It’s less than a week now until Christmas. Did you get all your shopping done yet? Ah, don’t beat yourself up. Neither have we. If you’re like us, you’ve probably got some people on your list who are just impossible to buy for, yes? If so, here’s an idea, one…
From seeing the band’s old-school Orange-evoking emblem on their shirts, we had already suspected that the Speedwolf dudes were big Broncos fans when we reached out to frontman Reed Bruemmer last season for tips to avoid screaming ourselves hoarse for the, uh, horse. Those suspicions were instantly confirmed when he…
AIR DUBAI @ OGDEN THEATRE | 12/15/12 Within minutes of Air Dubai taking the stage at the Ogden this past Saturday, it became apparent that this Colorado band is beloved by its familiar fans. Maybe it was because some of them used to live down the street, or maybe it…
On Friday, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic was sitting a hotel room in San Francisco, struggling with some powerful emotions. It was anger at first, anger at the inexplicable deaths of more than two dozen first graders and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut. But like the rest of us, that fury…
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA @ FOX THEATRE | 12/15/12 “Still, nothing sounds like that,” Dweezil Zappa marveled after his band had made its way through “Who Are the Brain Police?” the feedback-laden, surreal anthem from the 1966 Mothers of Invention album Freak Out!. Dweezil and the rest of the Zappa Plays…
T.I. / KS-107.5 JINGLE JAM @ 1STBANK CENTER | 12/15/12 After a bit of a wait, the lights dimmed. Screams of delight filled the 1STBANK Center, fighting for preeminence in a veritable bass-made earthquake. A booming, overpowering voice delivered a fiery sermon as the man of the evening finally took…
DIVINE FITS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER |12/14/12 Picking a high point of a show as thoroughly enjoyable as this one would be tough, but when Alex Fischel started playing the synth intro to “You Got Lucky” by Tom Petty — which could have gone either way, kitschy or funny — and…
It feels like we say this every week, and we probably do, but we’re continually astounded by how good we have it here music-wise. If you haven’t noticed, this time of year, the number of touring acts decreases dramatically, generally in line with the music industry itself, which pretty much…
For the past few weeks or so, Air Dubai has been teasing a big announcement. We had a pretty good idea what it was (for as big as it is, Denver’s still a pretty small town when it comes to some things, especially juicy gossip), and last night at KTCL’s…
Hallelujah! It’s finally Friday. Feel like cutting loose this weekend, having a few cocktails and then cutting a rug like nobody’s watching? You’ve come to exactly the right place. As with every week around this time, we’ve put together a full rundown of the best EDM options available to you,…
On the surface, Chimney Choir is an Americana band with the usual roots in folk, some country and the like. But anyone who has seen the band live can tell you, there’s a lot more going on in the band’s songwriting and ideas for music than merely evoking an old-timey…
FUN. @ 1STBANK CENTER | 12/13/12 If you came to KTCL’s Not So Silent Night at the 1STBANK Center last night expecting to hear “We Are Young”-like songs for the duration of fun.’s almost two-hour set, you were disappointed. That’s not to say that the rest of the songs paled…
Once again it’s on. The finalists have been announced for KTCL’s annual Hometown for the Holidays promotion. Although some are understandably loathsome of such battle of the bands types of gigs, Hometown for the Holidays is a great gift to the scene. Is there any other city in the country…
We’ve got another fresh batch of local hip-hop for you this week, including a new cut from Innerstate Ike, Esi Juey and Nyke Nitti that pays homage to the beloved boys of winter in the orange and blue. If you have’t heard it yet on KS-107.5, which has been showing…
As much of a stronghold as our town is for EDM, Denver is also a hotbed of hip-hop. Although we’ve always held true to the assertion, and such a declaration would seem perfectly reasonable to even casual observers, the point was never driven home more definitively than when we took…
In the wake of the generation defining, pop music altering, astronomically hyped wonder that was Nirvana’s Nevermind, Kurt Cobain would spend the next two and a half years of his life trying to remind people what his band was actually all about (while simultaneously trying to figure that out himself)…
Diving Fits formed when Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner formerly of Wolf Parade got together with their friend Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks. The music that came out of that union was a kind of power pop infused with a strong electronic undercurrent, like something that could…
Brent Loveday had a moment of clarity on the road. It came one night in Oklahoma City, while he and his band, Reno Divorce, were on tour, and it happened somewhere in the midst of kicking out the side window of their new tour van, then horsing around and hanging…
Most people these days probably know Nathaniel Rateliff best as an acclaimed singer-songwriter with an album out on Rounder Records who’s toured and shared bills locally with Mumford & Sons. Before he embarked on a successful solo career, though, he used to front a band called Born in the Flood,…
Even though Divine Fits got started earlier this year, its members are hardly unknown figures: Britt Daniel started the experimental pop group Spoon in Austin in the early ’90s; Dan Boeckner played guitar and sang in the like-minded and popular Wolf Parade; and drummer Sam Brown came to this project…
The word “Americana” comes up a lot in Of Monsters and Men’s press coverage, despite the fact the band hails from Iceland. Apparently, “Icelandicana” is not a thing. In any case, that lazily applied label is shorthand for the kind of indie-pop-meets-folk sound that’s been all the rage over the…
Bob Weir is a restless soul. Already fully engaged with Furthur (his latest and perhaps most true-to-form post-Grateful Dead venture), his solo band Ratdog, assorted musical projects at his TRI Studios, activity in various political and environmental organizations, and the occasional mountain-bike foray, this founding member of the Dead comes…
