One of the most influential bands of the past thirty years, the Melvins are well known for their sludgy punk-rock sound, which formed the arc of records like Houdini and Stoner Witch in the ’90s. With nineteen full-length albums, numerous collaborations — including a record with Lustmord — and a…
The members of the aptly named Nightbringer are from Colorado, a place where the sun allegedly shines 300 days a year. You would never know it, though, from listening to Hierophany of the Open Grave, the act’s excellent third album. Playing an absolutely ferocious brand of black metal that’s every…
The sprawling two-disc set from this long-running noise/experimental hip-hop project is clearly drawn from sounds that Mike Schleipfer has been collecting since the last Bill Picket’s release. Not really comparable to any other music, except for maybe the output of the Revolting Cocks and Warlock Pinchers gone even more zany,…
Boulder’s Stuart Davis, a practicing Buddhist monk otherwise known as the “punk monk,” has made a name for himself with his HDNet show Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll, which includes comedy sketches, monologues and music. He’s also made a number of albums under his own name with producer and engineer…
On “Here Lies,” a track from Paradox and Sean P’s latest, Mending, the beats are impressive — DJ Premier-esque, sample-driven boom bap — as are the rhymes, which touch on government conspiracies, injustice and sundry ills of society. This is solid underground hip-hop that doesn’t seem to match the label’s…
Cecil Bailey and Chris Garrow first played together in the stoner-rock band Core of the Earth. As fashionable as that musical style was a few years back, Core stood out from the pack for having good, solid songs. During their time in the band, Bailey and Garrow started up a…
K.atou is one of the hometown heroes of Athens, Greece. Not long after she was honing her needles as a teenager at Bossa Nostra, one of the city’s biggest clubs, she was going to college in the United Kingdom, where she managed to expand her musical education while still keeping…
Summer’s over — well, at least according to the time-tested seasonal benchmark, the annual passing of Labor Day. Of course, it still feels like we might burst into flames at any moment, but whatever. The Taste of Colorado has foisted its parade of also-rans upon us and Phish has now…
Matt Rutherford spent more than 300 days sailing around the world in a small boat. Many thought this dubious expedition was impossible, but not only did he complete it, he’s now the subject of a new documentary, a film that his old friend and former classmate, Spoke In Wordz, has…
HANK 3 @ BOULDER THEATER | 9/04/12 Hank 3 outlasted most of his audience last night at the Boulder Theater. Exceeding even the expectations he himself set, he played more than the three and a half hours he said he’s playing on this tour. By the time he launched into…
Churchill’s show on Saturday, September 29 at the Bluebird is sold out. And while that news in itself is totally worthy of being stoked about (as is the second date that’s just been added on Sunday, September 30), that’s hardly the biggest and best news coming out of that camp…
PHISH @ DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK | 8/31/12 – 9/2/12 Telluride ’88, Red Rocks ’94 and Denver ’97 — these aren’t just places and years to Phish fans. They’re monuments, pivotal parts of Phish’s Colorado legacy. Out of nearly eighty concerts that the band has played in the Centennial state…
WIZ KHALIFA @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 9/1/12 Should you find yourself standing in front of a sold-out Red Rocks crowd that has their hands up in the air bobbing along with your opening beat, take a cue from Wiz Khalifa and assume your place at the throne by doing…
SUMMERGRIND FESTIVAL @ GOTHIC THEATRE | 9/1/12 The final performance on the outdoor stage was moved inside the Gothic Theatre — presumably due to volume complaints — which pushed the night’s lineup back an hour, but this did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm for Leftöver Crack. Early in the set,…
THE DONT’S AND BE CAREFULS @ HI-DIVE | 8/31/12 The Don’ts and Be Carefuls have never been ones to skimp on their emotional generosity on stage. So in that regard, this final performance was not that much different from the band’s already high standard. But it was just a notch…
LINKIN PARK @ COMFORT DENTAL AMPHITHEATRE | 8/30/12 Sometime around the middle part of the last decade, the pop culture zeitgeist moved on from testosterone-driven dude rock that ruled the ’90s. Incubus and Linkin Park, two titans of the post-grunge era, never got the memo. Last night, fans witnessed two…
While the biggest EDM event this weekend is Burning Man, if you’re staying behind in Colorado, you don’t have to feel left out. You can head up to Happy Ass Ranch at Lake George for Freeman Music Festival, a free festival with over twelve hours of music daily and nearly…
Welcome to the (long) weekend! As the summer heat continues, so do the shows. There’s a great variety to choose from over the next few days, a healthy mix of imports and exports. We have them all listed in our massive concert calendar. If you’re feeling industrious, print that bad…
It’s no secret that Denver’s electronic-music scene has grown exponentially over the past couple of years. But while some of the world’s best DJs and producers might swing through town for a night to melt a dance floor, it leaves some local artists asking why we aren’t exporting as much…
Talk All Night (due at Glob on Saturday, September 1) changed its name from the Clever Deadly, but the band’s members stuck with developing their core sound, which is focused on weaving together threads of electro/dream pop, downtempo, glitch and the kind of moody, atmospheric post-punk that some might call…
The merging of hardcore hip-hop with heavy bass lines and melodic keyboards was an inevitable one, but you would never have guessed that its birthplace would be Canada. Datsik, known in his home town of British Columbia as Troy Beetles, fuses the heaviest elements of rap and dubstep to create…
Named after a legendary school for pickpockets, School of Seven Bells came together when Benjamin Curtis met the Deheza twins, Alejandra and Claudia, of On!Air!Library!, while his old band, Secret Machines, was on tour opening for Interpol in 2007. The trio struck up a friendship and musical partnership, which has…
