Concerts

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE The Architects • Neon Trees 04.09.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Walking into the Fillmore, I was greeted by a writhing sea of wildly dressed teenagers and hundreds of their parents awkwardly trying to fit in while performing chaperone duty. Seeing scads of girls holding up homemade ‘Happy Birthday”…

METHOD MAN & REDMAN With Dj Cavem and MTHDS City Hall | 4/9/11 City Hall’s amphitheater stood under a cloud of smoke last night for the finale of a three-night stay in Colorado for Method Man and Redman. Openers Dj Cavem and the MTHDS were given the opportunity to prime…

ARCADE FIRE With Local Natives 04.09.11 | 1STBANK Center View Arcade Fire photo slide show The trailer for the 1979 film Over the Edge, which featured a fourteen-year-old Matt Dillon in his film debut, played on the screen behind the stage at 1STBANK Center just before Arcade Fire came on…

BEATS ANTIQUE Inspired Flight • the Tailor 04.08.11 | Boulder Theater Beats Antique sold out of tickets for the Boulder Theater up to the very last minute. Whether everyone showed up for the music or the belly dancing, it’s a safe bet that the venue full of gypsies, scenesters, dancers,…

HELLBOUND GLORY 04.08.11 | Pete’s Monkey Bar There’s a time and place for kick-ass country music, and Pete’s Monkey Bar was the place to hear it last night…

Bring on the dirty for Friday night! And by dirty, we mean dirtybird label’s own Claude Von Stroke and J. Philip getting down at the Gothic tonight night. Get your minimal house & techno fix — also warming up is Denver’s own Bones. ($25 at the door, presales on Ticketmaster,…

Last night, after kicking it at the Red Bull Thre3Style competition at the Boulder Theater, (which DJ Vajra won, by the way) we decided to kill two birds with one Boulder, if you will, and headed down to the Fox Theater where Red Man and Method Man were getting underway…

RED BULL THR3STYLE TOURNAMENT 04.07.11 | Boulder Theater Last night at the Boulder Theater, the Red Bull Thre3Style tournament was live and absolutely direct. Beyond the blazing marquis outside and the multi-Mini Coopers with the gigantic Red Bull attachment, the energy was electric and the competition was stiff. Many came,…

Philadelphia’s Ryat (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis) started as a solo project for multi-instrumentalist avant-garde songwriter Christina Ryat before Tim Conley joined the sonic adventure that is making music in this unit. With both Ryat and Conley benefiting from backgrounds in improvisational and experimental music, their collaboration has produced a richly…

In a music world of blog-hyped bands, Internet sensationalism and an over-commitment to the next big thing, Boldtype flourishes through the idea that there will always be a need for fast, raw and rowdy three-chord rock. Touring with Guttermouth and surviving over a decade together, the local act — due…

Tonight when the clock strikes midnight, you should expect calamity, destruction and famine to sweep the nation, because word on the street says the government is shutting down. Word to Chicken Little: A bunch of awful things are supposed to happen…we think. They don’t pay us the big bucks to…

Think back to your teenage years. Chances are, if you were like any of us, you spent the majority of your time listening to music, reading the liner notes through and through and playing air guitar half-naked in your room. Doesn’t sound that depressing? But a recent study in Pediatrics…

For those who choose to start their weekends a little early, we’ve composed a list of the hottest places to be and the choicest events to attend in Denver on the eve of date night number one. Riding the Wednesday wave into Thursday truly means you are a renaissance partier,…

On his grind for almost two decades, Andre Nickatina — who at one time went by Dre Dog — has released over a dozen albums, mostly through his own imprints. On the road now in support of his forthcoming album, Khan! The Me Generation, the cocaine rapper and movie producer…

Chase Dinkler and Zach Jacobsen work IT jobs during the day, but have always dreamed of running a nightclub. Friends since high school, they’ve been throwing parties under the name Palace Entertainment — and now they’re making their dream a reality at the Sound Kitchen, which opened April 1 at…

Boldtype has been a staple in the Denver punk scene for nearly a decade. The band, which formed in 2002, has seen numerous members come and go through the years but has managed to keep its sound and punk-rock ideals intact. Clearly influenced by ’90s punk acts like Millencolin and…

So word has it that the dudes from Yerkish (due May 3 at the Walnut Room with the Memorials) may be considering a name change. Faced with the prospect of losing two founding members and gaining two new members, the switch seems logical (although if that logic applied to everybody,…

Way back some twenty or so years ago, in the nascent days of Mile High hip-hop, the burgeoning b-boy scene revolved around two places, Kontents, at Colfax and Logan (later Colfax and Emerson), and La Casa Del Fonk, at 20th and Larimer. If you made your way into either joint,…

There is something about a band that looks like they want to be a band — Atlanta’s the Biters (due at 3 Kings Tavern tonight) certainly do, with Joan Jett-ish coifs and leather jackets to match. But beyond the look, there’s an equally classic sound, and the quartet takes the…