Music

Photo: David Barber This weekend, a cluster of bands from Denver’s past and present will be gathering at Herman’s Hideaway to celebrate the life of Sharon Rawles, who passed away at the end of September. A cherished member of the music community, Rawles had an undeniable impact on the scene…

The Sisters of Mercy Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Ogden Theatre, Denver Better Than: Getting 86’d. By the time I got into the Ogden, the Sisters were already performing. Before going into the performance space proper I had been talking with a friend and thought it was a CD playing and…

pilfered from myspace David Guetta November 20, 2008 Beta David Guetta is popular. Of the many DJs I’ve seen at Beta, I think tonight was the most crowded, with the possible exceptions of Danny Tenaglia and maybe Richie Hawtin, which were close. It was so crowded I was constantly being…

Update: This afternoon, the Fray posted a viral video on its MySpace page, and sent out a bulletin explaining the meaning behind the words to “You Found Me.” We’ve posted both after the jump, along with the lyrics. The Fray’s new single, as previously reported, debuted last night during Grey’s…

Just received word from Nat Kramer, the former host of Radio 1190’s Rude Awakening morning show, who’s also a co-founder of the Media Production Consortium, that Negativland — the San Franciso-based band best known for its widely-publicized tiff with U2 — will be playing two back-to-back shows on Tuesday, December…

Photo: Gary Isaacs This past spring, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club released Cipher, the act’s fantasic follow-up to 2004’s The Bloudy Tenant Truth Peace. Aside from being the outfit’s most definitive piece of work, the album sports some really cool looking, cryptic artwork, including indecipherable song titles on the jacket –…

Local grindcore band Zombie Hate Brigade are a clever bunch who clearly love and know the zombie mythos. They not only produced the amazing zombie Johnny Cash shirt pictured on the left (this is the back, the front says zombie in block letters — I wear mine often), they’ve also…

After a few years hiatus, Marty Jones is returning to the stage with a new batch of tunes. At 9 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, at the Skylark, Jones and a new group of players — Zach Boddicker, Scott Johnson and Clay Bielman — will unveil a 45-minute set of…

Just stumbled across this gem on the Smoking Gun (via the Daily Swarm). This just in: If you ever find yourself at a karaoke bar in River Falls, Wisconsin, and you think you’re gonna be slick and try your hand at a song by Dio, you better not fuck around…

As you may have gathered from the hi-dive post below, I’m about to head out of town this weekend. Taking a road trip to the West Coast for the holiday. Before heading into the office this morning, I picked up my rental car. The station was set to 104.3 the…

File under OMFG, muhahahah!: Thanks to You (no, not you, silly — that’s the band’s name) is currently plastered on the front page of PureVolume.com, an impressive nod for a local band that most of you probably haven’t even heard of yet. Getting that kind of national exposure is certainly…

Five years? Seriously, has it already been five years since the hi-dive opened? Great scott, man, I guess it has. Wow, time really does fly, eh? Since we’re leaving town around closing time on Friday night (well, Saturday morning, if you want to split hairs), it’s doubtful that we’ll be…

Hey, cats and kittens, got ten bucks? Dig Dressy Bessy? Want to be the envy of every discriminating pop fan in your neighborhood? Than you better high tail it over to the Kindercore Shop with a quickness. There’s a limited (we’re presuming they’re limited, anyway) number of white vinyl copies…

All right, just when you thought things couldn’t get any more redamndiculous for 3OH!3, they have. Following last week’s appearance on Last Call with Carson Daly (clip posted after the jump), comes news that’s likely to further stir the ire of naysayers. We’ve just learned that Nate and T-Pain have…

Since the beginning, there’s always been an element of rebellion attached to making rock and roll. Rarely, however, has such defiance meant facing jail time, paying fines or being publicly flogged. “Our Iranian culture is very conservative, so you either have to grow up to be a doctor or an…

Charlie Parker’s “Billie’s Bounce” isn’t that hard — the melody is pretty simple, and it’s blues in the key of F — but I was struggling with the tune on my tenor sax while sitting in at El Chapultepec (1962 Market Street). I’d only been playing the horn for about…

Few bass players possess the intensity and stage presence of former Cephalic Carnage bassist Jawsh Mullen. And for his part, Devon Rogers has been equally commanding and powerful behind the drums, keeping time for acts as diverse as Register, Hemi Cuda and Reverend Dead Eye. Munimula (due at 3 Kings…

Glochids, Puppet Sampler KeyboardSwee (Distant Colony Records). Though largely a kind of musique concrète, it sounds as though the composers of this effort watched their share of Gus Van Sant and Larry Clark movies and thought they could write better, more haunting incidental music. The minimalist tapestry of electronic sounds…

If you want to relive the days when you wore oversized pants and candy necklaces, waved glow sticks in everyone’s face and popped pills like tomorrow would never come, you could do a lot worse than heading down to the Church this Thursday, November 20, to catch Commander Tom. The…

Singer-songwriter Matt Morris got his start as a Mouseketeer alongside Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. After spending his early teen years apprenticed to the Mouse, he returned to his native Denver to attend John F. Kennedy High School. These days, he’s an accomplished singer-songwriter who’s co-written tunes with Aguilera and…