Music

Ah, yes, Sunday morning coming down. I believe that’s how Kris Kristofferson once described the tail end of an epic bender, what, with no way to hold his head in a way that didn’t ache and what have you. Hopefully you didn’t go too hard the past two days; there’s…

CHURCHILL @ OGDEN THEATRE | 3/8/13 Outside of its stint at KTCL’s Not So Silent Night back in December, Churchill has kept a rather low profile locally since its pair of headlining shows at the Bluebird back in September. That was right after the band had been picked up by…

For those of you lucky enough to be up in the mountains this afternoon for day two of the SnowBall Music Festival gets ready to get underway, you’re probably going over the lineup and hatching a plan for what you’re going to see today. If so, we’ve got you covered…

GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS @ WALNUT ROOM |3/8/13 Despite Victoria Cecilia’s illness, Gliss managed to put in a solid performance at Gathering of the Clouds last night at the Walnut Room. If she indeed needed the cough drop she had half-jokingly solicited from the audience, you couldn’t tell from her…

FUR COAT @ NORAD | SAT, 3/9/13 Fur Coat hit the international scene hard last year after Damian Lazarus signed the act to his illustrious Crosstown Rebels label. Riding that wave of exposure, tracks like “Fall’s Out,” “You and I” and “Space Ballad” garnered hundreds of thousands of spins on…

ALABAMA SHAKES @ OGDEN THEATRE | SAT, 3/9/13 A number of bands are returning to a Southern-rock sound these days, but much of the music they’re making is too derivative to be interesting. Alabama Shakes, fresh off a date warming up for Neil Young, bucks that trend. The group’s members,…

The third edition of the annual SnowBall Music Festival kicks off tomorrow night in Winter Park. Seasoned veterans that we are, we’ve put together an exhaustive survival guide for you to ensure that you have the best possible experience and don’t become a human popsicle. We know what to bring,…

Almost a decade ago now, Matson Jones was a humble band from Fort Collins with no real illusions about commercial success. But just like that, it seems, the band went from playing small shows to drawing hundreds of people. “It was insane,” recalls Martina Grbac, who fronted the act. “It…

Dragondeer, the long-running side project of Swayback frontman Eric Halborg, has always been something you got to see once in a great while — like if you happened to be at the JINXED! jam night at Rockbar a few years back. In contrast to the Swayback, Dragondeer (due at the…

An icon of independent hip-hop for over a decade, Murs (aka Nick Carter) returns to the Mile High City for a show this weekend at the Fox with fellow West Coast natives Fashawn and Black Cloud Music. The fearless leader of the Road to Paid Dues Tour, Murs is traveling…

Fur Coat hit the international scene hard last year after Damian Lazarus signed the act to his illustrious Crosstown Rebels label. Riding that wave of exposure, tracks like “Fall’s Out,” “You and I” and “Space Ballad” garnered hundreds of thousands of spins on dance floors around the globe. Heavy-hitting, soul-loving…

Thao Nguyen started writing songs with her acoustic guitar in middle school in Falls Church, Virginia. While attending William & Mary, she met her current bandmate, Adam Thompson, at a coffee-shop show in Richmond. And while that may be a bit of a cliché, Nguyen’s songs are not the tentative…

If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains for the aptly named SnowBall Music Festival in Winter…

Bobby Hecksher has been the central figure of this band since its founding, in 1999. In 1994 Hecksher played bass on Beck’s Stereopathetic Soulmanure, and he also contributed to the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 2001 album, Bravery, Repetition and Noise. But in his own work with the Warlocks, he’s explored a…