The Donkeys (due tonight at the Hi-Dive) from San Diego often get lumped in with anyone inspired by the country rock of the ’60s and ’70s. But even a casual listen to its latest release, Born With Stripes, reveals a band not beholden to a specific aesthetic of times past,…
Grammy Award-winner and ultimate musical collaborator Lucinda Williams (playing tonight at the Boulder Theater with Lionel Young) shouldn’t need an introduction. The rough-voiced storyteller has been making records since 1979, intertwining blues and rock n’ roll with her own salty version of Americana country…
Hip-hop lyrics often get lost amongst the bass, snare and 808-drenched beats and production of a song. That’s why, when a rap artist — like Jay-Z, for example — decides to take on MTV’s famous Unplugged series, the outcome can be amazing, as was the case with Jigga, and hopefully…
VIVIAN GIRLS No Joy * School Knights 05.12.11 | Larimer Lounge It isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you when you’re on stage, but breaking a string without having an immediate replacement or a back-up guitar can induce the kind of red-faced anxiety that throws a show into…
The singing/rapping phenom known as Pries just released Copy, Paste, No Glue , a mixtape that is an apparent throw to those who imitate, but never duplicate, the young MCs style. As expected, he’s churned out an effort that is perfect for the college-aged demographic who can relate to his…
ProJect Aspect and friends made the trek to Lincoln, Nebraska last night for the Waka DJ Classic. The difference between Aspect and everyone else who entered is that he left with two artists passes to Wakarusa — and the opportunity to play an hour-and-fifteen-minute set at the Wakarusa Music and…
Grab the Guinness Book of World Records, because we’ve got a ridiculous tale to tell. Earlier this week, a man in Australia purchased a Led Zeppelin T-shirt for $10,000, making it the largest sum anyone has paid for a vintage band shirt. That doesn’t mean there aren’t shirts that are…
You know what the best part of waking up is? For Jered Lish, Zac Crider and Chris Stuberg of the Sunshine House (due at this year’s Westword Music Showcase), we’re betting it was waking up to find that they’re one of five finalists in the Folgers Jingle Contest. Although, curiously,…
The Library of Congress has just turned on its new streaming audio service, which includes a large piece of the national archives totaling around 10,000 titles. The joint venture of Sony and the Library of Congress gives users access to many Sony-controlled recordings that have long been out of circulation…
At the risk of alienating and outraging vast swaths of music fans, there’s really no polite way to refer to bands with a career spanning fifteen years plus as a whole. So here are ten “oldster” bands — written by a self-proclaimed oldster — that kept making great records long…
Dudes in Denver are seriously stepping up their game. Just peeped the new video from the Fresh Breath Committee, and let’s just say these cats aren’t playing. Directed by Matt Hobbs of Vital Films, the video literally embodies the title, “The Dawn,” with footage of Crystal belting in the foothills…
To say that Joe Purdy (due this evening at the Bluebird Theater with The Milk Carton Kids) is prolific would be, well, exactly accurate — the singer-songwriter has released ten albums in ten years, all while touring. His workman like approach has paid off in the form of devoted fans,…
Last week, Matt Morris played his first show at the Bluebird in more than a year. Let’s just say it was quite a bit different from the first time he played there with his full band. Not only did he look dramatically different, clean shaven with his rainbow sherbert colored…
Quick: Name the most iconic albums of the classic rock era… Uh, let’s see.. Dark Side of the Moon? Check. Born to Run? Uh, yeah. Led Zeppelin IV? Of course. Revolver? Duh! Sticky Fingers? Totally. Who’s Next? Tommy? Yes and yes! Where are you going with this anyway?…
Looks like Big Gigantic has gotten quite a bit bigger than anyone realized. Yesterday around lunchtime, the Boulder-based music blog THISSONGISSICK posted a new track from Big Gigantic, and within minutes, literally, the server crashed. Bam! Just like that. “I posted the link at 12:00 p.m.,” says THISSONGISSICK’s Nick Guarino,…
So the band formerly known as Yerkish will heretofore be known as Lexigram. If you’re just joining us, last week, Sprint, the behemoth telecommunications titan, signed on to help Yerkish come up with a new name as part of the company’s All. Together. Now. campaign. More than 54,000 suggestions were…
Update, 05/12: We just received word that DeVotchKa will be stopping by eTown at the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, June 1, for a live taping with Joe Purdy, playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater. If you happen upon a bunch of starry-eyed students in caps and gowns this Saturday at…
If reading about the various artistic exploits of Yonnas Abraham has grown somewhat wearisome, you might want to go ahead and stop reading this post right now. Yesterday, we unwittingly stirred the ire of one particularly Concerned Fan with our item about the new BLKHRTS track. We suspect that same…
Last we heard from Ian Cooke, he had extended an invitation to fellow local musicians to remix his song ” The Race.” With that goal in mind, Cooke posted a dozen different parts of the song that folks could download and tweak, twist and manipulate at will. A number of…
Have you noticed that the advent of Facebook and Twitter has turned all from casual observers into voyeuristic interlopers into other people’s lives and instilled us with a seemingly insatiable desire to live vicariously through folks we may or may not know? Yeah? Us, too. Thanks, social media…
This morning, we shared the unfortunate news that Bad Weather California won’t be performing at this year’s Westword Music Showcase. While this is most certainly sad news for us, it’s great news for the band, who will instead be joining Meat Puppets for a string of West Coast tour dates…
There isn’t much of a way to approach Dredg (who play the Marquis Theater tonight with the Trophy Fire, Balance and Composure and the Dear Hunter) without talking about the band’s legacy. Retaining its original lineup since its 1993 formation, the California outfit has weathered stylistic storms with its own…
