Alex Winter, perhaps best known as Bill, from the band the Wyld Stallyns in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure has just announced he’ll be hopping behind the camera to direct a feature-length film about the peer-to-peer file-sharing service that helped start the digital music revolution, Napster…
Girls! Girls! Girls! A wise man once said, “put ya number on this paper cause I would love to date ya, and free drinks help the cause!” … or something like that. Anywho, it looks like if you’re of the female persuasion, on virtually any day of the week, you…
On August 31, Danielle de Picciotto, one of the founders of the Love Parade, a huge electronic music festival that went on for over a decade, is coming to the Hinterland Art Space (3254 Walnut Street) to do readings from The Beauty of Transgression, A Berlin Memoir, her personal account…
Young Jeezy’s (performing tonight at the Ogden Theatre with Freddie Gibbs and Young Doe) rough-hewn voice is unmistakable, and whether he’s pushing hard on his own tracks or lending his growl to songs by the likes of Bun B and Drake, the rapper leaves an unforgettable mark. Even Usher’s 2008…
This Saturday will be a historically significant date for the Anschutz Entertainment Group, as it will mark the beginning of AEG’s eventual migration from TicketMaster. With back-end technology developed by Outbox, a company in which AEG is both a client of and has an equity stake in, the nation’s second-largest…
When I was really young, my mom used to collage all of our furniture,” Cassie McNeil recalls. “I grew up in the mountains above Lyons, in a cabin where there’s no electricity or running water. My mom would collage every piece of furniture in my room. Little pictures and rubber…
By happenstance, this week has somehow shaped up to be a throwback/reunion of sorts to the best parts of local music from 1990s, with two beloved Denver acts from that era playing shows a day apart. This Saturday, August 27, the Christines will be at the hi-dive. Formed in 1992,…
Everyone in Mister Heavenly comes from higher-profile bands, such as Man Man, Islands and Modest Mouse. But Ryan Kattner, Nicholas Thorburn and Joe Plummer decided to do something different with Mister Heavenly, their side project. Melding a ’50s pop aesthetic with musical darkness, the members of Mister Heavenly have become…
In a celebration of fifteen years of music, Stones Throw Records is bringing its crew to Denver for what will most definitely be a party. Stones Throw, founded by Peanut Butter Wolf in 1996, is the quintessential underground label, with a roster filled with promising and diverse talent. Known for…
It’s been tough to avoid the sounds of the Weepies since the indie-pop duo signed with Nettwerk Records in 2005. In the past six years, the outfit’s folky song structures, stark instrumentation and poppy hooks have earned soundtrack spots in television shows and feature films alike. The mass exposure makes…
The term “DJ” gets thrown around a lot these days, which is why Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) prefers to avoid the term altogether. The Toronto native doesn’t use CDs and doesn’t play other people’s music, so he doesn’t fit the traditional definition of a DJ. Instead, he simultaneously runs Ableton…
Ever since the days when Skee-lo wished he was a baller, it’s been a universally accepted truism: Every rapper wants to be an athlete, and every athlete wants to be a rapper. On the other hand, Skee-Lo also expressed his somewhat more baffling wish for “a rabbit in a hat…
On Almost Famous, Anxious zips through his rhymes — battle-rap, tempo-driven joints mostly about his hustle and his constant striving to be the best — with notable ease, over stuttered beats with bass-heavy overtones. The MC almost out-raps himself on tracks like “Rocket Science” and “Put It in the Air,”…
Audio Voyeur, the Dirty Lookers’ debut, is a raucous, revved-up ride straight out of the garage. The band’s main strength lies in frontwoman Pammy Puente; at times she channels the screaming angst of Courtney Love, at others she sounds like a more punk version of Patti Smith. A further testament…
The intentionally low-fidelity approach to the rich soundscaping of this cassette helps personify the project’s namesake. Sonically, think Nada-era Death in June and Cabaret Voltaire circa 2X45. With the vocals buried deep in a mix of robust bass tones worthy of Bright Channel, alongside surprisingly organic-sounding and dynamic electronic percussion…
When Bees No Longer Fly We’re All Going to Die and Oh What a Death It Will Be is the full name of this release, and like its title, the music contained within can be dauntingly dense, but it’s also engaging, enthralling and enjoyable — especially if you’re not one…
Nashville’s Madi Diaz has been preparing to be a musician her whole life. A Berklee College of Music grad who started playing piano at age five, Diaz is touring in support of her recent three-song EP, Far From the Things We Know, which previews tracks from her upcoming album. In…
P.U.N.C.H.I.S. has been filling Beta with solid underground techno tunes every Friday night, and this week’s edition features a special appearance from Pleasurekraft (Kaveh Soroush and Kelle Ronngardh). Normally, you’d have to travel to Miami or Stockholm to check out Pleasurekraft, but this Friday, August 26, you’ll be able to…
Kreayshawn versus Rick Ross, part deux: So last week, Kreayshawn — the rowdy, door-knocker earring wearing, n-bomb dropping, pill-pushing, white-girl rapper from Oakland, who talks a lot of a smack and proclaims to back it up with the swag oozing from her ovaries — was taken to task for a…
There is definitely a niche audience for MC Frontalot (appearing tonight at Herman’s Hideaway with White Fudge, Brandon Patton and An Hobbes), who has been in the game since the early ’00s. The Brooklyn-based lyricist’s songs circle around self-deprecation and Internet tales, told through the MC’s uber-intellectual wordplay…
KIMYA DAWSON & AESOP ROCK at SUMMIT | 8.21.11Toward the end of her set, Kimya Dawson brought Aesop Rock back to the stage for one of the most powerful performances in Denver this year. Although “Walk Like Thunder” has been available as a free download for close to five months…
CU WELCOME FEST at FARRAND FIELD | 8.20.11The University of Colorado at Boulder held the annual Welcome Fest for students attending the institution this fall. The student-only event was closed off to the general public, but it still managed to pull big numbers to see Big Gigantic, Paper Diamond, Robotic…
