Concerts

Subcon has been playing the local rap game since the mid-’90s, and Antitoxin sounds like it. No question that he’s well-intentioned on numbers such as “Hey Mom,” dedicated to “all the single mothers out there,” and “4Ever Mine,” a sincere love song — and “Too Blessed to Be Stressed” is…

The title track of this album is an opening salvo that sets the pace for a collection of songs that make you wonder how this outfit can call itself Yawn Tron. As Iuengliss, Tom Metz’s solo material is expansive and heady, in sharp contrast to his work here. The first…

From Unadorned’s balls-out opener, “Escape From the Suburbs,” all the way through to the disc’s bonus cut, CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?,” it’s apparent these guys are well-schooled in the ways of ’70s and ’80s punk and garage rock. The garage-y “Repossession,” one of the album’s highlights, is…

While being hailed as one of the city’s best blues bands, the Informants also mix it up with soul, rock and rockabilly, as heard on their outstanding 2007 debut, Stiletto Angel. The group continues down a similar path on its new album, Crime Scene Queen, which was produced by Big…

Aerosmith still sounds remarkably vital for a band that’s been battering auditory canals since Richard Nixon’s first term. But its members are paying the price for abusing their bodies on an epic scale during the ’70s and ’80s. Over the past year or so, they’ve collectively suffered from enough health…

If you long for the glory days of progressive house, ache for the smooth, propulsive and polished mixes of Sasha and John Digweed past, you need to listen to 16 Bit Lolitas (due at Vinyl on Friday, July 31). Amsterdam-based Peter Kriek and Ariaan Olieroock are busy re-creating that same…

Although its members are pushing sixty, AC/DC is still going strong. That said, there’s nothing wrong with a bunch of younger musicians coming along and paying tribute to the Australian hard-rock masters. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a city on earth that didn’t have at least one AC/DC…

So yesterday we posted some footage of the Fray crew pranking the Meese boys and vice versa. Seems this sort of tomfoolery is rite of passage on tour. Who knew? Evidently, while they were on the road with Katy Perry in Europe, the members of the boy band known as…

Elizabeth & The Catapult and Greg Laswell Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Walnut Room Better Than: A show with similarly-minded music performed by a bunch of stiffs. For various reasons I don’t often find myself going to the Walnut Room for a show, but a little band from Brooklyn caught my…

Have you seen this? The infomercial for the “most controversial music festival in the world,” the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos? Redamndiculous. Everywhere you look, as host Sugar Slam so eloquently puts it, there’s some different shit popping off. Indeed. They should call this little shindig — slated to…

We heard murmurs about this over the weekend, but the official word just came down. Beginning Friday morning at 10 a.m., Indie 101.5 will be broadcasting at Indie303.com. Being billed as Denver’s internet station, Indie 303 will presumably work to build its niche ala WOXY.com (which, incidentally, is in the…

Update: We just received word that Ben Harper & Relentless 7’s performance at the Fox slated for next Wednesday has been canceled and will not be rescheduled. Refunds are available at the box office and will be automatically administered for those who purchased tickets but haven’t picked them up yet…

Although we could probably have went our entire life without seeing the Meese boys frolicking in their drawers, we have to admit that the footage of the stunt the outfit pulled off during its stint opening for the Fray this past weekend inspired a chuckle or two on our part:…

Tough to say for sure, but after reviewing a couple of Travis Egedy’s tracks and interviewing him today for its Rising feature, it seems safe to say that Pitchfork has taken note of Pictureplane. Tom Breihan, formerly of our sister paper in New York and one of the finest rock…

Over the past few years, Denver has seen a huge upswing in the sheer volume of touring bands coming through town. It’s been great. But a weird phenomenon has been popping up: touring bands that play Denver almost as often as local bands do. What’s even weirder about this phenomenon…

In case you missed it, the Fray appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last night. A couple noteworthy things about the performance: Drummer Ben Wysocki pitched in on backing vocals, suggesting that Joe King’s still experiencing voice problems, and the band tapped a string section to play on…

Received word that Tyler “Danger” Jacobson is ending his eight-year residency at Lipgloss on August 28. Jacobson actually made the announcement this past weekend on his Danger Radio show on Indie 101.5, but with most of the state’s music writers otherwise occupied, it took a day or two for word…

Even the lowliest of local bands are used to getting a little groupie action now and then. But it turns out Denver-area musicians don’t need to sift through their adoring audiences for a shot at romance; sometimes it’s right there onstage. Emily Carter, bassist of Lakewood electro-rock outfit Discount Cinema,…

So this was the weekend for break-ups apparently. Hot on the heels of receiving news of Everything Absent or Distorted’s dissolution, comes word that Needlepoint labelmates Rabbit Is a Sphere have also folded. Though when we spoke with the act last week in reference to a rather curious e-mail that…