Quantized Fitness is new monthly hip-hop showcase being hosted by Qknox (aka Jerod Sarlo) and Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp, two artists who have contributed considerably to the local hip-hop scene over the last five years. In honor of this evening’s inaugural edition of Quantized Fitness, Qknox will also…
New Year’s Eve is packed full of amazing shows and events, but few will compare to the party that is in store at City Hall with Amon Tobin. Before the spectacle begins, we caught up with the longtime experimental producer while he was on a holiday trip to Quebec, and…
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary last April, had been playing annual New Year’s Eve shows at the Bluebird Theater for the past eleven years. This year, the band is playing two nights at the Oriental Theater — with the Sterling Sisters (which features Slim’s son George)…
It’s been a few years since Kam Mohager (aka the Chain Gang of 1974) has called Denver home, but if cellphone area codes are any sign of geographical allegiance, then he still keeps a little bit of Colorado close to his heart. He returns to the Mile High City to…
If any band typifies the Colorado approach to contemporary bluegrass, it’s Yonder Mountain String Band. The quartet built up its chops playing in venues in Boulder, Nederland and beyond in the late 1990s, and its fusion of traditional instrumentation and progressive musical structures resonated with local crowds. The quartet has…
Brian Eno’s 1977 album Before and After Science marks the end of an era. In the four years before it came out, starting in January of 1974, Eno released no fewer than three solo pop albums, and this, his fourth, was to be his last for almost thirty years. By…
A veteran of the Denver music scene of the ’80s who’s been living in California since 1989, rockabilly guitarist Jinx Jones has performed with Chuck Berry and Roy Buchanan and his chops can even be heard on En Vogue’s hit “Free Your Mind.” As a leader, Jones has four albums…
Marty Folb has been a touring musician for nearly six years now, and in that time, he’s developed a style all his own. Continually evolving as a DJ, Folb is returning to Denver with a seemingly endless catalogue of unreleased PANTyRAiD and MartyParty tracks to soundtrack the end of the…
Another week, another batch of fresh hip-hop from the Mile High City. Pries draws all eyes to him with The Lonely Kid Show, the tireless SP Double shows his proficiency on “The Mission Statement,” Myke Charles, FL and the ReMINDers take on some G.O.O.D. music in “The Mourning,” Black Mask…
A revered hip-hop producer who got his start with Phonte and Big Pooh in the North Carolina-based group Little Brother, 9th Wonder has worked with an array of top-shelf artists, from Jay-Z and Destiny’s Child to Mary J. Blige and Ludacris, among many others. Known as one of the best…
From seeing the band’s old-school Orange-evoking emblem on their shirts, we had already suspected that the Speedwolf dudes were big Broncos fans when we reached out to frontman Reed Bruemmer last season for tips to avoid screaming ourselves hoarse for the, uh, horse. Those suspicions were instantly confirmed when he…
On the surface, Chimney Choir is an Americana band with the usual roots in folk, some country and the like. But anyone who has seen the band live can tell you, there’s a lot more going on in the band’s songwriting and ideas for music than merely evoking an old-timey…
We’ve got another fresh batch of local hip-hop for you this week, including a new cut from Innerstate Ike, Esi Juey and Nyke Nitti that pays homage to the beloved boys of winter in the orange and blue. If you have’t heard it yet on KS-107.5, which has been showing…
In the wake of the generation defining, pop music altering, astronomically hyped wonder that was Nirvana’s Nevermind, Kurt Cobain would spend the next two and a half years of his life trying to remind people what his band was actually all about (while simultaneously trying to figure that out himself)…
Diving Fits formed when Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner formerly of Wolf Parade got together with their friend Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks. The music that came out of that union was a kind of power pop infused with a strong electronic undercurrent, like something that could…
At the end of October, Killing Joke released its fifteenth album, MMXII. Given the impending doom that supposedly awaits us at the end of next week, it’s hard to imagine a more perfect time to release a record that explores themes of such a looming eschatological event. In 1982, Killing…
Dweezil Zappa is on a mission, and it’s a pretty personal one. Since 2006, the son of the late guitarist/composer/bandleader Frank Zappa has toured the world, playing his father’s music in an effort to attract and educate a new generation of listeners. In leading the Zappa Plays Zappa project, Dweezil…
Great Divide Brewing has been distributing its beers to Sweden for years via Great Brands — a craft-beer-focused Swedish distributor that carries a handful of American brews, including those from Avery, Left Hand, Oskar Blues and Ska. The Denver brewery has garnered many fans in Scandinavia since, one of whom…
Probably one of the only things in punk that’s lasted as long and remained as perennially as popular as NOFX is the mohawk. And while it’s obvioiusly no where near as radical as it was in the Reagan era, it’s still an eye-grabbing representation of the counter-culture that once was…
Lamb of God started in 1990 as an instrumental metal band called Burn the Priest. But it wasn’t until 1995, after recording a few demos and playing countless house parties, that the band recruited singer Randy Blythe and started developing into the band you would recognize today as Lamb of…
Although he left Denver as a mere mortal eight years ago, Mitch Pond has returned as Man Mantis, a human-insect-hybrid alter ego that produces glitchy, futuristic, hip-hop-centric beats. If the end of the Mayan calendar does in fact bring about the end of the world, it will be a bummer…
With 1998’s A Go Go, guitarist John Scofield tapped into a whole new demographic by enlisting Medeski, Martin & Wood to play on the disc. While Scofield, who played with Miles Davis, was a respected jazz artist and had delved into fusion previously, with A Go Go he fully embraced…
