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Kanye West, Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco Sunday, April 27 Pepsi Center The mainstream press’ habit of branding Kanye West a one-dimensional egotist tends to make his creative achievements seem like side effects of his neuroses, and that’s a shame. His public statements overflow with so much self-love that he…

F.O.E. and Jewell Tyme with The Pirate Signal, Makk Beez, A-Co, Julox, and others Saturday, April 26 The Snake Pit Better Than: Watching the Nuggets get beat down. After just a handful of releases in 2007, Denver hip-hop label Jewell Tyme Music (JTM) is looking at a big 2008 and…

Britt Rodemich, Ellison Park, Ian Cooke and Levi Weaver Friday, April 25, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: Enduring yet another uneventful happy hour. The matinee show is an idea whose time has come in Denver. Instead of doing happy hour and then heading home only to amble back out around nine…

Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Timeless tunes, a pirate shirt and a large cougar on the prowl are just a few of the highlights of this New York Dolls show review…

Goldfinger Hello Destiny… SideOneDummy 01:23-02:08 of “Without Me” Whoa. Goldfinger is still around. You know, I could pun the title and be like, “Hello Destiny, we still suck,” or “Hello Destiny, is this all we’ve worked for?” But that would be easy. And not really funny. Kind of like Goldfinger’s…

LOCALS ONLY For the last decade or so, F.O.E. (Father of Enemies) has steadily been putting in work, first as a member of the group Hilltop Click, then as a solo artist and now as vice president of Jewell Tyme Records. But just because he’s helping run one of Colorado’s…

Damn, man, can Flobots catch any more fire? A week after we reported that the crew will be sharing a bill with Metallica (less than a month after inking its deal with Universal, no less) comes news today that the act has claimed the seventh slot on Billboard’s Hot Modern…

Photos by Jon Solomon. Widowers, Achille Lauro, Mothership and Hawks of Paradise. Thursday, April 24 Larimer Lounge Better Than: LSD Nearly a year ago, Widowers played its first gig with Achille Lauro and Mothership, so it was a no-brainer for the three like-minded bands to team up again to help…

Photo by C. James Hamilton The Titan Courageous, one of the dozen promising bands from the Class of 2008 is going on hiatus until the fall, and then… well, we don’t know. All we have to go on is a semi cryptic blog titled “New Shit Has Come to Light,…

After being together less than a year, the Crimson Red has called it a day. The outfit, comprised of former members of Ion, Adam’s Ruin and Ember, offered no reason as to why the band is splitting aside from leaving a pithy note on its MySpace page last week stating…

Kraftwerk Wednesday, April 23 Fillmore Auditorium Kraftwerk? In 2008? In Denver, Colorado? The date – one of just four by the German quartet in a mini U.S. tour – was easily the most unusual booking of the season at the Fillmore Auditorium, and that likely contributed to the modest turnout:…

Neva Dinova, Ladyhawk, Vampire Hands Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Hi-Dive Better than: Drinking a bottle of NyQuil. Looking for a night full of surprises, something completely lost to me of late, I ramped up to the Hi-Dive to experience some new rock music for the first time in ages. Of…

I love pizza like a fat kid loves cake. So imagine how stoked I was when I heard about “Pizza Party,” by Littleague, Neil McIntyre’s first post-Yo, Flaco! project. Come to find out, though, Littleague is like a shindig at Chuck E. Cheese: It’s a pizza party, all right, but…

The musicians in Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey thrive on change. When bassist Reed Mathis and keyboardist Brian Haas formed the trio fifteen years ago, they focused on a blend of post-bop and post-James Brown funk, covering cuts by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Prince and Maceo Parker. But with each album,…

It can be odd to visit a place where you haven’t been for more than a decade. You get a picture in your head, and it stays there until you finally get another look at the real thing. I went to the Catacombs, in the basement of the Hotel Boulderado…

These guys aren’t exactly breaking new ground. And if you’re one of those people who have nothing good to say about the current state of music, and haven’t for the last decade, you’re not apt to like Buffalo Beard (due this Saturday, April 26, at the Larimer Lounge). But if…

Discovering the music of Booka Shade is a little like that phenomenon of meeting someone new that feels so right it seems you’ve known them for years. Before they came into your life, you never knew anything was missing, but now that they’ve arrived, you can barely imagine life without…

The Black Crowes, Warpaint (Silver Arrow). On their first studio release since re-­forming in 2005, the Robinson brothers show how a little time off from each other can work wonders. Warpaint continues to improve their winning brand of ­Southern-fried power-blues rock and may finally silence critics who insist on throwing…

The wait has definitely been worthwhile for this debut. Widowers spent months painstakingly and passionately recording the eleven-track opus in its own Opponent Processor Studios, and the efforts have paid off. While most of the songs on this inaugural effort will be familiar to anyone who has caught the act’s…

Boulder Acoustic Society members tend to be characterized as makers of hippie music. By those standards, then, Caged Bird qualifies as first-rate hippie music — a batch of songs that are often deeper, darker and more intriguing than haters of the style typically expect. The playing of multi-instrumentalists Kailin Young,…