Here We Go Magic, Vitamins and Achille Lauro Sunday, June 28, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than: A straightforward interpretation of a band’s album. This show opened with Denver’s own Vitamins. Since coming to the Mile High City from Greeley two years ago, it seems Vitamins have shed a bit of…
As I’ve mentioned once or twice in this blog, I occasionally DJ around town, under a pseudonym. I use a pseudonym because I want to make it clear that Eryc Eyl, the DJ, operates in a musical universe that is completely different from the one inhabited by Eryc Eyl, the music…
White Rabbits, Crocodiles, The Subjects Friday, June 26, 2009 The Bluebird Better Than: Speeding down a deserted highway on a summer night. You get my bias up front for White Rabbits. These are hometown boys to me, formed in Columbia, Missouri, where I learned to love music. They’d already left…
Just got word that local grindcore band Zombie Hate Brigade have signed with Crash Music, a national label out of Phoenix that focuses on heavy metal and rock. The band’s debut release on Crash will be an expanded, multimedia-enhanced CD of their recent self-released self-titled album. Fans will get the…
As expected, it’s been all-Michael Jackson-all-the-time at most news outlets today, including ours. Over the course of our surfing this morning, we came across several items of interest that we thought we’d post. First, a vintage recording of radio commercial from 1988 touting Jackson’s Bad tour that same year, which…
This week’s adventure in freakiness comes from the very early days of MTV, and the very latest days of former Monkees member Mike Nesmith’s solo career (wait, he had a solo career?). And I have to say that it is an amazing exercise in sheer WTF from the first frame…
PULSE Arts, the folks behind the annual Shoe Shine event, are taking their appreciation for art and sneaker culture to another level. This Saturday, June 27, the organization will host their first annual Sneaker Prom at the Denver Athletic Club (1325 Glenarm St.) in an effort to raise money for…
Jonas Brothers Lines, Vines and Trying Times (Hollywood) Of course the Jonai are interested in broadening their demographic appeal. At this point, after all, medical science is unable to prevent girls from aging beyond their twelth birthday. But their approach to sonic maturation is flat-out inexplicable. Late teens and early…
Just got word of another free, limited-time download from local dubstep producer Alert. This EP is cleverly titled Glass House on the Left and it’s made up of three dark, atmospheric tracks of spacious, shifty dubstep goodness. It kicks off with “Badvibe,” the most energetic of the three, before shifting…
Last night, our counterparts over at the L.A. Weekly posted an exclusive interview with Bob Sanger, Michael Jackson’s attorney for sixteen years. It’s a good read. A candid conversation, the exchange offers some interesting insights about Jackson, like how well read he was, and is fully worth checking out if…
Fresh on the heels of the annual summer solstice, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club has made a change in their ranks. Joining the acclaimed world touring goth country ensemble is the ever talented drummer Chadzilla of Polytoxic and Double Parked fame.Chadzilla’s manager had this to say: “This is a real honor…
Phoenix, Amazing Baby Thursday, June 25, 2009 The Bluebird Better Than: Every show I’ve seen in the past year. Something happened last night at the Bluebird. I’m not sure exactly what the chemistry was, whether it was the world’s trendiest band or the fact that we are all feeling gooey…
By now you’ve heard that Michael Jackson died today at his home in California. Evidently, he had rented a place out in Belaire and was rehearsing for fifty sold out shows at O2 in London, the first four of which he had already reportedly postponed. Dubbed “This Is It,” the…
You’re looking at the first image of Wall Street — the ref-bribing, match-fixing, gabacho jerkoff alter ego of former Machine Gun Blues frontman Aaron Collins. As reported here not so long ago (see the original blog here), Collins has turned his years of of experience abusing his body to a…
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…
A while back there was some talk that Tickle Me Pink was going the way of pager technology. Turns out the dudes were just taking some time off to write some new songs, some of which they’ll be debuting at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, June 27, in the company…
The Bluebird should be buzzing with energy tonight when Phoenix stops by the Bluebird. Guaranteed to be a show that everyone’s talking about for a good little while — Phoenix is in the midst of riding a substantial buzz right now — the outfit joins Amazing Baby for a sold…
About 700 hip-hop heads came out to Beta Nightclub last night to see twelve producers battle toe-to-toe in Red Bull Big Tune competition. Among the familiar faces that competed included Yonnas of the Pirate Signal, who was surprisingly ousted in the first round by Xperiment of Educated Figures. There were…
“Ah, man, I love this song!” I must make this remark a lot during the show. Last night, as I was marveling out loud about one of the tunes — I’m not sure which one, but I think it might’ve been “Skinny” by Scaffolding — Andy pointed out the obvious:…
On Tuesday night, One Eyed Jacks, which sits on 4th and Sante Fe in the space previously occupied by the Continental Club, was burglarized. According to owner Desiree Gonzalez, the thief (or thieves, as the case may be?) made off with at 15K worth of stuff. In an effort to…
Last year we played this show at the Roxy,” remembers Taylor Kirgan, singer/guitarist of Ascaris. “We played with three hip-hop groups that night. We were the only band with amps; everyone else was up there with turntables and laptops. We opened up that show with full stacks. At the end…
Two decades ago, a buddy and I were eating burritos on the patio of a place in downtown Isla Vista, California, home of the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus, when a sixty-something guy started chatting us up. His cheeks were leathery, and his hair, bushy eyebrows and beard were…
