This Friday, the Epilogues will be returning home from tour with the Photo Atlas and both bands are celebrating with a dual CD release show at the Marquis. But if this impending event has you jumping up and down with anticipation, relax — you don’t have to wait to hear…
The Slippery Nipple — isn’t that a great name for the space soon-to-be formally known as Quixotes? Whaddya think? No? How about the Almighty Righteous Room? Not so much? What, you have a better idea? Then let your fingers do the walking, bigshot, and drop the new owners a line…
The Flaming Lips’ latest effort, Embryonic, grabbed the spot at Twist & Shout for the second week in row while Flight of the Conchord and Lyle Lovett came in second and third. Monsters of Folk’s debut and Shrinebuilder’s new self-titled album round out the top five for the week ending…
Every artist’s dream is to be able to control their own destiny. The Sounds, who have ignored all major label proposals for their new album Crossing The Rubicon, are doing just that. This album is their third full length studio and employs a handful of interesting producers that build on…
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, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…
Hello Kavita, Houses, It’s True October 23, 2009 hi-dive Better Than: Prozac Omaha band It’s True started things off with some sweet ‘n simple melodies and starry-eyed vocals. They cranked the feedback a bit because they’re no pushovers, but theirs was certainly the odd performance out on a night of…
College Music MarathonOctober 20-25, 200975+ Venues in Brooklyn and ManhattanBetter than: Fighting swarms of tourists to see the Statue of Liberty. This year’s CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Marathon offered more music than any avid concert goer could even attempt to comprehend with 1,300+ bands playing at more than seventy-five…
German industrial metal band Rammstein nabbed the top spot at Independent Records with Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, the band’s sixth studio effort released last week on the Vagrant imprint. Jay-Z, who had been at number one for the last few weeks with Blueprint 3 was knocked down to the…
Dressy Bessy’s been putting out videos at a good clip lately, and who can blame them? The group is showing the same penchant for fun eye candy that it’s shown for fun ear candy for years. The most recent exhibit is this video for “Simple Girlz,” which features a simple,…
Update: Just received word that U2 will be bringing its 360° tour to Denver on Saturday, June 12, at Invesco Field. Oh happy day! No word yet on when tickets will go on sale, but they Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 6, and will reportedly range from $55…
As we told you last week, DJ Miss Audry — the hottest dance-music-spinning, gryo-slanging goddess this side of Mykonos — has retired from DJing. She spun her last set on Saturday at the Funky Buddha. See photos on the slideshow page…
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), The Knew, Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man October 24, 2009 Bluebird Theater Just Like: Heaven This was the final moment of Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), the last song in a too-short set that was just long…
The Pogues Friday, October 23, 2009Ogden TheatreBetter than: expected. Much better. “Sorry it’s taken us awhile to get here,” guitarist Philip Chevron said during the Pogues’ first show ever in Denver. “Almost thirty years in fact, but we finally got here.” But holy Jesus, the epic two-hour set these guys…
Sunset Rubdown, tUnE-yArDs Friday, October 23 Bluebird Theater Better Than: Wolf Parade and Swan Lake combined. Providing the latest evidence that the loop pedal is the best thing to happen to one-person bands since the harmonica holder, Merrill Garbus, who performs as tUnE-yArDs, opened up the show with a collection…
We’re suckers for a good cause, especially if all we have to do to do good is go to a bar, have a few beers and hear some kick-ass tunes. That being the case, next Wednesday offers up a fine opportunity to do exactly that, and get in the proper…
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from local lo-fi ambient popsters George&Caplin (in part, presumably, because Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens was busy recording a pair of killer EPs with Joe Sampson as Wentworth Kersey) but we’ve just received word that the duo have new material incoming. The first release…
If you make it out to Moe’s next Thursday, October 29, you can catch a bill of Light Travels Faster, Night Owl and Portamento. If you like Light Travels faster (and you probably will; our A.H. Goldstein said the band has a “dense, textured and harmonically rich sound [that] melds…
Feeling funny today? Well, here’s your chance to win a fabulous prize — supposing you consider a personal voicemail message from the dudes of 3Oh!3 to be a “fabulous prize.” All you have to do is head over to the band’s website and leave a comment suggesting a funny caption…
Today’s freakshow is something of an Internet classic, and no doubt many of you are already well familiar with the singing, dancing insanity of the Japanese boy-band parody “Yatta.” But classics gain that status for a reason, so you can stand to watch it again so your less well-informed colleagues…
It’s been a year and a half since Hello Kavita graced us with its debut long-player, the unforgettable And Then We Turned Sideways. Since then, the quintet of songwriter/frontman/guitarist Corey Teruya, guitarist Luke Mossman, multi-instrumentalist Ian Short, bassist Jimmy Stofer and drummer Leor Manelis seems only to have grown and…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them…
Tyler Gilmore, who’s been booking shows at Dazzle for the last four and a half years, is leaving the jazz club to focus more on composing for Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra, which he heads up. He’s also plans to write for local groups, as well as college and high school jazz programs…
