Could This Be Little Fyodor and Babushka Band’s Final Show?

After nearly thirty years of performing as Little Fyodor, Dave Lichtenberg is putting his current project, Little Fyodor & Babushka Band, on indefinite hiatus. That means that the band’s show on Saturday, October 15, at the Lion’s Lair will be its last performance for the foreseeable future. The event is…

Jive Church and the Rebirth of the Pamlico Sound

The Pamlico Sound is releasing its latest full-length album, Jive Church, which represents a good deal of work, re-work and rebirth for the band over the course of the last year and a half. Horn player and vocalist Will Baumgartner put the outfit together in June 2015 after a year’s hiatus…

Brujeria Grinds Against Trump at the Bluebird

Despite the sold out Slayer and Anthrax show happening up the street at the Fillmore Auditorium, Brujeria, Cattle Decapitation and Piñata Protest garnered a sizable audience at the Bluebird for its own raw display of musical brutality. San Antonio’s Piñata Protest brought an odd but effective mixture of punk and…

Denver Taiko Celebrates Its Fortieth Anniversary With Two Performances

Denver Taiko is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a pair of concerts at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Denver campus. The title of the concert is Okage sama de, which translates to “Because of you.” The nonprofit organization’s membership is composed largely of Americans…

Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa on Hip-Hop-Inflected Heads Up, J. Dilla, and No Limits

Warpaint’s new album, Heads Up, is being rightfully praised for its seamless integration of rock instrumentation with the aesthetics of electronic music and hip-hop. Since the band’s debut full-length, The Fool, in 2010, Warpaint has been making music that’s difficult to pigeonhole into one genre. Whether dubbed a new kind of post-punk,…

Clock DVA Is Finding a Renaissance in the New Industrial Era

With the recent upswing in popularity of industrial and experimental electronic music with new artists emerging from the older Goth-industrial scene, it seems as though Clock DVA was ahead of the curve when it reactivated in 2008. Groups like Youth Code, BURNING, Troller, All Your Sisters, Curse and Echo Beds draw…

Nocturnal Is Expanding Denver’s After-Hours Dance Options

Nocturnal is holding its latest party at Eko House this Friday, September 23. The dance-music-oriented event was inspired by founder Alex Whittier’s experiences with after-party culture, beginning when he attended LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy’s DJ shows at Sasquatch Music Festival and in Aspen and Boulder. At that time he…

Longtime Denver Band Jux County Returns With Signature ‘Punktry’ Sound

Jux County is releasing its first album since 2001’s Junk Country. The new collection of songs, titled Coral, represents the group’s latest phase since it reconvened in 2014, after years of on-and-mostly-off-again live shows as its members focused on projects and life outside the band. Primary songwriter, guitarist and singer…

Orbit Service Tours With the Legendary Pink Dots

Orbit Service performs tonight, Tuesday, September 20, at the Marquis Theater as the opening act for the current Legendary Pink Dots tour. Many may know Randall Frazier, the songwriter for Orbit Service, for his long tenure as booking manager and sound engineer at the Walnut Room or for his current…

With Grande Orquesta Navarre, Denver Musicians Make Ambition Accessible

Grande Orquesta Navarre came together in the summer of 2015 when Evan Orman, Sara Parkinson, Susan Cahill and Tom Hagerman decided to ditch the genre confines of their former tango outfit Exstasis for a more open-format band. Drawing on their mutual interest and backgrounds in classical music, jazz, rock, pop…

Tour Tech Chase Dobson Presses Buttons of the Biggest Pop Stars

Chase Dobson was known in Denver for his two-year tenure with Lipgloss and Analog Space, but in March 2011, he joined pop star Mike Posner’s first big tour doing keyboard tech and Ableton Live production work. Since then, Dobson’s main job has been touring the world doing similar work for various…

Fantasia Returns to Rhinoceropolis This Weekend

The fifth installment of Fantasia takes place at Rhinoceropolis this weekend, starting Friday, September 9, and running through Sunday, September 11. At its heart, Fantasia is an art show but one where the form of art isn’t cast in the traditional art gallery or exhibition mode. When the event launched,…

This Tour Marks the End of an Era for Avant-Rock Band Swans

When this series of tours ends in December 2017, the current iteration of the veteran avant-rock band Swans, which began with the 2010 reunion, will come to an end as well. “In the future I’ll be working with a revolving cast of characters on a project-by-project basis,” says band leader…

Lizzy Rose to Release Crocodile Tears at Lost Lake

Musician Lizzy Allen is now based in Seattle, but she spent most of her life in Colorado. As lead singer and multi-instrumentalist for indie-rock band Vitamins, Allen made a mark in the Denver scene as a talented vocalist. In 2010, a random encounter at a Tame Impala show between her…