Rodney Atkins may be a man of few words, but this quiet country singer is quickly amassing a body of hits that speaks loudly to his place as one of Nashville’s emerging power players. Since his platinum 2006 album If You’re Going Through Hell, Atkins has spun together a string…
We heard some rumblings a month ago that this might happen, but we were hoping against hope it wouldn’t. Well, hope got played, because today Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) officially announced that they are calling it quits. The poetic and obscure post names “built-in contradiction” as the…
All right, how many times have you been bopping along, minding your own business, listening to some tunes, when all of the sudden, you’ll hear a line in a song that instantly makes you do a double-take? You know, the ones where you keep rewinding the sucker, marveling aloud to…
Innerstate Ike has been putting in work in the local scene for sometime now and was most recognized for his work with rapper Colfax Cac. Back in 2005, Ike and Cac suffered multiple gunshot wounds in a driveby and while Ike survived suffering paralysis from the waist down, his best…
The author is a Denver-based music junkie and quasi-music writer of the female variety, and not she’s afraid to admit that she sometimes wants to make out with the bands she writes about. This year’s Mile High Music Festival billed some of the hottest bands around. But since I sometimes…
See more photos at westword.com/sldeshow. Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Ogden Theatre Better Than: Chaperoning an unchaperoned prom. Not that different, but definitely better. It’s not often someone asks you, during the first song of a headliner’s set, “Who is this?” It’s even less often that when you answer with the…
Back in December, Colorado MCs Whygee and Sunkenstate connected with Colorado producer Kid Hum to create Suicide Watch, one of the better Colorado hip-hop releases of 2008. And it was free! Now Whygee and Sunk have reconnected for Suicide Watch 2: Sambodextrust, a seven-song collection that features production from Nigel…
Last month, we wistfully reflected on the final razing of Rainbow Music Hall, specifically, the iconic marquee that outlived the venue itself and served as a reminder of the early years of Denver music. As we remembered the many shows we saw there growing up, we became somewhat outraged that…
Tori Amos and eskimOTuesday, July 21, 2009Paramount TheatreBetter Than: The last time I saw Tori Amos at Red Rocks in 1998.London-based One eskimO opened the show, and at first, I was concerned it might be one of those bands favored by modern rock stations that border on the adult contemporary…
New music: The Mansfields, who just completed a tour with the Queers, will be recording a new album in Atlanta, and Joe Queer will be reportedly producing it. Hello Kavita has posted three new songs (“Sunday,” “To a Loved One” and “Ok”) on its MySpace page from the forthcoming album…
I like Denver-based, danceable post-punk outfit the Ideal Fathers a lot. I like the bleepy, chirping 8-bit soundscapes of chiptunes a lot. So you can imagine my excitement today when I stumbled upon a completely kickass chiptunes remix/reimagining of one of my very favorite Ideal Fathers tracks whilst wasting time…
On Wednesday, July 22, Live Nation is offering buy one, get one free lawn tickets for Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre shows including Creed, Crue Fest II, Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Poison, Toby Keith with Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, and Rod Stewart. The two-for-one…
If you like free music — and I know you like free music — point your web-browsing machine over to One Track Mind, a newish blog offering a daily song review and download of said reviewed song. It’s a Denver-based operation and, according to its About page, it’s staffed by…
The highlight of the Mile High Music Fest — at least for the guy who was stuck in the media tent uploading photos and reviews — had to be the moment when photographer Brian Landis Folkins returned to the tent armed with photos from the early-Sunday performance of honeyhoney, the…
It took me a bit, but I finally was able to sift through the hundreds of photos our photogs took over the weekend and cull out some of the best. So on the slideshow page, you’ll now find slideshows of full of concert photos for Day One and Day Two…
Update: So you don’t have to scour the YouTubes, we’ve helpfully embedded the video, direct from KDVR into this post. After the jump, enjoy a brief interview with Danielle (she explains that whole “Ate the Sandwich” bit if you’re curious and haven’t heard the story yet) before she plays her…
Venerable Colorado dance music resource Unnet has been going through some changes lately, revamping the site to make it even more of a hub for Colorado’s dance music scene. One key addition was the introduction of a mobile-friendly site for all you folks that like to read the ‘Nets from…
New Jersey-based indie rockers Yo La Tengo hit the road this fall, which includes a stop at Ogden Theatre Saturday, October 10, in support of the band’s forthcoming album, Popular Songs, due September 8 on Matador. Tickets, which are $20 advance and $25 day of show, go on sale Saturday,…
Dead Weather’s debut, Horehound, was the top seller at Wax Trax while Cage’s Depart From Me came in second for the week ending July 19. Clutch’s Strange Cousins From the West, J Dilla’s Dillanthology 2 and Tortoise’s Beacons of Ancestorship rounded out the top five. See the full breakdown after…
Twist’s Category F5, released last week on the GMG imprint, grabbed the top spot at Independent Records while local act Speakeasy Tiger’s debut, The Public, came in second for the week ending July 19. Krizz Kalico’s new album, Genius, nabbed the third spot and Jeremih moved down number four. See…
Horehound, the debut album by the alt-rock super group the Dead Weather featuring White Stripes’ Jack White, the Kills’ Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertita and the Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence, knocked Wilco latest effort down to the second slot at Twist & Shout for the week ending…
The Beastie Boys have just announced, via YouTube video, that Adam Yauch (aka MCA) has cancer in one of his parotid glands. As a result, they are canceling all tour dates for this summer and pushing back the scheduled September 17 release of their album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1…
