While at least one Westword writer opines that Ke$ha is a garish neon pillar of vapid excess, her fans really, really adore her. Whether it was teased hair, torn fishnet, or glitter suffocating their bodies, the Ke$ha Army knew how to dress at the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday night. Britt…
So this little gem showed up on our doorstep this morning — or, rather, in our parking lot last night. We’ve been hearing about Turner Jackson’s whole Freestyles Are Still Free project that he’s been working on, in which he traipsed around town last summer wearing a sandwich board and…
Chicago’s Smith Westerns have no doubt been thrown under the worn-out labels of “beachy” and “reverb-heavy” — but past a surface listen, the band goes deeper than many of its lo-fi contemporaries. Reminiscent of T. Rex and Donovan, the music of Smith Westerns has a charming sexiness in its vocal…
We don’t know much about ROM. We know we’ve been seeing stickers around town, which is what made us to look it up in the first place, and now we know there’s a Kickstarter project trying to fund a flexi disc. We also know it’s made up of two people…
Either the third or fourth (depends if you count the leaked but never released “Monster” monstrosity) video from Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out over the weekend, for current single “All of the Lights.” And after all the billionaire, art house, heaven-and-hell enormity of the project to…
Art, music, food and fashion were mashed together Saturday night for Artopia, our own little five-venue party on Broadway in the “Golden Triangle” neighborhood. Photographers Jonathan Shoup and Aaron Thackeray moved between Vinyl, City Hall, Bar Standard, the Living Room and Mo’s, and bring back these selected photos from the…
PUBLIC ENEMY With Chali 2na 2.19.11 | Ogden Theatre Public Enemy has, for upwards of 26 years, put out rousing music that incites the masses both on recordings and in a live setting. Last night at the Ogden Theatre, though, the crew showed out as if they had something to…
Ke$ha With Beardo 02.19.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Being Ke$ha must be a simultaneously terrifying and awesome thing. The 23-year-old performer has the undivided attention of millions of teenage girls at the moment, and possibly, the ability to change the world with a kind of unadulterated access to young minds. At…
BLACK LAMB With Audio Dream Sister 02.19.11 | Bender’s Tavern It’s anyone’s guess — well, except for those close to the band — when Audio Dream Sister last went on stage. Seems like it’s been at least a few years. As the second to last band of Pit Fest II…
Jersey Shore’s most drama-free character, Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio), attracted a capacity crowd last night at Beta. A crush of people gathered around the DJ both with cell phone cameras to get a photo of DelVecchio, who is also a club DJ in Providence, Rhode Island when the show is…
As you may have heard, Radiohead’s eighth album, The King of Limbs, was released today, a day earlier than expected, and only four days after it was announced. The complicated release strategy the band has devised is no longer the novelty it was when the band suprised us all with…
The fact that John Denver will be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame this April should come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with his music. The only surprise is that the organization isn’t named for Denver, who is synonymous with Colorado — and its Rocky…
After an eight-year hiatus, Jason Bills and Brad Roulier of Together Productions have once again joined forces for, fittingly, Together Again, this Saturday night at Beta. Together Again features Sultan and Ned Shepard, who DJ and produce commercial vocal electronica (see their recent single “Call My Name”). Local DJs Bones…
While this year’s line-up for the the 8th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival is still being solidified and won’t be announced until April, we do know legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller will headlines this year’s fest, which is Saturday, May 21 at venues along Welton Street in historic Five Points. Fuller,…
Johnny Wolfhart, aka experimental noise-ist Nervesandgel, is working on a new track, and he’s chosen to collaborate with everybody — well, everybody in his social network anyway. Earlier this week, Wolfhart put out a call to his Facebook friends, asking for thirty-second to two-minute audio clips of anything they desired…
After being held up by years of litigation from Afeni Shakur-Davis, the mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, the film depicting the rapper’s life has finally been given the green light. Literally years in the making, the production company Morgan Creek has been mired in legal wranglings with ‘Pac’s mother…
Kevin Kain (aka Kevin Henderson) can typically be found posted up in the VIP area of the hottest clubs on any given weekend night, and occasionally a Thursday appearance at Club Vinyl’s Reggae on the Roof…
Less Than Jake hasn’t released a new record since 2008’s GNV FLA, but it doesn’t matter — the Florida dudes still tour relentlessly, and their fans still come to see them play. Why? Because, in an era of performers constantly questioning their own cool, LTJ prides itself on being uncool…
Sony’s hoping to pique your qriocity (sorry) with it’s new streaming music service this week, by offering a free thirty day trial, tons of different streaming options and a library of over six million songs from the four major record label and most everyone they distribute. We spent the day…
Denver has made quite the name for itself as one of the holy lands for American turntablism. After all, almost half of the national DMC competitors were from Colorado this year. While none of the locals placed in the competition this time around, scratch culture continues to thrive in the…
Brooklyn’s Greenpoint held a Phil Collins parade as an antidote to Valentine’s Day (and sincerity, presumably). More than 250 people showed up, and the revelry got so out of hand that the cops had to show up and explain what was acceptable behavior for these sorts of things. Dancing on…
FOE, a staple in the hip-hop scene in Denver is working on a new campaign to not only extend his brand as FOE (which stands for “Father of Enemies,” BTW), the MC is out for unabashed truth. Always unafraid to say what’s on his mind, FOE says the “Fuck FOE”…
