The scope of Grant Gordy’s freshman release is ambitious, to say the least. Swinging echoes of Django Reinhardt, dense guitar melodies worthy of Bill Frisell, Doc Watson-inspired flatpicking and counterpoint experiments straight out of a Debussy suite all find a place across the thirteen instrumental tracks. It’s a brainy musical…
Jakob Dylan’s brand-new collection, Women and Country, is by far the most interesting release by the former Wallflowers frontman. It’s subtle, funny and intimate without being hermetic, not to mention a good contemporary take on the grand old country tradition. Likely first impression: “Wow, Jakob Dylan made the best Springsteen…
Tyvek is an all-purpose synthetic substance and a registered trademark of the DuPont Company. You’ve probably handled it in the form of a priority-mail envelope, or as that sticky bar bracelet that identifies you as being over the age of 21 when you go to a show. But Tyvek’s most…
Something about warm summer nights makes them the ideal setting for high-energy, euphoric trance. Maybe it’s the energy boost you get when the heat finally breaks, or the side effect of too much sun that makes those insistent drums and soaring vocal breaks seem like such a good idea. Whatever…
Shhh! Can you keep a secret? No? That’s what we figured. Ah, well, guess it’s good thing it’s not really a secret, huh? On Tuesday, to celebrate the highly anticipated release of its new album, Streets of Gold, 3OH!3 is slated to give a brief performance at Fiske Planetarium up…
Sure, there are guitarists who’ll say that no software will ever come close to emulating a ’65 Deluxe Reverb or a Marshall JCM800. But the folks at IK Multimedia have been doing a pretty good job emulating those amps as well as effects for a while now. Earlier this month,…
Ah, the producer. It’s one of the most thankless jobs in hip-hop. Apart from a few superstars like Danger Mouse and Timbaland, most producers are destined to be overshadowed by the MC on the track and displaced by a DJ in a club despite their vital role in the music-making…
There’s one for every generation: the shock rocker. For those of us who grew up in the ’90s, it was Marilyn Manson. For our parents, it was Alice Cooper. For the current crop of young, impressionable minds, it’s, uh, Lady Gaga, apparently. As reported (and poorly sourced) by notorious U.K…
Here’s our massive, multi-page report/travelogue of the Westword Music Showcase from (in order) Tom Murphy, Cory Casciato, A.H. Goldstein, Jef Otte, Jon Solomon and Brian Frederick. Let us know in the comments what you saw and loved, saw and hated, or missed and hated yourself for missing. While walking to…
Thursday nights at Sutra have been banging for a while and now they’ve got a spiffy flier to shout that fact at the world. The weekly event features some of the area’s best dubstep and drum and bass DJs, with a smidgen of fidget and breakbeat thrown in for good…
Do you work out the pipes in the shower singing your favorite John Mayer tunes? Are you known for your wicked karaoke version of “Half of My Heart”? Or maybe your friends are always telling how you much you sound just like everyone’s second favorite Mayer (after Oscar, of course)?…
Well, it’s official: Denver’s music scene is one of the heavyweights nationwide, as confirmed by a recent study. Well, duh. We tell you that every day…
Alright, now that the Showcase is in the rearview and things have started calming down around here for us, making this the perfect time for us to add some new members to our team to help us cover the scene even more thoroughly. With that in mind, we’re on the…
Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That’s all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a “Guitar/DJ frame” for the iPad sporting doofus with everything but a sense of shame…
In possibly the strangest bid to return to relevance in the history of pop culture, Whitesnake, famed for its luscious hair, generic hair-metal anthems and Tawny Kitaen-filled music videos (see above), is trying to make a comeback. Not with a new album (god forbid) but with a delicious alcoholic beverage…
Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs, touring this summer and fall as “The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue,” visit Red Rocks on Monday, September 27. What will they be playing, you ask? Ah, follow the jump to find out…
Holy goddamn! Same beard, different band. Here’s another clip shot by the fantastical Jim Huck, featuring the one and only Kingdom of Magic. This one here’s a little ditty called “The Flame Draws the Honey Bee.”…
Daytrotter is clearly smitten as we are with the young Mister Nathaniel Rateliff. Not only did the outfit tap Rateliff for its Barnstormer 3 tour (which, come to find out, took place in actual barns, BTW — somehow, we just discovered this), but it just posted another session featuring him…
If you can get past the crackly sound (a detestable drawback of Flip-style cameras, whose condenser mikes are easily overwhelmed), here’s a brief but enjoyable clip of Dirty Projectors shot by our pal Julio Enriquez from Cause=Time at the Showcase this past Saturday…
Cats like DJ Chonz still practice? For real? Who knew? At this point, guess we just assumed that dude’s a Jedi who doesn’t require dry runs anymore. Shows you what we know. Clearly he still got respect for the game. After the jump, listen and download Jefe’s final practice from…
Here’s another semi-headache inducing video for ya’ from this year’s Westword Music Showcase. This one features the Knew electrifying a capacity crowd at Sutra. Props are due to ColoradoKid. While the rest of the us were popping Ibuprofen and feverishly trying to rehydrate while shaking off the remnants of the…
Though these clips are rather headache-inducing at times — we presume because PieHole2000, the person filming, is either being jostled by the dancing throng or barely resisting the urge to trip the light fantastic — here’s Superchunk displaying some of its choices gems for all the boys and girls at…
