Earlier this week, there was some fear and uncertainty as to whether local singer-songwriter Rebecca Folsom’s home was one of the ones lost to the devastating and still burning Fourmile Canyon Fire. Folsom was reportedly told initially that her house was one of the ones that was seen burning, news…
PAVEMENT With guests Jenny and Johnny 09.09.10 | Ogden Theatre, Denver Jenny and Johnny opened this show and received a mixed reception from the crowd at first. But appreciative cheers for the group, which features Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, increased with every song. The band’s sometimes bluesy, jangly guitar…
GirlGrabbers is the cross-pollination of music personalities, Qknox (aka Jerod Sarlo) and DJ GypdaHip (aka Anwar Woody). Together the two are determined to highlight the essence of beat making in its purist form. The duo’s first two beat tapes, GirlGrabbers and Good Time With a Bad Girl, served as a…
I’m convinced that there’s a special place in hell reserved for bottom feeders who steal other people’s stuff, particularly musical equipment. If there’s any sort of justice in this often times god forsaken universe, it’s in a grimy, rat-infested, shit smeared place shared by those who rip off the elderly,…
Forget what you think you know of Spider-Man. Forget Toby Maguire, forget Sam Raimi, forget everything from the movies. Hell, forget Peter Parker and radioactive spiders — this is Japanese Spider-Man we’re talking about today. Japan is a wonderful place with their own special way of doing things. Like our…
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir was part of the popular Icelandic dream pop group múm, which she fronted with her twin sister Gyða. Before leaving the band in 2006, Valtýsdóttir, also known by her stage name Kría Brekkan, performed on the 2005 Animal Collective album Feels. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Brekkan performed mostly…
Like many people here in Denver, we grew up with Suburban Home Records. The label was ushered into existence around the same time we were discovering punk rock here in town. And from its humble beginnings as a ‘zine to the slew of releases they’ve blessed us with over the…
So the organizers of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Denver Marathon evidently take the name of the event very seriously. So much so that they’ve convinced the members of Semisonic — you know, the dudes who did that song “Closing Time” — to get the old band back together, man, just…
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone started out in 1997 as a solo project for songwriter Owen Ashworth. Initially using just a keyboard and a basic drum machine, Ashworth challenged himself to make the most of minimal elements. The result has been a body of work that not only speaks directly…
If you’ve missed the off-the-wall art and music of Patrick Porter, rejoice — the prodigal weirdo returns! After a year on the East Coast, Porter is returning to Denver to pick up his musical explorations and record two already-written albums. Word is he’ll be working with members of the Vitamins,…
The Denver Cruisers have been getting a lot of press lately for its topically themed rides, but last night, riders took on one of the trendiest themes of the past few years: The undead. The club held its “Vampires and Zombies” bike ride, and from the looks of these photos,…
Although ZetaKaye House, the name of John and Kim Baxter’s new booking and management company, might sound like sorority house, it’s actually a deliberate fusion of the names of two individuals: Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was part of the Brown Power movement in the ’60s and Hunter S. Thompson’s attorney,…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” So whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of…
Iuengliss is the brainchild of Bocumast co-owner Tommy Metz. A mess of pop-candy and ’80s synth, it’s a project that has produced countless releases and remixes. To celebrate the unveiling of Metz’s new website, you can snag 07/01, luengliss’ first album for free. Let’s be perfectly clear here: 07/01 is…
For years, I’ve really fought to dissuade people as categorizing me or thinking of me in singer-songwriter terms,” Joshua Novak says. “Not that it’s bad. I felt like those people in the ’70s who were singer-songwriters, they all had bands. But something happened in the ’90s, when the coffee-shop singer-songwriter…
Bill Ward learned a hard lesson in Larimer Square, where he owned Below Bar and Slim 7: At most clubs, you only have a small window — say, from 10 p.m. until closing — when you can make money. But now that he’s out of Larimer Square altogether, Ward’s planning…
Despite having been together for only a short time and not playing many local shows, Tennis (due on Friday, September 10, at the Larimer Lounge) has stirred some buzz outside of Denver through write-ups on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear and, most recently, the New York Times blog. Inspired in part…
Owen Ashworth started Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in 1997 as an electro-pop one-man band. But over the years, the act has made its sound more organic, especially as Ashworth started playing with various collaborators. The seemingly confessional lyrics are really snapshots of American life, and the kinds of portraits…
Formed in 2004, when its members were still in high school, Paramore has become a rock-radio institution, with several tours down and three albums on the venerable pop-punk imprint Fueled by Ramen under its belt. Hayley Williams’s robust and pitch-perfect vocals shoot the band far beyond contemporary acts like Boys…
Capitalizing on the best part of Bloc Party, lead singer Kele Okereke has stepped out and found a better place for his vacant and sexy vocals: the club. Enlisting Spank Rock producer XXXChange for his solo debut, The Boxer, Kele released an early-summer single, “Tenderoni,” which served as a dirty…
“Tramps like us, baby we were born to die,” shouts Titus Andronicus singer Patrick Stickles on the opening track of his band’s latest album, The Monitor. The line is an obvious homage to both the Garden State, from which he and his bandmates hail, and that state’s most celebrated Boss…
With his modified wok-lid resonator guitar, rigged-up drum kit (which includes a metal washtub for a snare), a rusty Falstaff beer-can microphone and assorted other things, you have to wonder how the hell Brent Burkhart, aka Reverend Deadeye, takes the one-man band concept to a completely different level — and…
