I think it’s safe to say that between the ages of about 11 and 22, I was wrong about somewhere in the neighborhood of 95 percent of everything. And for the most part, I’m okay with that: I’m older and wiser now, plus I hardly ever get inappropriate boners. Still,…
From the opening track of “Dreamsong,” this latest album from A Shoreline Dream transports you back to a time when you’d hear bands like Slowdive, Ride and the early Verve plumb the melancholy depths while other rock acts were trying desperately to be Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Losing Them All…
Since Deadbubbles has established itself as one of the area’s finest garage-rock acts, it’s not surprising that frontman Arlo White was able to round up fourteen local bands to play Deadbubbles material on this release. While tribute albums are usually devoted to more established bands — Deadbubbles formed in 2006…
D.Girl, the hard-rapping, sexy siren, is out to prove that she can run with the boys — and she succeeds on Mascara Music Vol. 1. With several features from rappers and vocalists, as well as comical skits about everything from sex to her desire for the takeover, Mascara Music should…
Known as Biscuitland until a year ago, these musicians (minus guitarist Aaron Reneaux) took a garage-pop/dance-rock direction when they adopted the name One Sun One Moon. Featuring material written over the past three years, the band’s debut, Collisions, draws from ’80s synth-pop and new wave as well as ’90s rock…
John Templeton is one of a growing number of Colorado-based musicians bringing national and international attention to Denver’s burgeoning electronic music scene. A prolific producer, remixer, DJ and live performer, he’s also the man behind the first annual Great American Techno Festival (GATF), which will coincide with the Great American…
DJ Sneak was born in Puerto Rico, but he moved to Chicago in the early 1980s — just in time to become part of the massive house movement that got its start in the Windy City and had spilled across the planet by the late ’90s. He didn’t speak English…
Last June, Colorado Public Radio announced plans to convert 1340 AM, an all-news station, to a new music station, and now CPR plans to roll out a new station, Open Air, on Monday, October 31. “Open Air is a natural extension of CPR’s mission to offer an in-depth exploration of…
Rapper Game hits the the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 2 and the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 3 as part of R.E.D. Tour in support of his fourth album,The R.E.D. Album, which came out in August on Interscope/DGC after almost two years of delays. Game was a recent cover-story…
Boba Fett & the Americans, the fifteen-piece guerrilla-style marching band, will be heading to New York City to play all over Manhattan for three days during the CMJ Music Marathon, which runs from Tuesday October 18 to Saturday, October 22. The band, which includes DeVotchKa’s drummer/trumpeter Shawn King, recently reached…
For over the three decades, Summit Jazz Foundation, a Denver-based non-profit organization, has been putting on shows with an emphasis on traditional, classic, New Orleans, swing and mainstream styles of jazz. From Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 2, Summit Jazz is bringing acts like the Jim Cullum Jazz Band,…
Every week, in an effort to pay tribute to those dedicated to the time tested way of promoting shows by hanging up posters, we make our way around the Mile High City to take a gander at all the eye candy affixed to light posts and such. Here are the…
The bridge between hip-hop and dubstep is gradually getting shorter, and Vibesquad, a.k.a. Aaron Holstein, brought out some of the most impressive b-boys and b-girls to show off on stage during his set last night at the Ogden. It’s as if the bass crowd is coming full circle by realizing…
One of the obvious highlights of last night’s exceptional Nirvana covers celebration in honor Nevermind’s 20th anniversary was when Eric Halborg of The Swayback told us we knew the words to the third song the band played and invited anyone up who knew the words to sing along. Plenty of…
LOW at the BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/24/11 In the forever-growing pantheon of husband-wife indie rockers, the most common concept is twee. Mates of State, for example, have made a living of self-reflective lyrics and dualing-personality vocals cut in between charming anecdotes about the kids. If that’s the usual, then, Low…
The annual Skylab electronic music festival was held last night, September 24, and as usual, presented by Triad Dragons and Beta nightclub. It again brought out more than 20 DJ’s spinning dance music for more than 6,000 people at the Denver Coliseum. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from…
Euphonic Conceptions’ “Re:Creation” at Cervantes’s Masterpiece Ballroom ended its two-night run last night with a banging closing set from Opuio. Unfortunately, fellow headliner Jakwob couldn’t make it, purportedly because he broke his arm and therefore couldn’t play, but nonetheless Cervantes got down…
There were no costumes on stage until near the end when some silly fan got up with a shirt over his head like some low-rent imitation of HeWhoCannotBeNamed and sang into the mic. And yet somehow The Dwarves created a spectacle even without the cheap theatrics last night at the…
After a long run throughout the mid-’80s and ’90s, Jux County called it quits in 2001, but over the last decade the band has gone on to do a few reunion shows, including last year’s Farmfest, which benefits Urban Farm, an urban garden that promotes sustainable communities. Jux County is…
In 2006, Diego Ramos started shooting a web-based documentary on the Colorado music scene, but he says it was a little ahead of its time. So last summer, Ramos, who’s worked as director of photography on the Discovery Channel’s Disappeared, started filming other local acts for another project titled Music…
If you’re into live psychedelic trance, then you’ve heard of Infected Mushroom, and you probably even bought tickets to the outfit’s Fox Theatre appearance tonight. (8:30 p.m., all ages, $30-$32) And if that’s not your cup of tea — or record of choice — then keep reading, because there are…
This weekend is heavy on the flashbacks, as multiple punk and grunge shows usher in our new stage of societal nostalgia. Friday night features freak-punk outfit The Dwarves at the Bluebird, while downtown at The Walnut Room things will be kept a little more light and carefree with The David…
