While there’s a plethora of gifted guitarists in Denver, there’s only a handful that enter the realm of extraordinary, virtuosos who are widely regarded amongst critics, their peers and by fans. It’s a short list filled in by folks like Dave Beegle, Robert Eldridge and Neil Haverstick, among others. You…
Buffalo, New York-based DeepThinka Records just released Rebel Radio 45: The Free Double Mixtape mixed by DJ Anubus, DJ Optimus Prime and Billy Drease Williams. Why do we care? Well, mostly because it’s a dope mixtape that’s free, but also because Denver’s own ManeLine is featured on the project next…
Just announced seconds ago: Springsteen at the Pepsi Center on Friday, April 10. Together with his ace co-horts, the E-Street Band, the Boss will be stopping by Denver as part of an extensive American and European tour in support of his new album, Working On a Dream, which arrived in…
Last year, b-boy Fienz, his Lordz of Finesse crew and Paul Skeee came together to throw the first Mighty 4 Colorado event at Beta nightclub, which drew more than 500 attendees. The event featured b-boy battles, performances from Infinite Mindz and BreakEFX, as well as fresh music coming from DJs…
Hold off sending any floral arrangements to the funeral home. It appears that news of Spools of Dark Thread’s demise may have been a bit premature. Two of the remaining members (the drummer and a guitarist?) are committed to finding new players — specifically, a new frontman to replace Chris…
Ludacris’s latest release, Theater of the Mind, which was third on Independent’s Jan. 12-18 top seller list, moves up to first for the week of Jan. 19-25. (hed) p.e. made a strong showing last week as well. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
Finally! All my years of practicing the Hammer dance and holding on to my harem pants are about to pay off. DanceJam is running a contest to find the best Hammer dancer in the U.S. If you’re fourteen years old or older, live in any of the fifty U.S. states,…
Well, the first review is in. Two stars. In the brand-new issue of Rolling Stone, which just hit stands over the weekend, the mag gives the Fray’s forthcoming full-length, the hotly anticipated, self-titled followup to How to Save a Life, due in stores next Tuesday, two stars out of five…
Animal Collective’s latest album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, which was released last Tuesday on Domino, tops last week’s seller list at Twist & Shout. The band’s June 2 Boulder Theater concert was announced last week as well. Paper Bird, which has been on store’s top sellers list for the last few…
On the heels of the Fluid invading NYC the weekend prior, DeVotchKa, another Denver act, played a show on Saturday night at Webster Hall in New York. Evidently, the set was quite well received, according to this pair of blog posts we came across — the latter of which contains…
For me, Friday night’s show at the hi-dive embodied everything that I love about Denver’s shimmering live music scene. With three heavy hitters on the bill from three different-yet-complementary genres, I just wanted to camp out forever, right in front of the hi-dive’s humble stage. Any one of the bands…
Meat Puppets with Shaky HandsSaturday, January 24, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: Not seeing such a deservedly legendary band.Shaky Hands from Portland, Oregon, opened the show with its own brand of countrified indie rock. There was nothing languid about the performance of this four-piece: Bright, chimy guitars and thick, heady leads locking…
Photo: Tobin Voggesser Umphrey’s McGee Saturday, January 24, 2009Fillmore AuditoriumBetter Than: Saving money and listening to Umphrey’s through your earbuds.I’m too young to have seen the Grateful Dead or Led Zeppelin live. Just the same, I’m convinced that my friends and I were conceived in brightly painted VW buses with…
From Leftover Salmon’s Bill McKay being arrested to Swayback adding Adam Tymn from Vaux to its line-up to Frontside Five and 29th St. Disciples landing record deals, there was tons happening this week. The biggest and perhaps most stunning item of the week, however, has to be news of the…
Because I hate working on Friday as much as anyone else, I offer you the following video from a Norwegian model named Lene Alexandra posted after the jump. Consider this my weekly Friday afternoon distraction (which will heretofore be a regular thing known as Freak Friday). This wonderful/horrible clip is…
Yeah, I know we already had a flier of the week, on Tuesday (and a kick-ass flier it was, too). I also realize the show this flier is advertising is already over, as of last night. But I absolutely could not resist giving this flier some props. It’s awesome. I…
Sure, free beer and gratuitous sex are great reasons to be in a garage band. But the holy grail, of course, isn’t getting zonked or getting laid — it’s getting signed. And that’s just what 29th St. Disciples have done. The foursome have been grinding in the trenches of Denver’s…
Skate punk kingpins, Frontside Five, recently profiled in Thasher magazine, has joined the roster of DC-Jam Records. The Missouri-based imprint, which is also home to legendary skate punks JFA and McRad, will release the band’s upcoming full-length, Resurrection Cemetary, in early March, and to commemorate the album’s release, the Frontside…
John Common is kind of a weird dude. Not in the creepy guy mumbling to himself and rocking back and forth on the bus sort of way, mind you, but weird, nonetheless. Actually, I take that back. A better word for him is probably quirky or eccentric. (The guy’s a…
For those unaware, Guru is founder and one half of legendary hip-hop group, GangStarr. Although the status of GangStarr is up in air (Guru says the group is done; DJ Premier says they’re on a long break), the duo haven’t talked since 2003. In the meantime, while DJ Premier is…
Update: Wednesday night’s show has been posted after the jump.Well, we made it through another show. What are we at, like, seven now? Kind of lost count. Somebody’s keeping track, right? Anyhow, it was a good one, but like I said at the beginning of the show, you’d hardly expect…
Update (1/23/09): We’ve just learned that Common Struggles, Single File’s full-length debut, is slated for release on Tuesday, April 7. “Girlfriend,” the first single from the album, which was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All-American Rejects) and mixed by Tom Lord-Alge (Stones, Weezer), is being serviced to Denver…
