Concerts

DEEP MEDI MUSIK @ CITY HALL | 4.7.12 City Hall felt the bass on Saturday night, the real bass, thanks to the Deep Medi crew coming all the way from across the pond from London to commemorate the five year anniversary of Sub.mission. The local crew put together an unprecedented…

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 4/8/12 It would be a tough to pinpoint a specific climax of this show, but a true high point of feeling for the band — and probably the crowd — came with the last number of the set when Kawabata Makoto used some…

THE DIRTY FEMMES @ HI-DIVE Like any relationship, a live band needs to first find common ground with its audience, and then and work from there. This is made extremely easy when you’re whole set is duplicating material the audience is already familiar with. The crowd will burst with enthusiasm…

GOTYE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.6.12A sun rose in a blood red sky as Gotye unleashed the first notes and lyrics to “Eyes Wide Open,” one of the more upbeat tracks — and first single — off of Making Mirrors, the album he released in the late summer of last…

FUN. @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4.5.12 There’s no question that Fun. is fun. The band, fronted by Nate Ruess formerly of the Format, has been compared to Elton John and Queen, turning out tracks of pop rock that are accessible, bouncy and really effing awesome to yell in your car…

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY @ BOULDER THEATER | 4/5/12 Explosions in the Sky began the show on a high note with the familiar, siren-like guitar figure of “First Breath After Coma.” Sounds came in waves and then floods, as Chris Hrasky struck an almost martial beat with his snare and…

Here we are, already in the first week of April, the sun is shining and the weather is sweet. There are a ton of parties happening this weekend in which you can shake your groove thang, post up in the back and nod your head, or just get plain silly…

Welcome to the end of the work week! Unsurprisingly, your musical options are plentiful this weekend: Gotye packs the Ogden tonight for a sold-out show with Kimbra, Fun. is at the Fox Theatre, John Scofield returns to Colorado after the successful three night stand with Phil Lesh not too long…

Another full dance card this weekend: Sub.mission celebrates its fifth anniversary with a big blowout at City Hall on Saturday, Connie (in her first-ever Denver set) and Ana Sia are both bringing the girl power in different genres this weekend, and they’re balanced out by duo Thugfucker in that act’s…

Holy Jesus! The bizarro-but-awesome Big Head Todd and Bill Murray saga just took an interesting turn. Last week, as you might remember, we posted a short item about Big Bad Bill being spotted all over Austin recently at SXSW rocking Big Head Todd T-shirts. The actor and La Cabeza Grande…

Explosions in the Sky (due tonight at the Boulder Theater) is an instrumental rock band based out of Austin, Texas. For the last thirteen years, the quartet has been creating a kind of anthemic, instrumental guitar rock that sparkles with impressionistic melodies building to a cathartic apex, not unlike a…

It’s official: Flobots are no longer without a label. After parting ways with Universal Records in December 2010 — the label that issued the band’s last full-length, Survival Story — the band has officially been picked up by Shanachie Entertainment, a prominent independent label founded in the mid ’70s by…

Oh, now, this is rich: In an effort to thwart the efforts of any would-be paparazzi on her upcoming tour, which hits the Pepsi Center on Thursday, October 18, Madonna has reportedly contracted a cluster of Madonna-bes to impersonator her in various cities. If indeed true (for what it’s worth,…

mr. Gnome (due tonight at the Hi-Dive) tours more than most bands. The act’s music is often thrown under the umbrella term “psychedelic.” But clearly this Cleveland-based duo isn’t really trying to sound like another psychedelic band. From the way Nicole Barille and Sam Meister present themselves in their press…

This past Friday night, MCA Denver opened its Search & Destroy exhibition, which displayed everything from the works of photographers Bruce Conner and Richard Peterson to old copies of MRR to posters and large-scale Black Flag art. Backbeat cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was there and brings back his interpretation…