Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom may have changed owners last fall, but things are clearly still kicking at the venue, and there’s still plenty of music in the streets. Last year, before changing hands Cervantes’ hosted the Dancing In the Streets, a three-day festival that took place at 26th and Welton…
“Me and my roommates were reading way too many Lone Wolf and Cub graphic novels,” says Odam Fei Mud’s Daniel Crosier about the formation of his neo-kabuki performance group, “and watching way too many Akira Kurosawa films.” But that’s just the inspiration behind Odam Fei Mud, slated to appear at…
So the Epilogues have finished work on its new “Hunting Season” video, which was filmed on location this past spring in the woods at the site of the infamous Hayman forest fire of 2002. To celebrate the premiere of the Dillon Novak directed video, the outfit has put together one…
Back in June, you might remember us mentioning how Boonie Mayfield’s studio had been burglarized and how he had lost most of his equipment. When we caught up with the seemingly always upbeat producer, one of our favorites, to discuss the robbery, he was, well, dependably upbeat. Heartened by the…
Okay, the level of attention Tennis has attracted is officially absurd at this point, especially considering the short amount of time the act’s been together and the ridiculously low number of shows that it has played thus far. Don’t know if you caught this, but in advance of its pair…
There’s something about the act of playing guitar that makes white people — as famously portrayed in this Chapelle Show sketch — act a fool. In that spirit, we present to you many, many faces of John Mayer during his concert last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. All photos by…
JOHN MAYER With special guest Owl City 09.01.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre View slideshow You ever been around somebody who’s had a near-death experience? Notice how they’re just a little more gracious than the rest of us, and perhaps a little more sincere? Or how they don’t take life’s fleeting…
Well, it’s official. Guns ‘n’ Rose frontman Axl Rose is less of a man than Justin Bieber, and we have the video evidence to prove it. As you’ll see in the video above (skip to 1:20 or so if you want to avoid the histrionic intro to “Welcome to the…
Coincidences often come in small, profound packages. The day Devin Mendoza and Justin Trujillo sit down to discuss their post-metal duo, Adai, just so happens to be the sixth anniversary of Adai’s first rehearsal — which took place in the practice space of their previous band, Yuriko. Not that Mendoza…
It was fun while it lasted — but Jazzmatazz Lounge, which opened last November in the space at 1612 East 17th Avenue, next to Limón, only lasted as a jazz club for a few months. And while Limón has occasionally booked bands in the space since Jazzmatazz closed, it hasn’t…
If Ahab had lived to write a memoir, its title might have been the inspiration for the name of this band. Just the same, Safe Boating Is No Accident’s lyrics aren’t as overtly tempestuous as hunting for the great white whale on the Pequod. Even though the outfit’s sonics are…
On their first two albums, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally perfected a sound so haunting and unique that they could easily have left it exactly as it was and built a small but everlasting cult around it. But while they kept the same basic ingredients — old organs and drum…
These days you hear that sludgy, crypto-psychedelic heavy metal called “stoner rock” all over the place — or at least the influence of such when so many bands rediscover early metal influences like Deep Purple and UFO. Sleep didn’t necessarily pioneer stoner rock or doom metal, but its 1992 album,…
Le Tigre made feminism, leftist politics and sexuality seem fun and confrontational at the same time, and the act’s mixture of electronic music and rock crystallized during its live shows. When Le Tigre went on temporary hiatus in 2007, JD Samson and Johanna Fateman started MEN as a DJ and…
A throwback to a time when popular music had an intentionally kitschy side, Scissor Sisters runs its fingers through the dirty hair of New York Dolls while maintaining a musical intelligence even Elton John has come to admire. The quintet’s lyrics are threaded with smart, sexually aware social commentary that…
On its latest release, Git Some doesn’t exactly break new ground. Instead, the band cracks it beyond recognition, leaving it covered in broken glass and drenched in sweat and blood while destroying pretty much everything that rests upon it. Loose Control, the band’s second full-length and first on Jello Biafra’s…
After honing his skills at local open mikes, Sean Hunting Morse started hosting a night at the Ubisububi Room, below the Thin Man. Being around some of the best singer-songwriters, he absorbed something through osmosis, it seems — or maybe the guy already had it. Either way, Morse’s seven-song EP,…
The down-tempo “I Had Another Dream Last Night That You Were a Ghost” sets the pace and tone for this album. Something about this set of songs has the feel of a Shirley Jackson novel: It’s all haunted moods and impressionistic imagery, tied together with scenes of striking emotional power…
Me Against Sunrise is extremely talented yet weighed down by the well-worn musical cliches of the bands that clearly inspire it. The act’s latest disc, If Ghost Was a Color, pays homage to metal-core heavyweights like Atreyu and Killswitch Engage, borrowing from them liberally and often. Arpeggiated guitar flourishes, double-bass…
In the late ’90s, the Gamits were part of a relatively small but thriving punk scene that included artists like Pinhead Circus, the Fairlanes and Four. Unlike most groups of that era, the Gamits survived beyond the first couple of years of the new century and, with numerous national and…
Having fulfilled its commitment with former label Nonesuch, Wilco finds itself in a pretty enviable position right now. With a core fan base firmly established, the band has, in essence, established a framework to assume greater control of its career by releasing its own music — in its own time…
There are many ways for dance-music artists to make a name for themselves, such as blowing up dance floors as a globe-trotting DJ, crafting original tracks as a production wizard or fixing and remixing others’ material into new forms. Italian-born EDX carved out his niche with that last option. He’s…
