Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, we’ve received word that Lil Wayne is coming to town in August, followed by Santana and George Lopez, who are coming to Red Rocks in September. On local radio, Novus Folium, Justin Roth and Elephant Revival got…
Lil Wayne: Love him or hate him, it’s almost impossible to ignore the Young Money Mastermind. If you haven’t heard yet, Weezy F Baby is bringing his I Am Still Music tour to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 30, with the Boss Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement…
If Mike Marchant isn’t the most prolific songwriter in town, he’s pretty damn close. Dude writes songs with a frequency that roughly rivals breathing. This afternoon he posted another set of songs for free download on Bandcamp that he’s titled Lost and Found Sounds (2008-2011). As the title might suggest,…
The lineup for the 8th Annual 5 Points Jazz Festival, slated to take place at various points along Welton Street on Saturday, May 21, has been announced. In addition to a discussion with Jake Adam York on jazz standards and covers at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, artists ranging…
YACHT (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater, with Light Asylum, Jeffrey Jerusalem and Bad Weather California) has existed over the last decade in many forms. Electro-mastermind Jona Bechtolt ran the show himself for several years before being joined by creative partner Claire L. Evans in 2008…
This fall, Carlos Santana and George Lopez are hitting the road together on a tour they’ve dubbed Divine Rascals. The co-headliners will each offer sets doing what he does best; the former will be playing the hell out of the guitar, while the latter gets his funny on. The Divine…
There is something really awesome about being able to wake up and look at a day and think, I’m probably going to be in at least two states during the course of the next 24 hours. This is the epitome of what tour feels like, when it’s going well, anyway…
For years, ticket scalpers have been the bane of existence for artists and venues. Directly and indirectly, they’ve been blamed for everything from rising ticket costs to fewer tours. Over the last few years, though, artists have started to fight back, and they’ve employed some interesting ways to do so…
DR. DOG Paper Bird • Boulder Acoustic Society 05.07.11 | Boulder Theater View photo slideshow from last night For a band that sounds like it’s drawing from a diverse pool of influences that spans from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Mott the Hoople to Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips and…
BIG BANG MASSIVE – NIGHT 1 Denver Coliseum | 5/6/11 View our Big Bang slideshowIf Friday night’s Big Bang massive is any indication as to how much Denver loves dubstep music, then we are in for a rocky and up-hill climb toward building the reputation of being the best in…
HUNX AND HIS PUNX Lust-Cats of the Gutters • Thee Goochi Boiz • Shannon and the Clams 05.07.11 | hi-dive Almost literally straight off of a roughly sixteen-day of tour, Lust-Cats of the Gutters would have been excused for showing some of that fatigue in its set. But, instead, Alex…
Whatever image you conjure up when we say Matt Morris (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Danielle Ate the Sandwich), forget it. It’s now as obsolete as a Hollywood Video card. You wouldn’t recognize the guy these days. We didn’t. When we stopped by Macy Studios just as he…
Ah, what a pleasant way to end the week: How about a brand spanking new track from The Epilogues? Thank you, sir. Don’t mind if I do. Still hot to the touch, the song was just posted minutes ago, and offers an interesting side of the band that we don’t…
In the two decades since Macy Sound Studios opened, the place has seen its share of the city’s finest musicians, in addition to prominent national acts like Los Lobos. As anyone who’s been there can tell you, the place is loaded with some sweet gear…
Music Gear Guys, hailed as Denver’s largest boutique pedal dealer, is bringing Black Label Society’s bassist J.D. DeServio, who’s also toured with Lita Ford, Vinnie Moore and Pride & Glory, to the 3 Kings Tavern (60 South Broadway) to host a clinic and Hartke product demo on Thursday, May 12…
Tonight and tomorrow night at the Denver Coliseum, the Big Bang dance music massive will be going off representing pretty much every genre of electronic music. Given the size and scope of the show (four stages per night) – along with the massive investment in the lighting and sound for…
Hunx and His Punx (due at the hi-dive this Saturday, May 7, with Shannon & the Clams, Thee Goochi Boiz and Lust-Cats of the Gutters) started in the Bay Area in 2008 when Seth “Hunx” Bogart of Gravy Train!!!! decided to do something very different from the band he had…
Often imitated but never duplicated, Too $hort (performing tonight with DJX, Shade Loc G, Hypnautic, King Tef, Johny Rocketz, 20:12, Nominee, Mya Rose, Spoke n Wordz, Playalitical and Felisa Latin Soul at Casselman’s) has been making records for almost thirty years, helping to establish Oakland, California, as a reputable rap…
JOAN OF ARC with Air Waves, Fire Season 05.06.11 | hi-dive So much noodling. That’s all there really is to say about Joan of Arc. It’s guitar-noodling masked behind a pop song. It’s not a bad thing, but it is what it is — and it still strikes me as…
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME 05.05.11 | Club Arriba Waka Flocka Flame blazed through Denver last night in a whirlwind of dread locks, expensive jewelry, marijuana smoke and gang banger salutations of “Suwoop!” After more than a few terrible openers, he took the stage at a very late 1:20 a.m. By 1:40,…
THE BLACK ANGELS With Sleepy Sun 05.11.11 | Fox Theatre Last night at Boulder’s Fox Theatre, as Austin’s Black Angels shrieked, stomped, thrashed and pounded, my mind kept curiously dragging me back to the old-school AC/DC anthem, “Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be.” Yes, the Devil’s music is still…
UPDATE (05.06.11 – 2:02 p.m): Just before lunchtime, Martin Anderson discovered another batch of master reels, more than a hundred by his guesstimate. Since then, he’s sent over an updated list of bands, and there’s some very prominent bygone Denver bands on the list, including Pinhead Circus, the Psychedelic Zombiez,…
