Seven-piece outfit Fitz & The Tantrums (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Ximena) is all about the soul revival, for sure. But band leader Michael Fitzpatrick brings just the slightest hint of Tom Jones-inspired campiness to the group’s cool vintage sound, which works well with co-vocalist Noelle Scaggs’ sweet…
Update: Whoa! Stop the presses. So we were just getting ready to send word via Twitter that tomorrow night’s show had been canceled (see original post below), and we stopped by John Grant’s Twitter page, which led us to his Facebook page and that’s where learned the actual reason his…
Local man-about-town and house-music ambassador, Brett Starr, has found a niche with his fifth-Friday House Revival shows at Funky Buddha; the basic idea is to bring together three DJs with different styles and have them spin a cohesive set together, switching off one-after-another at the decks. It’s proven to be…
After working in the action-sports industry for years and setting a Guinness World Record for longest journey on a mini-motorcycle, Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson have now embarked on a different journey: Cheapskates Action Sports Bar, which opened last week in the former home of Bliss Café at 7501 Grandview…
In case you’ve been working your fingers to the bone all the week and haven’t had a single second to notice, the weekend is just a few hours away. What’s that? Yes, we know it’s only Thursday. But Thursday, as we keep saying, is the new Friday. And as you’ll…
We just glimpsed the lineup for the sixth annual Yonder Mountain String Band’s sixth annual Harvest Music Festival — taking place Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16, at Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas (site of this weekend’s Wakarusa Festival) — and let’s just say it may make you want to,…
Yesterday we were on the set with Manufactured Superstars, who were shooting their new video at Beta with Vista TV. The scene at Beta yesterday was quite different from a typical night at the club with hundreds of people jumping, dancing, sweating and just all-out raging. The vibe was fun,…
Hooray for Gauntlet Hair and congrats to Dead Oceans for having the good sense to add the Lafayette-based duo to its roster. The outfit attracted the attention of the “instantly spellbound” label with a pair of 7-inch releases, one on Mexican Summer and the other on Gorilla Vs Bear’s Forest…
It is easy to pass off White Denim (due tonight at the Larimer Lounge with The Growlers) as psychedelic garage rock — except the reverb isn’t there and the Austin-based act implements some seriously dub-like rhythms. Labels aside, the power trio (that recently became an even tighter foursome) incite a…
Welp, looks like it’s the end of an era. If you haven’t heard, everyone’s favorite gay zombie, Maris the Great, is about to become food for worms — uh, actually, “retiring” is how he put it. Semantics aside, after a fruitful killing spree that lasted more than a decade (eleven…
Due an unspecified family emergency in the Bright Eyes camp, the Fillmore show originally slated for Friday has been moved to Sunday. Bummer news if you have to work that night or otherwise can’t make it, but at least the show wasn’t canceled. We just received official word from our…
After more than a decade-long run, 5 Degrees (1475 Lawrence Street) is closing this weekend with a final bash on Saturday, June 4, with $20 for all-you-can-drink wells and $50 of bottle service. The building that houses the club is under construction to make way for University of Colorado Denver…
Congrats to Lance Meyers and Jessica Harris, winners of the VIP upgrade. And so the countdown begins. We’re just a little more than two weeks away from this year’s Westword Music Showcase. You excited? We sure are. If you haven’t got your tickets yet, have at it — and then…
Sharon Jones (performing this evening with her band, The Dap Kings, at the Denver Botanic Gardens) is a soul revivalist, whether she intended to be or not. The Brooklynite was a session singer in the ’70s, but it wasn’t until the late ’90s that Jones was finally given the chance…
Joe Triscari’s Moon Light Speed Press screen printing is quickly becoming one of our favorite concert flier makers in town, and Triscari and Josh Everingham’s Il Cattivo CD release flier proves once again they’ve got the screening skills to keep up with the already lovely artwork…
Surely you’ve heard the expression: “That’s a heart attack waiting to happen”? While we’re not inquiring enough to Google its origin, from the sounds of it, that phrase could very well have been coined to describe the Fool’s Gold Loaf from the Colorado Mine Company that Elvis once flew to…
Celldweller (performing tonight at the Marquis Theater with Die Brucke and Kevin Callison) is the moniker of Klayton, a singer, multi-instrumentalist, music programmer and producer based out of Detroit. Bringing his own unique form of industrial music to the masses via movie, video game and television soundtracks, including collaborations with…
Last Monday, Amazon decided to give away Lady Gaga’s new album, Born This Way for just 99 cents. The sale was so popular it brought the site down, and so the site repeated the same promotion on Thursday. That’s all well and good for cheapskate Gaga fans, but it reportedly…
HOOLIGANS IN WONDALAND at 1STBANK | 5/31/11″It would have been easy to snark all over this show, but the babies were dancing to Mayer Hawthorne, and you can’t hate on the babies. Babies are adorable.”…
When starting any new relationship, you generally look for positive traits in a person as a way of gauging compatibility. For the members of Il Cattivo — whose name roughly translates from Italian to “the horrid” — it was the negative qualities they all possessed that brought them together. “I…
In The Horse’s Mouth, Alec Guinness plays an expressionist painter on a quest to find the perfect wall to paint on. Painter Don Callarman refers to that 1958 movie when he says he might have found the perfect canvas: the blank back wall of Quixote’s True Blue (2151 Lawrence Street)…
Ed Marshall has had his hand in music in Denver for the past several years, both as a keen observer of the ebb and flow of music out of this town and as a musician with a penchant for the psychedelic with bands like Stargazer, Into the Ether, Overcasters and…
