The clanking, shifty rhythms and cool, prickly textures of techno auteur Bob Rogue’s work are awash in contradiction. Despite sounding like a transmission beamed to Earth from a distant star and tuned in by SETI’s massive telescopes, his music is typically both pretty and impossible to resist dancing to. Creating…
We’re number two! We’re number two! Yeeaaaahhhh! Coming in second in a music quiz may not seem like something to cheer about, but considering our desultory sixth-place finish in our own fucking quiz a few weeks back (a finish so lame I felt compelled to make up a list of…
Update: The media onslaught continues. Just received word that 3OH!3 is slated to perform on Jay Leno next Thursday, July 22 (REMINDER: That’s tonight). Is this their Tonight Show debut? Think it is. Alright, just when you think 3OH!3 had reached maximum exposure on the retail and media front, comes…
What happens in your brain in that space between waking and sleep, when thoughts cease to flow but dreams are still yet to arrive? We don’t know, because we’re music bloggers, not brainologists, but we’re thinking it’s some kind of mental test pattern that looks a lot like this week’s…
In case you missed it, Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) has released a ukulele Radiohead cover album called, well, conveniently enough, Amanda Palmer performs the popular hits of Radiohead on her magical ukulele — a title that’s sure not to leave anyone confused. Now, this is all well and…
Way back in 2008, when we first spoke to Luke Bodley about Heaven Fest, the annual Christian music festival he produces was in its infancy. Bodley confided to us that he had difficulty convincing acts to perform at the inagural event. Jeremy Camp and Skillet were his headliners that first…
Kings of Leon • Built to Spill • the Features 07.20.10 | Comfort Dental Amphitheater, Greenwood Village In the pantheon of all time miserable shows, I’d rank last night’s Kings of Leon show at Comfort Dental right up there with MGMT at Red Rocks last month, DeVotchKa’s set at Monolith…
A rose by any other name is still a rose, as Shakespeare famously said, but what if you name your particular rose “poop?” Fewer people, we’re guessing, will want to smell it. So when Gauntlet Hair, a Lafayette-based indie outfit whose name makes us think of a clogged drain, came…
It’s that time of year again, time for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos. Just in case you were getting worried that you might not have anything to do this summer, this year’s Gathering (held in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois), the eleventh annual edition, will offer endless entertainment in the form of…
“High standards reap high results. You’ve got to spend money to make money. You’ve got to work hard to get big, big reward.” Trite, time worn platitudes from somebody’s dad? Naw, but close. Those are excerpts of a voice mail Kevin Wesley of Hot White received from a dude in…
Okay, just a real quick plug for our people at BoxStateMusic — and by people, we really mean our dude Big Joe Thunder. Cat’s a one-man wrecking machine, a seemingly omnipresent figure when it comes to hip-hop in Denver. Joey T’s got his ear to the streets, which is why…
Less than a month left until this year’s Mile High Music Festival. Figured out your itinerary yet? We have. Well, sorta. My Morning Jacket, Weezer, Phoenix, Drive-By Truckers, Ozomatli, Damian Marley & Nas are on our shortlist so far. The full schedule was just released a few moments ago, and…
For their fourth studio effort I Learned the Hard Way, released on Daptone in April, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings recorded on an eight-track tape machine, which lends the disc an analog warmth that perfectly matches their ’60s-infused soul and funk. Armed with a batch of new songs and a…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat Mr. Pacman • Bongo Fury • Little Fyodor & Babushka Band 07.17.10 | Rhinoceropolis In case anyone was counting, it’s probably been at least two years since we last saw Mr. Pacman on stage, possibly three. So this rare Pacman appearance was a real treat, despite…
The Pitchfork Music Festival, which took place this past weekend in Chicago, is a more friendly outdoor event compared to Lollapalooza and others. Volunteers passed out water to the hot, the dusty and the drunk as they assembled under an unrelenting sun on day one to see acts like Robyn,…
Ah, summer music festivals: If you’re a tatted-up rock and roll, heavymotherfuckingmetal fan, these annual mega-concerts are the time to show off last winter’s ink to a bumper crop of fellow proud-freaks and fuck-ups like yourself. (We won’t tell anyone you’re an accountant at Brown & McAllister CPA, swear.) And…
Among the many photos in our Mayhem Festival hits Denver slideshow, these two portraits were shot by photographer Aaron Thackeray. From their style alone, this couple seems made for each other. Denver metal community, can you please introduce these two to each other for us?!?! (Let us know how it…
Aggressive heavy metal lives on through the traveling Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which stopped at the Comfort Dental Amphitheater in Englewood on Sunday. Roving photographer Aaron Thackeray was there and brings back all these photos of the dread-locked, chest-baring, energy drink-guzzling moshers and musicians. See the full slideshow from…
If you count yourself a fan of hip-hop culture — particularly Colorado hip-hop — Soulz of the Rockies is an absolute must-see. Can’t remember the last time I’ve been so energized by a film, any film, much less a local one. But Soulz of the Rockies is deep. The documentary,…
Pitbull was originally scheduled to bring his Mr. Worldwide’s Carnaval Tour to the 1stBank Center in May, but had to postpone. The gig was rescheduled for this Thursday, July 22. But he won’t be making that date either as the show has now evidently been canceled due to scheduling conflicts…
Ah, yes, what a splendid birthday present (okay, it isn’t exactly our birthday, but close enough). It seems one of our favorite bands, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, a group we’ve long been smitten with since first making its acquaintance at South Park some years ago, has a…
In case you missed it, KTCL has announced the lineup for its annual Big Gig: The Smashing Pumpkins, Chevelle, Anberlin, Flobots, Darling Thieves, Tickle Me Pink and the Locals Only Stage, featuring a slew of local acts on the, well, fittingly dubbed Locals Only Stage. Tickets for the show, slated…
