Concerts

Nobody files more frivolous lawsuits than Lindsay Lohan. Her legal grounds are fucking weaker than Kreayshawn. That was a battle rap I just made up about Kreayshawn and Lindsay Lohan (conveniently, their names sort of rhyme) acting like a couple of shameful little pussies — but although my skillz are…

“Lower Than Life, High as the Sky,” the opening track on Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire’s new EP, is built on a foundation of death metal and grind, with a sound that’s stripped down to its rawest components. The ascending guitar line in “Garbage” makes the music…

Every now and then, an album is released that is so bizarre, you have to seriously wonder if it’s real or a joke. The jury’s still out on Pyramids, Delux’s latest offering, but the latter seems the more likely bet. Pyramids finds Delux in the midst of churning out a…

Free Radt co-founder Jeremy Barber has a background in bluegrass, classical and jazz, while singer Katz Romero has jazz roots, and their combined influences make for some intriguing music on Free Radt’s sophomore effort, Love 101. For the most part, the album is a collection of edgy hard rock mixed…

It’s hard for Paper Bird (due at the Boulder Theater, with Dovekins, for the Long Spoon showcase on September 8) to do wrong — especially on a live record like Carry On, where the band’s signature chorus of voices is captured so perfectly in real time. In collaboration with Ballet…

If you’ve been to one of the three previous Pitch a Tent parties — the Treehouse Collective’s annual adieu to summer — then you already know what to expect, which is bangin’, sultry house beats amid beautiful mountain backdrops. And for this fourth anniversary of Pitch a Tent love, the…

Rising to pop prominence in the early ’80s in a whirlwind of other radio-friendly heavy metal acts, Def Leppard (due at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre tonight with Heart) pushed through the decade’s big hair trends and has been making records and touring ever since. This year’s release, Mirrorball: Live and More…

CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE at LARIMER | 8.28.11Christie Front Drive, the band that embodied the best of what emo was about and could be, last played a show on September 1, 2007 at the Marquis after a ten year hiatus. Fortunately it was only about a four year gap for this…

THE CHRISTINES at HI-DIVE | 8.27.11The last time the Christines played, it was December 6, 2008 at the hi-dive, around the release of its most recent offering, Here It Comes Again. This time around, it was a real treat to see James Paul, who played guitar with the band when…

STONES THROW PARTY at CITY HALL | 08.26.11Stones Throw Anniversary party! Anniversary celebrations are typically fancy and more merry than Christmas. The good folks from Stones Throw Records who came out to Denver to rock with the crowd — Mayer Hawthorne (as DJ Haircut), Peter Butter Wolf, Strong Arm Steady,…

DENVER AFTERDARK on LARIMER | 08.26.11While there were many memorable performances at the Denver Afterdark festival — presented by Analog Space, curated by Peter Black and spread out between several venues on the 2700 block of Larimer last night — the most unusual and, subsequently, memorable set of the evening…

Kickstarter may very well be the best invention aiding music makers everywhere since the advent of amplification and, uh, electricity. While the notion of appealing directly to fans to help underwrite recording efforts strikes some as distasteful or even shamelessly opportunistic, these sorts of endeavors have, for the most part,…

Tonight begins a non-stop weekend of shows and dance parties, effectively making sure Denver goes hard into the tail-end of the month, starting with the Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Party at City Hall. Stones’ head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf will be putting it down with a live video performance, along…

The 2700 block of Larimer Street will be ground zero for Denver Afterdark tonight; the lineup includes the Whomp Truck, DJ Narky Stares, Iuengliss and Cacheflow, among many, many more local names. Don’t miss this party — we’d get there before, you know, after dark. (7 p.m., $12). And while…

BIG FREEDIA at LARIMER LOUNGE | 8.24.11So from the looks of it, there really was “azz everywhere” last night at the Larimer Lounge when Big Freedia brought her sissy bounce movement to the Mile High City. Our resident shutterbug, Brandon Marshall was on hand to capture the festivities, which also…

After almost two decades together, Carbon Leaf (playing tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Chamberlin) has effectively created its own brand of accessible bluegrass. But the Virginia natives can’t be pinned to a single genre — the band has an ostensible pop side, one that best translates live through Carbon…

The Climax Lounge (2217 Welton Street), which got its start four decades ago as an after-hours joint, has a colorful past. In the ’90s, as the Raven, it hosted punk-rock acts; the Fray and M. Ward have played there. But over the past few years, the Climax hasn’t seen a…

Big Freedia (performing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Bass Drum of Death and Narky Stares) is here, and she is a riled up force to be reckoned with. Currently the figurehead of the long-percolating Bounce (or Sissy Bounce) movement, she is just one part of a strong undercurrent of…

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE at RED ROCKS | 8.23.11″There will be a couple of times during this set when yours truly will be sucking wind,” Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard proclaimed early in his band’s set. “Because as you know, this show is taking place on top of…

YOUNG JEEZY at OGDEN THEATRE | 8.23.11The last time Young Jeezy roared through the Mile High City with that unmistakable voice and charming face was for a cameo during Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour at the Pepsi Center. Last night for the Denver leg of the TM103 tour at The Ogden…