Trey Spruance first came to prominence as the guitarist in Mr. Bungle, with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn. Spruance also did a brief stint in Patton’s then-more-famous band Faith No More. After Bungle effectively quit being an active unit in 2000, Spruance took his interest in myriad musical styles, and…
Update 1/25/12: Low, which played in Denver at the Bluebird Theater last fall, has been added to the bill. Death Cab for Cutie is kicking off its upcoming North American tour in Denver on Tuesday, April 10, at Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The band will return to the Mile High…
Couple of recent closures to let you know about, one that’s more permanent than the other. First up: Mo’s, the bar at 1037 Broadway, has gone dark after a two-year-plus run. “It’s been a long run and something new is always on the horizon,” reads Mo’s Facebook page. “Change is…
As reported here last month, Barry Fey and Harry Tuft are on deck to become the next inductees into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. Due to an increased demand, the ceremony, originally slated to take place at the Dal Ward Athletic Center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus,…
This Thursday, January 19, you can get up close and personal with some prominent local creative types who are assembling to chop it up about making it in the worlds of music, art and fashion. Fittingly titled “How to Make It in America,” the panel, which features Guerilla Garden’s founder…
Korn is coming to the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, February 27, with Kill the Noise. Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Wednesday on the band’s website, and regular tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. Gotta hand it to the dudes: Who thought…
Ah, yes, girls, we love them. Who doesn’t, right? Mötley Crüe wrote an entire song about them. Actually, so did Jay-Z, come to think of it. But we digress. Where were we again? Oh, right, girls, we love them. So you can only imagine the overwhelming sense of joy we…
The initial acts for this year’s CMKY festival have been announced. The fifth annual edition of the festival is slated to kick off with a performance by Laurie Anderson on Wednesday, April 25, at the Boulder Theater, and will run through Sunday, April 29, at various venues across Boulder, which…
On the heels of its three-night stand at the Ogden Theatre this past December, Social Distortion has announced plans to return to the Centennial State, this time at the Boulder Theater, with the Toadies. Tickets for the Thursday, May 10, date go on sale this Friday, January 20, at 10…
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams unwittingly — and probably very much to his chagrin — became the most visible among Lana Del Rey’s detractors following her awkward performance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. He earned this distinction thanks to a note that he sent to Gawker…
Years ago, my mom asked me, ‘What are you going to do when your music can’t support you?'” Dominic Lalli remembers. “And I think it was then that I realized that I just had to go at this thing full steam.” And go at it full steam he has. And…
With the 2009 release of High Beams, Carbon Choir (due at the hi-dive this Friday, January 20) showed promise with a set of introspective, heartfelt songs rimmed with layers of impressionistic, melodic flickers of sound. As Joel Van Horne’s vocals soar over the top of the instrumentation, he shows an…
Wilco is a little like baseball, in that you probably know the rules, but the die-hard fans see skill and nuance that are impossible to convey to the casual crowd. Jeff Tweedy and company have become a full-blown American institution, and their fans are tracking stats, keeping up with the…
Being a hardcore band from Boston can be both a blessing and a curse — a curse in that it can so define a band that it won’t be able to move beyond that realm artistically. Death Before Dishonor, one of the hardest-working disciples of both the city and the…
Ethan Holtzman went to Cambodia in the 1990s and returned with music culled from the rich Cambodian rock scene that had existed before the Khmer Rouge put an end to just about everything in that country for five years. Holtzman recruited his brother Zac and some musician friends to do…
A couple of years ago, as part of my mom’s ongoing quest to relieve her basement of all the shit that spontaneously piles up because she might actually, you know, use it one day, she made me spend an afternoon sifting through the boxes of crap that I’d left behind…
On songs like “Melpop,” with its hint of guitar atmosphere in the background, textural, minimalistic percussion and echoing bass line, Velocirapture imagines the kind of moody yet strangely compelling bedroom recordings Robert Smith might have made had he grown up a couple of decades later. On “The Watcher,” a clacking…
From FY5 tracks “Red Mountain Pass” and “Sing a Lonesome Song,” it’s clear that Finnders & Youngberg is equally at home with foot-stomping bluegrass and a wide spectrum of roots, Americana and country music. On “Tomorrow Night,” the quintet takes Hank Thompson’s slow country song, speeds it up and adds…
Night Shiftin, the latest release from Six O’Clock, produced entirely by the Aurora-based MC himself, has an intimate, organic feel to it. As far as rapping goes, Six shows plenty of passion and promise, with a decent flow that’s strong enough to carry the joint. Night Shiftin is all about…
Taking its name from the Capitol Hill neighborhood where its founders met, Poets Row is an indie-folk outfit made up of Emily Hobbs and Mickey Bakes. Exquisite Corpse, the duo’s new EP, is a delightfully organic collection of sparse, harmony-laden tracks reminiscent of Gram Parsons’s duets with Emmylou Harris. The…
Ed Marshall is a music critic who wrote for The Big Take Over for some years when he was roommates with the magazine’s publisher, Jack Rabid. Since the early ’90s, Marshall has been in and out of the underground music scene in Denver, a veteran of bands like Man Ray’s…
Kris Wadsworth was inspired to create tunes after listening to mixtapes his siblings brought home from nightclubs. The DJ, who was born in Atlanta but is now considered part of the Detroit electronic-music scene, started producing and mixing tracks at the tender age of fourteen; two years later, he was…
