If you haven’t picked up your tickets to the Westword Music Showcase yet, here’s another reason to get on it: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe presents a Tribute to the Beastie Boys at this year’s Showcase. This is going to be absolutely sick! Page down to see what you have in…
THE LUMINEERS @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 5/11/12 Wesley Schulz announced that the band was going to perform a Sawmill Joe song and it was obvious much of the crowd knew what was coming, as The Lumineers started the song and brought Joe back on stage. Between pretty much all the…
THE FRAY @ RED ROCKS | 5/11/12 It was cold last night at Red Rocks. Like balls-into-your-body-cavity cold. Seriously. It was also wet and foggy and miserable. Once the lights went up, though, the Fray’s sound cut through the fog and rain and made everyone forget their frostbitten feet. The…
BLACK STAR @ CERVANTES’ | 05.11.12 The first strains of the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” started blaring through the speakers as Yasiin Bey shook himself onto the stage to thunderous screams of applause. Wielding an red old school “drop mike,” the Brooklyn MC fist pumped and enticed the…
The next few days kick off what will no doubt be a summer of hip-hop shows to remember in the Mile High City: Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli (as Black Star) will be swooping through the town this weekend, as will Drake on his Club Paradise Tour,…
If the old cliche is right and one photo is really worth 1,000 words, then how much is a website full of videos worth? A lot, the creators of Audiovore would argue. So in November, two staunch Colorado music enthusiasts began to develop content for a digital archive of the…
It’s the weekend! As always, there’s no shortage of things to get into. If you’re looking to twirl and whirl like a dervish all over the city, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got the drop on the hottest dance music and parties going down, from the return of…
Ryan Seacrest and Fox plugged last night’s Idol results show as another surprising one. “We’ve had a few surprises at this stage in the game,” Seacrest said during the show. Well, he, and a slew of promotional clips, misled us — the only surprise last night was that there were…
Leftover Salmon (due this Sunday in the middle of 7th and 8th street on Santa Fe between 1 and 6 p.m) has graced the the bluegrass scene with their talents for 22 years and counting. With the passing of Mark Vann, the band hasn’t produced an album in eight years…
School Knights (due tonight at the hi-dive with Force Publique and Mombi) started two years ago in the wake of the dissolution of experimental guitar pop band Weed Diamond. Michael Stein started the project in the waning days of that group as a two piece with Zack Roif. Though the…
Welcome to the weekend! The sun’s hiding this morning and rain’s in the forecast for the next few days, but even that can’t dampen spirits today. The Nuggets destroyed the Lakers last night, and you’ve got another full slate of local goodness on tap this weekend: Tonight the Fray kicks…
Okay, so just when you think the summer couldn’t get any hotter, it just did. Check it: Q-Tip is performing a DJ set at the Official Westword Music Showcase After Party at City Hall. Tickets go on sale this Monday at CoClubs.com. Oh, and stay tuned, we have another killer…
Baroness (due tomorrow night at the Ogden Theatre) is a band from Savannah, Georgia, known for making a true alloy of psychedelic metal, the precision of prog, and punk attitude. In that way, they’re musical kin to bands like Kylesa and Mastodon. With the release of its debut full-length, 2007’s…
Carrie Underwood debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart this week with her fourth album, Blown Away, selling 267,000 copies. Underwood’s latest trails only Madonna’s MDNA, which sold 358,000, as the biggest-selling debut of 2012. Another noteworthy feat for Underwood this week: She follows in the footsteps…
See Also: Q&A with LuLu Clair of Souls In Action Got a thing for swimmin’ in the buff? Well, that’s not exactly the type of party ThisSongIsSick and Souls in Action have cooked up this Friday night, but things could still get pretty randy with LazerDisk Party Sex headlining the…
It’s not easy throwing parties, promoting them, getting people out and then getting them to come back, but LuLu Clair takes it on headstrong. With a slew of shows already under her belt this year, Clair and her Souls in Action Entertainment crew have partnered with ThisSongIsSick to present this…
It’s down to the wire on American Idol now. On last night’s show, each of the four remaining contestants brought out everything they had to be considered for the final three. No longer are any of the contestants resting on their laurels, except Phillip Phillips who stuck with his tried-and-true…
This Friday night, the DMC World DJ Championship returns to Colorado for another eagerly anticipated edition of the battle at Casselman’s Bar & Venue. Last year’s champion, Colorado’s own DJ Vajra, of course, went on to become the greatest DJ in the world, besting competition from all over the globe…
Wesley Schultz has never been to the Bluebird Theater. Not for a show, anyway. And he’s never been to Red Rocks, either. Since moving to Denver from New York, he’s purposely avoided both. “I think it’s superstitious or something,” he explains. “If I really want to play somewhere, I probably…
In the muddled world of dubstep, the names that have stayed true to form are few and far between. Cookie Monsta (known in his U.K. home town of Nottingham as Tony Cook) broke onto the scene in 2007, signed with Circus Records (the premier label for dubstep artists) a few…
Last month, rocker Ted Nugent drew Secret Service scrutiny when he said, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year,” at an NRA convention in St. Louis. That was on April 18, ancient history in the…
We’re just over a month out from this year’s Westword Music Showcase, and we’ve already let you know who we have headlining the mainstage this year — but keep it locked on Backbeat for another big announcement this coming Monday. Now it’s time for us to give up the goods…
