Grab your party shoes, kids. Andrew W.K. is coming back to Denver. In honor of the ten year anniversary of I Get Wet (hands up if you can believe it’s already been a decade since dude first hit the scene), Mr. Party Hard is bringing his party to the Bluebird…
Nearly eight months since Scotty McCreery became America’s latest Idol in May 2011, it’s good to have the cast of American Idol 2.0 back in action. To wit, Ryan Seacrest is still the world’s most annoyingly good host; Jennifer Lopez has managed to get her combo Paula Abdul/Kara DioGuardi/Ellen Degeneres…
As if Katy Perry’s divorce news weren’t bad enough, now there’s an acoustic version of “The One That Got Away” to empathize with. Released yesterday, this rendition, drenched in piano and acoustic guitar, shows greater depth and emotes way more than the video ever could have. Had Perry released this…
Ziggy Marley’s new album is called Wild and Free, which he thinks is particularly appropriate for the benefit concert he’s playing this Saturday, January 21, to raise awareness and funds for GMO Free Boulder, an organization fighting to keep Boulder’s public lands free of genetically modified seeds. We caught up…
Trey Spruance first came to prominence as the guitarist in Mr. Bungle, with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn. Spruance also did a brief stint in Patton’s then-more-famous band Faith No More. After Bungle effectively quit being an active unit in 2000, Spruance took his interest in myriad musical styles, and…
Update 1/25/12: Low, which played in Denver at the Bluebird Theater last fall, has been added to the bill. Death Cab for Cutie is kicking off its upcoming North American tour in Denver on Tuesday, April 10, at Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The band will return to the Mile High…
Couple of recent closures to let you know about, one that’s more permanent than the other. First up: Mo’s, the bar at 1037 Broadway, has gone dark after a two-year-plus run. “It’s been a long run and something new is always on the horizon,” reads Mo’s Facebook page. “Change is…
Ah, yes, it’s always a pleasure to be able to pass along good news for a change: After surviving a harrowing automobile accident last fall, Mark Sundermeier is gradually getting back to good — and back to making music. The erstwhile Trampolines guitarist and his Author Unknown cohort Nick Ehlers…
And so it begins. Another edition of American Idol is upon us. Idol’s eleventh season arrives tonight on Fox with a two-hour episode featuring scenes from Savannah, which served as the callback for the South Carolina auditions. Back in July, we were on hand when the Idol makers came to…
As reported here last month, Barry Fey and Harry Tuft are on deck to become the next inductees into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. Due to an increased demand, the ceremony, originally slated to take place at the Dal Ward Athletic Center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus,…
Forget Tim Tebow. From now until at least the day after the Super Bowl, everyone’s going to be talking about another figure in pop culture who had the religion thing down long before Tebow did: Madonna. Although Lady Gaga may never admit as much, Madge recently acknowledged the similarities between…
This Thursday, January 19, you can get up close and personal with some prominent local creative types who are assembling to chop it up about making it in the worlds of music, art and fashion. Fittingly titled “How to Make It in America,” the panel, which features Guerilla Garden’s founder…
Korn is coming to the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, February 27, with Kill the Noise. Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Wednesday on the band’s website, and regular tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. Gotta hand it to the dudes: Who thought…
Ah, yes, girls, we love them. Who doesn’t, right? Mötley Crüe wrote an entire song about them. Actually, so did Jay-Z, come to think of it. But we digress. Where were we again? Oh, right, girls, we love them. So you can only imagine the overwhelming sense of joy we…
The initial acts for this year’s CMKY festival have been announced. The fifth annual edition of the festival is slated to kick off with a performance by Laurie Anderson on Wednesday, April 25, at the Boulder Theater, and will run through Sunday, April 29, at various venues across Boulder, which…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, shows from Social Distortion, Nickelback, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros were announced; Swayback, Hindershot and Hillbilly Hellcats got spins on local radio; and new releases from the Black Keys and…
On the heels of its three-night stand at the Ogden Theatre this past December, Social Distortion has announced plans to return to the Centennial State, this time at the Boulder Theater, with the Toadies. Tickets for the Thursday, May 10, date go on sale this Friday, January 20, at 10…
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams unwittingly — and probably very much to his chagrin — became the most visible among Lana Del Rey’s detractors following her awkward performance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. He earned this distinction thanks to a note that he sent to Gawker…
Years ago, my mom asked me, ‘What are you going to do when your music can’t support you?'” Dominic Lalli remembers. “And I think it was then that I realized that I just had to go at this thing full steam.” And go at it full steam he has. And…
With the 2009 release of High Beams, Carbon Choir (due at the hi-dive this Friday, January 20) showed promise with a set of introspective, heartfelt songs rimmed with layers of impressionistic, melodic flickers of sound. As Joel Van Horne’s vocals soar over the top of the instrumentation, he shows an…
Wilco is a little like baseball, in that you probably know the rules, but the die-hard fans see skill and nuance that are impossible to convey to the casual crowd. Jeff Tweedy and company have become a full-blown American institution, and their fans are tracking stats, keeping up with the…
Being a hardcore band from Boston can be both a blessing and a curse — a curse in that it can so define a band that it won’t be able to move beyond that realm artistically. Death Before Dishonor, one of the hardest-working disciples of both the city and the…
