Concerts

Although essentially following the glam-metal trend of the ’80s, the members of Lizzie Borden never embarrassed themselves as egregiously as many of their contemporaries. Instead of draping simperingly saccharine pop in faux-gender-bending rock-satyr guise, the group opted for the harder-edged rock and visually engaging live shows embodied by bands like…

Incubus bassist Ben Kenney isn’t letting the band’s year-long hiatus keep him out of the studio or off the road. The former Roots guitarist is keeping himself plenty busy pushing his latest solo album, Distance and Comfort, on which he wears all the hats as producer, mixer, writer and performer:…

The shimmery cymbals and distant voices in the fog of white noise that opens this album somehow recall the beginning of Days of Future Passed, by the Moody Blues. While musically the work shares little with the high-end production of that ’60s classic, artistically it’s equally as ambitious, with a…

Although Invisible Orange’s previous release was called Valium, the long-player hardly qualified as a depressant — and that’s true of the band’s latest, too. “Run,” the opening cut, is a thundering stampede of rawk obnoxiousness, with Adrian Moore hammering out bottomless guitar tones like a hyperkinetic blacksmith and Donovan Breazeale’s…

For photos from Adam’s reunion with his favorite boy band, go to westword.com/slideshow. Dude, I totally swear to God, at the New Kids on the Block concert, there was a moment during the song “My Favorite Girl” when Joey McIntyre pointed directly fucking at me! I know it sounds ridiculous;…

Scott Baxendale, a master luthier based in Denver, has crafted axes for Carl Perkins, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. He’s also made a few guitars for his good buddies, the Drive-By Truckers, with whom he’s also sat in with periodically, most recently, at the Bluebird last month. In this three-minute…

This just in, the Fray, who, as previously reported, will be premiering its new single, “You Found Me,” tomorrow night on its website, after parts of the track appear in a promo for Lost that will air during Grey’s Anatomy, will be pulling back the curtain on its new album…

Hot on the heels of the news that Chinese Democracy has been leaked (see the blog directly below this one) comes what I assume is the first review of the years-in-the-making album from noted rock scribe Chuck Klosterman. The review is full of his usual overblown, overwritten hyperbole, but that…

Senator, we knew GN’R. GN’R was a friend of ours. You’re no GN’R. Less than a week before its official release date, Chinese Democracy has reportedly leaked been posted on Guns N’ Roses’ MySpace page. Yep. The full album. Yesterday Today. After a bazillion years of build up, that’s it…

Presumably in anticipation of its next release, Recollections of Memory, due out on February 10, 2009, the stunningly prolific members of A Shoreline Dream have posted a short — and we do mean short; its running time is one minute and thirteen seconds — clip of themselves performing “Hypermode” at…

Danava, Space In Time and Outer Neon Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Larimer Lounge, Denver Better Than: A good bulk of the neo-classic heavy rock of late. Opening the night was the mighty, sludgy psych-rock duo Outer Neon from Denver. For someone not paying attention, it might be easy to carelessly…

This Saturday, November 22, the members of Pee Pee, Denver’s most curiously named combo, will be warming up for Nellie McKay at the Mercury Cafe before then joining the songstress back on stage as her backing band. The show, a benefit for bands for lands, will be the outfit’s last…

Concert season is over at Red Rocks, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make use of music’s best outdoor venue — especially on those occasional spring-like days that heat up the Colorado winter. Here, five ways to make use of Red Rocks until the bands plug back in next spring…

Would you buy this record? I know we’re not supposed to judge a book (or album, in this case) by its cover, but, sweet lord, what the fuck is up with that? Just stumbled across this god-forsaken artifact and it was just one of fifteen creepy album covers collected for…

Young Coyotes, still among my favorite local bands, has announced plans to record a Daytrotter session in Davenport, Iowa, on Thursday, December 4, at the end of its current cross country jaunt, which wraps later that night at the Blue Fugue in Columbia, Missouri. Only a scant few Denver bands…

Photo: Laurie Scavo This next news comes with more than a hint of sadness. With a notable amount of rueful displeasure we bring you word of another stellar Denver band reaching the end of its road. After some deliberation, the members of Cat-A-Tac have decided to part ways. That’s the…

Jethro Tull’s 1971 show at Red Rocks was almost the last rock show ever held at the venue In 1971 at early rock show at Red Rocks featuring Jethro Tull, unruly fans turned the venue into a war zone. It started when fans who couldn’t get get tickets for the…

Just received an advance of KBCO’s Studio C 20th Anniversary Edition. The 38-song two-disc set, celebrating two decades of in-studio performances, gathers tracks from a few of the usual suspects (Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow), alongside some rare gems from the likes of Jeff Buckley, Dr. John and Tom Waits,…

Tickle Me Pink, who’s in the midst of a cross country tour right now with Hawthorne Heights (full dates after the jump), has posted an explicit, NSFW version of their “Typical Whore” video. Like the the original version, the video features porn star Gabriella Fox crawling through comforters on her…