The Hold Steady seems like a particularly apt name for the lauded New York band following the release of its fifth full-length, Heaven is Whenever, earlier this year. After a grip of albums that cranked the populist, classic-rock bombast of Thin Lizzy and Boston through frontman Craig Finn...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Hold Steady
Thao and Mirah With the Most of All
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Thao Nguyen are West Coast-based singer-songwriters who came together at wildly different points in their career arcs. After clicking at this year's Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, they formed indie-chick super-group Thao and Mirah With the Most of All and immediate...
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A look at the minimalist music and maximum insanity of Monotonix
He looks like a cross between a young Albert Einstein and a biblical prophet. With a wild mustache and a shock of curls bursting from his head, clothed only in shorts so tiny they look more like a loincloth, Monotonix vocalist Ami Shalev gesticulates like a man possessed as the band, set up on th...
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Sole & the Skyrider band bring rock and hip-hop together with a social conscience
Tim Holland is one of the most respected and influential figures in underground hip-hop. Performing under the name Sole, he was one of the founders of the Anticon Collective in the late '90s and subsequently worked with (and otherwise helped to bring to the world) acts such as Why?, Slug of Atmos...
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Umphrey's McGee
Add the goofy name to a tag like "jam band," and you've got a band that's stigmatized right out of the gate. True, Umphrey's McGee might not be for everyone. In terms of bands that traffic in long-form compositions — and Umphrey's McGee (playing with Galactic and the Wailers at Red Rocks) i...
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Zoroaster
Taking their name from the ancient Iranian philosopher name-checked by Nietzsche (whose own work inspired the Richard Strauss composition that is considered the theme song of 2001: A Space Odyssey), these Atlanta sludge-rockers do plenty of their own outer and inner space exploration on th...
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Danielle Ate the Sandwich
No amount of Westword cover stories, YouTube sensationalism or pole-vaulting to the head of the line can make Two Bedroom Apartment — the third release by Fort Collins wunderkind Danielle Ate the Sandwich — any more listenable. Luckily, the album doesn't rely on those th...
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Sara Century reveals why her record is so much calmer than her live show
Sara Century has operated on the fringe of the underground music scene in Fort Collins and Denver for the past few years as a member of hardcore bands and, most recently, as one of the primary songwriters in the outsider punk band the Amicable Splits and the far-more-difficult-to-classify Magazin...
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DJ Dan
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[HQ] Intro - Wonder Girls @ Wonder Girls' World Tour Concert in Vancouver
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All aboard! Leigh Jones turns the Recovery Room into Bar Car
When Leigh Jones moved to Denver a decade ago, she was living in Park Hill, and the Recovery Room (a longtime dive at 819 Colorado Boulevard) was her neighborhood bar. She went on to open several bars and restaurants of her own — including the now-defunct Brasserie Rouge and B-52 Billiards ...
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AnimeNEXT 2010 Concert Highlights - The Promise Sisters
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Justin Bieber Concert, Summerfest Milwaukee Amphitheater!
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Steal This Track: Robin Walker and Tim Pourbaix
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Chris Brown Concert - LA (November 18th,2009) - Michael Jackson Tribute HQ HD
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Jon Schmidt - Exhilarating Piano - Live in Concert (featuring "All of Me" and "Waterfall")
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Rock Dust Light Star Jamiroquai leaked unofficial video new Jamiroquai single
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"The Sound of Silence" - 25th Anniversary The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert
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The Hold Steady
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Umphrey's McGee
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Thao & Mirah with the Most of All
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Gata Negra
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Sara Century (CD release)
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Zane Lamprey
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Black Tusk and Zoroaster
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Josh Gabriel
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Sole & the Skyrider Band
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BB King - The Thrill Is Gone (From BB King - Live at Montreux 1993)
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
No Bueno
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Richard Vission
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Photo essay: Concrete Blonde @ the Arvada Center
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Tyvek
But Tyvek's most significant cont...
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Dapp Theory
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Nels Cline Singers
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Live review: CocoRosie @ the Gothic Theatre
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Jakob Dylan & Three Legs
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Photo essay: Cage the Elephant @ the Ogden Theatre
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Jakob Dylan's new album is artful and rough in all the right places
Jakob Dylan's brand-new collection, Women and Country, is by far the most interesting release by the former Wallflowers frontman. It's subtle, funny and intimate without being hermetic, not to mention a good contemporary take on the grand old country tradition. Likely first impression: "Wo...
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Free Energy
With so many bands seeking new ways to reinterpret the sound of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin for the modern era -- blissfully unaware of similar efforts in the '80s -- Free Energy wisely took a different route. The outfit, which hails from Philadephia (three of its four members played in a band...
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Nels Cline speaks his mind about music
This is the weirdest studio record for us, for sure, in every way," guitarist Nels Cline says of the Nels Cline Singers' latest effort, Initiate. "I came into the session with almost no music finished. I had all these sketchy ideas, and I had this desire to make this different kind of reco...
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MSTRKRFT
Do thumping club tracks move better when they're being pumped out by a couple of guys donning gold Jason Voorhees masks? Maybe. In the four years that Toronto duo MSTRKRFT has been supplying thick electro-house, its two producers have kept some impressive company. They've famously remixed everyon...
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Julie Geller
Julie Geller bills her latest release, You're With Me, as "a unique blend of folk and Jewish music" -- but unless you count one song that kind of sounds like a Yiddish version of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and a couple of pop numbers in Hebrew, it doesn't really fit. Sure, t...
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Hollagramz at the Meadowlark
Ron Cole may not be a name that immediately comes to mind when you think of the best, most well-known electronic artists coming out of Colorado, but that will probably change a great deal in the next year as his music, released under the name Hollagramz (playing Friday, June 25, at the Mea...
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Various Artists
The latest release from Nocturnal Dirt Surfers Alliance is a compilation of live recordings conducted at the Oriental Theater over the course of three days in late January 2010 minus an audience. With no overdubs offered, it may be a bit of a lo-fi effort, but some of these artists are at their b...
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Rockaway Tavern
The 15th Street Tavern is still a legend in this town, even though the downtown bar/club closed three years ago. And ever since, Mykel Martinez has been trying to resurrect it. He was going to open a place on Park Avenue West, but his liquor license application was denied; then he got in a nasty ...
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Grant Gordy
The scope of Grant Gordy's freshman release is ambitious, to say the least. Swinging echoes of Django Reinhardt, dense guitar melodies worthy of Bill Frisell, Doc Watson-inspired flatpicking and counterpoint experiments straight out of a Debussy suite all find a place across the thirteen instrume...
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Tool
Chances are, if you've been paying attention for the past seventeen years or so, you know who Tool is. You probably also know some really obnoxious idiots who worship this band mostly for its darkness and the brutal precision of its instrumentation -- that, and its supposedly misanthropic themes....
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Filo and Peri at the Church
Something about warm summer nights makes them the ideal setting for high-energy, euphoric trance. Maybe it's the energy boost you get when the heat finally breaks, or the side effect of too much sun that makes those insistent drums and soaring vocal breaks seem like such a good idea. Whatever it ...
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Melvins
Long tagged as the supreme warlords of sludge, the Melvins have crawled out of that primordial birthplace and undergone a weird yet compelling evolution over the past few years. Perhaps emboldened by signing to Mike Patton's Ipecac Records -- the home of many an experimental rock band -- or simpl...
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King for a Day
A few songs into King for a Day's latest effort, The Light Is On and Shining Brightly for the Masses, the band launches into "Down All the Days" with a propulsive beat and a bass line that recalls "Question of Temperature," a tune originally done by the late-'60s garage-rock outfit the Bal...
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Kevin Boyer on the distinction between Tyvek the substance and Tyvek the sound
Tyvek is an all-purpose synthetic substance and a registered trademark of the DuPont Company. You've probably handled it in the form of a priority-mail envelope, or as that sticky bar bracelet that identifies you as being over the age of 21 when you go to a show.
But Tyvek's most signific...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tyvek and Lust-Cats of the Gutters
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Ideal Fathers (BBQ show)
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Reno Divorce
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Sonic Bloom
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CD reviews: Chemical Brothers, �Now That�s What I Call Music! Vol. 34,� Nada Surf
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Steal This Track: Dualistics and Married in Berdichev
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k'naan waving flag world cup concert kick off with Good quality :)
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Live reviews & photo essays: 2010 Westword Music Showcase @ the Golden Triangle
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CocoRosie
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 Walkthrough Dark Carnival Mission 5 Concert Finale HD - Ending Gameplay video
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The Builders & the Butchers
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Denver PrideFest
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Bop Skizzum
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Tool
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Melvins
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Hank III & Assjack
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Ocho Macho - El Mundo Fantastico official music video - HD
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Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body HBO Concert Live from MSG
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Mates of State and Free Energy
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Paul Simon: Call me Al, concert zimbabwe / South Africa
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Filo & Peri
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MSTRKRFT
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Blue Man Group - The Complex Tour - Time to Start
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Pictureplane and Hollagramz
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Tinariwen & Hamsa Lila
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The Mile High Makeout: Summer music festival survival tips
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CLASH ARMY ( Rock Concert ) 1/15
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Weird Old People Rock Concert On Drugs Funny !!!
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Hamsa Lila & Tinariwen
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Live review: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers @ Denver Botanic Gardens
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Light Travels Faster
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[HD] Radiohead - Rock Am Ring 2001 [Full Concert]
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BEATLES - SHEA STADIUM (1965)
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Left 4 Dead 2 Walkthrough Dark Carnival Mission 5 Concert Finale HD - Ending Gameplay video
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Detroit Rock City Part 7
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Nena live - 99 Luftballons Rock Pop in Concert 1983
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Rush - Don Kirschner's Rock Concert '74 all 3 songs
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wwe the rock concert
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Jon's Adventure Vlog - I Organized A Rock Concert!
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CLASH ARMY ( Rock Concert ) 9/15
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Linkin Park Live @ Rock AM Ring Concert
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Springsteen and Sam Moore "Hold On" / "Soul Man' - The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert
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The Rock Sings and Disses Stone Cold & Sacramento fans ...
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The Biggest Rock Concert Ever?
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Detroit Rock City Part 6
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The Rock Concert to Stone Cold 3/24/03 (1/2)
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Ryan, Rock My Town concert, Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta and Adam Lambert, Crazy
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How To Get Backstage At a Rock Concert
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Detroit Rock City Part 3
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Lupe Fiasco - I'm Beaming (Official Music Video) + HD
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hannah montana - rockstar - OFFICIAL concert music video
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iConcerts - Scorpions - Wind Of Change (live)
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CLASH ft. Retrospect - �9าก��" from Clash Army Rock Concert
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Detroit Rock City Part 5
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Jon's Adventure Vlog - Organizing A Rock Concert Is Hard Work!
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Blue Man Group - I Feel Love
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Waterboys ⬢ The Whole of the Moon ⬢ 1985 Concert
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Glamazon
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Grand Opening
Beauty Bar...
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Wire Faces
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Jonathan Peters at Beta
New York City's Jonathan Peters is one of those DJs who's been around forever, worked with everyone and somehow still remained a virtual unknown. Perhaps that's because he's always focused on remixing, production and playing out, without releasing any big-name mix discs or artist albums. M...
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k'naan waving flag world cup concert kick off with Good quality :)
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Pep*Squad at the hi-dive
It would be easy to dismiss this Fort Collins band as yet another act ransacking the '80s new-wave graveyard, because it sure is going for that ultra-catchy, synth-pop vibe. Borrowing a few tricks from the Cars, the Nails and Mr. Pacman, Pep*Squad also clearly has its tongue firmly in chee...
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Beauty Bar will finally open this week � and it's a beauty
Back in September, when they took over the former Snake Pit, at 608 East 13th Avenue, Noah Ray McMahan, Justin Martinez hoped to have it transformed into the tenth location of the Beauty Bar brand by late January. Now, finally, the trio will open the club's doors on Saturday, June 19.
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Ghostland Observatory tops a stacked bill at this weekend's Westword Music Showcase
It pretty much goes without saying at this point that this is going to be the best Showcase yet. Just take a look at this year's headliners. Your dance card will be full from the time the gates open at 11:30 a.m. until BoomBox leads Saturday into Sunday at City Hall. Find in-depth Q&As with each ...
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Catch Snake Rattle Rattle Snake and a hundred or so of the best local acts at the 16th Annual Westword Music Showcase this Saturday, June 19
When we were in high school in Fort Collins, Hayley and I would play guitar for each other on the railroad tracks behind my house," remembers Doug Spencer, guitarist of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake. Then he laughs. "She'd always sing about this jerk that she liked."
That jerk, of course, wou...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Photo essay: KS107.5�s Summer Jam feat. Ludacris, Trey Songz, Fabolous, the Dream, Bone Thugs @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
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Concrete Blonde
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Photo essay: KS107.5�s Summer Jam feat. Ludacris, Trey Songz, Fabolous @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Westword Music Showcase 2010
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Denver PrideFest
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Cage the Elephant
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Obio's Arrow
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
The Aggrolites
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Concrete Blonde
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Rahzel
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CocoRosie
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Paul Simon: Graceland, concert Zimbabwe / South Africa
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Prizzy Prizzy Please and Pep*Squad
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Jonathan Peters
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Westword Music Showcase Kick-Off Party
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Angelique Kidjo
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The Mile High Makeout: Soulaju�s positive hip-hop is good for the soul
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Live review: Sting with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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Wayne "The Train" Hancock
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Iron Maiden
Written off in the '90s as yet another relic of the original heavy-metal era, Iron Maiden found new life and relevance when metal made a huge comeback in the new millennium. Still, it's sad that resurgence had to happen in such a roundabout way: If Maiden has long proved one thing, it's that the ...
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Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae
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Ludacris escorts female MCs into hip-hop's boys' club
Imagine revamping a fiery activist anthem into a mindless, rump-shaking jam. That's exactly what Ludacris did on "How Low," which features Chipmunk-style vocal effects and young girls being seduced out of pajamas. (It should be noted that How low can you go? in Public Enemy's original vers...
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Laura Brehm
Laura Brehm is eighteen — and she sounds like it. Start with her voice: With the high, girlish timbre and inflection of Miley Cyrus, she'd rate similarly on the Disney Pop Machine register of innocent to raunchy. Of course, unlike most of those Disney starlets, Brehm writes her own songs, b...
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Wovenhand
It's been two years since Wovenhand released Ten Stones. But it might as well have been an eternity. Since that last batch of songs, frontman David Eugene Edwards has cast a net across time and space and snared The Threshingfloor, an album that severs the band's already tenuous teth...
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Behold the nimble funkistry of Janelle Monae
The way that Afrofuturist singer Janelle Monáe talks about balance, you'd think she was an acrobat. For example, when discussing the meaning behind her single, "Tightrope" (featuring Big Boi), she touts the importance of avoiding emotionally detrimental extremes. Monáe says the...
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Strange Lights
On its bio, Strange Lights, a duo that hails from the town of Crestone, cites influences like Television, the Flaming Lips and R.E.M. Anyone who digs any of those acts, however, would probably steer clear of Strange Lights' third album, Light Bright. Apart from the incongruous comparison, ...
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KS107.5 Summer Jam
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Swimming With Models
Anyone familiar with electronic music of the '90s and underground hip-hop will hear shades of Sole, Massive Attack, post-ambient Aphex Twin and Dead Cities-era Future Sound of London on this intriguingly eclectic release. If Martin Scorsese decided to remake After Hours, "Makin' Lov...
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Le Divorce at Summit Music Hall
Only a handful of people who have been part of the circuit of underground-rock shows in Denver since the early part of last decade remember Façade. Part dream pop and part jazz-inflected rock, the band put out one album before fading into the background in 2002. Its talented guitarist, Joe...
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Jeffree Star
With Glee and Lady Gaga all the rage, one can only hope that flamboyance and theatricality are a bit more acceptable across the board today. Regardless, Jeffree Star can and will push any envelope he can find; the genre-bending artist — who seemingly turned to music as a means to his...
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Grant Gordy (CD release)
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MGMT
If ever there were an indie-rock Cinderella story, MGMT could be cast in the lead role. Starting out as The Management when Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden were in their first year at Wesleyan University, this project had already been around for a few years by the time it toured with Of Mo...
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The whole world's watching the World Cup this week
"People who are interested in the World Cup can roll out of bed and watch it on their couch, but the feeling is that people want to watch it with like-minded people and get with other fans," says Glen Eastwood, general manager at Fadó (1735 19th Street). "A hundred guys in USA jerse...
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Grant Gordy's folk songs rely on a global palette of sounds
It was hard for Grant Gordy not to feel ridiculous as he crossed the casino floor in Central City. A showgirl tossing out beads led the parade, and a stilt walker brought up the rear. Gordy was caught somewhere in the middle, picking out Cajun tunes on a tenor banjo for the lines of stony-faced g...
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Jamey Johnson
At first glance, Jamey Johnson looks like someone who just walked out of the outlaw movement. That's probably because he spent the better part of a decade in the Marines after dropping out of college. Unlike the "outlaws," though, Johnson moved to Nashville to pursue the beloved country music of ...
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Excision at Cervantes'
The music of dubstep artist Excision is a fitting soundtrack to the desolate, gritty, apocalyptic landscape of a future ruled by homicidal machines. His tunes are warped, stuttering affairs studded with samples from both sci-fi and hip-hop (and probably some sci-fi hip-hop for good measure...
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Swimming With Models
Anyone familiar with electronic music of the '90s and underground hip-hop will hear shades of Sole, Massive Attack, post-ambient Aphex Twin and Dead Cities-era Future Sound of London on this intriguingly eclectic release. If Martin Scorsese decided to remake After Hours, "Makin' Lov...
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Grant Gordy (CD release)
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Iron Maiden
Written off in the '90s as yet another relic of the original heavy-metal era, Iron Maiden found new life and relevance when metal made a huge comeback in the new millennium. Still, it's sad that resurgence had to happen in such a roundabout way: If Maiden has long proved one thing, it's that the ...
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Grant Gordy (CD release)
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Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae
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Laura Brehm
Laura Brehm is eighteen — and she sounds like it. Start with her voice: With the high, girlish timbre and inflection of Miley Cyrus, she'd rate similarly on the Disney Pop Machine register of innocent to raunchy. Of course, unlike most of those Disney starlets, Brehm writes her own songs, b...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The whole world's watching the World Cup this week
"People who are interested in the World Cup can roll out of bed and watch it on their couch, but the feeling is that people want to watch it with like-minded people and get with other fans," says Glen Eastwood, general manager at Fadó (1735 19th Street). "A hundred guys in USA jerse...
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Iron Maiden
Written off in the '90s as yet another relic of the original heavy-metal era, Iron Maiden found new life and relevance when metal made a huge comeback in the new millennium. Still, it's sad that resurgence had to happen in such a roundabout way: If Maiden has long proved one thing, it's that the ...
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Behold the nimble funkistry of Janelle Monae
The way that Afrofuturist singer Janelle Monáe talks about balance, you'd think she was an acrobat. For example, when discussing the meaning behind her single, "Tightrope" (featuring Big Boi), she touts the importance of avoiding emotionally detrimental extremes. Monáe says the...
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The whole world's watching the World Cup this week
"People who are interested in the World Cup can roll out of bed and watch it on their couch, but the feeling is that people want to watch it with like-minded people and get with other fans," says Glen Eastwood, general manager at Fadó (1735 19th Street). "A hundred guys in USA jerse...
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Excision at Cervantes'
The music of dubstep artist Excision is a fitting soundtrack to the desolate, gritty, apocalyptic landscape of a future ruled by homicidal machines. His tunes are warped, stuttering affairs studded with samples from both sci-fi and hip-hop (and probably some sci-fi hip-hop for good measure...
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Wovenhand
It's been two years since Wovenhand released Ten Stones. But it might as well have been an eternity. Since that last batch of songs, frontman David Eugene Edwards has cast a net across time and space and snared The Threshingfloor, an album that severs the band's already tenuous teth...
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Behold the nimble funkistry of Janelle Monae
The way that Afrofuturist singer Janelle Monáe talks about balance, you'd think she was an acrobat. For example, when discussing the meaning behind her single, "Tightrope" (featuring Big Boi), she touts the importance of avoiding emotionally detrimental extremes. Monáe says the...
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Ludacris escorts female MCs into hip-hop's boys' club
Imagine revamping a fiery activist anthem into a mindless, rump-shaking jam. That's exactly what Ludacris did on "How Low," which features Chipmunk-style vocal effects and young girls being seduced out of pajamas. (It should be noted that How low can you go? in Public Enemy's original vers...
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