Photo: Chad Fahnestock AC/DC and The Answer Pepsi Center November 25 The crowd at the Pepsi Center last night for AC/DC’s first Denver concert in seven years resembled the ones that gather for Oakland Raiders games. It looked like everyone incarcerated at the state’s prisons had been given a one-day…
Sunday’s AC/DC concert — reviewed in the blog “Live Review: AC/DC and The Answer at the Pepsi Center” — conjures up memories of the Q&A with the band’s Brian Johnson that Westword published under the headline “Power Age” back in April 2001. It’s among my favorite interviews ever — and…
Lannie’s has a delightfully theatrical vibe of faux decadence that is equally comfortable for night creatures like myself and for the don’t-get-out-much older folks who make up the bulk of the audience. The real joy of the show, though, is the gypsy jazz quartet that backs up Ms. Garrett’s salty, hammy performance. Inspired by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, guitarist Elliot Reed and violinist Dimitri Fisch lead a smoking quartet through period-perfect arrangements that retain their vitality and authenticity, in spite of Garrett’s intentionally campy leadership.
Shawn Colvin joins Hot Rize and Leo Kottke at the RootsFest. Not too much shaking this week with concert announcements, but there’s good news for acoustic and bluegrass fans: tickets for Swallow Hill’s RootsFest (known as the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival for the past two years) concert on…
Widespread Panic’s New Year’s Eve show sold out in a record time of 25 minutes, but tickets for the band’s December 30 Pepsi Center show were recently released through Ticketmaster. Tickets are $61 plus a facility fee and an applicable Ticketmaster service charge…
I don’t think it’s just sound waves that get recorded in the studio.I think you’re recording everything — EVERYTHING — that’s happening in the room, in the song, in the heads, hands and hearts of everyone in the room at that moment… and the control room too.There’s really no hiding…
Hard-core Frank Zappa fans will have to wait a little longer for revamped versions of two of the late composer’s seminal works from the ’60s.An ambitious box set combining rare studio tracks and new mixes of both Lumpy Gravy and We’re Only In It for the Money, creatively dubbed Lumpy…
Nearly two minutes of Born in the Flood’s “Anthem” was used in last night’s episode of One Tree Hill. Local musician Dan Craig and former Colorado resident Katie Herzig and have also had songs placed in the show. Check out the clip after the jump. The Born in the Flood…
It took Guns ‘N’ Roses fifteen years to finally release Chinese Democracy, which was released November 23 and available exclusively at Best Buy. That’s a mighty long time. Heck, Jesus Christ died and returned from the grave in just three days. Our sister paper in Houston compiled a slide show…
If the Flobots are bummed with the recent bad show review they got, maybe the news from Music Choice will excite them. The band’s video, “Handlebars,” was nominated in two categories in the channel’s Most Demanded: Music Choice Video On-Demand Awards ’08. The first was “Alternative Video of the Year”…
Tim Kaminski, who fronts Yerkish, got an e-mail from his half-brother Brian Tomes a few days ago, with a subject line that read: “Sarah Palin’s latest shame.” He thought, “Yeah, whatever. I’ll watch it later.” The next afternoon, he got a call from Tomes: His sibling was suddenly famous. See, Tomes…
Last week, I attended Meese’s whiskey-and-magazine sponsored show at the b.side Lounge in Boulder. The free event only allowed about 100 people into the Lounge’s less-than-optimal room, making for the most intimate show this skyrocketing group will be giving for a long time to come. While the band’s recordings rarely…
HDNet recently started using Jessica Sonner’s song “Still Be Here” as the soundtrack for a promo video for Dan Rather Reports, HD World Report and InFocus Documentaries. Check out the video here…
The new Synthetic Elements video for “How Far” (directed by Dave Franco and Ben Martinez) shows the band knee-deep in the rock and roll lifestyle: getting out of an Escalade limo, walking the red carpet, foxy dancers in cut-offs and hot chicks in hot tubs. Check it out after the…
Photo: Chad Fahnestock Coldplay, Jon Hopkins, Sleeper CarFriday, Nov. 21, 2008Pepsi CenterBetter Than: A rock show where the band stays rooted in one spot.Making an arena rock show personal may seem like an impossible task, especially for any band playing to thousands of fans in the airy expanses of the…
Squirt some Binaca, pucker up and apply a fresh coat of that Dr. Pepper lipgloss because, after almost exactly one year, we’re gonna be making out every day! That’s right. As of today, right now, this instant, the Mile High Makeout is a daily event. No more will you have…
Just caught the Fray on the American Music Awards. Tonight’s AMA performance marked the live debut of “You Found Me,” the first single from the Fray’s forthcoming self-titled album, due on on February 3. Isaac Slade’s vocals seemed a bit shaky during the intro verse, but overall, the band’s performance…
Leave the Gun. Take the cannoli. All eyes — or ears, rather — in the music world, including ours, were on Chinese Democracy this week. Most of us honestly never thought we’d live to see the release of the mythical Guns N’ Roses record, and now that we had a…
LOCALS ONLY Colorado rapper Catch Lungs started get his name buzzed about in the local scene when he started working with producers SP Double and Flawless as part of the Boostwell Crew last year. After separating from Boostwell this summer, he began working on his own mixtape, Food for the…
Go ahead and play, it’s not like you were getting anything done today anyway Now that lunch is but a dim memory and beer o’ clock is still hours away, you need something to distract you from the grinding horror that is your work day. May we humbly suggest Auditorium,…
After a long and eventful tenure with Love.45, guitarist Paul Trinidad Jr. has decided to part ways with the group. As a result, the remaining members of the band are seeking a replacement. Would be applicants can reach out to the band directly to set up an audition. The act…
Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy Interscope Frankly, after a decade and a half, I’m just happy that only some of this blows, instead of the whole thing – and as a bonus, several of the tracks that do blow are unintentionally funny. Not all of them, of course: “If the…
