With the alleged end of the world approaching, it seems apropos to throw an End of Time party with a headliner such as Traversable Wormhole. The artist is probably better known as Adam X (the brother of Frankie Bones, one of the instigators of the infamous Sonic Groove Records shop)…
By Christian McPhate For years, hidden messages have allegedly been embedded in music, cryptic musings that could only be heard by playing the vinyl backwards. Backwards masking, as this phenomenon became known, centered on songs by bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, acts that supposedly implanted subliminal satanic messages…
A few days ago, Angus T. Jones had some sort of crisis of conscious. In a video for a church in Alabama, he urged people to stop watching his show, Two and a Half Men. “Please stop filling your head with filth,” he implored. “People say it’s just entertainment. The…
PAUL BANKS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER |11/27/12 When Paul Banks and his band walked on stage last night, with no preamble of any kind, the four musicians took up their positions, and as drifts of fog floated gently by, the guitar sparkle and low-end bass slides introduced one of Banks’s best…
ASKING ALEXANDRIA @ OGDEN THEATRE | 11/27/12 Last night at the Ogden Theatre, the fist-pumping, black-shirted, skinny jeans-wearing contingent was out in full force. As the England-via-Dubai outfit Asking Alexandria performed for a capacity crowd, mosh pits formed and quickly disappeared. Kids were throwing devil horns in the pit or…
Although an official announcement from Arts & Venues Denver is due later this week, motorists and pedestrians passing on Speer Boulevard right now have no doubt noticed that the signage on the Colorado Convention Center theater is changing. Five years after acquiring the naming rights to the 5,000-seat venue, which…
Suicide Silence was supposed to take part in the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour alongside Asking Alexandria and others. But just before the tour was set to begin, Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker passed away, leaving the remaining bands with a difficult and unenviable prospect of having to decide how to…
Paul Banks is best known as the charismatic frontman of Interpol, an outfit at the center of the so-called “post-punk revival” of the early 2000s. Banks’s rich and resonant voice was the perfect match for the dark atmospheres and urgency of Interpol’s music. While on tour with the band, Banks…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t…
Ah, yes, the holiday season is now officially in full swing. We know this, of course, because, well, Black Friday fired the warning shot last week, and the holiday shows are coming fast and furious: Most notably, Ryan Tedder and OneRepublic are bringing back their Denver Acoustic Christmas to the…
Death Grips was in town this past weekend at the Larimer Lounge and delivered one of the more stirring sets that Tom Murphy, who’s seen and covered more than his fair share of shows over the years, has seen recently. Tom summed up the experience thusly: “More than most bands,…
When the class requirements are away, the students will play. This past weekend was a busy one for nightlife on Boulder’s Pearl Street. Our roving photographer Brandon Marshall spent Saturday evening capturing scenes at Boulder’s hotspots, including Press Play, Pearl Street Pub & Cellar and more. Keep reading for some…
Schooooool’s out! For. Winter. Or at least it was when Alice Cooper visited the Paramount Theatre this past Friday for a spectacularly spine-chilling show. Onstage, the never-aging (seriously, what gives?) rock icon navigated a series of tricky costumes including a skull suit, a ringleader uniform and a straight jacket, while…
Happy Monday! Another week, another great batch of shows on tap: After canceling a highly anticipated date this past spring, Action Bronson is more than making up for it with a pair of Colorado shows, one on Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, followed by another at Cervantes’…
DEATH GRIPS @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 11/23/12 Most bands that get hyped rarely live up to it. Death Grips was better than any hype could convey. Zach Hill and MC Ride put the amount of energy into this less than hour-long performance equaling what you’d have to sustain for a…
There is no one in hip hop — or any genre for that matter — who has had career ups and downs like MC/Producer extraordinaire Danny! (aka Danny Swain). He was on a Grammy Award shortlist in 2006 for Charm, critically praised for 2008’s And I Love H.E.R., he was…
The Coup is a hip-hop group that makes no bones in its critique of the system, with song titles like the now infamous and powerful, “Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO,” from its classic 2001 album, Party Music — the artwork of which originally featured members Boots Riley and…
Judging by last Spring’s massive turnout for the official Record Store Day, this year’s Record Store Day: Black Friday edition is shaping up to deliver a healthy dose of vinyl geek fever to all of Denver’s treasured music dispensaries. “There’s a big anticipation for those three White Stripes singles,” says…
We hope you’re not too sleepy after all that food and shopping, because it’s time to hit the streets and dance your face off until the sun comes up and Monday rolls around. As always, some great music to soundtrack your weekend, including Danny Howells, Bro Safari, Torro Torro, Tin…
Welcome to the weekend — excuse us, make that the holiday weekend! Whoo hoo! If all is going according to plan right now, hopefully you’re reading this right now in your jammies — or better yet, you won’t be reading this for a few hours because you’re taking advantage of…
Vincent Furnier has gone by Alice Cooper for more than four decades. During that time, two different versions of his on-stage persona emerged: the early one, when he was kind of meek; and the later one, when he became more of a villain. The change came when he stopped drinking…
“The first time I dealt with a major label, I thought I had all the answers,” recalls Tyler Ward. “I thought I was so good at what I did that they couldn’t tell me what was going on. There were two or three offers on the table, and I said,…
