Concerts

Before Ozomatli rocked the Ogden on Saturday night, the genre-bending L.A.-based act stopped by the Spot at Urban Peak, which offers services to homeless and runaway youth in Denver, where it played a free one-hour acoustic show. Instead of just playing a couple songs and leaving, the band interacted with…

PRETTY LIGHTS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 8/17/12 See also: Q&A with Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights Similar to the unprecedented Skrillex show at Red Rocks last week, the Pretty Lights show started with a five-minute countdown and Trentemoller’s “Take Me Into Your Skin” playing over the speakers. A…

ANDREW BIRD @ OGDEN THEATRE | 8/17/12 See also: Q&A with Andrew Bird on his songwriting process and his approach to improvising using loops Last night at the Ogden Theatre, singer/violinist/Olympic-grade whistler Andrew Bird performed in front of the most attentive, respectful, rapt crowd the Chicago wunderkind could have possibly…

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It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through August — so do what we’re doing this weekend and don’t think about it. Instead, hit the dance floor. If you’re not heading to Red Rocks for Pretty Lights’ sold-out, two-night run, there’s plenty of options for you back here in…

The bad news is you didn’t win a gazillion dollars last night in Powerball — some lucky jerk in Michigan did, apparently. The good news is that you may still have some unexpected cashola coming your way. Think of it as finding a crisp twenty in the pocket of pants…

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Brennen Bryarly is still terrified of heights. You’d think he wouldn’t be by now, but he is. For a decade, he performed the most dangerous job in America, and he spent a lot of time looking down. Now he’s soaring to new heights with his music. Bryarly, of course, is…

If you were to put together a short list of the most interesting indie-rock bands from Denver in the past ten years, it would probably include at least one of the groups featuring either Mike Perfetti or Tyler Campo. Anyone paying attention over the years probably heard of or saw…

A year after forming in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981, the members of Dead Can Dance moved to London, where they came into contact with the great post-punk bands of the era, such as the Sound, Comsat Angels and Death in June. The dark urgency of that music can be heard…

A seasoned DJ, producer and live performer, Berlin-by-way-of-Vancouver’s Todd Shillington — aka Konrad Black — has roots in drum-and-bass and hip-hop, but he’s best known today as one of the founders (with Mathew Jonson, Graham Boothby and Jesse Fisk) of the international techno and house label Wagon Repair. Early in…

Buffalo, New York-based death-metal legend Cannibal Corpse has been going strong for more than two decades now, longer than many of its younger fans have been alive. That, however, is the beauty of this style of music — and of Cannibal Corpse in particular. As long as there are fresh…

When it formed in Sweden in 1991, Refused sounded like any other hardcore band influenced by the later era of that music. But by the time of its second record, 1996’s Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent, these guys made it clear to anyone paying attention that they were…

A lot has changed for the Congress since the band released its 2010 self-titled debut EP. For starters, it’s gone from being a quartet to a trio, and it brought in a new drummer, Mark Levy, about a year and a half ago. This was right around the time the…

Artist and master of funky, dirty tech-house Santé is closely tied to his label, Avotre, in more ways than one. For one thing, the name itself is a play on his chosen moniker (“À votre santé” is French for “To your health” — their version of “Cheers!”). For another, he’s…

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The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. One thing crowds at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival do pretty well is get down. Despite the relentless wind, heavy fog and numbing temperatures, we saw plenty of good moves last weekend — and some…

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