“This is the best ever job that doesn’t make any money” says Donny Fallgatter, frontman for Nashville’s young country rockers Kingbilly. It’s unlikely that KingBilly will be broke for much longer, though. Riding high with the popularity of its latest music video on the popular country music channel GAC and…
Black Pegasus is one of the few Colorado rappers that has made hip-hop his full time job. Currently he’s working on the release of his co-hort Liquid Assassin’s new album, Apocalypse, with his own album, Brass Knuckle King, slated to drop sometime later this year. But in between recording sessions…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
How does one go from affable, unassuming club DJ to one of the hottest, most in-demand producers in the game in just under a year and half? Beats us. We’re pretty sure, however, that Frank E can tell you a thing or about that sort of thing. After crafting hits…
There’s been a lot of prom-themed events lately, from the Rockbar’s ’80s Nerd Prom last weekend to next weekend’s John Hughes memorial prom at Starz. But something tells me this weekend’s Very Senior Prom, which kicks off at 9 pm. Saturday, August 29 at Moe’s BBQ and Bowling, may be…
Whoodeefreakinghoo! Good fortune is smiling on us today. Looks like the music gods do love us after all. After posting a song from Chad Price’s new solo record earlier today, we just received word that our pals at Suburban Home are graciously offering a free download of an out-of-print album…
Taking Woodstock is in theaters Friday. Maybe it will be really good, or maybe taking a stand-up comedian and sticking him in a semi-dramatic movie about Woodstock that doesn’t feature any — any! — musical performances is a terrible idea. Still, rock ‘n’ roll and Hollywood have been ugly, messy…
A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Travis Egedy, who performs under the name Pictureplane, has been rapidly gaining the attention of popular underground bands from around the country for the last few years, most notably HEALTH who took Pictureplane on a national tour in March 2009. HEALTH was also…
Update: Thanks to our friends at Suburban Home Records, we’ve got our hands on a track for Chad Price’s forthcoming record, which we’ve posted after the jump for your downloading pleasure.Hot on the heels of Vistor’s Band, Jon Snodgrass’s excellent solo record, Chad Price, the other half of the almighty…
Fell’s discography is a bit complicated: Although the group’s latest album, Incoherent Lullabies, was just released by the band’s Australian label, Camera Obscura, it was actually recorded before the album the act released a few months ago, a platter titled A Farewell to Echoes. As it turns out, Lullabies was…
As those who’ve spent any amount of time on the road can attest, touring can be either exhilarating or exhausting. Like anything else, there’s high points and low points. Most of the time, though, it falls somewhere in the middle. Days are spent in constant motion it seems on long,…
Yesterday, we posted a video from Katie Chastain directed by Nathan Johnson, a Denver bred artist/musician/director with loose ties to the Fray. Today, we bring you another swell clip from a director who’s directly associated with Isaac Slade and company, Rod Blackhurst, the guy responsible for Fair Fight, the 80-minute…
Few musicians can cite a specific turning point in their artistic lives. Boulder Acoustic Society bassist Aaron Keim is one of them. During a visit to rural New Mexico, the young instrumentalist — then a college student in his native Wisconsin — sat in on an honest-to-gosh, down-home hootenanny in…
Inside the Rocket Room, it didn’t take long to completely forget that I was just south of downtown Colorado Springs (at 230 Pueblo Avenue, specifically). This place could easily fit in on South Broadway, and it shares more than a few similarities with 3 Kings Tavern — including punk, rockabilly,…
The elusive Tjutjuna, the Siberian equivalent of Sasquatch, roams the highlands of eastern Russia. Tjutjuna (due at the Larimer Lounge on Wednesday, September 2) is also an experimental band from Denver that comprises four of the former members of the ambitious space-rock group Mothership. As with that outfit of cosmic…
Olympia’s Desolation Wilderness combines ghostly atmospherics with scintillating poppy guitar work, sounding as though its members learned to play music from listening to a steady diet of Galaxie 500, Big Star’s Third and Codeine. The live version of Desolation can be startlingly forceful, as the band also manages to pull…
Not all bands can excel in every kind of venue, as those who attended the August 14 Atmosphere show at Red Rocks discovered during the Eyedea & Abilities set. The Minnesota pair, whose collective moniker obscures the identity of emcee Michael Larsen and DJ Gregory Keltgen, didn’t adjust their approach…
Fruit Bats frontman Eric Johnson, who’ll take the Larimer Lounge stage following Death Vessel and Achille Lauro, joined the Shins shortly after contributing to a track on the latter’s 2007 album, Wincing the Night Away. Fortunately, though, he didn’t respond to this opportunity by shutting down his previous project. The…
Despite the fact that he once recorded Aleister Crowley-influenced songs with prog master Robert Fripp — seriously, we can’t make stuff like that up — Daryl Hall has never been given the credit he deserves. Of course, you can’t blame the public for its perception of Hall and his sidekick,…
When Arrington De Dionyso formed Old Time Relijun in the late ’90s, the group’s reliance on the deconstructive glee of free jazz and the mutant skronk of Captain Beefheart was a bracing formula. But over the years, De Dionyso has proven to be more than a mere dabbler in the…
Before joining Nick Houde to form BDRMPPL, Ryan Mcryhew performed under the name Thundercade. This latest release from that project weaves together eight-bit composition with house beats, analog synth pop and a touch of trance. “Autosuggestion” feels like a lost OMD track until a hip-hop vocal sample bursts the bubbling…
The jam with which YMSB’s music has been flavored since its 1998 founding is spread thinner than usual on The Show, a new album being given to attendees of a Friday, August 28, Red Rocks concert co-starring Xavier Rudd (August 27’s Fox Theatre preview is sold out). Working again with…
