Concerts

There is much more to Salt Lake City punk than some silly movie set in the ’80s. The real thing is very much alive and well in hard-edged experimental bands such as Form of Rocket and the decidedly more poppy but just as energetic and fiery Fail to Follow. These…

Todd Snider’s Americana is a far cry from punk rock, yet the singer-songwriter embodies a punk attitude, especially on his latest release, Peace Queer. Channeling Dylan with the balls of, say, Jello Biafra, Snider rails with his trademark dry wit against the war and George W. Bush. The eight-song, half-hour-long…

Photo: Summit Sudios Found yet another batch of videos of a band hard at work in the studio. These feature Rough Draft, an up-and-coming, unabashed Christian rock act from Fort Collins that spends the bulk of its time on the road. Coming off winning the band competition at the Gospel…

Photo: Gary IsaacsBefore heading off across the pond for a sizable nineteen-day jaunt through Europe in April, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club will be crisscrossing Colorado in the company of the Reverend Horton Heat. Kicking things off at the Ogden Theatre this Friday night alongside Reno Divorce, the band will accompany…

In a coincidence they perhaps hadn’t anticipated when they chose their moniker, the members of Honor the Fallen, a young Broomfield-based act, has issued word that guitarist Dylan Neise (pictured left, center) is departing the band. As an, ahem, honorable gesture, the band delivered the news to fans in a…

Overcasters, the promising new outfit led by Kurt Ottaway, just returned from a pair of shows on the East Coast with the Fluid. While the shows were awesome, from the sounds of it, the band was fortunate to have made it there in one piece. As the band was passing…

This week’s Beatdown deals with the whole idea of talking during shows, as it seems like a fairly frequent occurrence regardless of who’s performing. I offered up a few viable theories as to why it happens and asserted that, for the most part, I sincerely don’t believe that anyone truly…

Earlier today, we mentioned Dave Beegle in the news about Trace Bundy getting recognition in Acoustic Magazine. Next thing we know, Beegle’s brother and his most faithful, ardent and tireless champion, Morris, the owner of Hapi Skratch Entertainment, posted a vintage video of Dave shredding with Fourth Estate at the…

Photo: Steven Wallace This is shaping up to be a stellar year for hard rock and metal in Denver. As we write this, another promising act is in the process of recording a debut full-length. And in what has almost become customary at this point in this here digital age,…

So what are you doing tonight? What? Watching TV and then going to bed? Lame. Yes, we know it’s Tuesday, but there’s some pretty cool stuff going on tonight. First Andy Tanner of Laymen’s Terms is playing a show tonight at the Larimer Lounge that will serve as his solo…

Damn you, Eric Shively! Thanks for bringing rain clouds to an otherwise peaceful Tuesday evening. Was just now getting ready to crack a cold one and call it a day, when a message from Senõr Shively popped in my e-mail box. I’ll tell you what, leave it to that guy…

Here’s a new variation on the In Rainbows paradigm that actually seems quite viable. Regular blog readers have probably already heard all about this, if they caught Eryc Eyl’s 1090 Club blog item back in December, but if not, check this out; it’s pretty cool: There’s this digital music distributor…

While there’s a plethora of gifted guitarists in Denver, there’s only a handful that enter the realm of extraordinary, virtuosos who are widely regarded amongst critics, their peers and by fans. It’s a short list filled in by folks like Dave Beegle, Robert Eldridge and Neil Haverstick, among others. You…

Buffalo, New York-based DeepThinka Records just released Rebel Radio 45: The Free Double Mixtape mixed by DJ Anubus, DJ Optimus Prime and Billy Drease Williams. Why do we care? Well, mostly because it’s a dope mixtape that’s free, but also because Denver’s own ManeLine is featured on the project next…

Just announced seconds ago: Springsteen at the Pepsi Center on Friday, April 10. Together with his ace co-horts, the E-Street Band, the Boss will be stopping by Denver as part of an extensive American and European tour in support of his new album, Working On a Dream, which arrived in…

Last year, b-boy Fienz, his Lordz of Finesse crew and Paul Skeee came together to throw the first Mighty 4 Colorado event at Beta nightclub, which drew more than 500 attendees. The event featured b-boy battles, performances from Infinite Mindz and BreakEFX, as well as fresh music coming from DJs…

Hold off sending any floral arrangements to the funeral home. It appears that news of Spools of Dark Thread’s demise may have been a bit premature. Two of the remaining members (the drummer and a guitarist?) are committed to finding new players — specifically, a new frontman to replace Chris…

Finally! All my years of practicing the Hammer dance and holding on to my harem pants are about to pay off. DanceJam is running a contest to find the best Hammer dancer in the U.S. If you’re fourteen years old or older, live in any of the fifty U.S. states,…

Well, the first review is in. Two stars. In the brand-new issue of Rolling Stone, which just hit stands over the weekend, the mag gives the Fray’s forthcoming full-length, the hotly anticipated, self-titled followup to How to Save a Life, due in stores next Tuesday, two stars out of five…

On the heels of the Fluid invading NYC the weekend prior, DeVotchKa, another Denver act, played a show on Saturday night at Webster Hall in New York. Evidently, the set was quite well received, according to this pair of blog posts we came across — the latter of which contains…

Meat Puppets with Shaky HandsSaturday, January 24, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: Not seeing such a deservedly legendary band.Shaky Hands from Portland, Oregon, opened the show with its own brand of countrified indie rock. There was nothing languid about the performance of this four-piece: Bright, chimy guitars and thick, heady leads locking…