MELT BANANA at the LARIMER LOUNGE | 10/8/11Nothing can fully prepare you for the sounds coming off stage at a Melt Banana show unless you’ve seen the band before. Between the breakneck rhythms, Yasuko Onuki’s demented and rapid-fire vocal delivery and Ichirou Agata’s ability to meld noise with experimental guitar…
Sweet Jesus! He did it! This afternoon in London, DJ Vajra competed in the 2011 DMC World Final against thirty other turntablists from all over the globe. If you haven’t heard yet, he bested all of the other contenders to be crowned the 2011 DMC World Champion, meaning he can…
Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago everyman rapper scheduled to play the Fillmore tonight, made an early stop on his tour of the city to support the Occupy Denver gathering in front of the state capitol earlier this afternoon. Fiasco has maintained an increasingly public profile about his support of the Occupy…
While we know you’re still busy trying to nail down what you’re doing for Halloween and you probably haven’t even really given much thought to where you’ll be celebrating New Year’s yet, we’ve just received word that Pretty Lights is setting up shop at 1STBANK Center for a pair of…
Rocktober is living up to its name so far, especially this weekend: On Friday, Chromeo electrifies the Ogden, while Frank Turner throws down at the Marquis and Lupe Fiasco raps at the Fillmore. On Saturday, there’s some agonizing decisions to make between seeing OFF!, which features Circle Jerks frontman Keith…
Due to a re-route of its tour, Wavves played a short-notice show last night at Moe’s Original BBQ in Englewood. Below is a video of the penultimate song, “So Bored” (the band ended with “No Hope Kids”), and a look at some creative merch for Wavves weed-heads…
There are some changes brewing in the local underground scene when it comes to residencies: First, House Revival has been moved from the every-so-often fifth Saturday of the month to the more frequent second-Saturday slot; and Beta’s Beatport Lounge and P.U.N.C.H.I.S. are launching PM/AM, a new event concept that starts…
Belly dancing, heavy drums, performance artists and live music create the environment surrounding Beats Antique, who we’ve just learned will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, December 3. Talk about making moves: Around this time last year, the act was opening for the Glitch Mob on Halloween, but this…
While the Grizzly Rose has been bringing in country acts since the 1989, the venue has had a lot of success bringing in ’80s-centric rock bands like Dokken and Brett Michaels. So it makes sense that the same folks behind the Grizzly Rose plan to open their own rock club…
The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, October 7. “This is its own little entity to promote the festival,” says…
The most intriguing rumor we’ve heard lately is that Houses frontman Andy Hamilton may be putting together a project with Eric Halborg, long-time frontman and bassist of the Swayback, and Chuck French, lead shredder for Git Some and one-time member of the now-mythic Planes Mistaken for stars. Hamilton confirms that…
When the Foo Fighters pull into the Pepsi Center on Sunday, they’re expecting Mexican food — and “not just chips, salsa and some microwave burritos.” The dudes are from SoCal, and apparently consider themselves connoisseurs, so the production crew is well advised to be on their toes. So warns the…
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All is a group of hard-core hip-hop hooligans who came to pillage, plunder and cause chaos with their rhymes. Led by the enigmatic Tyler, the Creator, the entire crew — Hodgy Beats, Domo Genisis, Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt (whose whereabouts are unknown at…
Andy Monley started playing live music in Denver in 1981, when he was still in high school, with his first band, the Joy Division-inspired Church and State. When that group dissolved, he formed Acid Ranch, a project directly influenced by the Birthday Party. But it wasn’t until the inception of…
For the past few months, Bop Skizzum has been quietly searching for a replacement for Erin Jo Harris, the band’s vocalist, who is departing the group to pursue other projects. While we imagine the prospect had to have been a bit daunting given Harris’s considerable voice and presence, the band…
YELAWOLF at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/4/11Yelawolf put his country grammar on full blast last night at the Bluebird on the first stop of his two day tour through Colorado (Yelawolf’s due tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder). The Alabama MC stalked onto the stage amid deep-blue lighting and tons…
If we know you (and let’s face it — we know you well, probably better than your mom), your plans for Halloween have already begun to take shape. Yes? Well, before you move that entry from pencil to ink on your calendar, there are a few more enticing options to…
CUT COPY at THE OGDEN THEATRE | 10/4/11Dan Whitford, lead vocalist of Cut Copy, is the guy you want at your party. The way he bounces around the stage, you get the sense that he’s the guy bringing the energy on the dance floor, busting some pretty sweet moves whether…
Just in time for the two Colorado dates for OFF! this weekend comes the music video for “Crawl,” one of the best tracks off the band’s First Four EPs collection. It’s ninety seconds of one of the best skateboarders in the world, Leo Romero, eating it, wiping out and scraping…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, a show at the Paramount Theatre featuring Puscifer was announced, along with a Kulwicki Twins Foundation benefit at the Bluebird Theater in January being headlined by Mudhoney and The Fluid. On local radio specialty shows,…
Maybe Jesus wanted it to happen,” says Keith Morris, explaining how his new band, OFF!, was formed. He’s kidding, of course. But somehow a simple question about his band’s formation spirals into a half-dozen tangents: A notorious talker, Morris finds creative ways to answer questions about everything from a band’s…
Brit Chambers, a former Los Angeles stylist, has gone on a lot of house calls where the client invites her girlfriends over and the appointment turns into a party, complete with cocktails and multiple coiffures. These events inspired her to create a similar scene at Fluff (1516 Wazee Street), the…
