Update (10/31/11): OpenAir 1340 made its broadcast debut this morning, and the signal sounds pretty strong from where we’re at. Appropriately, the station hit the airwaves this morning at 5:59 a.m. with “Colorado” by Paper Bird. And the playlist thus far has been pretty standard indie fare from the likes…
When Dane Wolf came to Denver on October 19 with Death Angel for the Earth On Hell Tour featuring Anthrax, Testament, the guitar tech probably had no idea that he’d end up hospitalized as the victim of a brutal altercation. Before the bands left town, Wolf apparently headed over to…
The War On Drugs (due Sunday, October 30, at the hi-dive with Purling Hiss and Carter Tanton) started to take shape when Adam Granduciel moved back to the East Coast from Oakland to settle in Philadelphia. Once there, Granduciel began to play music with various people in the area, including…
Sometimes, you just don’t have the cash lying around to splurge on that expensive Halloween costume. Fear not, young heathens! We have compiled a list of costumes for you that cost nearly nothing. In fact, you probably have the materials lying around the house. Click through for some ideas. And,…
Just in time for the annual National Western Stock Show, which will be wrapping up around then, Brad Paisley is slated to return to the Mile High City with the Band Perry and freshly minted American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Tickets for this stop of the Camobunga Tour (don’t ask…
This weekend is huge. It’s one of those, “If you aren’t here, then you aren’t having as much fun as me” kind of weekends. The deck is stacked with amazing things to do, so pick a card — any card. We’ve got some passes to Designer Drugs at Club Vinyl…
PORTISHEAD at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/11For the last show of its tour, Portishead put on one of the finest performances anyone is likely to see this year or any year. The band’s energy, urgency and intensity kept building and building until the end when the instrumentation seemed to collide with…
Update (12/6/11): KTCL Hometown for the Holidays 2011 finalists revealed. Is it that time of year already? Yep. Afraid so. Only 58 days until Christmas, which means that KTCL’s annual Hometown for the Holidays promotion is just around the corner. The station has officially begun accepting submissions to see which…
According to his Twitter page, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack broke his nose last night. The break must’ve been pretty significant, as we received word just a bit ago that the band is putting its remaining tour dates on hold, including a stop on Wednesday, November 16 at the…
Last year’s 5280 Hip-Hop Awards program was a spectacle in so many ways. Every single rapper, producer and videographer in the scene was on hand for the ceremony. This year’s edition of the awards, slated for December 11, promises to be bigger and better than ever. For starters, it’s taking…
PAUL SIMON at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/26/2011It was not late in the evening when Paul Simon began to play. It was exactly 8:22 p.m., in fact — and it’s interesting to note that, when he penned the story of his journey as a musician in that song more than thirty…
Update (10/27/11): If you haven’t seen it yet, a Facebook event page has been established with details of Bryon Woodard’s Celebration of Life service. On Saturday, November 5, a celebration of Bryon Woodard’s life is planned from 1-4 p.m. in the Vogt Center Auditorium at Mile High Church in Lakewood…
The Protect IP Bill (S. 968), which was introduced back in May, was delayed after Sen. Ron Wyden argued it might infringe on free speech. While it appears that bill has been halted for the moment, it has been replaced with a similar one, The Stop Online Piracy Act (aka…
Tonight’s Theory of a Deadman show with Pop Evil at the Ogden Theatre has been canceled. The Canadian rockers are unable to make it to town because of adverse weather conditions and road closures on I-80. Refunds are available at point of purchase…
Portishead (due Thursday, October 27th, at 1stBank Center) wasn’t the first band associated with the aesthetic of trip hop but it is the most commercially successful with major hits in the 1990s. The thing that made the band so remarkable was that the sound it crafted wasn’t one that was…
CHECK YO PONYTAIL 2 at THE SUMMIT | 10/25/11The highlight of the evening last night came in Big Freedia’s set when she showed the audience that she wasn’t one to just tell people how to bump, but that she knew how to do it herself, and as she proved, she…
Last night in the Mile High City as the snow and cold arrived right on schedule, Opeth, one of Stockholm’s most fascinatingly complex metal exports, brought plenty of heat up enthusiastic capacity crowd at the Ogden Theatre. Our resident metal maniac, Brandon Marshall, was on hand, and he brought back…
Audioloom, the recording studio that Brian Gerhard, Christopher Shumake and Greg Nichols have been building at 3430 Lawrence Street is nearly finished. A non-profit venture, the studio was established with the goal of giving Denver artists a place to record for nothing more than a donation. Although the project is…
Almost a month ago exactly, big slabs of the ceiling over the stage at the Oriental Theater came raining down during a show featuring Doug Kershaw. Thankfully, nobody was hurt during the incident, but it caused the historic theater at 44th and Tennyson to be closed for the better part…
If you’ve ever thought yourself a worthy successor to the Magic Cyclops throne, this Halloween might be your chance to give it shot for a day. For $15, you can order the official Magic Cyclops costume kit, which comes complete with sunglasses, a custom screened headband, fake British accent and…
You can’t help but calm the fuck down when you move to Colorado from inner-city Chicago,” notes Craig Fleischman. The drummer, better known as Craig Nice, is one-half of the duo Gauntlet Hair, an outfit he started with Andy Rauworth, a high-school friend with whom he fled the Windy City…
For close to three decades, Bob and Cathy Lyons ran the no-frills, nautical-themed Brown Barrel at 76 South Broadway. The bar was one of the last old-school joints in the Baker neighborhood, an area that was once full of them, and won Westword’s Best Dive award in 2008. But the…
