Tommy Metz is at something of a crossroads with his main project, Iuengliss: He’s talking about going fully instrumental on the next album, and the The Blossom Frontier sounds a lot like a musical release valve. True to the form of his previous work, there are two types of songs:…
B.o.B. did his time in rap’s AAA league, having brushes with success, remaining one or two degrees of separation from household-name status for three years. But that’s all over now: His proper debut full-length, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, will be in stores next Tuesday, and, more likely than not,…
Welcome back to Our Van Could Be Your Life, a semi-regular feature where we shoot photos of the tour busses stopping in Denver and draw unfounded conclusions about the bands that ride in them. This week, Phoenix, who need a separate bus just for synthesizers. That’s not actually true, but…
Them Crooked Vultures • Mini Mansions Fillmore Auditorium | 4.19.10 The rawk fist (index and pinky for horns, thumb tucked) is a tricky little bugger. It’s a totally sincere expression of rock-induced euphoria with all the subtlety of a billy club. Them Crooked Vultures earned thousands of rawk fists Monday…
Who’s Having Fun Fest 1346 Lipan Street | 4.17.10 See more photos on the slideshow page. I’ll eat my words right up front: The Who’s Having Fun? Festival was an unqualified success, completely free of drugs, alcohol, house-trashing, train-wreck technical difficulties and cops. Somehow, Casimir Bemski pulled off an all-day…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
The band hasn’t played a show yet. In fact, it’s only practiced four times. So why do we care about For Pop Sake already? It’s partly the pedigree: John Fate, formerly of the Pseudo Dates and currently of Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man, alerted us to…
The Phillie Phanatic — one of the more epic mascots in professional sports, maybe because it’s a shaggy fat muppet — outdid him/herself at a recent game, donning the Lady Gaga head-to-toe red gauze outfit. Cue “Bad Romance” and the rest … well, you can see the video. The clip…
Julian Casablancas has spent a career trying to catch up with his band’s first album. That band would be the Strokes, and the album would be This Is It. And with the end-of-the-decade lists pouring in from everyone with an opinion, Casablancas just got about a thousand reminders that his…
The Lumineers recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Denver, but don’t let that inform your opinions. Wesley and Jeremiah do not sound like the wave-catching hipsters associated with New York’s hippest borough. No, these two sound honest and unadorned. Their self-titled EP is seven songs of what we’re going to call…
It will be hard to top last summer, when Phoenix unofficially took the mantle of the world’s house band. But Thomas Mars and company are hardly a flash in the pan: After all, the album that catapulted them to unprecedented success was their fourth studio effort. They’ve been doing this…
The most inexplicably popular show on television returns with the second half of season one tonight. The episode is called “Hell-O” because all the songs they sing have either Hell or Hello in the title. Get it? In general, we’re open-minded about mass culture, but on this one we agree…
The most important thing to take away from the second annual Fort Collins Music Experience is that it is wonderful: The year’s best tribute to a rich northern Colorado scene. The Experience’s insanely ambitious scope is only made more impressive when you consider that the thing is put together by…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Mitya • Makeout Point • Night Owl 04.8.10 | Skylark Lounge This week, we’re trying out a new method of recapping shows wherein we pick out the most interesting things that happened and sort them in chronological order. They won’t all look like this, obviously, but we figure it can’t…
Achille Lauro is opening for John Common at Casselman’s. Everyone is seated, drinking complimentary spiked fruit juice. Achille Lauro frontman Matt Close is introducing every song in this manner: “This song is about and drag racing.” Some people laugh at this, some people think he’s serious, and drummer Ben Mossman…
After an October trip to Boulder, the Foot wrote a blog post ensuring its return to “rock your balls off again.” For now, we’ll have to take the guys’ word for it on the live show. But the music contained on the band’s debut album, Primary Colors, is certainly ball-rocking…
We’re still wading through our Bocumast Sampler Pack 2010, but so far it’s been worth the digging. A ringtone from Cougar Legs, the creepiest/most awesome Bocumast poster, a bunch of music from the label’s exceptional talent, a photo of David Kurtz with his award winning Pokemon collection, etc, etc. The…
Last night, Big Boi and his new label Def Jam hosted a listening party for the long-awaited Sir Luscious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty. The main purpose of the party was to officially release the album’s first single, “Shutterbugg,” which, as you can hear above, is pretty great. But…
Tegan and Sara • Steel Train • Holly Miranda 04.4.10 | Ogden Theatre There is some dumb joke to be had about a band playing on Easter in support of an album called Sainthood, but let’s not take the easy way out here. Because Tegan and Sara is fifteen years…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
There you have it: Fourteen-year-old Bieber’s debut full-length is on top of the Billboard album chart. His debut EP, meanwhile, is at number five. That one’s called My World (get it?) — can’t argue with either title. This makes him the youngest chart-topper since Stevie Wonder, yet something tells us…
