Before ever playing a show together, Ezra-David Darnell and Jordan Hubner had played music and written songs as fellow students at the University of Colorado Denver for a handful of years. When they first got together, Hubner was a member of outfits like Hawks of Paradise and Pacific Pride. Hearts…
Metaphysically speaking, November 11, 2011, is an important date. In numerology, eleven is what’s known as a “master number,” a higher vibration of the number two — and when you get all those elevens in a row, there’s bound to be some magic in the air. The Whomp Truck crew…
Since the last half of the ’90s, the music of Orbit Service has been through a few different permutations, from early soundscaping experiments to blissed-out space rock to deeply introspective psychedelia — all of it informed by the dark shadings of Randall Frazier’s colorful imagination. This year, Orbit Service (due…
SBTRKT at THE BLUEBIRD THEATER, 11/5/11This past Saturday night at the Bluebird Theater, U.K.-based, vowel-abstaining electronic artist SBTRKT (aka Aaron Jerome) set it off with the help of Mikey Thunder and Peter Black. Offering up a set of music that featured live drums and vocals and donning a ceremonial mask,…
Update 3/14/12: Radiohead at 1STBANK Center review posted with photos and setlist. Oh, my! Christmas has come early this year! Mark your calendar now: We’ve just received word that Thom Yorke and company are coming back to Colorado. On Tuesday, March 13, in fact, Radiohead will be setting up shop…
JUDAS PRIEST at 1STBANK CENTER | 11/5/11 Somewhere early in the set, Rob Halford told us that the band was going to play material from all roughly forty years of its career including hits and older and more obscure material. And that for the “next two hours and twenty minutes”…
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD at the FILLMORE | 11/4/11What the Fillmore really means by “all-ages show” is this: At least one shirtless 17-year-old will approach you — slowly, so as not to startle you — and ask you “wazzup.” If you are attending the World War III Tour to see Asking Alexandria…
PAPER DIAMOND at the OGDEN | 11/4/11Paper Diamond (aka Alex Botwin) cut the bullshit last night on its first headlining appearance at the Ogden. With the assistance of fellow Elm and Oak labelmate Raw Russ, Boulder locals Sorry For Partying, and Minnesota, Paper Diamond dropped new material and showed Denver…
By now, you’ve probably heard about the death of Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot (aka Flattus Maximus), who was found dead on the band’s tour bus at a truckstop in Pembina, North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. After performing at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, the outfit…
After selling out two nights at the Ogden Theatre on Saturday and Sunday, December 4 and 5, Social Distortion, who’s on tour in support of its latest effort, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, just added a third and final show on Friday, December 2. General admission tickets ($30) are on…
BOUNCING SOULS at MARQUIS THEATER | 11/03/11Last night at the Marquis, Bouncing Souls played the second night of their four-night stand with Anchor Point and Tim Barry. The band has two more sold-out shows at the Marquis, tonight with Broadway Calls, the Architects and Luther, and tomorrow night with Teenage…
Given the success of its past singles, it’s not surprising that when multi-platinum group Lady Antebellum released its third album, Own the Night, a few months ago, that it claimed the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, becoming the biggest first week debut by a country artist this year…
GAME at THE OGDEN THEATRE | 11/3/11Last night at the Ogden, Game had so many fans draped in red on stage with him, it began to look more like the red sea, rather than a band of hip-hop hooligans representing for their favorite MC. A few things are still clear…
Full Flavor Fridays, the residency that has been holding down the Appaloosa Grill since this past March, is about to double your pleasure in more ways than one: It’s moving to Bar Standard for the first and last Fridays of every month starting this month, and for the Bar Standard…
Have plans this weekend? If not, there’s ample choices: Tonight, Paper Diamond’s at the Ogden, Lizzie Huffman is celebrating the release of her new CD at the hi-dive and Rich Robinson is at the Soiled Dove Underground. On Saturday, Judas Priest is at 1STBANK Center, SBTRKT is at the Bluebird…
Grant Israel and Cole Rudy have been playing together for a long time — over eight years, in fact — and the intricate guitar interplay they’ve developed together over the years was a focal point of this week’s feature on Kitezh, their most recent project together, which releases its first…
If you consider the Sharks and the Jets to be gangs in the same way the Bloods and the Crips fit that selective bill, you might also be willing to consider juggalos one. The FBI does, at least: According to the bureau’s most recent National Gang Threat Assessment, the face-painted…
Songwriters, like many creative types, often need to embark on challenges they create for themselves. Singer Jenna Herbst, for instance, has challenged herself to write, record and distribute a song a week for the next two months. The songs, which will be sent out via an email list will be…
In February 2006, Cole Rudy was pulling an epic guitar-god move at the Climax Lounge during an opening set for To Be Eaten, with his leg up on the monitor — head tossed back and everything — when the thing came loose and crumpled him like a cheap suit. “I…
The B.U.F.F. Brothers group of bars and restaurants has broken up. After thirteen years, Rob Lanphier split from his business partner last month and started his own company, Pour Kids. Noonan’s Tavern (13521 East Iliff Avenue, Aurora), which B.U.F.F. opened in March, is now part of Lanphier’s portfolio, as is…
Joe Piza, Dave Beckhouse and Brian Wilson were in hardcore band Warsaw Surrenders around the middle of the last decade. That band split too soon, but the three started playing together again before long and recruited former Vaux bassist Greg Daniels and vocalist Keith Curts, who had been playing in…
It’s somewhat befuddling that the song that brought Jeffrey Gaines the most notoriety in his career is one that he didn’t even write, nor was it even really meant to be released. But when a radio station latched onto a live version of “In Your Eyes” — a Peter Gabriel…
