Almost a decade ago now, Matson Jones was a humble band from Fort Collins with no real illusions about commercial success. But just like that, it seems, the band went from playing small shows to drawing hundreds of people. “It was insane,” recalls Martina Grbac, who fronted the act. “It…
Dragondeer, the long-running side project of Swayback frontman Eric Halborg, has always been something you got to see once in a great while — like if you happened to be at the JINXED! jam night at Rockbar a few years back. In contrast to the Swayback, Dragondeer (due at the…
An icon of independent hip-hop for over a decade, Murs (aka Nick Carter) returns to the Mile High City for a show this weekend at the Fox with fellow West Coast natives Fashawn and Black Cloud Music. The fearless leader of the Road to Paid Dues Tour, Murs is traveling…
Fur Coat hit the international scene hard last year after Damian Lazarus signed the act to his illustrious Crosstown Rebels label. Riding that wave of exposure, tracks like “Fall’s Out,” “You and I” and “Space Ballad” garnered hundreds of thousands of spins on dance floors around the globe. Heavy-hitting, soul-loving…
Thao Nguyen started writing songs with her acoustic guitar in middle school in Falls Church, Virginia. While attending William & Mary, she met her current bandmate, Adam Thompson, at a coffee-shop show in Richmond. And while that may be a bit of a cliché, Nguyen’s songs are not the tentative…
If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains for the aptly named SnowBall Music Festival in Winter…
Bobby Hecksher has been the central figure of this band since its founding, in 1999. In 1994 Hecksher played bass on Beck’s Stereopathetic Soulmanure, and he also contributed to the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 2001 album, Bravery, Repetition and Noise. But in his own work with the Warlocks, he’s explored a…
In the testosterone-fueled world of aggressive rock and heavy metal, it’s not easy to be a lesbian singer, but Otep Shamaya has outlasted many of her contemporaries. She’s been writing and recording for twelve years, a disciple of Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison. Otep was signed to Capitol Records after…
Composed entirely on vintage analog electronic instruments and rendered directly to tape for a vivid and robust sound, this album has to be considered something of a modern classic of electronic music. “The Cold Wave” sounds like something Berlin would have killed to have as a backing track on its…
With each release, Dawn Safari blazes trails farther into the mushroom forest of dream bass, the self-described subgenre for his spacey brand of beats. His newest project, Tangerine Haze, is a three-track EP that further hones the aesthetic he solidified on Make Belief last fall: clever bass lines, thick washes…
Indigenous Robot calls itself a psychedelic garage-rock band, and the fuzzed-out guitar of “Ridge Trail,” the first cut on this three-song release, certainly bears that out. Still, the quartet actually comes off at times as more polished and not nearly as gritty and rough around the edges as a lot…
Call of the Void was originally signed to Relapse under its old moniker, Iron Horse, but encountered trademark issues with a bluegrass-style cover band of the same name in Alabama that gained popularity covering Metallica tunes. Besides the name, however, it’s unlikely anyone would confuse the two groups. Call of…
Sometimes we love a song because it’s stupid. When the Flaming Lips immortalized a girl for not using jelly, for instance, we treasured the witty idiocy of it all. These are not those songs. These are the radio hits that tortured us with their inane babbling, with lyrics that sound…
Got tickets to see the Alabama Shakes this weekend at the Ogden Theatre? If you don’t, it’s too late now; it’s sold out. Not to worry, though: The show is scheduled to be broadcast live on AXS TV starting at 10 p.m. (Comcast channel 664, DirecTV channel 340, Dish Network…
The best frontmen and -women all have something in common. Whether it’s their ability to connect with a crowd or the swagger with which they carry themselves, their fashion sense, the intrigue that surrounds them or their reckless disregard for their own well-being, they all have that ineffable “it” factor…
Looks like the Mile High Soul Club has settled comfortably into its new home at Beauty Bar, where it took up residence last month from its former digs at the Meadowlark. We sent Brandon Marshall, our resident paparazzo extraordinaire, out to check in with the cats and capture the scene…
At the Meadowlark this past weekend, #TheSolution6 culminated with the Art of Records II a series of events celebrating the Solution’s six year of existence. The second annual edition of the Art of Records II was curated by DJ Low Key and Dunn the Signtologist and featured talented area artists…
Going to South By Southwest in a few weeks? Lucky duck! Jealous. Stop by Kerbey Lane and eat some migas for me, will ya? Mmm…migas… Where was I? Oh yeah, SXSW. If you’re going and want to keep connect with our all your hometown homies and support your favorite local…
There’s a wide range of metal on tap this month that will appeal to an equally wide range of metal fans, from doom and grindcore to death metal and industrial, from local heroes to renowned international acts, in big and small venues. Keep reading to see what shows should be…
SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL @ WINTER PARK | FRI-SUN, 3/8-3/10 If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains…
Update, 5 p.m. March 3: Some sad news to share if you haven’t heard yet, Roy Waines passed away on Friday night. Tonight’s Royz House benefit will still be taking place as originally planned tonight at the Church in support to Roy’s family, and it will also now serve as…
PASSION PIT @ 1STBANK CENTER | 3/1/13Passion Pit’s show at 1STBANK Center was more about feel than flash, more about mood than pageantry. The globes started to glow pink right before Passion Pit broke into the slow tempo of “Constant Conversations” and singer Michael Angelakos busted out some fine falsetto…
