Music

Whatever your religious beliefs may be, you can’t deny how far Christian hip-hop has come over the years, musically and lyrically.Colorado rapper Proxy is part of the new generation of MCs with a Christian focus, although he probably shuns such labels. (It’s just hip-hop, right?) The MC recently had one…

It’s rare these days to hear DJ Chonz spin a set from a playlist of his choosing. Most of his mixes during KS-107.5’s live daily Traffic Jam are limited to the station’s playlist, and when he’s behind the decks during the week at the handful of clubs where he plays,…

Young Coyotes have been together less than a year, but in that short time, the act has already embarked on an extensive cross country tour, attracted a high powered manager in Blee Music’s Brian Swartz (Rose Hill Drive), and, most noteworthy, generated a substantial buzz locally. In what literally seemed…

A few weeks ago, we posted an item about Jon Snodgrass’s brand-new album, Vistor’s Band, which hit stores last week, and made mention of a new Drag the River release, fittingly titled Bad at Breaking Up. The fine folks over at Suburban Home Records just unveiled the packaging for the…

In news that’s sure to have local metal fans googling airfare before they even finishing reading this post, we just learned that Cephalic Carnage has been tapped to support Mayhem’s upcoming North American tour, fittingly dubbed Blackened Fest. Seems right, as Cephalic is pretty much the only band brutal enough…

At an undisclosed locale in Portland, Oregon, this Thursday and Friday, the Tickle Me Pink chaps will be filming a video for “Madeline,” the title track of its Wind-up Records debut. The clip is reportedly being shot by Speedway Films, a West Coast-based production company that has previously worked on…

This news will probably come as no surprise to those who were paying attention last summer when HEALTH sang the praises of Pictureplane in Pitchfork: Travis Egedy, who makes music under the Pictureplane moniker, has been picked up by Lovepump United. The New York-based imprint, which has also issued platters by…

If you’re anywhere near a radio or computer tonight in the next hour, be sure to tune into KGNU (88.5 FM or 1390 AM). Park Pourbaix — the name Ellison Park and Tim Pourbaix have given to the compositions they’ve written together — is scheduled to be live in the…

Last night in Los Angeles, Silver Wave, a Boulder-based imprint that specializes in Native American, world and new age music, took home another Grammy. We say another, because this is the fourth consecutive year that the label has earned a statue for its Native American contributions. This year’s recipient, producer…

Breathe Carolina, a band that tours so often these days that it almost doesn’t seem like a Denver band anymore (seriously, with the exception of April and May, the act is going to be on the road from now until at least the end of August; check out the list…

It’s not a Peel Session (that would be kind of hard to pull off, of course, considering that the legendary John Peel is no longer with us), but it’s still pretty dang rad to hear that the Swayback had one of their songs, “What a Pity,” played last night BBC…

The second season of Breaking Bad makes its premier on Sunday, March 8. As part of AMC’s effort to tout its original series, which chronicles a terminally ill chemistry teacher named Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston, Malcom in the Middle) foray into the drug trade, the network is currently running a…

Update:Whoops! It seems we got a little ahead of ourselves yesterday. The Mile High Low Life release party is actually taking place tonight (Saturday) at 3 Kings, not last night. Our bad. Good news, though, that means you still catch the show! Just in case you haven’t been paying attention,…

Punk not your thing? A little too loud for you, you say? No worries. There’s tons of other great music for you to catch tonight. Across from 3 Kings, over at the hi-dive, Curious Yellow makes its valiant return to the scene after a four- year hiatus, with the Still…