Gallons of new music flow through the holes in our mailboxes each week, and we can t review it all. A few of us saw Le Butcherettes at South by Southwest this past March, and they ve been a conversation topic ever since.
New CDs in Review, 5/10/11 05/09/2011 07:30 PM MDT - Beastie Boys, "Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2"(Capitol) The Beastie Boys' latest platter is a fascinating, encompassing listen. Not only does it feature the group's three MCsAd-Rock, MCA and Mike D — rocking it old-school, expectedly silly — but it also posits them as the hip-hop elder statesmen they are, wrinkles and all.
The State Radio crew rolled into Denver after more than 60 hours on the road. While we set up mics and mixes inside Uneven Studio, the guys brought out the hula hoops, bikes and pets for some relaxation in the Colorado sun.
Clubs: Mile High Soul Club finds new home at Meadowlark 05/05/2011 02:44 PM MDT - Get ready to sweat: After a brief hiatus, the Mile High Soul Club DJ night returns tonight at its new venue, The Meadowlark (2701 Larimer St.). The MHSC's had a few different meeting spots over the years, but it's found a comfortable home in The Meadowlark.
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Beastie Boys, "Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2"(Capitol) The Beastie Boys' latest platter is a fascinating, encompassing listen. Not only does it feature the group's three MCsAd-Rock, MCA and Mike D — rocking it old-school, expectedly silly — but it also posits them as the hip-hop elder statesmen they are, wrinkles and all.
Jennifer Lopez, "Love?" (Island Def Jam Music Group)Jennifer Lopez's latest single — the international smash "On the Floor" — opens with this line: "It's a new generation of party people." And luckily the singer has taken note.
When the teenage killing machine played so marvelously by Saoirse Ronan in Joe Wright's stylish action movie "Hanna" asks her rogue CIA agent father what music is he consults the dictionary and tells her that "it's a combination of sounds with a view to beauty of form and expression of emotion."
Throughout the '80s, Canadian singer/composer k.d. lang crafted an aesthetic of boisterous camp and countrypolitan cool, artful but never artificial. Onto that melodic hum, lang applied vibrato-laden, pitch-perfect vocals whose impressionistic lyrics gave her brand of luxurious C&W a distingue elegance.
Nothing like a mega-hit to keep you busy. Cee Lo Green, who flew back to Los Angeles last week to redo "Forget You" as a benefit song for the nation's volunteer firefighters, will return to Europe next week to resume a concert tour and then will tour this summer with Rihanna.
When I phoned Wanda Jackson earlier this week at her Oklahoma City home, she lacked the growl that has been her trademark as "the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" for more than five decades.
There's no denying the recent change in Linkin Park's music. What once was a cacophonous alt-rock crossover with hip-hop and electronic leanings is now a different creation entirely — something that is mellow, measured and matured, even.
When someone dies young, cultural norms tell us to celebrate the life that was, rather than mourn the death that is all too present. It can sometimes feel like a bromide against emotions that may feel too disturbing, too raw and real.
Gioachino Rossini's 1817 operatic adaptation of "Cinderella," which Opera Colorado has revived for the first time in 16 years, offers a simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar take on the beloved fairy tale.
Thursday evening's Friends of Chamber Music concert was originally supposed to feature the wonderful St. Lawrence String Quartet, but the group had to cancel its appearance several months ago.
Naming the most important painter at work in Colorado is a tricky task at best, but Clark Richert is as strong a candidate as any for the title. The veteran artist bridges abstraction and mathematics in his often complex works.
Winter is the hottest time of year on Denver Center Theatre Company stages, when the new plays that provide its lifeblood take center stage. This year brings the space odyssey "When Tang Met Laika" (opening Jan. 28), and "Eventide" (Feb. 4).
He once commanded an area of 12 million square miles, four times the size of the Roman empire, and was named Time magazine's "most influential person of the millennium."
That's the major issue that 4,000 artists and administrators will take on when they gather in Denver for the National Performing Arts Convention, which runs from Tuesday through Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center.
