No amount of Westword cover stories, YouTube sensationalism or pole-vaulting to the head of the line can make Two Bedroom Apartment — the third release by Fort Collins wunderkind Danielle Ate the Sandwich — any more listenable. Luckily, the album doesn’t rely on those things, nor does it need to…
There’s just something about the name Frogs Gone Fishin’ that, well, kind of screams “jam band.” That’s not necessarily a bad thing if you’re hoping to take some folks on a “phishing” trip. But at the same time, it might keep others from actually giving you a fair shake. In…
An epic sound somewhere between a jet taking off and the THX theme might be a tad dramatic as far as album openers go, but when SuperSeed blasts off into a blistering blues lick over a driving hi-hat beat on “Dreams,” the first track off its latest, self-titled EP, you…
Travis Barton and Chris Powell have been making experimental electronic music for around a decade, and the aesthetic for the duo’s first widely available release is succinctly summed up with its title. Reminiscent of ’90s electronica, these songs sound like Future Sound of London’s Lifeforms album mixed with glitchy noise…
Taking their name from the ancient Iranian philosopher name-checked by Nietzsche (whose own work inspired the Richard Strauss composition that is considered the theme song of 2001: A Space Odyssey), these Atlanta sludge-rockers do plenty of their own outer and inner space exploration on the recently released Matador. Often compared…
Add the goofy name to a tag like “jam band,” and you’ve got a band that’s stigmatized right out of the gate. True, Umphrey’s McGee might not be for everyone. In terms of bands that traffic in long-form compositions — and Umphrey’s McGee (playing with Galactic and the Wailers at…
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Thao Nguyen are West Coast-based singer-songwriters who came together at wildly different points in their career arcs. After clicking at this year’s Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, they formed indie-chick super-group Thao and Mirah With the Most of All and immediately embarked on a…
The Hold Steady seems like a particularly apt name for the lauded New York band following the release of its fifth full-length, Heaven is Whenever, earlier this year. After a grip of albums that cranked the populist, classic-rock bombast of Thin Lizzy and Boston through frontman Craig Finn’s hyper-literate, spoken-sung…
If the above tweet is to be believed, when the 3OH!3 hooligans perform two songs tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (“My First Kiss” and “Déjà Vu”), we can expect to see gold — lots of gold, evidently. Oh, and massive amounts of chest hair (not as much of that, though,…
Chris Brown is sad, and it’s not because he cried at the BET awards on Sunday. While performing a tribute to Michael Jackson, the singer and alleged Rihanna-beater broke down and wept during a rendition of Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror,” leading many, as noted in the CBS report above,…
Summertime, in our book, is all about fireworks, barbecues and sweaty live music. How fitting then, that this week’s top flier uses one of those things to advertise a great slate of the other two? It’s for one of the Larimer Lounge’s fine summer barbecue events, which are like little…
After opening the subterranean Below Bar at 1422 Larimer Street nearly two and a half years ago, owner Bill Ward did a bit of remodeling to the place, switched around some of the furniture, added a lot more mirrors turned it into a gay bar near the end of April…
Zack de la Rocha’s never been prim about his political leanings. In fact, that’s always been the whole point: Since Rage Against the Machine was named, well, Rage Against the Machine, up to the time De la Rocha left the band to devote more time to pursuing social justice in…
We brought you a list of our potential top summer jams a while back, but now summer is here and it got us to wondering: What song (or songs) have been your top songs of the summer so far. And since standing on a street corner asking random passers-by questions…
Ray LaMontagne and his backing band, the Pariah Dogs, visit the Boulder Theater for an eTown show Thursday, August 12, five days before before his fourth album, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise hits stores. The live radio show taping hosted by Nick and Helen Forester also includes music…
Last night, Tool played the first of its back-to-back dates at Red Rocks. Photographer Aaron Thackeray was there to capture the band — and the fans — for your enjoyment. Click through for a look at ten of the best shots of the night, or visit the slide show for…
It was almost six weeks ago that metal legend Ronnie James Dio died and the tributes keep rolling in. Yesterday, a video appeared online that featured members of thrash mainstays Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax sharing their memories of the man. The video was originally recorded and broadcast as part…
Back when the Film on the Rocks schedule was announced, fans got a chance to select their favorite John Hughes film for a showing. Well, the fans spoke and overwhelmingly they chose Ferris Bueller’s Day Off over The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Ferris grabbed nearly half the vote, leaving…
Online ticketing company Ticketfly acquired show-listing/social media site Gigbot last week to better help it compete with ticketing juggernaut Ticketmaster. Terms of the deal were not announced, but as part of the deal, Gigbot founder (and main dude behind the tech that runs it) Sean Porter is joining Ticketfly as…
It’s been a few years, and we’ve missed this band. Sure, Cephalic Carnage has held to a fairly steady formula in its now-eighteen-year career, but oh, what a formula it is: Coupling punishing metal jabs that hit like a fat man swinging a blunt object with breakdowns of insane technical…
We know when you’re busy re-fighting World War II or killing alien invaders on your Xbox, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Gee, this is fun, but what does pop-star/provocateur M.I.A. think of this activity?” Well, wonder no longer — she’s weighed in with her opinion at last…
We revealed a while back that Lady Gaga might not be just the oddball pop star/performance artist you know and love/hate, but a secret tool of the worldwide conspiracy known as the Illuminati. Now, no less of an expert on the topic than Internet celebrity, reality show trainwreck and, apparently,…
