Used to be time when a stint in the big house would put a stop to an artist’s recording career. Well, today we have evidence that time has passed. Jailed rapper Lil Wayne guests on the new Drake track “Light Up (Rikers RMX)” alongside Jay Z. Only, we assume Jay…
The music of Josh Gabriel is hard to escape. As half of the duo Gabriel & Dresden — and, more recently, on his own — his productions and remixes have seen play from some of the industry’s top DJs, including John Digweed, Carl Cox and Danny Howells. His signature work…
Summertime, in our book, is all about fireworks, barbecues and sweaty live music. How fitting then, that this week’s top flier uses one of those things to advertise a great slate of the other two? It’s for one of the Larimer Lounge’s fine summer barbecue events, which are like little…
While we were checking out some of the suggestions from our friendly Twitter followers for song of the summer, we found a heck of a song of the day. It’s a tune called “Go Outside” from a New York band called Cults. And to our ears, it sounds just like…
We brought you a list of our potential top summer jams a while back, but now summer is here and it got us to wondering: What song (or songs) have been your top songs of the summer so far. And since standing on a street corner asking random passers-by questions…
Last night, Tool played the first of its back-to-back dates at Red Rocks. Photographer Aaron Thackeray was there to capture the band — and the fans — for your enjoyment. Click through for a look at ten of the best shots of the night, or visit the slide show for…
It was almost six weeks ago that metal legend Ronnie James Dio died and the tributes keep rolling in. Yesterday, a video appeared online that featured members of thrash mainstays Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax sharing their memories of the man. The video was originally recorded and broadcast as part…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only*, KBCO’s Local Edition, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown…
Back when the Film on the Rocks schedule was announced, fans got a chance to select their favorite John Hughes film for a showing. Well, the fans spoke and overwhelmingly they chose Ferris Bueller’s Day Off over The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Ferris grabbed nearly half the vote, leaving…
Online ticketing company Ticketfly acquired show-listing/social media site Gigbot last week to better help it compete with ticketing juggernaut Ticketmaster. Terms of the deal were not announced, but as part of the deal, Gigbot founder (and main dude behind the tech that runs it) Sean Porter is joining Ticketfly as…
We know when you’re busy re-fighting World War II or killing alien invaders on your Xbox, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Gee, this is fun, but what does pop-star/provocateur M.I.A. think of this activity?” Well, wonder no longer — she’s weighed in with her opinion at last…
We revealed a while back that Lady Gaga might not be just the oddball pop star/performance artist you know and love/hate, but a secret tool of the worldwide conspiracy known as the Illuminati. Now, no less of an expert on the topic than Internet celebrity, reality show trainwreck and, apparently,…
Well, this is awesome. The site Comics Alliance came up witht the brilliant idea to compile a list of songs that should be comics, then use a little Photoshop magic to create covers for each of their fictional creations. Or, in the case of the awesome “Yoshimi Battles the Pink…
When a thirteen-year-old picks up a guitar and plays a song, what do you expect? Clumsy fumbling? Maybe mild competence with the occasional touch of style? yeah, us too. That’s why this clip is so mind blowing. The kid playing is Trace Bundy protege Sungha Jung, a thirteen-year-old wunderkind from…
Sometime in August, Cheapo Discs — one of a handful of locally owned record stores still operating in Denver — will shutter the doors of its location on Colorado Boulevard, ending a fifteen year run. But it’s not all bad news — owner Ron Lusk says he’s close to a…
Well, Warped Tour is officially underway, wending its way through California on its first handful of dates. Sunday, Warped will be in Ventura, California and on that particular date (and no other, if this is to be believed) 3OH!3 will bring its patented brand of madness to the pop-punk throngs…
When weird nursery rhyme raps and unbelievably awkward dancing come together, magic happens. And today, we have something magical for you. It’s an odd rap song about everyone’s second favorite eggman (John Lennon being everyone’s favorite eggman, naturally). In and of itself, the song is fairly unremarkable as far as…
Original Kinks bassist Peter Quaife died yesterday at age 66. The cause of death is yet to be determined but he had suffered from kidney disease for more than a decade. Quaife was a member of the band from its founding in 1961 until 1969, when he quit due to…
In honor of the US’s best World Cup soccer performance in, well, ever, Weezer has weighed in with “Represent,” the unofficial US soccer anthem. Don’t get too excited though — there are no vuvuzela solos in the song. Instead you get a somewhat forgettable tune — pounding drums, big riffs…
Now, here’s a cool idea. Take all those thousands and thousands of useless, forgotten and worthless, but oh-so-shiny CDs, and use them to make something beautiful. In this case, a giant piece of public art called “CDSea” in Kilmington, UK by artist Bruce Munro…
Been a while since we had a Song of the Day post, eh? Well, we’ve got a doozy for you today. It’s “Sorrow,” a great track off the recent National album High Violet. It’s a quiet, slow-burn of a track that compresses a lifetime of heartbreak and regret into just…
The opening of Beauty Bar last weekend was apparently cool enough to capture the eye (or lens, more to the point) of LastNightsParty.com. The infamous party photo site has a deluxe sized assortment of photos up from the event, featuring a variety of Denver music personalities and a much larger…
