Concerts

Largely released digitally, this latest full-length from Sandusky includes different artwork for each song when played on the computer. “A Prayer for the Unification of Bootgazers” opens the album as a statement of purpose: Much of the album’s material is post-rock, yet it manages to be genuinely haunting rather than…

Andy Guerrero returns to his funk act after shutting it down to focus on his work as a guitarist for the Flobots. This is his return home in a lot of ways, and mainstream success has left its mark: This is squeaky-clean music, more broadly influenced than before, crafted by…

Adam O.N.E. Duncan, formerly of the Infinite Mindz collective, has launched his solo career with The CA, a stylistic undertaking with progressive sounds and beats. The production is largely handled by Food Chain’s Mass Prod, and the texture of the album, a mixture of synth and velvet, is smooth and…

Man, oh, man! As Zen Ultra Lounge and DC10 before that, 940 Lincoln has seen its fair share of scantily clad club gals over the last few years — but not a lot of nearly naked guys. That will all change, though, when Hunks the Show celebrates its grand opening…

French-born, Miami-based Cedric Gervais crafts a brand of house that weaves threads of electro and progressive house into a big, shimmery, club-smashing tapestry of late-night abandon. On hits such as “Spirit in My Life,” Gervais displays a talent for slick, vocal-driven progressive house that would make fellow Frenchman David Guetta…

For three and a half years, the Jimi Austin was one of Fort Collins’s most celebrated acts —and that whole time, there was tension brewing within the band. Frontman Chris Anderson wanted to explore a more laid-back approach to songwriting, while guitarist Ian Haygood and drummer Shane Zweygardt were pushing…

It’s not often that we hear from DU’s online student radio station, KVDU. But for more than a year now, the station has hosted a greatest-hits collection of local bands for an interview and in-studio performance series. Series curators Eric Peterson, of local bands Old Radio and Houses, and Whitney…

A few years ago, a band called Small Objects changed its name to Blue Million Miles. Inspired by a new lineup and a slightly modified sound, the core songwriting team of guitarists Sam McNitt and Jeff Shapiro issued Of Building Walls, a dreamy yet forceful album of emotionally charged, cathartic…

And the winner for oddest yet most exhilarating cover of a song from a Colorado-based act is … Marina and the Diamonds, an act we were turned onto by Perez Hilton, of all people. We caught the group, signed to Alexandra Patsavas’ Chop Shop imprint, a few months back at…

Get a load of this lineup: Godsmack, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Stone Temple Pilots, the Swayback, Hinder, Wolfmother, the Eagles of Death Metal, Skillet, the Jim Rose Circus. Hold on. We know what you’re thinking — what … the… eff, right? We know! Can you believe it? We’re as stunned…

Danielle Anderson is the latest local artist to take an unconventional approach to financing her new album, joining the Heyday and Choke the Word on the fansourcing bandwagon. To generate funds for her new album, Two Bedroom Apartment, Anderson, whom you know better by her nom de tune of Danielle…

After all the work that went into compiling this year’s Westword Music Showcase ballot, we needed a break last weekend. A break that involved watching Pretty in Pink, a flick we hadn’t seen in a dozen years or more, on VH1. Although it wasn’t quite as good as we’d remembered,…

May 4, 2010: As good a day as any to say that Nathaniel Rateliff has made it. His sparse and powerful In Memory of Loss has been available digitally for a week, but today it appeared in physical form in record stores across the country. Rateliff grew up in Missouri,…

Trent Reznor has revealed How to Destroy Angels, his first post-Nine Inch Nails project. It’s a collaboration with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, formerly the frontwoman of West Indian Girl and it was mixed by Alan Moulder, a name familiar to industrial fans. So what does it sound like?…

The latest release from Zachary Tipton’s I am the Dot project has arrived and, in case you’re keeping track, this makes the fourth release since his first Dot EP last November. The latest release is a three-song called Minimal Love and it may be the best thing he’s released yet…

There’s a clear trend in music right now that makes the oncoming disappearance of LaLa — which has been absorbed by Apple and is subsequently going the way of beepers by the end of the month — all the more unsettling: Music fans, it seems, prefer to preview an entire…

Denver Noise Fest 04.30.10-05.01.10 | Old Curtis St. Friday, April 30, 2010 New Mexico’s Raven Chacon performed with the expected harsh noise soundscaping at first — a combination of pummeling and shrill sounds textured like a nearly intangible sculpture that flooded the room and made the walls and the floor…

On June 29, 3OH!3 is slated to release Streets of Gold, the eagerly anticipated and sure to be stupefying follow-up to Want, the act’s 2008 Photo Finish debut. What we know about the record thus far, to wit: It will presumably contain a song called “House Party,” a tune that’s…

DMC Regional Turntable Battle 05.01.10 | The Walnut Room How do you know there’s been a four year gap since the last Disco Mixing Club (DMC) battle? When the valiant effort of a kid from Highlands Ranch is completely eclipsed by the DJ Notch, who breezed through his set with…

Paean • Bad Weather California • Mehko & Ocean Birds 04.31.10 | hi-dive Paean spent eighteen months working on its debut full-length, Songs For Us To Sing. Three of the band’s six members are siblings, and the album was recorded in a studio in their parent’s garage. So there was…