ASTRA MOVEO NOMINATED IN AMBIENT/ ELECTRO Performing 5:45-6:15 at BAR STANDARD Personnel: Christophe Eagleton; Tyler Hayden James; Cromwell Holden; Brandon Paluska; Andrew Segreti Discography: Omnigraph II (2008); Omnigraph I (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
ANGIE STEVENS NOMINATED IN SINGER-SONGWRITER Performing 8-8:30 PM at Milk Bar Personnel: Angie Stevens; Susan Phelan; Carlos Newman; Jon Wirtz Discography: Stand Up Girl (2006); I’m Okay (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
ACHILLE LAURO NOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK Performing 5-5:30 P.M. at SUTRA Personnel: Matt Close; Luke Mossman; Brian Joseph; Jon Evans; Ben Mossman Discography: Achille Lauro (2008); You’re Going to Live (and Other Nice Things to Hear) (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
3 THE HARDWAY NOMINATED IN HIP-HOP GROUP Performing 6:30-7 P.M. at DC10 Personnel: DJ Cysko Rokwel; Es Nine; A.V.I.U.S. Discography: Patience (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
There’s not enough Geritol in the world to cure the anemia currently afflicting CD sales. Case in point: Last week, the soundtrack to Sex in the City entered the Billboard album sales charts in the second position even though it only sold a little over 66,000 copies — a total…
Nixon in China Saturday, June 7 Ellie Caulkins Opera House Although Nixon in China premiered way back in 1987, the John Adams-Alice Goodman opera still feels fresh and quirky. But neither the brashness of the piece itself nor Opera Colorado’s energetic and imaginative rendering of it during its June 7…
This was not taken at the hi-dive Dosh, Anathallo, L’elan Vital Saturday, June 7, 2008 hi-dive Better than: A makeshift drum circle. Martin Dosh is one of the more interesting artists to come out of Anticon’s multi-colored stable of artists. Over the course of four albums, he’s created a stream…
Dugout Canoe, Milton Melvin Croissant III, Fissure Mystic, Slight Harp and Vivian Girls Friday, June 6, 2008 Rhinoceropolis, Denver Better Than: A line-up of music that’s pretty much the same throughout. Fissure Mystic’s set at Rhinoceropolis this past Friday was only its second since taking a nine-month hiatus following Simon…
Here’s a wrap up of all the exciting stuff you missed this week while you were goggling in amazement at Metallica’s insistence that a blogger take down his preview of their upcoming album, thus demonstrating the group’s continued lack of anything resembling a clue when it come to these here…
LOCALS ONLY D.O. The Fabulous Drifter may be bouncing between the east and west coasts, but the Mile High City runs deep in his veins. He’s planning to release his new album, Resilience this summer, which is a collection of tracks from other projects he’s been involved in including His…
Wow. We had a considerably more difficult time tracking down a clip of Flobots performing on Leno last night than we did when they played on Last Call with Carson Daly. In fact, after trolling You Tube and refreshing our Google search every ten minutes or so, we came up…
This time around, check out reviews of The Pinker Tones’ Wild Animals, Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid, DJ Sneak’s Special House Blend and Newton Faulkner’s Hand Built By Robots…
Slideshow by Jon Solomon Maceo Parker Thursday, June 5, 2008 Boulder Theatre Better Than: Seeing a gal wearing hot pants in a cold sweat doing it doing to death. It’s been more than a decade since the last time I saw Maceo Parker perform, and the 65-year-old funk sax master…
Flobots continue their swift march upwards tonight with an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. From all indicators, the band hasn’t lost any momentum. Fight with Tools is continuing to sell briskly (the album is once again Twist & Shout’s top seller), and “Handlebars” is still doing quite…
Is there anything as heady as those early days of a relationship? All you can see, hear, smell, taste and think about is your beloved. The friends who’ve stuck by your side through those long, lonely dark nights of the soul are forgotten. Work responsibilities suffer. Sleep is forsaken for…
Photo by G. Wigler Twenty-five years ago today, on a unseasonably dreary June day presumably a lot like the one we’re experiencing right now in the Mile High City, a marginally known band from Ireland played a now legendary set at Red Rocks. The gig essentially turned Bono and his…
Photos by James Mitchell Evans The Dead Science, Physics of Meaning and Dan Kaufman Superstar Eruption Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Hi-Dive Better Than: Playing Indie-metal free jazz by yourself In any “movement,” there are going to be the moderates and the radicals. Both groups have equal claim on the direction…
When I’m a Boy kicks into its set, you may start to wonder exactly what year it is. Not because the music is dated, but because the band’s music has the lean, focused quality that characterized early songs by the Who. The group’s shows may make you flash back to…
The Germany of popular imagination is a place ruled by efficiency, order and a rigid, uptight worldview. How is it, then, that so much incredibly sexy, funky house music originates there? Okay, the fact that so much of it is of the stripped-down, minimal variety lends credence to that whole…
In Woody Allen’s film Sweet and Lowdown, Sean Penn plays guitarist Emmet Ray, who said he cried every time he listened to the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Some of Reinhardt’s beautiful ballads have the same effect on me, and knowing his history makes the music all the more…
Driving eastbound on I-70, Ellison Park has one hand on the wheel while the other navigates an iPod mounted to his dash. Scrolling through the songs, Park makes his way to the batch of demos he recorded on his MacBook and pushes play. As his voice pours from the speakers…
Beehatch, Beehatch (Lens Records). Frequently danceable and consistently dark, Beehatch is a collaboration between Phil Western and Mark Spybey, both previously members of Skinny Puppy side project Download. Beehatch often sounds like the soundtrack to both your nightmares and your wet dreams, but trance beats and the occasional melodic hook…
