Asobi Seksu (due tonight at the hi-dive with Grimes, Le Divorce) made a bit of a name for itself in its early days by blending solid pop hooks with strong rhythmic dynamics and a guitar sound that recalled early Lush and the more melodic end of My Bloody Valentine. Naturally,…
Young Widows (due Friday, June 3, at the Marquis Theater with My Disco, Lion Sized and Cannons), from Louisville, Kentucky, seems to evolve its sound with each album as a challenge to the songwriting skills of its members. In the renowned, post-hardcore band Breather Resist, Evan Patterson and Nick Thieneman…
Count yourself lucky if you had a chance to catch Adele’s breathtaking performance last weekend. We just heard that she canceled all of the remaining dates on her current tour due to the problems she was having with her voice, problems she mentioned at the onset of her set at…
There’s been a lot of talk about Rhianna’s controversial new video for the song “Man Down.” If you haven’t seen it, Rihanna shoots a man who is shown to be her rapist with a gun she calls “Peggy Sue.” The scene opens in a crowded area with a shot of…
It was somewhere around 8 o’clock when the woman in front started dancing like crazy. She had to be in her forties, maybe fifties. She was dancing to Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the Walnut Room in front of a collection of VIPs who had been summoned to witness the…
Seven-piece outfit Fitz & The Tantrums (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Ximena) is all about the soul revival, for sure. But band leader Michael Fitzpatrick brings just the slightest hint of Tom Jones-inspired campiness to the group’s cool vintage sound, which works well with co-vocalist Noelle Scaggs’ sweet…
Update: Whoa! Stop the presses. So we were just getting ready to send word via Twitter that tomorrow night’s show had been canceled (see original post below), and we stopped by John Grant’s Twitter page, which led us to his Facebook page and that’s where learned the actual reason his…
Local man-about-town and house-music ambassador, Brett Starr, has found a niche with his fifth-Friday House Revival shows at Funky Buddha; the basic idea is to bring together three DJs with different styles and have them spin a cohesive set together, switching off one-after-another at the decks. It’s proven to be…
After working in the action-sports industry for years and setting a Guinness World Record for longest journey on a mini-motorcycle, Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson have now embarked on a different journey: Cheapskates Action Sports Bar, which opened last week in the former home of Bliss Café at 7501 Grandview…
In May of last year, guitarist Kevin Eubanks (due this evening at the Soiled Dove) stepped down from his gig leading The Tonight Show band after a fifteen year run. Although Eubanks performed a bit on his own apart from the show, he’s been touring a lot more these days,…
In case you’ve been working your fingers to the bone all the week and haven’t had a single second to notice, the weekend is just a few hours away. What’s that? Yes, we know it’s only Thursday. But Thursday, as we keep saying, is the new Friday. And as you’ll…
We just glimpsed the lineup for the sixth annual Yonder Mountain String Band’s sixth annual Harvest Music Festival — taking place Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16, at Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas (site of this weekend’s Wakarusa Festival) — and let’s just say it may make you want to,…
Yesterday we were on the set with Manufactured Superstars, who were shooting their new video at Beta with Vista TV. The scene at Beta yesterday was quite different from a typical night at the club with hundreds of people jumping, dancing, sweating and just all-out raging. The vibe was fun,…
Hooray for Gauntlet Hair and congrats to Dead Oceans for having the good sense to add the Lafayette-based duo to its roster. The outfit attracted the attention of the “instantly spellbound” label with a pair of 7-inch releases, one on Mexican Summer and the other on Gorilla Vs Bear’s Forest…
It is easy to pass off White Denim (due tonight at the Larimer Lounge with The Growlers) as psychedelic garage rock — except the reverb isn’t there and the Austin-based act implements some seriously dub-like rhythms. Labels aside, the power trio (that recently became an even tighter foursome) incite a…
Welp, looks like it’s the end of an era. If you haven’t heard, everyone’s favorite gay zombie, Maris the Great, is about to become food for worms — uh, actually, “retiring” is how he put it. Semantics aside, after a fruitful killing spree that lasted more than a decade (eleven…
Tommy Metz released his latest album under the Iuengliss moniker way back in March, but there was never a proper release show for the record. That’s being remedied this Friday, June 3, when he hosts a big party for the Laser Palace-produced VHS tapes at Rhinoceropolis with DJ Gorinto, Alphabets,…
Due an unspecified family emergency in the Bright Eyes camp, the Fillmore show originally slated for Friday has been moved to Sunday. Bummer news if you have to work that night or otherwise can’t make it, but at least the show wasn’t canceled. We just received official word from our…
After more than a decade-long run, 5 Degrees (1475 Lawrence Street) is closing this weekend with a final bash on Saturday, June 4, with $20 for all-you-can-drink wells and $50 of bottle service. The building that houses the club is under construction to make way for University of Colorado Denver…
Congrats to Lance Meyers and Jessica Harris, winners of the VIP upgrade. And so the countdown begins. We’re just a little more than two weeks away from this year’s Westword Music Showcase. You excited? We sure are. If you haven’t got your tickets yet, have at it — and then…
Sharon Jones (performing this evening with her band, The Dap Kings, at the Denver Botanic Gardens) is a soul revivalist, whether she intended to be or not. The Brooklynite was a session singer in the ’70s, but it wasn’t until the late ’90s that Jones was finally given the chance…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, INXS is coming to the Ogden in July, Lil Wayne’s coming to Comfort Dental in August and Steve Earle is due at the Ogden in September. On local radio, Force Publique, Signal Path and Bop Skizzum got…
