Concerts

If you’ve been to the right places over the past couple of years, chances are you’ve caught Maria Kohler playing solo or as a collaborator in whatever projects Mike Marchant has been involved with at any given time. And if you heard her, you know that Kohler’s soulful voice and…

Over the past twelve years, My Morning Jacket has gone through the kind of perfect organic growth that you wish every band would go through. Starting as a ragtag bunch of longhairs from Louisville, Kentucky, who loved Skynyrd and Neil Young alike, the band proved early on that it could…

John Digweed has been living the dream for decades; at age eleven, all he wanted in life was to be a DJ. Suffice it to say, he reached his goal — and then some. Alongside famed collaborator Sasha, Digweed was a resident at Twilo in New York City; he appeared…

Jimmy Tamborello is probably best known for his work with Ben Gibbard in the Postal Service, where his pioneering, glitchy electronica provided the beautifully textured backdrop to that band’s songs. The basis for that sound was one he’d been developing in other projects, including his main musical priority these days,…

Typhoon is currently capping its membership, touring and otherwise, at twelve members. While this may seem like a gratuitously sprawling lineup, one listen to any of the band’s releases makes it obvious that each member is making an important contribution to the deceptively simple but lushly textured sounds on each…

Recall, if you will, Coyote McCloud’s 1984 novelty hit “Where’s the Beef?,” based on the Wendy’s commercial that employed the same catchphrase. Now multiply that song by several full-length albums. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Congratulations! You have mathematically solved T-Pain’s entire career. It was just a couple of weeks ago…

Able Archer’s latest effort starts out on a grandiose note with “No Goodbyes (The Mass Tremendous).” The elegant instrumental is a chorus of synthesized strings, a classically formal passage spelled out on the keys by Matt Huseman that leads into “Plane Crash.” That brief tune’s epic feel is a fitting…

David Rynhart drew from a diverse pool of influences, including folk, blues and Eastern European music, on his excellent solo effort, By the Hollow Tree. He also founded the traditional Irish quartet Bodha. Kevin Larkin, one of Rynhart’s bandmates in Chimney Choir, released music under the Pineross moniker, which fused…

One of the more energetic live bluegrass bands around these parts, Spring Creek brings a fair amount of that energy to Hold on Me, the quartet’s fourth release. On spirited and foot-stomping cuts like “Mockingbird,” “See Me On” and “Chase the Sun,” the bandmembers, who’ve played at some of the…

With song titles evoking images of alchemy and the occult, Josh Powers seems to have tapped directly into hermetic knowledge, creating tones that get under your skin in the same way that Skinny Puppy’s “Smothered Hope” does. “Character Map” sounds like a peek into Innsmouth after the introduction of futuristic…

Flashlights started in the basement of Ethan Converse’s house in Four Mile Canyon shortly after he graduated from college, when he and Sam Martin met through mutual friends. Inspired by Martin’s desire to break away from his background in rock groups and propelled by Converse’s realization that a creative endeavor…

Formed in 2002 in Perth, Australia, it didn’t take long for the now-U.K.-based Pendulum to garner notice from drum-and-bass lovers around the world. One of the group’s first releases, “Vault,” was used on a mix album by drum-and-bass guru J Majik, and Pendulum has since remixed tracks for the Prodigy…

The Internet age just got a little weirder. One of Denver’s most prolific musicians, Tommy Metz (AKA Iuengliss), decided his 2010 album, Blossom Frontier, wasn’t up to snuff, so he pulled it, remixed it, re-mastered it and redid the artwork. He even renamed it Frontier, which we’re pretty sure is…

Born in the age of MySpace, the Cool Kids (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with 1984 and DJ Low Key) have long outlasted the ill-fated music site’s relevance, as the duo continues to persevere with its smooth style. A big part of this longevity is that the Chicago dudes…

The members of Iceage, from Copenhagen, Denmark (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis), are all under the age of 22, but in its relatively short time together, the band has garnered a buzz for the sonic savagery of its live shows and the harrowingly resonant emotional tenor of its music. Its debut…

CULTS at LARIMER LOUNGE | 8/1/11 In a lot of ways, last night’s fast and furious set from Cults at the Larimer Lounge was the best show possible for a band with a short discography. They played the hits and sounded good doing it, and when they left the stage…

When the U2 360 tour rolled through Denver on May 21 at Invesco Field, it was exactly one week removed from the massive 108,800-person concert in Mexico City. The tour was huge (Huge! Remember how that stage dwarfed the grid at Invesco?) and on Monday, Live Nation released a report…

TITWRENCH FESTIVAL | 7/29-7/31/11Friday, July 29 – Glob Every year it seems as though someone involved with Titwrench (likely Piper Rose) comes up with some kind of ritual to start off the festivities. This year, a woman calling herself Bast (you know, from Egyptian mythology, which is fitting) set things…