On tour
Posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic led a Denver audience through a dream on Thursday night at the Larimer Lounge. Complete with gentle, spacey, sometimes poppy harmonies coming from seemingly distant sonic corners and joining up with layers of guitars, synth and drums; they achieved a certain density that...
Posted on Sunday, May 8th, 2011 - 2:33 am
Spring is in full swing, and the music scene is bursting with options. There are so many tour announcements that resurface like the tulips in one’s garden, so there must be a way to stand out amongst all of the others. I am by no mean saying that world famous British DJ Simon Posford does not stand...
Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 - 9:14 pm
The Bridge, winding down from their April tour, played with Strange Arrangement, building up for their summer tour, at Martyr’s in Chicago on 4-30-2011. Next time Strange Arrangement will play the Chicago crowd it will be at sunny hot Summer Camp Sunday. On the eve of this May Day, it...
Posted on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 - 6:09 pm
The New Pornographers kicked off their spring tour to a packed house at the Fox Theater on Wednesday night. What you get from a Pornographers show is a mix of melodies and catchy pop hooks tempered with a sufficient balance of edge, and banter laced with plenty of f-bombs and sarcasm. The elder...
Posted on Friday, April 29th, 2011 - 10:24 pm
A blazing beacon of turquoise and teal crowns SF’s Bottom of the Hill, as Seattle sextet The Head and the Heart shuffles modestly onto a cramped stage. Delirious fans push forward for an intimate look at the Pacific Northwest folk rockers, as intense high-pitched shrieks erupt from the audience....
Posted on Thursday, April 28th, 2011 - 1:20 am
“Happy Earth Day! We burned a bunch of gasoline to get all these people into this room, but we try to be low impact once we’re here. I suppose we could have been super environmental and not played but… Hey! It’s 12:31 am! It’s not Earth Day anymore! Yeah! Let’s not worry about it and...
Posted on Monday, April 25th, 2011 - 5:02 pm
The beauty of the Grateful Dead legacy extends far past the demise of the original line-up that sadly ended with the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995. The Grateful Dead created a dedicated community, or rather a counterculture, based on music and family values that have since refused to give up and...
Posted on Monday, April 25th, 2011 - 4:36 pm
April Fools Day. Historically full of monkeyshine and mischief, I entered the House of Blues a bit more cautious than normal, as I had not yet fallen victim to any shenanigans. The night was young and there were still several hours for anyone, and I mean anyone (I’m talkin’ to you guy in the...
Posted on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 - 8:14 pm
Cornmeal and The Giving Tree Band have a lot in common. They're both from Chicago, both play bluegrass/folk music, and both even have a set of brothers in the band. When I asked Wavy Dave Burlingame of Cornmeal what he thought of the greenest band in the land opening up for them at...
Posted on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 - 6:10 pm
90s hip-hop took over the Fox Theater in Boulder on Thursday night as legendary rappers Method Man and Redman took the sold out crowd back to a time when “it wasn’t about your cars or your jewelry, it was about smokin’ weed and music.” The duo commanded their audience with vigor through the thick...