A brief story: Our Best of Denver issue came out this week, and among the winners was the Pirate Signal, for their hip-hop mixtape Of Gods and Gangsters, Vol. 1. So as the lowly web editor, I included their photo in a slideshow I put together of the arts and…
Moments ago, the folks at AEG announced the line-up for this year’s Mile High Music Festival. This year looks like it’s going to be a doozy. Here are just some of the acts that you can look forward to seeing this summer on the two main stages at either end…
Jazz Fest Denver Dazzle Restaurant & LoungeFriday, March 20 through Sunday March, 22Dazzle is home to some of the finest local and national jazz acts that swing through Denver on a nightly basis, but this week Dazzle graciously lent its doors and transformed the club into a three-day awkward romp…
This week’s snazzy flier shows off the skills of Amber Fagan. Something about the hand-drawn illustration of two people with heads titlted, eyes closed in what appears to be rapture really did it for me — I imagine it’s a couple of fans, first row at a Knew show, drinking…
Tyler Gilmore and his 17-piece Ninth+Lincoln modern music ensemble will perform the Denver premier of “Piano Roll” Sunday, March 29 at Dazzle. Gilmore, who was this year’s winner in the Emerging Jazz Composer Category of ASCAP’s Jazz Commissioning Program, wrote the piece in honor of legendary pianist Hank Jones, who…
Local singer-songwriter and one-time Mousketeer Matt Morris is playing a benefit show this Sunday, March 29, at the Hard Rock Cafe with none other than the Bacon Brothers (i.e. Kevin freaking Bacon and his brother, who is apparently an accomplished musician — who knew?). Apart from making for some pretty…
The Jonas Brothers will stop at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, June 24 as part of the trio’s 44-city North American leg of its world tour. The Offspring, Alkaline Trio, the Vandals, Street Dogs and Frontside Five, meanwhile, hit Red Rocks on Thursday, May 28 as part of Punk Rocks…
URB Magazine has covered the hip-hop and electronic music scene for close to twenty years. Each year they’ve devote an issue to the next 100 artists they believe are going to blow up in the coming year, aptly named URB’s Next 100. But in 2007, they switched the game up…
On Sunday, April 5, the guys from Reno Divorce are shooting a video for their song, “Has It Been Long Enough,” and are looking for a few extras to fill a scene that takes place in an unnamed bar. Those interested in being immortalized are can contact Justin Herman, the…
If you’ve always wanted to learn the ins and outs of record production, your golden opportunity has arrived. Randall Frazier, chief engineer at helmet r00m recordings, is teaching a class on basic audio production at the Colorado Free University. The three-session class will cover the basics of audio theory, microphone…
Sunday, March 22: I’m not keeping up with these entries, because it’s damn near impossible to find any time to write down here. I’m about two days behind right now, so I’m going to attempt to just cover everything between Thursday morning and right now. As a disclaimer, my memory…
Saturday, March 20: The sun burned off most of the cloud cover as the crowd continued to swell. In the Bat Bar, the Von Bondies tuned up all of their gear for a DirectTV taping, then launched into a near perfect set of fuzzy soul blues mixed in with a…
The Epilogues gentlemen shot some video of the slackers (yes, slackers! dudes were supposed to keep a tour diary but ended up flaking and passing off the task to the Epilogues) in the Photo Atlas performing at SXSW. From the looks/sounds of it, the guys were in pretty decent form…
Saturday, March 20: So we’re here in Austin, Texas. We’ve been getting “Austonian,” if you know what I mean. Heh. The drive down was pretty fresh …well, for at least the first few hours. By the eighteenth hour, we were rockin the B.O. Sport for sure. It was nice riding…
Saturday March 21 – Day 4: So here we are. Our last day in Austin. Going to try and take it easy today, seeing as how we have to drive to L.A. tonight, but I’m sure we’ll still get into some trouble. We’ve got a show at 9 p.m. tonight…
And the hits just keep coming for Pictureplane, the musical vehicle of Travis Egedy. On Wednesday, Pitchfork reviewed “Trance Doll,” the A side of Pictureplane’s new Lovepump United 7-inch and gave it a six rating, which in the Pitchfork Universe is pretty decent praise. The best part of the review,…
While everyone here is busy regretting not being at SXSW, I’m busy looking forward to regretting not being at the other giant music-industry party that kicks off next week. That’d be the Winter Music Conference in Miami for all you non-dance music loving freaks out there. If, like me, you’re…
Those on the Fray’s mailing list may have noticed that Denver was conspicuously missing from the act’s exhaustive list of upcoming tour dates this summer. Rumor had it this was due to the fact that the band was going to be performing at the Mile High Music Fest. Well, that…
What better way to spend the second half of March is traveling around Europe rapping for a bunch of French, German, and Dutch hip-hop heads? That’s exactly what Colorado rappers Ancient Mith and Calm. (which consists of Time and Awareness) are doing, and the two MCs are documenting their tour,…
Friday, March 20: I arrived in Austin on the evening of Wednesday, March 18th. I had played SXSW last year so I knew what to expect. But this time around, I am hired to play bass for 3OH!3 — you know, that small band from Boulder? The band who still…
Rachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I’m now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that’s true in cliché form as well, then the show at GlobGlobGlob on…
All right, I’ll admit it. I’m all kinds of bummed out. Not only am I feeling like two crates of ass specially flown in from Assville right now thanks to some stupid throat/sinus/ear infection, but I’m reeling from reading all the South By Southwest coverage from my colleagues (including a…
