In preparation for Denver Noise Fest 2011 (April 22-24), the folks in charge of the weekend of mayhem have dropped off an insanely massive collection of live music from 2010. How insane, you ask? Well, how about thirty different sets totaling just over 1 GB of data. That should be…
You’re familiar with the Wu Tang Clan, we presume? Yeah? Meet the Ru Tang clan. Okay, that’s not the name these ladies are going by, but it seems like a fitting enough handle seeing as how our own Ru Johnson is helping put together this very special show at the…
Sounds like the P-Nuckle dudes are shuffling the deck again. The band is about to play a new hand on its new album, The System, the follow-up to Stand Up, last year’s primarily reggae-driven record. Flush with a new rhythm section, the outfit is leaning more toward a heavier, old…
EMINENCE ENSEMBLE With DAMN RIGHT! and DJ Skywalkerr 01.18.11 | Cervantes Otherside Last night at Cervantes’ OtherSide, Eminence Ensemble shared the stage with DAMN RIGHT! in front of an impressive Tuesday night turnout. Boulder’s DJ SkyWalkerr bounced and bobbed as the opener for an hour or so, but didn’t really…
Darwin Deez (due at Larimer Lounge tonight) came to the attention of wider and wider audiences relatively early in the band’s career with the release of its singles “Constellations” and “Radar Detector.” The videos for both songs revealed a band both eccentric, quirky and capable of writing the kind of…
According to Duncan Goodman, one of the owners at Cervantes’, the old ballroom just wasn’t cutting it. That’s why they decided to tackle the problem head-on and completely flip the script on the once run-down venue…
Quick: What type of glasses do you usually see at a Gamits show? If you guessed aviators, horn-rimmed or browline, you win a substantial amount of geek points for knowing the names of the three nerdiest types of glasses. Also, you should probably get down to the Gamits show this…
Last night at the beat battle competition in Aurora, things got off to a pretty lively start. The place was crawling with DJs, hip-hop heads and, of course, the producers who were to enter the battle. It was all beats and rhymes, until somebody got chased out of the bar…
LIZ PHAIR With Le Divorce 01.18.11 | Bluebird Theater As Le Divorce got things going last night, the room was pretty crowded, a nice change from the typical turnout for opening acts. It was entirely appropriate that Le Divorce opened for Liz Phair, seeing as how frontwoman Kitty Vincent has…
Since forming the forward-thinking big band Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra about five years ago, Tyler Gilmore has won the 2009 ASCAP/Columbia College Commission in Honor of Hank Jones, as well as the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award for the past three years. In addition to composing for and conducting the Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra,…
Looks like we have another producer battle on our hands. Colorado Beat Box is going down tonight at the Spillway (3740 East Quincy Avenue) in Aurora. According to Yak of PMG Solutions, the company presenting the battle, the competition is designed to show the skills and production chops of the…
There are few things that bring us joy quite like finding a new act to get all excited about. It’s kind of like finding a twenty-dollar bill in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn in a while. We’re enjoying that feeling right now listening to “Still Falls Apart,”…
Robert Plant visits the Fillmore Auditorium on Wednesday, April 27, as part of the third leg of his tour supporting his Grammy-nomimated Band of Joy. He’ll be bringing the same band that’s on the recording, including Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Bryon House, Marco Giovino and Buddy Miller…
Air Dubai’s Wonder Age knocked Elephant Revival’s Break in the Clouds out of the top slot at Albums on the Hill, while both T.I. and the Live at Ebbets Field Vol. 4 comp moved back into the top slots at Independent Records and Twist & Shout for the week ending…
We have to hand it to a band that makes us physically LOL. A searing vision of George Costanza running out of the bathroom, pants around his ankles and screaming “Vandelay Industries!” was one of the funnier scenes to resonate from the Seinfeld series — and tonight at the Larimer…
You can chalk this one up to one of the stranger announcements we’ve seen in a while. It looks like Curious Sense, the development studio in North Carolina who made the REO Speedwagon game last year, will be bringing the Grateful Dead into the realm of the Beatles, 50 Cent,…
Lissie With Dylan LeBlanc 01.17.11 | Bluebird Theater Lissie walked on stage to the Twin Peaks theme song. That should come as no surprise, as she’s a well-publicized fan of the show. The lesson here and throughout her set at the Bluebird: Lissie is not big on subtlety…
Although Lyrics Born has already amassed a resumé that any MC would envy — founding member of Quannum Projects; collaborator with Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, KRS-One and many others, just to name a handful of credentials — he believes the best is yet to come. “I see…
The Deadbeat Club has been revived. But this new Deadbeat Club is not the iconic venue that Regas Christou ran at 4040 East Evans Avenue in the ’90s. After he gave up the venue in the early 2000s, it went through several owners and incarnations. When Steve Lyons and his…
Trees pushes a lot of air when it gets on stage with its bank of nearly wall-to-wall amps issuing forth colossal, crushing, menacing, loping sounds that recall Neurosis circa The Eye of Every Storm without that band’s essential weirdness, or Wolves in the Throne Room minus the more ridiculous black-metal…
Early on in jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson’s career, he listened to a lot of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. While Terrasson says he doesn’t listen to the three pianists as much as he did two decades ago, when he was starting out, he’s taken what they’ve given him…
San Diego’s Crocodiles aren’t from New Zealand, but they seem to share an aesthetic kinship with a number of the classic Flying Nun bands of the ’80s and ’90s like Straightjacket Fits and the Clean. But the members of Crocodiles have also clearly absorbed their share of sunny psychedelia by…
