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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Entertainment / Music / Reverb Neil Young and Skrillex announce Red Rocks dates
Posted by Bill Forman on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Our Summer Preview issue hit the streets today and includes a guide to summer concerts and festivals that should be enough to whet your appetite for the coming season.
One highlight not included in the story is Neil Youngs return to Red Rocks, which was announced just this morning. The Canadian-born Godfather of Americana will be bringing his band Crazy Horse to the legendary venue on Aug. 5 and 6, with Alabama Shakes opening the show. (Read the Indy interview with Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard here.) Young and Crazy Horse will be releasing Americana, their first album in nine years, on June 5.
The shows are sure to be fast sellouts, so fans will want to be poised for action when tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. Grab them online at livenation.com or in person at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Meanwhile, Red Rocks has also announced an Aug. 9 date with emo-turned-dubstep overachiever Skrillex, tickets for which go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.
To celebrate the latter, heres a video posted just yesterday of Skrillex being reviewed by little kids:
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Music Big Gigs on Sale: Nicki Minaj, Big Gigantic
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM
One of the casualties of our changing to a new publication date was Big Gigs on Sale, due to the timing of when that information's released. But it lives on here.
ON SALE, Sat., May 12, 10 a.m.
Nicki Minaj, Wells Fargo Theatre, Denver, Aug. 2, $45.75-$99.75, ticketmaster.com
Big Gigantic, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Sept. 29, $46.60, ticketmaster.com
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Music / Reverb Video: We Are Not a Glum Lot at Independent Records
Posted by Bill Forman on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:38 PM
- Larry Hulst
- We Are Not a Glum Lot at the 2011 Indy Music Awards Festival
Okay, I guess that's the case with everyone who has a YouTube account, but this video of the Colorado Springs band's recent Record Store Day performance at Independent Records still deserves to be seen.
You should also know that WANAGL has just finished recording the last two tracks for its debut album, and will be performing the Showcase at Studio Bee series with Kopesetik Soul and the Inman Brothers on May 24. Find more details here.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Music Big Gigs on Sale
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:52 AM
One of the casualties of our changing to a new publication date was Big Gigs on Sale, due to the timing of the information. But it lives on here.
ON SALE Fri., May 4, 10 a.m.
The Beach Boys, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, July 9, $50.25-$92.35, ticketmaster.com
ON SALE Sat., May 5, 10 a.m.
My Morning Jacket, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Aug. 4, $53.35-$60.50, ticketmaster.com
Monday, April 30, 2012
Music / Education / Reverb Is your city a music trendsetter?
Posted by Bill Forman on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:04 AM
At one point or another, we've all wondered where Colorado Springs music listeners fit into the hierarchical clustering, geographical flow, and time-lagged correlation of Euclidean distances between cities in a normalized listening matrix.
According to a new University College Dublin study entitled "The Geographical Flow of Music," whatever I wrote in the previous sentence can be ascertained by adopting "a method previously used to detect the leadership networks present in flocks of birds."
What the study does I think is to use last.fm statistics to determine which cities are the biggest music trendsetters. As you may have guessed, Colorado Springs never quite finds its way into the matrix.
On the other hand, as you can see in the charts above, Denver has clawed its way up to the bottom-rung in the hip hop, indy, and general music categories.
The study also goes on to posit a scenario in which there are only two artists, Radiohead and Coldplay, and two cities, Los Angeles and Seattle which I believe is being considered as a sequel to Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
Anyway, you can read the whole study here, or just stare blankly at the following excerpt and then go do something else.
To construct the dendrogram shown in fig. 1, we performed average linkage clustering (an agglomerative clustering algorithm) on a distance matrix D of the cities, a square matrix where each entry Di;j is the Euclidean distance between city i and j. Instead of constructing the dendrogram based on just a single listen matrix, we summed together the distance matrices associated
with the all of the listen matrices in our dataset. The colored clusters are the result of taking a flat cut to the dendrogram at a height which we chose manually.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Music / Politics / Reverb Occupy This Album: Stream tracks from the upcoming benefit compilation
Posted by Bill Forman on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Although police shut down New York's Occupy Wall Street encampment last fall, related protests continue to crop up around the world. And while the mainstream media may have lost interest in the movement and its issues actually the mainstream media was never much interested in the actual issues Occupy's half-life has proven considerably longer than first predicted.
Now, a five-disc Occupy benefit album is bringing together 99 tracks by 99 artists on behalf of the 99 percent. Among them are Amanda Palmer, Ladytron, Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, UNKLE, James McMurtry (with Joan Baez and Steve Earle), Deborah Harry, Thievery Corporation, Toots & the Maytals, Tom Morello, the Mammals (featuring Pete Seeger), the Pimps of Joytime (featuring Roy Ayers), New Party Systems (featuring Kip Malone), Jackson Browne, Yo La Tengo, Dar Williams, Mogwai and Immortal Technique.
While Occupy This Album won't come out until May 15, you can preview five tracks from its five discs below. For more info, head on over to musicforoccupy.org.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Music Big Gigs on Sale
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM
One of the casualties of our changing to a new publication date was Big Gigs on Sale, due to the timing of the information. But it lives on here.
ON SALE Friday, April 27, 10 a.m.
Avicii, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 26, $50.15, ticketmaster.com
Jack White, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Aug. 8, $50.70-$55.85, ticketmaster.com
Train, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Sept. 19, $55.90-$67.25, ticketmaster.com
ON SALE Saturday, April 28, 10 a.m.
Colbie Caillat, Gavin DeGraw, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, Aug. 7, $34.50, livenation.com
Sublime with Rome, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Aug. 12, $47.20-$50.70, ticketmaster.com
Andrew Bird, Buell Theatre, Denver, Aug. 17, $39.40-$55.85, ticketmaster.com
Linkin Park, Incubus, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, Denver, Aug. 30, $22.75-$100.50, livenation.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Entertainment / Music / Reverb Civil Twilight and Get Along tonight in the Springs
Posted by Bill Forman on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM
If you didn't manage to get to Get Along's CD release show a few weeks ago at the Black Sheep, you have another chance to catch the Monument duo opening for South African anthem-pop band Civil Twilight tonight at the same venue.
And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can read our interview with Get Along here, and watch videos of both bands below.
Doors open 7 p.m. tonight. More info at blacksheeprocks.com.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Entertainment / Film / Outdoors / Music Indy Minute: featuring films, llamas and a Cannibal!
Posted by Jack Ward on Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Catch the new & improved Indy Minute with Jack Ward weekly at csindy.com.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Music Big Gigs on Sale
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM
One of the casualties of our new publication dates was Big Gigs on Sale, due to the timing of the information. But it lives on here.
ON SALE, Friday, April 20, 10 a.m.
Afrojack, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, June 22, $39.50, livenation.com
ON SALE, Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m.
Thievery Corporation, with Beats Antique, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Aug. 10, $42.50-$45, ticketmaster.com
ON SALE, Monday, April 23, 10 a.m.
Joe Cocker/Huey Lewis & the News, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, Denver, Aug. 12, $19-$79, livenation.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Music Colorado Springs makes an appearance in Mat Kearney's new video
Posted by Kirsten Akens on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:03 PM
When Oregon-bred, Nashville-based musician Mat Kearney passed through town in February, he packed the Black Sheep and made lots of comments that evening about the new video he had been shooting parts of across town.
That video, for "Ships in the Night," hit the Internet tonight, along with news that he'll be supporting Train at Red Rocks Sept. 19.
Check out the vid here and see if you can count how many times the Springs shows up.
Entertainment / Music / Reverb 2012 Outside Lands lineup: Better than Lollapalooza?
Posted by Bill Forman on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM
If the Lollapalooza lineup announced last week wasn't overly exciting read about it here this year's newly announced Outside Lands lineup just might make up for it.
Now in its fifth year, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park extravaganza will feature A-list veterans like Stevie Wonder, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Beck and Metallica, along with Jack White, Fitz & the Tantrums, Die Antwoord, the Kills, Foo Fighters, Sigur Ros, Justice, Norah Jones, Santigold, Big Boi, Grandaddy, Bloc Party, Fran Ferdinand, Amadou & Mariam, The Walkmen, Skrillex, Alabama Shakes, Explosions in the Sky, Tame Impala and Bomba Estereo.
Tickets for the August 10-12 event go on sale 1 p.m. tomorrow, April 19, at sfoutsidelands.com.
Also, don't forget that the second half of Coachella festival is coming up this weekend, and you can watch a lot of it streaming live at youtube.com/coachella.
Meanwhile, let's cue up the clips.
First we have the inevitable promo video for Outside Lands 2012, which for some reason features an M.C. Hammer sketch.
Scroll down further for a clip of Fitz & the Tantrums playing "MoneyGrabber" at this past weekend's Coachella. Note how, at the three-minute mark, the group works the massive crowd into a frenzy. And to think, the former Indy cover subjects were playing the Black Sheep just last summer...
Monday, April 16, 2012
Entertainment / Music / Reverb Videos: Coachella sets by Radiohead, Azealia Banks, a resurrected Tupac, and more
Posted by Bill Forman on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Everybody loves a hologram, whether it's a reconstructed image of Don Edwards touring the Midwest county fair circuit or a flickering vision of Elvis enjoying a triple whopper at a Burger King out on the interstate.
But the best of all was last night's appearance of a holographic Tupac, performing onstage at Coachella with Dre and Snoop Dogg, a technical feat that was by turns brilliant, transcendent and creepy.
You can watch the video below, along with a nearly two-hour performance by Radiohead and sets by Pulp (unfortunate Jarvis Cocker vocal in the first song, but it gets better) and fast-rising star Azealia Banks.
And as a bonus, we've also thrown in a non-Coachella performance by holographic J-Pop icon Hatsune Miku, who made her appeared in Indyblog back in 2010. You can revisit that post here.
All in all, it's the next best thing to being there. Just ask Tupac.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Entertainment / Music / Reverb Denver Botanic Gardens unveils summer schedule
Posted by Bill Forman on Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM
OK, so the lineup's a bit mainstream.
But on the other hand, it's a lot closer than Lollapalooza (check its lineup here), the setting is beautiful, the venerable acts are virtually all high-quality, and tickets tend to sell out ridiculously fast.
We're talking, of course, about the Denver Botanic Gardens summer concert series, unveiled this week for 2012. It includes a Fourth of July kickoff concert from the B-52s and Squeeze; Natalie Merchant with the Colorado Symphony; Ladysmith Black Mambazo with the Johnny Clegg Band; Shawn Colvin with Loudon Wainwright III; Al Green; Pat Metheny; and plenty more.
For the full schedule and ticket info, go to the venue website here. And if you end up seeing something that piques your interest, I wouldn't recommend waiting too long to stake your claim.
And now, your moment of nostalgia:
Music Big Gigs on Sale
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:30 PM
One of the casualties of our new publication dates was Big Gigs on Sale, due to the timing of the information. But it lives on here.
ON SALE, Friday, April 13, 10 a.m.
Slipknot, Slayer, Motorhead, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, Denver, July 8, $25.50-$72.50, livenation.com
O.A.R., Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, July 15, $38.50-$42.50, ticketmaster.com
Cake, The Lumineers, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, July 28, $36.50-$41.95, ticketmaster.com
ON SALE, Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m.
Lotus, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Sept. 8, $40-$37.50, livenation.com
Savoy, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Sept. 7, $40-$37.50, livenation.com
Jason Mraz, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Sept. 24, $39.50-$59.50, ticketmaster.com
