Concerts

In the vein of the influential Switched On series pioneered by Wendy Carlos, Mike Buckley of Nightshark recorded this timely album. Much as Carlos famously did with Bach, using only a Micromoog and a vocoder, Buckley performs synthesizer interpretations of classic Christmas songs that almost have to be heard to…

Although Fred Hess has released a number of excellent small-ensemble recordings, the saxophonist’s big-band recordings are equally captivating. As with his previous two big-band outings, Speak borrows from big bands of the past while also looking toward the future. Some of the area’s finest musicians are on board here, like…

A collaborative project from beatsmiths Snubluck and amor, est, tumtums is self-described as “a psilocybin soliloquy of wonder born in the depths of our dreams.” While certainly poetic, the line is also apt. All of the tracks on this seven-song EP have a starry-eyed quality to them; it’s the perfect…

The Lonely Kid Show, the latest effort from Pries, has four acts, starting with the song “Curtains,” which kicks off with a slowed melody straight from the circus and leads into Pries’s dropping some introspective rhymes about his rise to fame from sleeping on the streets. For the most part,…

VS, which stands for Vibration Sequence (originally EVS, the “E” standing for “Eternal”), was formed in 2009 by Cole Hopfenspirger and Tom Moore, who met while working at the Cheesecake Factory. Both started in the hardcore scene but had left that world before meeting each other. They were familiar with…

John MacLean — better known as his on-stage alter ego The Juan MacLean  — has had a strange journey from guitarist for post-hardcore band Six Finger Satellite to DFA Records superstar. By 2002, the formerly rock-minded artist was fully immersed in the electronic scene, releasing his first major single, “By…

Sitar icon Ravi Shankar died yesterday at his home near San Diego at the age of 92, according to his wife, Sukanya, and his daughter Anoushka Shankar. Shankar’s heath had been fragile for the last several years, and, according to a statement issued by his family, last week he underwent…

On Tuesday, January 1, when most of us are still sleeping off the last good times of 2012 or steeling ourselves to tackle resolutions for the new year, our city’s live-music scene will mark a major development: This is the day that the iconic Gothic Theatre will be put in…

LAMB OF GOD @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM |12/10/12 The high point of Lamb of God’s set came somewhere around the mid-point, when, after projecting pictures of the band’s fans in the military on the twin screens flanking drummer Chris Adler, Randy Blythe dedicated “Now You’ve Got Something to Die For” to…

We’re blessed to live here, you know. If you haven’t already come to this conclusion on your own from feeling the ever-present sunshine and observing the wondrous sunset paintings we’re treated to each evening, all you have to do is take a look at the brimming concert calendar. Whereas the…

EOTO @ THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 12/8/12 “Just so you all know,we are EOTO, and we play live,” declared Michael Travis, the act’s keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist. “There are no backing tracks.” Once he got that handy bit of information out of the way, he then made sure to note that…

PUBLIC ENEMY @ OGDEN THEATRE| 2/4/12 Flava Flav was in top form last night at the Ogden Theatre, from hamming it up informing everybody that Manny Pacquaio got knocked out in the sixth round to sharing the story of how he came to wearing the ever-present iconic clock around his…

NOFX @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM |12/7/12 The funniest (and definitely the wrongest) moment in NOFX’s show last night at the Fillmore came when Fat Mike prefaced “Arming the Proletariat With Potato Guns” by saying, “This is kind of a racist song, but it’s okay if you’re racist toward the people in…

Welcome to the weekend, y’all. Breathe easy. You made it. Good Friday to you. And, oh, what a good Friday it is. Another stacked weekend of music awaits you. Just like the Broncos win streak continues, so does the steady stream of solid shows, whether you’re hankering for some old-school…

If you feel like dancing this week, boy have you come to the right place. There’s an unreal number of enticing options, and we’ve got the full rundown for you, from Alex Celler and Kill the Noise tonight at Beta to EOTO tomorrow night at the Fillmore, Tone of Arc…

Great week for the Lumineers. While, granted, every week this year has probably been pretty swell for those folks, this one in particular in perhaps even more so. In the same week that the quaint outfit that got its start playing modest sets at the Meadowlark received word that its…

MACKLEMORE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 12/6/12 All Macklemore has to do is pose dramatically to induce the same frenzied reaction from an audience that a slightly lesser MC would draw with their signature song. Granted, a very sizable portion of his Denver audience comprised easily riled high school girls, but…

Update: We just spoke with Greg Stone as he was taking his son to hockey practice. Understandably, he’s still in shock. Keep reading to see what he has to say. Man, you about need a syllabus to keep track of all the changes in Denver radio lately, from Comedy 103.1…

KREAYSHAWN @ FOX THEATRE | 12/5/12 Part of Kreayshawn’s appeal is the pure curiosity and spectacle of what she must be like “in real life.” As a Tumblr princess (her page is currently decked out to look exactly like a Myspace page, circa 2004 — which would have made her…

There is no ceiling to the game,” declares Sherwyn Nichols. “Even once you made it to the moon, there’s still more.” “When you make your first beat,” adds Kendrick Nichols, Sherwyn’s twin brother, “no matter what it sounds like, you’re like, ‘Damn!’ — and then you just keep going from…