SMASHING PUMPKINS at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/10/11It took Billy Corgan 21 songs, or until halfway through the encore, to acknowledge his audience last night. It’s unclear whether this is a bad thing or a bad-ass thing — though more than an hour and a half without a direct address is…
Indian summer: the kind of day that makes you keenly aware of time’s steady passing. Overhead, a breeze rustles through a tall tree in the back yard of the Arvada home where the Morning Clouds rehearse, sending a few more leaves down to the lawn. “It’s definitely fall now,” says…
Steve and Thanos Lemonidis were hesitant to take over Teddy T’s, a joint that had stood at 6635 East Evans Avenue for the past three decades, just because of the work it needed. But the space had a special place in their dad’s heart, since he’d leased out the kitchen…
Kyle Harris has lived all over this country and seen the ups and downs of personal, professional and political life. But instead of cultivating a world-weary sound, Harris, who makes music under the name Bearsnail (due at the Meadowlark on Saturday, October 15), seems to have found a certain appreciation…
With rock-star looks and name recognition to match, Matthew Dear has come a long way since his humble origins in Kingsville, Texas. Taking a liking to Detroit techno after moving to Michigan as a teenager, Dear co-founded the electronic-music label Ghostly International (and its dance-floor-oriented offshoot, Spectral Sound) while enrolled…
Within a year of getting his start in the early ’80s, Howard Jones performed on Top of the Pops and subsequently garnered a record deal that resulted in the 1984 release of his debut album, Human’s Lib. While he wasn’t quite an overnight sensation, his career took off quickly, and…
Anyone trying to guess Boris’s influences would have a hard time doing so just from listening to one song off of one album. And it’s not just because of the sheer diversity of the band’s songwriting, but rather the ways in which the trio puts together sounds in what seems…
Check out the influences of just about any bass player going these days, and you’ll find a sworn allegiance to Primus’s Les Claypool, who for seven albums and countless side projects and guest appearances has been warping the fat-stringed minds of rock bass men everywhere. Otherwise jokey in his lyrics,…
Jumping the shark is that moment at which a television show, totally sapped of its former youth and wit and now coasting wearily from episode to episode on the momentum of its own clichés, buckles and collapses, like some bloated turd star, into self-parody. The expression, of course, refers to…
Originally conceived as part of an elaborate presentation that includes a flashing strobe to go along with elements of binaural audio, this group of seven pieces is loosely inspired by Alexander Scriabin’s great unfinished, experimental, synesthetic composition Mysterium. But while Scriabin’s piano work is sampled in the beginning, the music…
On its latest mixtape, the Kool Crue has wrapped all of its influences into one ball of stellar production and creative lyricism. American Dreams is thirteen tracks strong, and each cut is unique and diverse all on its own. From the intro, “Hello, Hello,” through to “10k Watts,” the trio…
Andy Palmer’s bio reads like a character sketch for an action movie: A onetime public defender in Brooklyn, Palmer left the borough for a more rustic life, working as a river raft guide in Colorado and living in a yurt in the wilds of Maine. It’s a rugged resumé that…
While there have been some fine alt-country acts to come out of Fort Collins (namely Drag the River and Arliss Nancy), there hasn’t been a whole lot of fresh talent working in the genre as of late. But Mosey West, which has been together for almost a year, might give…
Renowned DJ and producer Pete Tong (aka “Lord of the Dance”) has had quite a year: He celebrated twenty years of hosting a show on the renowned BBC Radio 1 by taking the station over for twelve hours; he returned to Ibiza’s legendary Pacha; he relaunched his FFRR label under…
Italian DJ Donato Dozzy doesn’t plan his sets in advance. While he sometimes selects a theme based on a mood, he utlimately reads the crowd and responds accordingly, throwing down exactly the right track at exactly the right time. His dark, psychedelic techno meanders from ambient to dance-driven, and he’s…
Update (10/10/11): So evidently, there’s more to the new wrought-iron fencing at the Fillmore than meets the eye. It’s not just an aesthetic enhancement. According to Live Nation Colorado and Rocky Mountain Region president Eric Pirritt, the liquor license has also been extended, meaning that your drink can now accompany…
JD Samson of MEN (due Thursday, October 13, at the Bluebird Theater) was once a member of Le Tigre, a band that became synonymous with the electroclash genre. For nearly a decade, Le Tigre wrote some of the most exciting, politically charged music of all time. After that band split,…
ODD FUTURE at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/9/11Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All does not give a fuck. Clearly. These cats are out to pillage, plunder and wreak mass hysteria and mayhem. Judging from the crowd’s frenzied reaction at the Ogden last night, which included some kids flinging themselves from…
FOO FIGHTERS AT PEPSI CENTER | 10/9/11″You guys ready for a long fucking rock show tonight?” Foo Fighters frontman Dave asked the Pepsi Center crowd early in Sunday night’s set. “You ready for that shit? Foo Fighters don’t fuck around. We don’t fuck around. We don’t play those eensy-weensy one-hour-and-forty-five-minute…
MISFITS at SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 10/9/11There’s a reason why people go to a Misfits show. It’s the same reason at least half of those people spend the show in the moshpit. At this point, the number of former Misfits members could triple the roster of Arcade Fire, and the…
They don’t call it Rocktober for nothing. There was no shortage of options this past weekend: Foo Fighters at the Pepsi Center, Odd Future at the Fox and at the Ogden Theatre, X at the Summit Music Hall, OFF! at the Marquis Theater, Melt Banana at the Larimer Lounge, Misfits…
CHROMEO at the OGDEN THEATRE | 10/7/11On a technical basis, nothing about Chromeo should really work. The rhythm half uses a talk box, and their genre of music is most often classified, without irony, as “electrofunk.” The singer is the hypothetical result of the Fonz and Potsie immaculately conceiving a…
