TIM HECKER @ ODD FELLOWS HALL | 3/30/12 “Normally I don’t sit down when I play,” said Tim Hecker with some bemusement before starting his set. “But this chair looked inviting. This will be a special, Stephen Hawking-inspired performance. No disrespect.” With that, noises, tones and sounds trickled in and…
Great news for dance music fans, just in time for Caffeine this weekend: Hot 107.1 just flipped formats. The former Top 40 station, owned by Max Media, will now be catering the electronic dance community. Partnering with Denver-based Global Dance Music, the station will now be spinning the biggest bangers…
Rachel Thoele of Flipper (due tonight at the Lion’s Lair) got her start in the Bay Area punk scene in her first band God (or G.O.D. aka Girls On Drugs or Girls Over Dosed). But the first band she was in that many people got to see was Frightwig, the…
Spring fever!! This is the best time of the year to step outside, get some fresh air, and party your face off. Catch Paul Wall tonight at Casselman’s, or you can saddle up to the Electric Pony tonight at Appaloosa Grill with DJ Khalib and friends. Tomorrow night, meanwhile, Concept…
Lupe Fiasco is coming back to Denver for a date at City Hall Amphitheatre on Thursday, May 17 with a stellar local supporting cast, including Foodchain, Pries and DJ Mu$a. Tickets ($40-$45) for this 18 plus show are on sale now via SoCo, and if Lupe’s last show at the…
FLIPPER @ LION’S LAIR | 3/29/12 “How do you get a hippie girl pregant?” asked Rachel Thoele before Flipper even played a note. “Cum on her Birkenstocks, and let the flies do the rest.” Bruce Loose had a chuckle and asked her if she had any more jokes. She did…
This weekend’s most high profile dance event is Caffeine at the 1STBANK Center, featuring DJ Micro, along with Head Hunterz, Cassette, Icey, Jes and more. At Beta, meanwhile, Jesse Rose and Oliver $ bring techno, house and tech-house to the next level tonight, and Jacques Lu Cont performs tomorrow night…
Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Don’t you just love living in the Mile High City? Besides the glorious weather we’re enjoying right now, we have yet another weekend filled with a ridiculous number of enticing options: Lucero kicks off its two-night stand at the Bluebird, in addition to an…
Planet Bluegrass, the Lyons-based outfit that brings you the enormously popular Telluride Bluegrass and RockyGrass, which has already sold out, and Rocky Mtn Folks Festival, which is on its way to selling out, have announced plans to host Yonder Mountain String Band this coming August. The two-day Kinfolk Celebration is…
Update 3/30/12: Photo of Nading-Presley Memorial Gym plaque added. Jonny Barber is troubled. Last week, the former Velvet Elvis, the Mile High City’s expert Elvis channeler and resident Elvistorian received news that the building that used to house the Nading-Presley Memorial Gym, which The King generously helped build for the…
See Also: – Meet Dave Staff, Denver’s seventy-year-old karaoke king – Denver’s ten best karaoke bars “I have done nothing wrong,” pleads/demands the drunken dude in the back of this Canadian squad car at the beginning of this clip. And while that may or may not be true, what he’s…
Redefining an instrument and creating a new genre are rare musical feats, creative accomplishments that come once in a generation, at best. The death of Earl Eugene Scruggs on Wednesday at the age of 88 marked the passing of such an innovator, an American artist who built a brand new…
While Red Rocks and Comfort Dental Amphitheatre are both great spots for outdoor concerts during the summer, the Mishawaka Amphitheatre, which is about ten miles northwest of Ft. Collins in Poudre Canyon, also offers a great environment for seeing shows outside. While there’s still more shows to come, the Mish…
So, speaking of Big Head Todd and the Monsters, whose namesake frontman, as we told you about yesterday, is selling his Washington Park bungalow, do you know who’s all sorts of sweet on the band? Bill Murray. Yes, that Bill Murray. Well, that’s what we’ve deduced anyway. Either that, or…
SHARON VAN ETTEN @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 3.28.12 Read also: Sharon Van Etten Q&A Sharon Van Etten is not a diva. Walking on stage at the Bluebird last night, as unassumingly as if she were in the grocery store produce aisle, Van Etten appeared confident and casual. There was no…
Flipper (due tonight and tomorrow night at the Lion’s Lair) got its start in 1979 in the creatively fertile arts and music scene in San Francisco. Formed after the break-up of Negative Trend and including two former members of that band, Will Shatter and Stephen DePace, Flipper didn’t set out…
In this week’s print edition, you’ll notice the conspicuous absence of 4 Questions, the always entertaining and brilliantly illustrated comic strip from Backbeat’s resident genius (no, seriously, we hear he’s a card-carrying member of Mensa — or maybe he knows somebody who is, we can never remember) Noah Van Sciver…
While the Zillow.com listing for the house at 1323 South Lafayette is suitably informative (from the basic descriptors — two bedrooms, three bathrooms, 2,430 square feet, built in 1920, fireplace — to the intangibles, “amazing location for this contemporary remodel,” it says, “only three houses from Wash Park…”), it leaves…
You might remember that, just over a year ago, we posted a bit about the Western States Arts Federation’s (WESTAF) TourWest program. We misunderstood the impetus of the program and mistakenly noted that the funds were earmarked specifically for helping local musicians finance their tour endeavors. While we later learned…
Umphrey’s McGee at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, September 14. Hot on the heels of its show at the Fillmore a few weeks ago, we’ve received word that the band will be returning to Colorado this fall for a pair of dates, the first a two-set show at Red Rocks…
Brace yourself: This is probably the coolest thing in the world we’ve seen, hands down, since the invention of the Smokey Amp. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is the Marshall Fridge, and it’s precisely what it sounds like, a refrigerator fashioned to resemble a Marshall stack, complete with…
Michael Gira’s show on Saturday night at the Oriental Theater with Wovenhand included a few chatterboxes with whom the 58-year-old Swans mastermind just couldn’t abide. Page down to hear Gira tell the more vocal members of the crowd to “Go read Pitchfork,” after demanding that they kindly “Shut the motherfucking…
