Concerts

It seems Dallas quartet Old 97’s (playing the Bluebird Theater tonight with Sarah Jaffe) began long before the term alt-country was even a thought. But less along the gothic style associated with the genre, the Old 97’s are more pop-oriented, carried by vocalist Rhett Miller’s radio-friendly twang…

So if you picked up the paper this week, you’ve noticed that we added a line to the Westword Music Showcase ballot. It’s a biggie. This year, one lucky local artist will be chosen to be awarded an EP recording package from Rocky Mountain Recorders, the renowned local studio that…

All right, fire up the Camaro, boys. Judas Priest is coming to town — in an arena. Normally when the dudes come to town, they’re playing a shed down south. Not this time around. On Saturday, November 5, the Priest is gonna be at 1STBANK Center with Black Label Society…

Insomniac Events and the folks at Triad Dragons are gearing up for the the fourth annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds. Expect plenty of carnival rides, massive, light-infused art installations, and, of course, scads of beautiful, painted faces supporting the carnival ambiance…

This Friday, an all-star cast of local rappers are coming together at Casselman’s to benefit American Trash Republic’s Concept Oner, who recently encountered some legal difficulties. Besides being a good opportunity for the hip-hop community to pitch in and help out one of its own, the show itself pretty much…

Although often lumped into the category of post-rock, This Will Destroy You (due tonight at Larimer Lounge) from San Marcos, Texas, is more rooted in outright instrumental rock music with more than its fair share of an experimental edge. When the band first emerged, the post-rock designation made a bit…

Warren Haynes (playing his second show in a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre) has a résumé that speaks for itself: Picking up the guitar as a preteen, the bluesman began playing with David Allan Coe by the age of twenty and went on to work with the likes of…

If you read the act’s self-penned bio, it sounds like School Knights was born out of two guys hijacking an established band. The truth of that story may never be known. But what is known is that drummer Zack Roif and guitarist Michael Stein don’t seem to overthink the music…

It’s virtually impossible to utter the words “alt-country” without mentioning Old 97’s. It’s hard to say who was first, but Old 97’s were clearly at the forefront of the movement that managed to revive the rock-infused country of the ’60s while imparting it with a DIY aesthetic. Eighteen years later,…

Although she got her start in her home town of Kansas City, Kansas, Janelle Monáe gained a much wider audience after she relocated to Atlanta. There she met OutKast’s Big Boi and struck up a mutually beneficial creative friendship. In the wake of the release of her inventive 2010 recording,…

Yeasayer likes to float between the lines of genre convention enough that its music is often mischaracterized as “experimental.” In some respects, it’s true — the group does sound different from other bands — but when it comes down to it, Yeasayer is a pop act making music for people…

GG Allin gets most of the cred for being the most offensive punk-rocker of all time. But the scum-rock crown could probably now be claimed, at least lyrically, by British Columbia hardcore crossover act Day-Glo Abortions. In trouble with the law for the lyrical content of their songs as well…

It’s been a tough week for Katy Perry. First off, there’s the upcoming release of her mother’s memoir, which her father told Star magazine last week “has caused quite a bit of tension.” That would be because Katy Perry’s mom is an evangelical Christian who would not let Katy Perry…

Remember when you were in high school, and your friends were in that weird funk-rock crossover band? They played, like, every weekend, and even though the band wasn’t really your thing, they were good at what they did, so you went to their shows? Be the Ant could be that…

One of the state’s top reggae acts, Lion SoulJahs have been spreading their conscious roots reggae and dancehall tunes around these parts for years, opening for legends like the Wailers, Jimmy Cliff and Burning Spear, as well as backing up Ky-Mani Marley and Frankie Paul. Zion Bound is one of…

Instead of appropriating an early-punk-rock singles aesthetic, these bands apparently decided to go further back and dispense with the artwork entirely for a visual result akin to an old garage-rock 45. Which is fitting, considering that the nervy power pop of “I Buried My Heart Under Bar Bar (Then Burned…

Jane Doed is the “pierced, badass bitch” alter ego of Della frontwoman Amanda Hawkins, who makes her presence known — and then some — on her solo debut. Straight away, the disc’s most captivating feature is Hawkins’s voice. Her vocals nearly sear with pitch perfection, and when it comes to…

Kicking off Memorial Day weekend in Colorado for the third year in a row, the Disco Biscuits will once again set the Mile High City on fire with two back-to-back shows at the Ogden, culminating at Red Rocks with their annual Bisco Inferno. Nearly two decades into their career, the…

As one half of the brains behind the underground house label Juiced Music, J.Caprice has been spinning records since 1996 and has built his name on funky, soulful house beats. Now hailing from Dallas, J.Caprice has performed all over the country, and in 2008 formed High Maintenance with fellow DJ/producer…