Concerts

Dream Entertainment Group is taking over the 37th and 38th floors of the Pinnacle Club in the Grand Hyatt for the conglomerate’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. Featuring the sounds of Future Jazz Project, DJ Low Key, and DJ Ktone in several of the floor’s intricate ballrooms, organizers say this is…

Seven-piece Latin instrumental ensemble Debajo del Agua will be playing a show honoring the union between music and revolutionary movements at the Mercury Cafe on Friday, December 30. A collaboration with social-justice organizations like Guerilla Gardens, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Cafe Cultura, the get-down is designed to celebrate solidarity…

“While I was busting the biggest nut in my life,” Yonnas Abraham recalls, “Esthero was singing about 10,000 dead babies.” Abraham is relating the experience of losing his virginity. His recollection of the event is so vivid that he can remember everything about that night, right down to the lighting…

When Greg Baumhauer, Ben Kronberg and Adam Cayton-Holland, otherwise known as Wrist Deep Productions, started their open-mike comedy night on Tuesdays at the Squire Lounge (1800 East Colfax Avenue) in 2004, Baumhauer thought it would last three months. Instead, it lasted for seven and a half years — far outpacing…

Dangerous Nonsense is one of those bands that most people struggle to describe, then end up referencing some kind of metal. There may be some of that inside the classical rhythmic structures the group employs from time to time — but its mixture of performance art, radical feminist and anti-capitalist…

When he branched out on his own after more than two decades of working with Wynton Marsalis — in his septet and as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — alto sax player Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson had more time to work with his own group as well as…

MySpace is dead, but Brokencyde lives on as a walking, shit-talking cockroach of the hair scene’s past. The youngish crunk punks from Albuquerque still rep the underbelly of social networking with songs about sex and game, combining drippy synths with cartoonish voices to create a style that may or may…

Like a lot of bands from Japan, Dir En Grey is impossible to pigeonhole. This foursome is a weird alloy of disparate yet compatible styles, including industrial rock, nü metal and emo. And its members look the part of the über-commercial Japanese rock stars you’d see on Music Station. But…

Salt-N-Pepa, the first women to receive a rap Grammy (Best Rap Performance for “None of Your Business,” in 1995), are well known for their songs about empowerment, sexuality and light aggression. Emerging onto the scene in 1985, the ladies joined forces with DJ Spinderella and subsequently took the hip-hop game by…

Last week, Adele ate an apple. She also watched Gladiator. If you did Adele’s bidding, these facts were your reward. Confused? Let’s back up a little: Adele has had an official Twitter account for a little over a year, but she’s never really used it; up until now, the tweets…

With 2008’s Punk Junkies, the Demon Funkies dug into some heavy guitar-riff-based grooves, many of which were steeped in thick distortion. This time around, frontman and guitarist Ryan Chrys rolled back the distortion somewhat while still providing tasty riffs on songs like “These Strings.” While the Funkies were a trio…

On his debut, Karmarado, Karma delivers a trunk-knocking, street-pounding gangster project. The album showcases the MC’s flow as he tells stories on each track, bolstered by his whistling, grainy vocals. Shining most with frequent collaborators Foe and Haven the Great, Karma goes hardest on “Heat of the Night,” the most gangsta track…

Capturing the moments and energy of a psychedelic rock show on an album isn’t easy, but Octopus Nebula has managed to do just that on its full-length debut. Right from the start, “Robin Your Mind” introduces the band with a deep, ritualistic chant before the truest display of O-Neb’s composing…

Though not related to the Los Angeles band featuring former members of Mika Miko, Bleachedblonde nonetheless shares some of the gritty garage aesthetic of that act. “Surf Nazi Must Diet” is a clever reference to a Troma film, but it’s also the name given to a hyped-up garage-rock song that…

We’re very serious,” notes Speedwolf frontman Reed Bruemmer, “about being lighthearted.” Speedwolf is equally serious about writing music that’s fun to play and doesn’t come off as phony; the band isn’t exactly trying to redefine heavy music. It’s led by Bruemmer, a veteran of the scene from Death Destruction Chaos,…

Denver is already familiar with Little Mike. In 2002, he garnered a nod in Westword’s Best of Denver issue for Best House Music Club Night (that club night, Phrunky Fridays, was the inspiration for Phrunky Recordings, his label with Ty Tek). He was known for being the first in town…

The third annual 5280 Urban Music Awards went down last night at the Paramount Theatre, and while it took a second to get there, the vibe of the event was upbeat and enthusiastic. The place was crammed wall-to-wall with rappers, singers and people out to see and be seen. Kingdom…

GUNS N’ ROSES at 1STBANK CENTER | 12/11/11 Some bands wait until the end of the set or an encore to pull out its most beloved material. Not Guns N’ Roses. Two songs into the set, the instantly familiar guitar riff was teased two, maybe three times before Axl Rose…