YACHT (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater, with Light Asylum, Jeffrey Jerusalem and Bad Weather California) has existed over the last decade in many forms. Electro-mastermind Jona Bechtolt ran the show himself for several years before being joined by creative partner Claire L. Evans in 2008…
This fall, Carlos Santana and George Lopez are hitting the road together on a tour they’ve dubbed Divine Rascals. The co-headliners will each offer sets doing what he does best; the former will be playing the hell out of the guitar, while the latter gets his funny on. The Divine…
DR. DOG Paper Bird • Boulder Acoustic Society 05.07.11 | Boulder Theater View photo slideshow from last night For a band that sounds like it’s drawing from a diverse pool of influences that spans from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Mott the Hoople to Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips and…
BIG BANG MASSIVE – NIGHT 1 Denver Coliseum | 5/6/11 View our Big Bang slideshowIf Friday night’s Big Bang massive is any indication as to how much Denver loves dubstep music, then we are in for a rocky and up-hill climb toward building the reputation of being the best in…
HUNX AND HIS PUNX Lust-Cats of the Gutters • Thee Goochi Boiz • Shannon and the Clams 05.07.11 | hi-dive Almost literally straight off of a roughly sixteen-day of tour, Lust-Cats of the Gutters would have been excused for showing some of that fatigue in its set. But, instead, Alex…
Ah, what a pleasant way to end the week: How about a brand spanking new track from The Epilogues? Thank you, sir. Don’t mind if I do. Still hot to the touch, the song was just posted minutes ago, and offers an interesting side of the band that we don’t…
In the two decades since Macy Sound Studios opened, the place has seen its share of the city’s finest musicians, in addition to prominent national acts like Los Lobos. As anyone who’s been there can tell you, the place is loaded with some sweet gear…
Music Gear Guys, hailed as Denver’s largest boutique pedal dealer, is bringing Black Label Society’s bassist J.D. DeServio, who’s also toured with Lita Ford, Vinnie Moore and Pride & Glory, to the 3 Kings Tavern (60 South Broadway) to host a clinic and Hartke product demo on Thursday, May 12…
Tonight and tomorrow night at the Denver Coliseum, the Big Bang dance music massive will be going off representing pretty much every genre of electronic music. Given the size and scope of the show (four stages per night) – along with the massive investment in the lighting and sound for…
Hunx and His Punx (due at the hi-dive this Saturday, May 7, with Shannon & the Clams, Thee Goochi Boiz and Lust-Cats of the Gutters) started in the Bay Area in 2008 when Seth “Hunx” Bogart of Gravy Train!!!! decided to do something very different from the band he had…
Often imitated but never duplicated, Too $hort (performing tonight with DJX, Shade Loc G, Hypnautic, King Tef, Johny Rocketz, 20:12, Nominee, Mya Rose, Spoke n Wordz, Playalitical and Felisa Latin Soul at Casselman’s) has been making records for almost thirty years, helping to establish Oakland, California, as a reputable rap…
JOAN OF ARC with Air Waves, Fire Season 05.06.11 | hi-dive So much noodling. That’s all there really is to say about Joan of Arc. It’s guitar-noodling masked behind a pop song. It’s not a bad thing, but it is what it is — and it still strikes me as…
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME 05.05.11 | Club Arriba Waka Flocka Flame blazed through Denver last night in a whirlwind of dread locks, expensive jewelry, marijuana smoke and gang banger salutations of “Suwoop!” After more than a few terrible openers, he took the stage at a very late 1:20 a.m. By 1:40,…
THE BLACK ANGELS With Sleepy Sun 05.11.11 | Fox Theatre Last night at Boulder’s Fox Theatre, as Austin’s Black Angels shrieked, stomped, thrashed and pounded, my mind kept curiously dragging me back to the old-school AC/DC anthem, “Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be.” Yes, the Devil’s music is still…
UPDATE (05.06.11 – 2:02 p.m): Just before lunchtime, Martin Anderson discovered another batch of master reels, more than a hundred by his guesstimate. Since then, he’s sent over an updated list of bands, and there’s some very prominent bygone Denver bands on the list, including Pinhead Circus, the Psychedelic Zombiez,…
This might be some of the weirdest copyright related news we’ve run across in a while. FilmOn founder Alki David has teamed up with a slew of musicians to file a lawsuit against CBS Interactive and CNET over CNET’s distribution of LimeWire. Back in November, a federal judge had to…
One listen to The Black Angels (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with Sleepy Sun) and it is almost unfathomable that the band was concieved in 2004. The Austin quartet isn’t a tribute to the psychedelic rock — it defines the decades-old genre with dark organ echoes, heavy percussion and…
Bust out your sombreros hombres, it’s time to bailar en la dance floor. In addition to being the official unofficial start of the weekend, this Thursday also happens to be Cinco de Mayo. If you haven’t already found another Cinco event in which to get your drinko, take a gander…
Jessica Lea Mayfield has risen through the songwriting ranks with one foot in the old and the other in the new. She got her start touring with her family bluegrass band, but after a stroke of luck, she was suddenly pushed into the spotlight with high-profile tours accompanying the likes…
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, a day commemorating the Mexican army’s defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla. In honor of the occasion, rather than randomly heading off to your closest Mexican restaurant or bar to drink some tequila, we’ve come up with a list of things to…
tUnE-yArDs (playing tonight at the hi-dive with Buke & Gass and Papa Bear) is the off-kilter moniker of Merrill Garbus, a multi-instrumentalist whose voice is her biggest asset. Although the songstress is often backed by live percussion and strings, she plays the ukulele and the drums while simultaneously creating beats…
DANZIG 05.03.11 | Boulder Theater The first time I went out to see Danzig, over a decade ago, as a teenager in Pittsburgh, the concert was inexplicably canceled minutes before showtime, and I returned to my ’89 Pontiac Sunbird to find it towed. Last night in Boulder, I feared a…
