the trio made it a point to be more of a collective. The approach had worked well for drummer Dave King’s group Happy Apple, which he co-founded four…
The Fabulous Boogienauts came together in 1996, when founder Rocky Ramjett was finally able to realize his dream of creating a disco band. Rather than the Red Hot Chili Peppers brand of funk rock that was in vogue in certain circles at the time, Ramjett, who’d been relieved of his…
Based on the layered arena-rock peak of the title track of Gungor’s I Am Mountain, which opens the album, you’d think this was a radio-friendly pop effort. And while there certainly are some vibrant pop melodies to be found, the overall aesthetic is far more cinematic in scope. The arrangements…
The genre-blurring work of Fort Collins quintet Finnders & Youngberg is so seamless on the band’s newest release, I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry, that it’s easy to overlook the album’s impressive diversity of sound and structures. With Rich Zimmerman’s speedy mandolin and Aaron Youngberg’s equally…
There’s lots of variety to be found on On the Lam, the latest album from Fort Collins’s Escape Goats. The bluesy roots of opener “I’ll See You Again” recall the music of the Band — frontman Joe Schicke’s vocals are similar to Levon Helm’s — while the trio locks into…
On Genessier’s new album, Graces the Bone, a wash of noise and a dark, abstract melody in the music rush side by side and are often punctuated by menacing electronic beats. “Emlyn,” the album’s opening track, resembles late-’80s EBM with its panning low end, samples and distorted vocals. Think Twitch-period…
Update, 12:40, 10/16/13: Just received word that the D.R.I. show, originally scheduled for this Saturday, October 19, at the Gothic Theatre, has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 22, at the same venue. Tickets ($17.50) for the all-ages show are on sale now, and tickets for the original date will be…
This past summer, the Lordz of Finesse crew marked its twentieth anniversary at the Tivoli Turnhalle with a glorious day of hip-hop. Fienz and the other members of the Lordz crew were joined by a host of friends and family in celebrating the culture, community and history of hip-hop in…
The Fabulous Boogienauts came together in 1996, when founder Rocky Ramjett was finally able to realize his dream of creating a disco band. Rather than the Chili Peppers brand of funk rock that was in vogue in certain circles at the time, Ramjett, who’d been relieved of his bass-playing duties…
Music is a tough game. As a profession, it’s one of the riskiest. Stars rise and fall almost overnight, and a career of a few years often seems the best a musician can hope for. Some transcend this uncertainty to become lasting legends. Others have more complicated and challenging paths…
In the past few years, fuzz guitars have come conspicuously back to the forefront, and they’re being played by some female-led outfits that sound like they came straight out of the mid-’90s, when Juliana Hatfield, Liz Phair and Courtney Love were queens of the Sam Goody racks. Mixing jangly and…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
Holy shit! Brace yourself, as this might just be one of the coolest show announcements we’ve ever heard. Ever. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them, Murder by Death is playing a show at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park (yes,…
Although lot of rap these days is riddled with violence, misogyny and profanity, there are still plenty of clean rhymes out there to be rocked by the entire family, should you be so inclined. And it all comes worry-free with regard to any ill effects it might have on impressionable…
Justin Henry has a pair of Rottweilers, ages seven and eight. He can’t take them everywhere, but he’d certainly like to. Specifically, a place where he could drink and have the dogs with him. With that in mind, last April he took over the former Priddy Auction Galleries space at…
Panic! at the Disco’s Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die tour hits the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, January 18. Tickets ($29.95) go on sale this Friday, October 18, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what other shows are on sale this week, what songs are being played…
FIONA APPLE @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 10/11/13 With no opening act, Fiona Apple came on stage stomping as part of the percussion. It was like she wasn’t even thinking about playing in front of a big crowd. And indeed, joined by Blake Mills, drummer Barbara Gruska and upright bassist…
From Facebook to Vine, social media is continuing to change the way we experience music. At the 2013 Westword Web Awards, we’ll celebrate the bands, fans and venues that are the best at utilizing the various platforms — and we’d like to get your help finding them. There are two…
