Concerts

Whenever I get near Appaloosa Grill (535 16th Street), I think about the time my cousin and I tried to go there on New Year’s Eve. It was about an hour before midnight, and the place was packed. We waited in line for a few minutes, and then the bouncer…

On this fine Christmas Eve, I gift all of you with a link to the finest Christmas song ever recorded, and the only one anyone ever truly needed. It’s a song about the brutal, cold reality behind all of our romantic pretension, and about love that still manages to hang…

The Pirate Signal recently got off a national tour with 3OH!3 and most of the feedback the duo is getting from their live set include everything from “passionate” to “hyper”. That’s the great thing about Colorado hip-hop going on tour, seeing how other cities react to the music. But in…

Fresh from producing the excellent Whygee and Sunkenstate project, Suicide Watch, producer Kid Hum (also known as DJ Dylon on Basementalism) goes off on his own with a solo project. He’s currently offering his instrumental album, Fossil Fuel, for free download, and trust me, this is something you don’t want…

In an admirable show of Christmas spirit, MP3 blog Stereogum has thoughtfully compiled a list of its top 50 downloaded tracks of the year. Even more thoughtfully, they’ve zipped all 50 of the files into one conveniently downloadable archive! Among the gems are a radical Diplo deconstruction/remix of Radiohead’s “Reckoner,”…

Amidst all the Christmas cheer, I’ve been feeling the need for something … brutal. As the days disappear while my task list remains unchanged, I need something intense and powerful to accompany me on my hectic holiday death march. Today, that thing is Nineteen A.D.D., a Denver band that comes…

Never let it be said that Denver artists sit by idly doing nothing while the world around them falters. Breathe Carolina (pictured above) is set to join this spring’s Take Action tour, along with Cute Is What We Aim For, Meg & Dia, Every Avenue and Anarbor. Take Action, in…

Just came across this item in the Las Vegas Weekly and it struck us as kind of funny: In a calendar listing for 3OH!3’s show in Sin City a few weekends ago, the alt-weekly referred to Boulder’s most renown wisenheimers as a “thrash metal group.” We’ve heard 3OH!3’s music described…

get their asses completely handed to them? There’s a killer show at 3 Kings Tavern featuring the Fire Drills, Only Thunder, Eyes & Ears, the GetDown! and Spoke Shaver. Here’s the best part: Not only is it a sweet, sweet lineup, but it’s absolutely free, which, of course, only means you’ll have…

Update: The Jimmy Kimmel Live clip is posted after the jump. Isaac Slade (pictured above) and his bandmates in the Fray, who performed in the snow this past weekend at Vail’s Snow Daze, have revealed the track list for the band’s forthcoming self-titled album, which is due to be released here…

Looks like props are due to Roe, who bested Fulcrum and the Epilogues — not to mention the countless other hopefuls who submitted music — to claim the honors as the winner of KTCL’s Hometown for the Holidays promo. In addition to enjoying numerous spins on the station for the…

Tonight is one of those nights you wish you could be multiple places at once. Over at the Bluebird, Hot IQs are hosting their combined video premier and record release party with Young Coyotes, the Chain Gang of 1974 and Team Firefox. (Stream both songs from the  7-inch and view…

If you’re not doing anything on Sunday night, the Basementalism crew are hosting a Christmas party at Herb’s Hideout (2057 Larimer St.) probably starting around 9 p.m. The party, which is being thrown by the LIFEHouse squad, is celebrating Colorado MC who have performed at the monthly “Everybody Eats” hip-hop…

It’s no secret that Radio 1190’s Basementalism on Saturday afternoons showcases the state’s freshest DJ’s and hottest hip-hop, but it’s always a treat when DJ Vajra makes a guest appearance. Arguably one of the best turntablists in the nation, a small five or ten-minute live set from Vajra is a…

This year 800 the Jewell’s record label, Jewell Tyme Music, was named the Best Hip-Hop Label in Denver and in 2009, he’s hoping to retain the title. To get fans amped for the upcoming year, 800, who hasn’t released a new album in two years, sent us a sneak peek…

Joe Richards has spent a lot of time in clubs since he opened the upscale tattoo studio Indelible Ink eighteen months ago, staging body-art shows in clubs like Shotgun Willie’s, Sutra, Funky Buddha and Purple Martini. He finally decided to join the club, becoming co-owner of Pure Nightlife (2549 Welton…

This year, we’ve wrapped our roundup of holiday albums a bit differently. Instead of delivering it to you in one big lump (like coal), we’re parceling out the reviews online, with each weekday until Christmas devoted to recordings in a different category. Look for them on the Backbeat blog. In…

Last week on Mile High Fidelity, my new show on 101.5 FM, I marveled at how we’d seamlessly segued from the station’s regular programming to our all-local music mix. In the not-too-distant past, listeners might have made unconscious concessions for the homegrown work, assuming that the production and songwriting would…

Photo: Jason Klauber All right so how freaking rad is this? The mailman just laid the new copy of Spin on me, the Best of 2008 issue with TV on the Radio on the cover. And as I’m thumbing through it, I notice very few surprises: Black Kids, Vampire Weekend,…