This Saturday is 4/20. You know what that means? Uh-huh. Time for all of us Coloradoans to celebrate our favorite annual holiday. That’s right. Record Store Day! Record Store Day has come a long way since it kicked off in 2007. The third Saturday of April has morphed into an…
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL |4/14/13 In a fairly gutsy move, two songs into its set, Suicidal Tendencies performed its classic song, “Institutionalized,” a tune of paranoia, societal oppression and mental illness. It was a different from the version on the album. The music was a little more jazzed…
Dyalekt, an MC from the Denver hip-hop collective known as the Diamond Boiz, has decided after a long period of contemplation to officially change his name to his longtime nickname Jay Class. The decision comes more than a year after his appropriately titled album, Death By Ego, and precedes his…
The Daft Punk dudes may be generating all the headlines right now for its forthcoming album, Random Access Memories, on which they flip the script by incorporating analogue instruments and production techniques, but they’re not the only ones going more organic. Pretty Lights is doing pretty much exactly the same…
Update: The Ghostface Killah show at the Summit was canceled. Top ten has been updated with the addition of Black Thought at Club 64 with Immortal Technique. THE DEAR HUNTER @ MARQUIS THEATER | TUES, 4/16/13 The Dear Hunter was a side project launched in 2005 while Casey Crescenzo was…
Timothy NorrisThis look could catch on one day, right? We all know Coachella is a textbook study on the desire to wear things that no human should. That typically applies to the crowd, which comes decked out in ill-fitting, barely-there outfits, wearing spirit hoodies and every piece of tight neon…
Marco Torres As we mentioned earlier, the bros are freaking bringing it this year! Sure, we all know about the women who wear just about nothing, but the guys are getting exceedingly creative, particularly when it comes to their funny T-shirts. So it’s time to give the men some props…
Oliver ScherilloNew Order NEW ORDER @ COACHELLA | 4/13/13 While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out — they instead got R. Kelly — a smaller but perhaps-more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits…
); return false”>It may be a bit early, but Coachella 2013 seems to be the Year of the Bro. For the ladies, it’s business as usual, but the bros are really bringing it, from humorous neon t-shirts to costumes to all-around chiseledness. But there’s more to being a bro than…
Many in music world are reeling this morning over the loss of Chi Cheng, the masterful Deftones bassist who passed away yesterday at the age of 42. Word of Cheng’s passing was posted on OneLoveForChi.com, a site that was established shortly after a 2008 car accident that left him comatose…
Is Daft Punk playing Coachella? This is the burning question of the festival, being asked everywhere from the campsites to the press tent. Even though the French dance-punk duo officially squashed the rumors, not many people seem to be buying it. At least, not since last night. Just before Yeah…
Timothy NorrisThis dude’s actually drug free. But he still knows his rights Hate to say it, but some of you at Coachella (which starts today!) are going to be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. Cameron…
It’s been roughly two and half years since James McElwee raised more than $5000 on Kickstarter to make a documentary on Bob Ferbrache, and the film still isn’t finished. After raising the money, McElwee started interviewing members of bands like Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Tarantella, Warlock Pinchers and Ian Cooke,…
Hey, Ms. Slack, I couldn’t help but notice the mini shit storm you caused yesterday at the White House press briefing when you misunderstood and misrepresented the lyrics of Jay-Z’s “Open Letter.” Real talk, that shit ain’t cool. Have we learned nothing from the Nicki Minaj Romney-gate last summer? See…
Next week, stoners across the Front Range will converge upon Red Rocks to celebrate 4/20. Two acts will be on hand to help raise a toast roast commemorating the occasion, and you can hardly find a pair of more fitting acts, the hemp-hop icons of Cypress Hill and their SoCal-based…
GREEN VELVET @ BETA | SAT, 4/13/13 Curtis Alan Jones created the Green Velvet persona to head up his deejaying gigs, and in the early 1990s, his productions (including “The Stalker” and “Preacher Man”) gained the attention of dance fiends all over the world. The Chicago house legend has been…
CHUCK RAGAN @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | SAT, 4/13/13 Chuck Ragan first made his mark as the frontman of Hot Water Music, one of the more highly influential punk acts to emerge in the ’90s. Fueled by youthful exuberance and inspired in part by the music that surrounding the skateboarding…
Nerds of a feather flock together, as they say. Brian Ibbott and jazz composer Andrew Allen have once again proven this adage to be entirely true. The two have paired up to produce another passion project that is sure to appeal to the dorkiest dweebs you know, Free Play, an…
The East Coast, particularly New York, is the mecca of hip-hop. It is it’s birthplace and still the most reliable source for pure, uncut, unadulterated rap music. Chronicling the great MCs from the region would result in a list of hundreds. Ranking the top ten proves somewhat limiting, but it’s…
When guitarists Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O’Meara bought a $100 guitar, they came up with the idea for their $100 Guitar Project: They hit up a dozens of their guitar-playing friends and asked them to write and record a short piece of a song. They each had a week to…
If you’re one of the fortunate ones who’s going to Coachella this weekend, feel free to go ahead and skip to the end of this post, where you’ll find the full lineup and schedule. If, however, you’re a flat broke music lover who’ll be attending Couchella, as some clever dude…
Founded in 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner, Death helped to codify the aesthetic of death metal alongside early pioneers like Possessed. Schuldiner was sixteen when the band formed and twenty by the time the outfit’s debut album, 1987’s Scream Bloody Gore, was released. The sonic brutality of the first two Death…
