Growing up in Boulder, Rudresh Mahanthappa (due tonight at Quixote’s True Blue) got an early start on the saxophone and studied with Mark Harris, who opened him to a wide variety of music, before heading to Berklee College of Music and DePaul University to study music. Since moving to New…
A while back, we ran a feature detailing the ins and outs of Innerstate Ike’s rise as celebrated MC in the hip-hop scene. In that piece, Ike gave great detail to the night when he was shot, leaving the MC paralyzed and his best friend, Colfax Cac, dead. In homage…
Last night’s Insane Clown Posse show and the previous night’s Dark Lotus show, both at the Ogden, have left a generous amount of weed in the air, to be sure, but they also came with a circus-sized serving of juggalo love. While we were searching Craigslist for the ninja we…
Last night, we tagged along with Paul Brandt, aka Paul Basic, as he and Michal Menert were doing a photo shoot with Pat Milbery and the So-Gnar snowboarding monster. Brandt is one of the most recent additions to Derek Vincent Smith’s Pretty Lights Music imprint. Between snapshots, we spoke with…
True to form, there’s no shortage of things to do this weekend in Denver. And as always, there’s tons of variety to choose from. On Friday, the Swayback is playing a free gig at the Larimer, while Electric Six hits up the Bluebird, Wolves in the Throne Room dominate Rhinoceropolis,…
After an almost five-year run, riotous trio Hot White have called it quits. Starting out as a teenage duo from Parker, guitarist Kevin Wesley and drummer Darren Kulback were eventually joined by bassist and vocalist Tiana Bernard, who pushed the band to the next level of sonic chaos. Known for…
There is nothing better than reminiscing about the awesomeness of the 80s. And no two bands scream that era louder than Journey and Foreigner (due tomorrow night at Comfort Dental Amphitheater). Journey, once led by lead singer Steve Perry, carries us through the depths of love and heartache like no…
INSANE CLOWN POSSE at the OGDEN | 9/29/11Somewhere between the moment someone threw up on me and the moment I realized it had happened, I received first-hand evidence that membership in the juggalo family comes with a small price. Last night’s Insane Clown Posse show began and ended with liberty,…
Bring Me the Horizon’s show this weekend, originally scheduled for the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, October 2, has been moved to the Summit Music Hall. Tickets for the all-ages show, which also features Parkway Drive, Architects (UK), Deez Nuts and On Broken Wings, are still available ($25) and tix for…
Without a doubt, the biggest news in dance music this weekend is the inaugural Great American Techno Festival, John Templeton’s brainchild that aims to bring top-tier techno to beer-drinkers and technophiles alike. And there’s plenty more to round out Dance Card this weekend — here’s what’s on our lineup:…
When we told you about the release of the song, “Fortitude,” from Ian Cooke’s new album of the same name, we didn’t know much about how the song came to be. Sure, we knew where it was recorded and who did it, but we didn’t know how much work and…
Update (9/29/11): A few commenters on this week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” alerted us to another video of the incident that has surfaced. This one, which was posted on YouTube today, evidently, is shot from yet another angle, and the footage appears to be from sometime between the subsequent eleven-second…
Tomorrow night was supposed to mark the release the CD release party of Author Unknown, the new outfit featuring Mark Sundermeier, at the Toad Tavern. The show has now turned into a benefit for Sundermeier, who was involved in a major car accident a few weeks ago. The former Trampolines…
BEIRUT at the FILLMORE | 9/28/11″Thank you, sorry we didn’t make it out here sooner,” said Zachary Condon of Beirut last night to an adoring crowd at the Fillmore. Despite his birthplace just 350 miles to the south in Santa Fe, the globe-trotting Condon and his band — correct me…
What happens to a folk-punk band when it puts away the acoustic guitar? With the departure of guitarist Alex Trujillo, Safe Boating Is No Accident is about to answer this question definitively. “We took the opportunity to work up new material, which is a lot different from the stuff we’ve…
Wondering what becomes of all the bootleg merchandise that is seized? The clothing items sometimes find their way into the hands of less fortunate individuals through various charity organizations. Such was the case in 2005, when Cousins Entertainment, through its attorneys at the time, the Denver-based law firm, Schwartz &…
Up until about ten years ago, coffee seemed to have its grip firmly around us. Just take the songs below, for example. You won’t find any written in the past decade, which is a little sad, the death of coffee and all. Because no one is going to write a…
Good news for those of you who miss Indie 101.5: John “Whip” Wilbur, the station’s morning show host and music director, and Lipgloss co-founder Tyler Jacobson have announced plans to launch a new Internet-based indie radio station in Denver, Post 303…
This week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” outlines how bands, specifically Colorado favorites Phish, battle the parking lot bootleggers who make money — some it defend as a way to keep following the band on tour, while others says it’s profit-driven — off the band’s likeness, name and image. Below are…
Dave Anver, the pony-tailed man in this video from Phish’s show at Dick’s on Friday, September 2, is the subject of this week’s Westword cover story, “Phish Story.” Anver says his job is “serving federal injunctions against people for selling counterfeit merchandise,” but his methods came into question after the…
Did you miss the Warlock Pinchers run of reunion shows back in 2010? Aw, there, there. It’ll be okay. While we can’t exactly spirit you away in the wayback machine to make this wrong right, here’s the next best thing: The Pinchers have reserved the Denver Film Center on Colfax…
Holy crap, there were a lot of shows this month. It was difficult to pick our favorites of the bunch, especially with big-name acts like Taylor Swift, DMX, Blink 182 and Ke$ha rocking the stages in Colorado. We have so many photos, it’s tough to sift through them all, which…
