Here’s the fake backstory: German pop duo Chön and Biktor have a few favorite things — notably, traveling to space, courting women in extremely ill-advised ways and making ’80s electro jamz. The actual story is that three dudes from Denver — Randy Washington (Chön), Adam Nix (Biktor) and Evan Nix…
Name & Town, Molina’s collaboration with New Mexico’s Diles, is like a rhythmic trip through a psychedelic desert. The track “Meditation,” for example, almost floats out to you with tribal-flute harmonies mixed in with hip-hop beats, eloquent DJ cuts and the deep, warm voice of Molina. As far as features…
Few bands have had as wide-ranging and unlikely an influence as Swans. Starting in 1982 with an early incarnation that included Thurston Moore, the band created music that was like the perfect evocation of anguish and desperate release, with brutally pounding rhythms and seething, atonal sounds to accompany singer Michael…
Walker Barnard’s funk credentials extend back to his childhood, when his father (who made music videos for Motown artists) took him to the set of Rick James’s “Super Freak” video. He’s only gotten deeper into the genre through the years, playing bass in L.A.-based funk band Mobius Trip in the…
ONE NIGHT STAND With Darude • 4 Strings • AK1200 02.14.11 | Sherman Events Center Over the weekend, the Sherman Events Center was host to “One Night Stand” — a Valentine’s Day party put on by Polygamy Productions, featuring Darude, 4 Strings, AK1200 and more spread across four stages. Making…
We thought something seemed a little hanky when we saw the ad promoting Yerkish’s upcoming show at the Gothic Theatre with Vices I Admire and the Foot, as its farewell gig. And what do you know? Turns out, everybody’s favorite simian ambassadors are not — we repeat NOT — in…
Looks like this weekend’s much welcomed warm up shook us all out of our winter funk. On Friday night, The Church held auditions for Caffeine, the March 26 electronic music party at the 1STBANK Center. Photographer Marcus Gadison brings back these photos, which are most likely Not Safe For Work:…
Minneapolis’ Melismatics have a transportative quality, like a step back to a time to when rock and roll was just drums, bass, guitar and vocals. This isn’t a bad thing at all — the band’s nostalgic sound taps into The Strokes’ prime era of the early ’00s, but with the…
FURTHUR 02.12.11 | 1STBANK Center Almost a year after they played the reopening of the remodeled 1STBANK Center and just five months after its three night run at Red Rocks, Furthur, the Grateful Dead spin-off featuring Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia sound-alike John Kadlecik, returned…
With so many great shows happening on Saturday night, it was virtually impossible to stay in one place. Luckily, Denver’s geography makes it fairly easy to maneuver between venues in a short amount of time, so we attempted to catch various bands and performances throughout out the evening, making stops…
DEVOTCHKA With Mariachi El Bronx | Gregory Alan Isakov 2.12.12 | Fillmore Auditorium On this night, Colorado native Gregory Alan Isakov played the role of conquering hero — stepping out onto the massive Fillmore Auditorium stage and looking pleased at the sea of people flooding through the doors early to…
UMPHREY’S MCGEE with The Kyle Hollingsworth Band featuring DJ Logic The Fillmore Auditorium | 2.11.11 Following two sold out nights at Belly Up Aspen, Umphrey’s McGee came through Denver to the Fillmore Auditorium for a half day of meet and greets, some live, fan-directed, improvisational jamming, which ultimately culminated into…
Update: See photos from last night: Photos: Hollogramz at Galatic Leash, 2/11/11 Tonight at Real Is a Feeling’s party Galactic Leash, local techno/rave-proponent Hollagramz (aka Ron Cole) is debuting a new member to his project and releasing an EP at a rave-to-end-all-raves tonight in a rented warehouse out on the…
Dave Parrish joins DJ Nutmeg this Friday for Musik1st’s monthly night at Funky Buddha Lounge. For nearly fifteen years, Parrish has been one of Colorado’s top techno DJs, and Nutmeg isn’t exactly wet-behind-the-ears, either. The two scene vets playing together should make for an exciting night of quality underground techno…
Tonight, Casselman’s will be rocking for the show being hailed as simply, Good Times. And that’s just what it sounds like, a plain old good time, a great excuse to party like it’s Friday night. There’s going to be live performances from Lamp! Food Chain, S.O.L.I.D, Fresh Breath Committee and…
Something different is going on this weekend at Rhinoceropolis. What that something is, exactly — well, now, that’s a great question. The event posting, which is rather vague, urges us to “come get mad” and then goes on to say: “BRING CANDY, CHOCOLATES, WINE, HOMEMADE GOODIES.” Say what? “I don’t…
Built solely on the intricacies of a well-trained string section, Punch Brothers are equal parts bluegrass and modern classical music. Chris Thile — known also as a member of acoustic band Nickel Creek — leads the quintet with his gentle and powerful voice. But it’s his expert mandolin playing that…
Known as Big Sal in the professional wrestling community, Salmineo Martin built a pretty good reputation with Juggalo Championship Wrestling and Primo’s Hardcore Wrestling. He even went on tour with the Insane Clown Posse…
Forth Yeer Freshman (aka Forth Yeer) is soon to be pushing daisies. After more than a decade of debauchery, the hooligans that make up the band have decided to put the old moniker to rest and write new material under a new and completely different handle. To commemorate the occasion,…
Umphrey’s Mcgee will be returning to Colorado after starting their two-month long tour that spans the great U.S. of A. from the East coast to the West. Starting in Boston late in January and winding down the Atlantic coast, UM’s tour made its way back to the motherland, Colorado, for…
Editor’s note: Two of our writers were at the Decemberists show last night in Boulder, and so today we present you with two different accounts of the show from two different perspectives. Two for the price of, uh, none, as it were — well, unless you count the cost your…
The hip-hop purists among us are very familiar with the story and legacy of James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla. Having come up in the hip-hop underground scene in Detroit and later emerging as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop, it was Dilla’s death at the…
