Country sensation Jason Aldean, who has been selling out arenas on his Wide Open tour, visits the Odeum Colorado Thursday, March 18. Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” single spent four weeks at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart and has been certified gold. Reserved seats run $33.75…
As you may have heard, Fred Phelps and his cheerful band of hate mongers failed to show up at the University of Colorado campus last night as threatened for the same-sex marriage debate sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. Pity. From what we hear, the students were all geared up…
While Vampire Weekend’s Contra captured the top spot at a lot of local record stores the previous week, Spoon’s seventh album, Transference, released last week on the Merge imprint, topped the charts for the week ending January 24. The album grabbed top spots at Albums on the Hill, Independent Records,…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…
The South By Southwest countdown begins. Yes, we know it’s still two months away. Regardless, we’re started to get geeked. And it looks like Colorado music is once again going to be well represented with not one but two parties showcasing the most desirable of our exports. Habana Calle 6…
The Informants’ latest album, Crime Scene Queen, won Best Self-Produced CD award in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge over the weekend. The record, which was released in July, was up against albums from all over the world. This is a big deal in the blues world. Crime Scene Queen,…
Ah, yeah! Another Monday, another killer free download. A few weeks ago, we posted the “Holding On” video from Mr.J Medeiros and mentioned how the Procussions MC has emerged as an intriguing artist in his own right. He’s certainly won us over. And dude’s still on our radar. We just…
Brace yourself: We just learned that Nick Jonas — he of the Jonas Brothers fame — has canceled his show this evening at the Paramount. Jonas is reportedly under the weather. If you purchased tix through TicketHorse on your credit card, you can sit tight. An automatic refund is headed…
Mustangs & Madras played its final show at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday night. We were there. It was a pretty damned good party. Drinks were flowing. Saw you there, didn’t we? Dunno. Kind of a blur. Sorry. Luckily our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray on caught it all on film,…
Cobraconda spun house DJ Boyhollow’s birthday at La Rumba’s Friday-night Lipgloss party. See photos by Aaron Thackeray on the slideshow page…
Is the world ready for blood splattering, zombies-eat-your-face type carnage delivered with a Pixar-like flair? We can’t speak for the world, obviously, but, um, hell yeah, dude. And after seeing this unforgivably short teaser of A.D., the latest project penned by our old pal Haylar Garcia, Hippie Werewolves frontman turned…
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake With Treeverb, Cannons Friday, January 22, 2010 hi-dive Better than: Avatar. Seriously, that movie sucks. Cannons opened up the show with a sound reminiscent of Fugazi, Archers of Loaf or any number of early post-punk bands. Bassist Eric Fuller, who also holds down the low end…
Mustangs and Madras farewell show With Get Three Coffins Ready, Only Thunder, the Gunshy and Git Some Saturday, January 23, 2010 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Virtually every other five-band bill I’ve seen. The five members of Get Three Coffins Ready played the kind of high-energy, glittery surf rock that…
Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like, a compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. View Larger…
Jersey Shore is over. The fact that a 10-episode reality TV show needs no introduction and that its conclusion is an event is shocking. Whether the show was so successful because it was Freud’s wet dream or because we secretly love stereotypes or because of some unrepeatable Gladwellian cultural cocktail…
One more in-case-you-missed-it moment from the weekend, this one local: Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake performing “Hallelujah” last night on the Hope For Haiti Telethon. Not quite as haunting as Buckley’s version, but the two kill it in their own right. Update: The rest of the country was clearly moved…
Now this is what you call going out on a high note. In case you missed it, Conan O’Brien ended his stint at NBC on Friday night by strapping on a Les Paul and playing “Freebird” with Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top’s Bill Gibbons. Ferrell actually does…
Is it too late to add the song supposedly written by Prince for the Minnesota Vikings called “Purple and Gold” to the list of NFL Final Four horrible tribute smackdown? Holy hell. It sounds like some paleontological gospel tune that you happen upon during a late night broadcast while scanning…
Today over at XLR8R’s blog, Denver-based techno/IDM producer Scaffolding’s track “D-Tron” (we like to think that stands for “Denver Tron”), in its Michael Fakesch-remixed form, got a nice write-up, complete with free download. Fakesch (best known as part of Funkstörung) turns out a nice, loping techno number with acid synth…
It’s becoming more and more evident: Not only is the Mile High City blessed with an abundance of outstanding musician folk, but there’s a wealth of talented creative types out there bolstering their efforts, people like Rod Blackhurst, the Locker Partners and Eric Heights. For his part, Heights continues to…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Today’s video freakshow is framed as an appeal to superstar producer Timbaland. The young man who made the video is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter and a fan of Timba’s. He’s looking for a little help to become “as popular as Britney Spears,” as he explains in his halting English, and he’s…
