Concerts

RADIOHEAD @ 1STBANK CENTER | 3.13.12 Thom Yorke apparently has no idea where he is right now. “Wassup,” he intones after a lively rendition of “Morning Mr Magpie,” a decidedly jittery track from King of Limbs. “Where are we? Where the fuck are we? We’re on the ground somewhere, near…

Update 3/14/12: Radiohead at 1STBANK Center review posted with photos and setlist. Looking for a date to Radiohead tonight at the 1STBANK Center? Why, you’re in luck. We found a lovely lass willing to accompany you, as long as you’re willing to give up one of your tickets. Other pleas…

Update 3/14/12: Radiohead and Other Lives at 1STBANK Center review posted with photos and setlist. Other Lives (due at 1STBANK Center tonight with Radiohead) started in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 2004 under the name Kunek, but when one of the founding members of the band left, the remaining members switched to…

Several prominent artists and musicians are Denver natives — Philip Bailey from Earth Wind and Fire went to East. Isaac Slade and Joe King of the Fray were schoolmates at Faith Christian Academy. Denver’s First Lady Mary Louise Lee is aiming to continue Denver’s notable legacy with “Bringing Back the…

We’re BigWheel Electrosoul,” DJ Check One announces after the band’s first song before adding, “and we’re here every Tuesday at Appaloosa.” Before the percussionist can take his next breath, a highly inebriated gentleman begins to chant with slurred thunder, “One more song! One more song!” which inspires sardonic shrugs and…

To a lot of people with mostly mainstream sensibilities and cultural affiliations, grindcore, crust and death metal will always just sound like a bunch of noise with terrible vocals. But a band like Dripfed — and most of the acts that probably inspired it — found that a splintery guitar…

Christopher Owens and Chet White formed Girls in 2007, when the two met in the Bay Area. Owens, who was brought up in the Children of God cult, had effectively been cut off from the kinds of cultural knowledge most kids experience before the age of sixteen. Once he had…

One of Detroit’s most knowledgeable and respected producers and DJs, Mike Huckaby has been an integral part of that city’s underground dance-music scene for nearly thirty years. Despite being a huge gearhead — his recording studio boasts a mind-boggling array of top-flight digital and analog equipment — Huckaby offers up…

Ritzy Bryan and Rhydian Dafydd grew up together in North Wales and formed their first band, Tricky Nixon, while living in Manchester. When that outfit split up, in 2006, the two wasted little time in putting together what would become the Joy Formidable when they moved back to Wales. Over…

Like David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Edward Sharpe is the mythical creation of singer Alex Ebert (also of Ima Robot). Originally taken from an unfinished novel written by Ebert, Sharpe is a messianic character whose mission to save mankind is constantly interrupted by his falling for cute girls. Ebert teamed up…

Since even before Boyz II Men implored us to not wait until the water runs dry — which, obviously, would have been the biggest mistake of our lives — no genre of music has done earnestness with even close to as much sincerity as R&B (I’m looking at you, emo)…

Erstwhile Tulip Wars members Dan Barnett and Sean Geisthardt discovered that their catalogue of shared influences (including Radiohead and Battles) translated easily into sounds for their new project, Goer. The pair’s second EP in as many months finds them continuing to develop a cerebral blend of electronica and indie rock…

Super Dope is not so much a compilation album as it is a collaborative effort by the members of the Super Dope crew, combining Boy Davey’s beats, A. Fox’s mellow flow and Bigg Jeff’s determined gruffness. Jeff’s rhymes stand out and complement Fox’s singing and the melodic tone of his…

At the outset, the cutting build of “Extractor” lets you know that maybe these guys listened to a bit of Shellac. Bryon Parker’s impassioned vocals wouldn’t be out of place on one of those classic records out of Louisville from the early ’90s, owing to their ability to be melodic…

Spoke in Wordz takes a number of risks on DNA, risks that pay off immensely, particularly on cuts like “Protect Us From Evil,” which is the illest song on the project. On the entire album, he employs a flamboyant, island-inspired flow, proving he can rhyme over any production and kick…

It’s taken time and experience for Eric Rachmany to learn how to be comfortable in the spotlight. Rachmany, frontman for the Santa Barbara reggae outfit Rebelution, is soft-spoken and humble, a songwriter who’s uncomfortable writing lyrics about his own experiences. Rachmany says he’s dealt with the duties of fame in…

Chicago and Detroit might be the cities you think of first when house music comes to mind, but believe it or not, Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, plays host to a vibrant underground house scene, due in part to the presence of the Kinky Movement DJ collective there. The crew…

There are assumptions to be made prior to attending something billed as a “Paranormal House Party,” assumptions to be made about the crowd, about what could be passed off as “evidence” supporting the existence of ghosts and what might be found lurking in the dark recesses of the Stanley Hotel’s…

LA’s Odd Future and its approximately 1,000 T-shirt designs and orange foam (middle) fingers came to Boulder’s Fox Theatre last night for its third-ever Colorado show. Photographer Eric Gruneisen was there and brings back these photos of Odd Future last night in Boulder…

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 03.09.12 The last time the Drive-By Truckers came through town they wrapped up a leg of a tour with a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre a year ago. This time around, the guys kicked off a West Coast run at the same venue…