Laura Brehm is eighteen — and she sounds like it. Start with her voice: With the high, girlish timbre and inflection of Miley Cyrus, she’d rate similarly on the Disney Pop Machine register of innocent to raunchy. Of course, unlike most of those Disney starlets, Brehm writes her own songs,…
Anyone familiar with electronic music of the ’90s and underground hip-hop will hear shades of Sole, Massive Attack, post-ambient Aphex Twin and Dead Cities-era Future Sound of London on this intriguingly eclectic release. If Martin Scorsese decided to remake After Hours, “Makin’ Love Free” would be the ideal song for…
On its bio, Strange Lights, a duo that hails from the town of Crestone, cites influences like Television, the Flaming Lips and R.E.M. Anyone who digs any of those acts, however, would probably steer clear of Strange Lights’ third album, Light Bright. Apart from the incongruous comparison, most of the…
Imagine revamping a fiery activist anthem into a mindless, rump-shaking jam. That’s exactly what Ludacris did on “How Low,” which features Chipmunk-style vocal effects and young girls being seduced out of pajamas. (It should be noted that How low can you go? in Public Enemy’s original version of “Bring the…
The way that Afrofuturist singer Janelle Monáe talks about balance, you’d think she was an acrobat. For example, when discussing the meaning behind her single, “Tightrope” (featuring Big Boi), she touts the importance of avoiding emotionally detrimental extremes. Monáe says the single is similar in spirit to James Brown’s late-’60s anthems…
The music of dubstep artist Excision is a fitting soundtrack to the desolate, gritty, apocalyptic landscape of a future ruled by homicidal machines. His tunes are warped, stuttering affairs studded with samples from both sci-fi and hip-hop (and probably some sci-fi hip-hop for good measure). Wobbly bass that can double…
Seraphim Shock hasn’t gigged all that much over the past few years it seems, so word of a pair of benefit shows the act is doing at Paris Wine Bar (1553 Platte Street) should excite longtime fans. On Thursday and Friday, June 10 and 11, the group is set to…
If you’re going to advertise a disco night, what better image to choose than the all-powerful disco ball? None better. Even as disco’s influence across the land waned, the glittery allure of the disco ball never faltered. Everyone loves a disco ball. And we love this flier. Not just for…
We’d be lying to you if we said Kilgore Books and Comics (624 E. 13th Ave.) wasn’t one of our favorite shops in town. It’s a bastion of great reading materials, great people and some totally rad comic books. This Saturday, in celebration of the store’s two-year anniversary and the…
After a thirty-year run, Denver’s last Trail Dust Steak House closed on Christmas Eve of 2009. (The Trail Dust in Westminster had closed several years earlier, and the building it occupied just literally bit the dust.) Vicky Wagner, whose husband’s family owns the space at 7101 South Clinton Street in…
As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Playboy Club and the Playboy Bunny, Suite Two Hundred (1427 Larimer Street) will be one of fifty clubs in fifty different cities around the world throwing parties. On Friday, June 11, Christina Santiago, Playboy’s 2003 Playmate of the year, will host the…
Mark Oliver Everett, the man sometimes known as E and the guy behind Eels, and his band will hit the Ogden Tuesday, October 5. On the Eels website, Everett says End Times, the band’s most recent album (released in January on Vagrant Records), is a “divorce album” with a modern…
Savoy ahoy! – Savoy, easily one of Colorado’s best up and coming dance acts, recently announced they’ve been booked for the Dallas and Los Angeles dates of Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the nation’s biggest dance music festivals. Strangely, they won’t be playing this Saturday at the Denver date for…
It’s been a while since we checked in with everyone’s favorite South African rap-rave act Die Antwoord (since Ralphie brought us a micro-review of the act’s first-ever US set at Coachella), but this should make up for it. The act is starring in the latest “What’s in my Bag?” entry…
Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 06.07.10 | The Paramount Theatre Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday’s two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had dissected the original stereo mixes of Frank Zappa songs…
Phil Lesh & Bob Weir’s group Further, who helped kick off things at the 1stBank Center in March, return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25. The two Grateful Dead members will be joined by RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti,…
Bummed out that Bono and his U2 compadres won’t be at Invesco this weekend? Yeah? So are we. Luckily, we have Under a Blood Red Sky, Denver’s trusty rusty U2 tribute band, which has pulled together a gig this weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe this weekend to help us…
Have you seen Mike Judge’s latest flick, Extract? No? Allow us to save you the trouble: The movie, which came out last year, is occasionally amusing; it’s no where near as funny as Office Space or as incisive as Idiocracy. If anything, it leans far closer to the former in…
The extended hiatus of Young Coyotes is finally at an end. We heard last week that the duo have announced that they are in the process of recording a full-length follow up to their previous two EPs. Now we have some details. Zachary Tipton tells us he and Adam Halferty…
While you were out enjoying the lovely weather last night, MTV aired its 19th annual Movie Award show. The broadcast featured such thought provoking awards as “Most WTF Moment” and “Best Villain.” We’re pretty certain the MTV Movie Awards haven’t actually mattered to anyone for the better part of the…
La Roux • boyhollow 06.05.10 | Ogden Theater Boyhollow opened this show, and his DJ set was a nice weaving together of modern, house music and tastefully chosen pop and rock songs to match the pace being set at that given moment. Kind of a more original take on Big…
Hot Congress / Long Spoon Block Party 06.05.10 | Meadowlark • Larimer Lounge The upside to a big, multiple-venue show like the Hot Congress/Long Spoon Block Party this past Saturday is that there’s always something awesome to see. The downside: There’s always more than one awesome thing to see at…
