Adept at both production and turntablism, Gaslamp Killer — known for many years as the Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer (he’s since dropped the Oedipal reference) — is as new-school as it gets. A frequent guest on L.A.’s Low End Theory monthly podcast, the Killer’s hip-hop stylings are all over the place:…
Woodsman and Gauntlet Hair have joined psychedelic forces for a two-week West Coast tour, starting November 5. While the former act has already made a few trips to the closest coast, aligning with its fellow ambient wave-crashers in Gauntlet Hair will offer a nice taste of what Colorado has been…
As you might have heard or read, Social Distortion was in town over the weekend, playing Friday and Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium (Read our review of Social Distortion at the Fillmore on Saturday.) Photographer Aaron Thackeray, ever a man of the people, brings back these photos from Social…
Did you catch Undercover Boss staring Bryan Bedford, the CEO of Frontier Airlines? No? Yeah, can’t say we blame you. The show, which premiered with a fairly promising premise, has quickly devolved into a one-dimensional series with almost Real World-worthy typecasting. Each of the boilerplate vignettes, which seem to center…
PS I LOVE YOU With Van Louvin and Paean 10.17.10 | hi-dive Van Louvin opened this show. Those who have been around the Denver scene long enough would recognize its members from some of best indie pop bands of the past decade, namely Kent Phillips and Al Rich from Thank…
Sad news this morning coming out of Minnesota. Over the weekend, City Pages, our sister paper in Minneapolis, reported that Michael Larsen, better known as the underground hip-hop artist Eyedea, passed away. The cause of death of the young rapper, who was just 28 years old, is uncertain at this…
Social Distortion With Lucero and Frank Turner Fillmore Auditorium| 10.16.10 See Social Distortion at the Fillmore photo slideshow When Social Distortion opened the second of a two-night stint at Fillmore with not one, but three songs from Mommy’s Little Monster, you’d think a crowd would have gone bat shit to…
VINEFIELD AGENCY SHOWCASE 10.16.2010 | Casselman’s Bar & Venue It’s an ambitious task fitting close to a dozen diverse acts into a five and a half-hour show, but the folks at the Vinefield Agency pulled it off as part of new company’s launch party and showcase. Local standouts like the…
Fresh off two successful nights at the Fillmore, DJ Deadmau5, aka Joel Zimmerman, rocked Beta on Thursday night. Photos by Soren McCarty. Here’s the full slideshow: Deadmau5 at Beta. Below are a few highlights…
After taking a summer break, DJs Low Key and Sounds Supreme are firing The Solution back up again starting tomorrow night, Friday, October 15, at 3014 (3014 East Colfax Avenue). The duo launched their widely popular weekly underground hip-hop night more than three years ago at Milk with the simple…
Prime Element. That’s the new name of the trio formerly known as 3 the Hardway. But that’s not the biggest news coming out of that camp today. After years of hard work, the threesome, made up of A.V.I.U.S., Cysko Rokwel and Es Nine, has linked up with Kamikazi Airlines, an…
John Statz may not be a full-time resident of Denver, but the Mile High City shouldn’t take it personally. The singer-songwriter’s unquenchable wanderlust has taken him from Colorado to Wisconsin to West Virginia to Hungary, and during his travels, he wrote Ghost Towns, a full-length dripping with folk-rock immediacy and…
“More Sunlight” begins this EP sounding like Twitch-era Ministry gone disco, almost like Bronski Beat if it had gone in a much darker direction. The Flashlight guys have figured out how to perfectly mix Ethan Converse’s light and expertly executed falsetto with vintage synths and percussion that sounds like it…
Lissie, who was slated to perform tonight at the Bluebird, had to cancel the show. “Just found out my vocal cords are ready to explode and if I don’t stop talking and singing for at least 2 weeks-possible permanent damage,” she posted on her Twitter account. “But I also want…
We’ve received word that Absolutely Huge Entertainment has signed an agreement to take over the Oriental Theater, which became available in August. Headed up by Anna Muniz, who has over twenty years of experience in the bar and entertainment industry, the group also includes Joe Hendricks, who ran the Fallen…
Burbank, California’s DIY label Deathbomb Arc began a monumental sonic undertaking this September, offering up over a hundred songs to subscribers of its year-long “Digital Singles Club” for just ten bucks. Taken from the idea behind the label’s past cassette-tape club — which featured Caldera Lakes, one half of which…
Looking for the best place to rock out in Denver? You don’t say. So are we. What a coincidence. Luckily, this morning we happened upon this helpful bing.com billboard, which promises to help make our daunting quest infinitely easier. The hunt, it seems, at least according to Microsoft’s flagship search…
Some of our most loved fliers are hardly decipherable messes of wacky design, so it’s nice to see something readable and simple sometimes. Simplicity was once a staple among concert posters because they needed to convey two simple facts: who was playing and where. Thankfully, this artist showcase manages to…
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, who have released three live albums together, visit the 1STBANK Center on Thursday, December 9, to play stripped down version of Dave Matthews Band classics. Tickets ($85-$95) go on sale Saturday, October 16 at noon. In support of The Grand Theatre Volume One, which hits…
Houston is like any other city if you were to take away outside interest, camaraderie and hope,” says Tex Kerschen about the town he calls home. “That is to say, it is a vast, overwhelmingly alienating and inherently negative place. There is no money, no glory, and no future to…
The partners at Wild Ivories, the dueling piano bar at 1400 Market Street, have not been making beautiful music together. On the day the club opened in June, Tim Kirkland, one of those partners, says he got an anonymous “Here’s who you’re doing business with” e-mail that outlined a check-fraud…
“When there’s no god left to pray to, you’ll see what I mean.” In singing those words from “Build a Wolf a Cage,” Benjamin Buttice probably doesn’t mean any harm, but that’s just a taste of the bracing lyricism to be found in his songwriting. Like Bill Callahan in a…
