Neil Young’s live recording from 1968, when he was just 22, tops Twist & Shout’s bestsellers list, with a strong showing from local acts Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) and Paper Bird. Also good to see Tom Waits in the Top 10 with an album he released just…
Aaron Thackeray hit up the grand-opening party of Club 303 (2301 Blake), and came home with plenty of photos. See them at westword.com/slideshow…
Buzzard and FanaticsFriday, January 9th, 2009Carioca Café, DenverBetter Than: A show where everyone is a chin-stroking tourist.When I finally got to the venue, Buzzard, which was playing its farewell show, had already started its set. I’d unfortunately missed Clusterfux, but the crowd wasn’t crazy yet, so I made my way to the…
I just received an email from Cowboy Curse’s Benjamin Bergstrand, hipping me to an exciting showcase of frontmen-turned-singer-songwriters, coming up at the Meadowlark. Jonathan Bitz and the gang at the ‘Lark have always gone out of their way to spotlight the talent of local sad bastards, but this one is…
Update (01/12/09): Stream Nathaniel Rateliff’s appearance after the jump.Gonna go out on a limb here and say that by the time most of you read this, Nathaniel Rateliff will have already wrapped his appearance on Matt Pinfield’s morning show on New York’s WRXP, the station otherwise known as101.9 RXP, the New…
Oh, man, gang! Lock up your liquor cabinets. We just caught wind that the combustible former members of the Blackout Pact will be reconvening next week for a show — their first since splitting up over two years ago. While we knew the guys were getting back together to record…
Update (01/12/09): Links to Friday night’s show at the Meadowlark added.While we’re going to be unveiling our own section of live local recordings on the blog shortly, in the meantime, we stumbled onto a great blog called the Flat Response. Some of you are already no doubt well aware of its…
This was very active week for music in the three-oh-three. Hell of a lot of stuff going on. Put it this way, we feel like we earned that cold one we’re about crack by blogging our backsides off. No really. I have no ass. Ask around. I’m all front, no…
Joanna Krupa, voted the sexiest top model in the world, hosts Club 303 grand opening Jan. 10. On Wednesday night, a bulletin from Club 303’s MySpace page was sent out stating that the club was closing. Turns out, that was the work of the club’s former marketing director, who was…
Immortal Dominion, the monster metal unit out of Fort Collins, has recently completed tracking its brand new album. After spending five weeks in the studio with renown producer Sterling Winfield, who’s overseen albums by Mercyful Fate, Pantera and Hell Yeah, among others, the platter has been shipped off to Airshow…
I was there, and you can hear it In case you’re not familiar with it, archive.org is a giant Internet archive of all kinds of stuff — old websites, tons of free audio and video, etc. It’s one of my favorite Internet sites, largely because of the absolutely ginormous collections…
Nothing I could possibly say would add to this video in the slightest, so let me just say thanks to fellow Westword scribe A.H. Goldstein for putting this horrible thing on my MySpace page, inspiring me to share it with you all. Push play and bask in the incredible power…
If you were planning on pounding beers with Kamtin Mohanger, the dance floor wrecking machine otherwise known as the one-half of the Chain Gang of 1974, at shows this summer, you better pack a bag. Kam’s going to be on tour — again. With 3OH!3. Hold on. Not like last…
Everything is still coming up roses these days for A Shoreline Dream. After roaring out of the gate in 2006, wisely aligning itself with Paste and Filter Magazines and Urban Outfitters, to then earning a nod in Urb’s Next 100 issue last spring and collaborating with Ulrich Schnauss, the act has…
This just in: TV is the new radio. Another area artist has had a song placed on One Tree Hill, the CW network’s benchmark teen serial. When Tim Hanauer’s new tune, “Miss,” airs this Monday, January 12, he will join a growing list of local luminaries whose songs have already…
I was very excited to receive an instant message yesterday from Adam Lancaster, of Morning After Records, announcing his return to live performance. Adherents of the Denver music scene will remember that Lancaster fronted his own loud, energetic, melodic rock band, Curious Yellow, until about four years ago, when other life priorities — like…
Although it hasn’t been said as much outright, it sounds like Spools of Dark Thread’s days may be numbered. Chris Thomas, Spools’ furiously talented frontman (far right), revealed this afternoon that he and his mates are discussing whether or not the band will continue. Let’s hope so. Spools has produced…
In between playing a flurry of dates all across the state, the Indulgers have found time to record a brand new album. In advance of the new disc’s release, the shamrockers have made the title track from the new album, Whiskey Tonight, available for free download. Have at it, mates…
On Tuesday, we let you know that Colorado’s DJ Sabotage and Hypeman P were headed to Los Angeles to represent the Box State at Scion’s 2008 Hypeman Contest as a finalist. So what happened? Sabo and P represented the Mile High City lovely taking first and second place, respectively. Sabotage…
I pretty much fell in love with the pop-art styled hippy/hottie take on Shiva (I think that’s Shiva — my Hindu mythology is a little shaky) on this U.S. Pipe CD release poster the second I saw it. The style, the subject matter, the detail — all brilliant! Good to…
Spoke-In-Wordz will always be lauded for his rapid-fire flow but does he get the same props when he spits fire in Spanish? Spoke connected with the group 20/12 to record a song for the soundtrack of the film Platinum Illusions, which features cameos from folks like Chino XL, Mr. Capone-E,…
Although I typically loathe battle-of-the-bands competition, this one actually seems pretty worthwhile: Beginning this Friday, January 16, at Herman’s Hideaway, Alice 105.9 will be hosting a ten-week search for the area’s best band. Out of 32 contestants, one band will claim a prize package valued at over $15K, specifically…
