I, for one, am damn tired of choosing between the latest R&B and new wave glitter hits of years past for my dance floor accompaniment. I don’t know about you, but in this modern age I just don’t see why I can’t have both the Sex Pistols and Rihanna to shake it to in one […]

It’s an interesting and mutually benefiting proposition, and one that’s picking up with new and independent artists. They need an angle that will draw some attention (and maybe even a nudge to get their song writing moving) and I need to never again go into a conglomerate retail giant to buy music. Ari Hest, both […]

It seems that Denver has launched yet another world phenomenon, what with our homegrown world music ingénues DeVotchKa playing an album release show for their latest work in Manchester, England. Well, that’s not entirely true. The group launches A Mad and Faithful Telling on March 18, about a week or so before jumping the pond, […]

So there are the cool kids in high school (generally on one or several “teams”) and there are the cool kids in college (generally on one or several drugs). And then there are the high school kids that are, by some mystery of the human form, cool enough to casually hang with the local college […]

About seventy years ago, jazz vibraphonist and studied percussion expert Greg Harris would, very likely, have already become a pop music sensation. Single girls might be drooling at him over their PBR at the Hi-Dive, instead of our collection of skinny, indie-rock studs that the city has been blessed with. He would have definitely been […]

Andrea Ball’s first full-length arrived to greet the new year, and I actually saw it for the first time at Sarah boutique on Old Gaylord Street. The appearance at the women’s shop was appropriate, as the album, Beat Beat Pound, is just as uber-feminine andstylishly detailed as the rest of the store’s upscale, chic fare. […]

I heard about Janet Feder on my daily morning commute to my daily, morning office job in Lakewood. If it wasn’t for Radio 1190’s Rude Awakening and their god-sent DJ Nat, I don’t know if I would have made it this long … and I most likely wouldn’t have caught wind of such a fantastically […]

Here’s an event with the makings of a reality TV show, a giant pool of talent – a la the Denver music scene – and, not to mention, a heart of gold. Stand By Your Band, here in the second installment, forges a music community experiment using members from our cream of the crop local […]

If you ask Matthew Brown, he’ll tell you that he, basically, fell haphazardly into being a DJ, much like he fell haphazardly into co-owning one of the most beloved Denver clothes and crafts boutiques, Fancy Tiger.
“A lot of these things kind of found us in a weird way,” says Brown, who got his college degree […]

I caught up with Devon Rogers at the Sputnik bar the other day and, in between his laundry loads, he laid down the makings of yet another clash of Denver’s amazingly talented art and music worlds. The drummer for the local avant garde metal outfit Munimula (but who’s also knee-deep in a handful of other […]

What with the woebegone and rambling folk tunes, the lack on onstage banter and his inclination to avoid anything paved, it’s understandable that one might take Gregory Alan Isakov for a recluse artist, albeit a pretty damned good one. Well, it could have been the caffeine buzz that we caught him on, but the local […]

For ten years, Drag the River played country music, inspired by their Kansas City roots and the Fort Collins music scene. But, unlike their fellow punk rock peers, their country was un-hyphenated. It wasn’t punk-country, alt-country, goth-country or outlaw-country. It was pure, solemn, acoustically-driven country that cut to the quick with stories about being drunk, […]

Like most groundbreaking and legendary punk rock outfits, Shonen Knife are completely oblivious to their stardom and complexity. Or don’t really care about it. The Japanese trio has, for the last two and a half decades, skipped happily down a path of ingenuity, slammed together Motown-influenced girly pop and raunchy rock and roll, sprinkled the […]

You would think that owning the city’s favorite indie drinking spot and social scene is all peaches and rock and roll – until you’re cleaning up puke in the bathroom and closing a bar at three in the morning with a nasty head cold. Well, despite it all, Matt Labarge says it’s still pretty great. […]

Hutch Harris has lost all faith in the human race, but luckily that won’t stop the indie rock front man from making another Thermals record. He still thinks that modern music has a shot.
“[Ben] Gibbard would do a good job as president,” says Harris of the Death Cab for […]

The Flobots are organizing a team of fans to take to the streets, but they won’t be armed with show posters and scotch tape. The local hip-hoppers are training their street team as community activists, sending them to the front line of protests and projects as both casual observers and trained leaders. Ultimately they’ll have […]

Despite the wandering reflections and yogi-like wisdom of his inspired baritone folk, Bill Callahan isn’t one to sit under the olive tree and chat up a stranger. The musician’s back catalog of solemn, alt country experiments were all released under the “Smog” moniker, something he recently shed with Woke on a Whaleheart, released earlier this […]

Randy Ramirez, sheepish and soft spoken, drinks an IZZE fruit soda on his barstool and doesn’t seem anything like the next big thing. But, sure enough, there’s his name in alphabetical order in the lining notes of one of the best local albums released this year: a self-titled debut from local pop quintet The Heyday.
Ramirez […]

Lee Sargent is still nowhere to be found three hours after his scheduled interview. His publicist is freaking. His manager can’t be reached.
“Eh, everyone just calm down for a second,” jokes the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah backing guitar and keyboardist when he phones up, apologetic, nonchalant and on his way to the airport […]

The news sent a vibration through the music underground that lit up just about every blog and sent most emo enthusiasts into an Elvis-sighting panic: Christie Front Drive was getting back together. The melodic rock outfit was forged in Denver in the early ‘90s and expired only a few years later after a handful of […]