Although half-brothers Eli Battles and Drew Thurston grew up six years apart with completely different musical interests, music ended up being a connector between them when they formed Laslow. On the inside cover of the duo’s debut, A Quality of Light, there’s a photo of Thurston playing a dual-neck MIDI…
The first two tracks of this album, “My Shell” and “Poor, Poor Vivian,” wouldn’t be out of place on a far-better-than-average pop-punk album. “Green Eggs and Ham,” meanwhile, is obviously influenced by early-’90s grunge, but with more power-pop flavorings — gritty like Cheap Trick could be in the early ’80s,…
In June last year, there was a show called Denver Does Denver that featured musicians and bands from a broad spectrum of the scene covering their favorite musical compatriots — or at least those whose music they found interesting or amusing to perform. For starters, Slight Harp and Safe Boating…
DJ Narky Stares (aka Lauren Zwicky) is a non-traditionalist when it comes to the tastemaking side of deejaying. Dropping tracks from Dave Nada to Egyptrixx, her proudly weird taste is as diverse as her upbringing: Zwicky’s childhood took her from Utah to Mexico to Costa Rica and eventually to her…
When a kid starts spinning records in his parents’ basement, he dreams of having the kind of career Dave Audé has had — if he dreams big. Let’s look at it by the numbers: 44 Billboard #1 dance tracks, including eighteen in 2009 alone, and toss in a Grammy nomination…
File under: SUH-WEET! Referring, of course, to the new Havok T-shirts. Have you seen them? We repeat: SUH-FRICKIN’-WEET! Assuming these bad boys come in double extra fat guy … checking … ahem, this just in, they do! … we’re going to … doo-dee-doo, click, click, click … order this one…
Ah, looks like we’re finally going to get around to screening Oddsac, Animal Collective’s twisted take on cinema verite (see trailer after the jump), thanks to the lovely chaps from Analog Space and their esteemed counterparts at Research & Development, who will be treating us all to a night of…
After a concerted effort to keep things going after splitting with former frontwoman Kyle Simmons and swiftly naming her replacement, Katrina Stone, who accompanied them on this year’s Warped Tour, it appears that the remaining members of Speakeasy Tiger have reached another crossroads, and perhaps an impasse…
For this week’s top flier, the legs have it. Four hypnotic, abstracted sets of them, like a mannequin-esque nightmare that erupts after a night of too much cough syrup and too many Robert Palmer videos — but in a good way. The key word here is synergy. The legs themselves…
Urban Dictionary, the Internet’s home for crass generalizations, defines a bro as, “Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren’t making an ass of themselves, they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exciting to happen so they can scream…
With the exception of the excellent Wesley Willis Joy Rides documentary, we haven’t heard much from Eyeosaur lately, but the above teaser seems to suggest that something Warlock Pinchers related might be in the works. Either way, the video reminded us of something equally as interesting: The Mr. Pacman Half…
After a supporting slot on Lupe Fiasco’s tour earlier this year, B.o.B. will be making his return to the area for a date at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, October 9, followed by a show at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday, October 10. Tickets for the Boulder show, which are…
A gathering of cannabis connoisseurs met up at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City this past Saturday, August 21, for the aptly dubbed Cannabis Festiva, a marijuana awareness festival and concert featuring No 1 Left Standing, Slaughter House Rootz, Statewide Emergency, Tatanka, MC Subcon, Full Belly and DJ Mada,…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. But it can be tough to decide which one to go to when you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing musical riches, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are…
RODRIGO y GABRIELA Xavier Rudd 08.20.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO On the drive up to Red Rocks my brother and I alternated discussing how you could describe Rodrigo y Gabriela’s music to a neophyte and speculating what the crowd would look like. When we rolled up around 7:45,…
Montreal electro duo Chromeo played to a sold-out audience on Friday night at the Ogden Theatre, performing songs from its three-album catalog. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos: Chromeo slideshow. And read our interview with P-Thugg about Chromeo’s upcoming, fourth album, Business Casual…
SFTSTPS • Pollination Population Hideous Men • No Funeral • Married in Berdichev 08.20.10 | Rhinoceropolis, Denver For this show, Kate Ersing, who performs under the name Pollination Population, draped a string of tiny red lights along the edges of her performance area, around the myriad tape machines and other…
If you ever needed an excuse to head north to Fort Collins besides the many fine breweries there, how about the Bohemian Nights at New West Fest? The free, three day festival is bringing in an eclectic batch of talent, starting with Flobots August 20. They’ll be followed by Earth,…
All right, so this doesn’t happen every day: We just received word that local songstress Wendy Woo is going to be getting hitched next Saturday to Charles Snynder, whom she met a decade ago and reconnected with last year. The way we understand it, Snyder initially hired her to perform…
What a difference a year makes — well, give or take a few months. While it hasn’t quite been a year yet, when it launched its online tour last winter, Candy Claws was still something of an unknown quantity outside of Denver and its home of Fort Collins. And now,…
There are millions of ways to make music in the world — and that’s exactly what the Playground Ensemble and the Front Range Soundpainters are counting on. Seemingly hawked right out of this week’s Fringe Festival in Boulder, soundpainting is the art of live music composition incorporating hundreds of gestures…
Have you seen the cover of the latest Rolling Stone, the one with the True Blood cast members splattered with blood Jackson Pollack style in their birthday suits? It’s attracting quite a bit of attention — and why not? It’s sexy, bloody and, well, it’s sexy and bloody. But it’s…
