When keyboardist and singer Mark Shusterman, bassist and singer Rhett Rogers, guitarist Alex Eschen and drummer Scott Beck first formed the Blue Rider four years ago, the band was doing a lot of covers of soul and R&B songs from the late ’50s and early ’60s, with some psychedelic stuff…
The house calls are always the hardest. You don’t know what’s going to be in there. It could be a conservative dinner party, a room full of wasted bachelorettes or (worst-case scenario) a single unsuspecting person, home alone. The house Nic Hammerberg has just pulled up to doesn’t have any…
When you’re a musician, the place you grow up in has a huge impact on the type of music you write and the message you convey to the rest of the world. The Ramones talked about the chaotic struggle of living in New York and doing anything to get by in…
Doomtree appears this Friday, March 6th, at the Gothic Theatre. The septet has for more than a decade been one of the most exciting and innovative hip-hop crews in the country. Hailing from Minneapolis, the seven members of Doomtree grew up in the same metropolitan area that produced Atmosphere and…
When Cory Elbin started Gorinto in April 2010 at The Mercury Café, it was already an extension of his life as a cook at the Denver institution. He had also played in various experimental bands prior to that time and wanted to have an event that would incorporate the worlds…
Voivod is set to perform on Wednesday, February 25th at Summit Music Hall sharing the bill with Napalm Death, Exhumed, Phobia, Iron Reagan, Black Crown Initiate and Vimana for the Through Space and Grind Tour. Inspired in part by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, punk, 70s prog and…
Anton Krueger is not a DJ. He is, however, up for a challenge. A few weeks ago, New York-based MC, performance artist and author Mykki Blanco came through Colorado as a guest lecturer for the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design’s series on identity and art. Blanco was also…
Before today, ten-year-old Aiden had never written a song, but he did have plenty of experience writing. For some time now, he’s been working on a rewrite of the original Star Wars trilogy and a manuscript for a movie based on the Warcraft video-game series, so the crossover into music…
It makes no sense to me that I love Pitbull so much — he’s this lizard-like pop star, a dude who, over the last decade, has made a name for himself by throwing gnarly verses about not-very-consensual-sounding sex acts with women into the middle of mindless, often bland club-bangers. Yet…
The dumbest thing Stelth Ulvang ever did for his career as a musician was to quit the Lumineers in late 2011. In his defense, that was before “Ho Hey” started picking up a national audience, before the self-titled debut came out on Dualtone Records and went on to sell 1.3…
Amy Kress played music secretly for years. But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided it was time to share what she’d written. It was a nerve-wrecking for her to tell people about her music, let alone perform in front of others. Many of her friends didn’t even…
Last week, Chris Banks, a.k.a. Jackal, and Amelia Coen got married at a Borgore concert, and it was totally legal and totally planned. Banks and Coen have been together for four years, and they’ve been ready to get married for some time, but they needed one more thing before they…
The members of Portland’s thunderous, riff-happy Red Fang don’t necessarily regret documenting their unquenchable thirst for really cheap beer in a series of music videos. They certainly weren’t subtle about it. In the video for “Prehistoric Dog,” for example, the band builds armor out of discarded Miller High Life and…
The Family Dog opened in September 1967 and closed just a year later. In that short span, the venue was home to plenty of epic experiences. Janis Joplin started off the Family Dog’s time in Denver with the band Big Brother. The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Van…
Kathyryn Ellinger wrote the Sleepers’ excellent new album, Drive, following the most harrowing decade of her life. On it, she appears to have reached the full potential of her considerable songwriting range. Ellinger, who goes by Kat, has played piano since she was a kid and has been a part…
GNU: Experience Gallery, in its former location at 109 Linden Street in Fort Collins, provided an oasis of alternative culture to anyone who showed up. It was literally underground, next to Pin Ball Jones and relatively under the radar. But it hosted touring bands and regional acts willing to make…
Once upon a time, T.Williams (performing at Beta tomorrow night), who’s known for his underground house/bass production and sets, partnered up with S.E.F. to found the Deep Teknologi label. “We came to a point with that label when that U.K. deep house thing was going on,” he explains, “and my…
Bruce Pavitt is best known as a founder of Sub Pop Records — the label that is credited with bringing Nirvana, grunge and the entire “Seattle sound” to the masses more than twenty years ago. Pavitt’s devotion, skill and connections fed the early days of this regional music movement that…
Two major things inspired the Wiredogs’ newest album, Kill the Artist Hype the Trash: trauma and Iggy Pop. The personal trauma the band experienced in their daily lives is responsible for the album’s deep, personal lyrics and frustrated, aggressive tone. The title? That was all Iggy. At Riot Fest in…
James Iha will DJ Lipgloss this Friday, January 23, at Beauty Bar. Iha is best known for his time as a guitarist for alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins. He left that band in 2000 and went on to join A Perfect Circle, and he has contributed to numerous recordings by…
Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. is a poet, actor, performance artist and rapper — but he is best known as Mykki Blanco, a musical project that melds all of his experience and expertise together. Defying categorization, Blanco works to push the rigid confines of sex and sexuality presented in popular music…
Old Curtis St. Bar has given way to The Curtis Club. Before shutting its doors in 2012, Old Curtis St. Bar was a host to an eclectic schedule of shows starting around 2003, when Kosta Razatos brought live music regularly into the long-running family business. An anecdote that serves as…
