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View Now >>Chali 2na, MTHDS and Rooster McCabe brought various styles of hip-hop to the Fox Theatre on Wednesday. Photos by Joshua Elioseff, heyreverb.com.
The house was indeed vibin’ Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder for Chali 2na. Minneapolis-based Roster McCabe opened the show, followed by local Colorado mainstays MTHDS, which laid down a lively mix of guitar-driven rock, hip-hop, harmonic reggae and funk. By the time the main act, nationally touring Chali 2na of Ozomatli and Jurrasic 5, took the stage shortly before midnight, the small crowd was highly energized and ready for more. 2na played a mix of old and new and led call and response chants with the audience, keeping the party going into the early morning hours.
Denver band DeVotchKa played its annual Halloween show at the Ogden Theatre on October 28. Photos by Ryan Dearth, heyreverb.com.
We were the first to tell you that Denver’s own DeVotchKa will headline the opening night party of the Clyfford Still Museum next week. Tickets for that event, which start $125, are available at clyffordstillmuseum.org or 720-354-4875. Now, we’re sharing with you an editorial piece that the band recently published in The Denver Post regarding the state of National Public Radio.
The piece, which originally ran Wednesday in The Denver Post, is available in its entirety below:
Adele played a captivating sold-out show at the Ogden Theatre in May. Photos by Joe McCabe, heyreverb.com.
Earlier this year, I was visiting my mother’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio and I stopped by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the umpteenth time. (Despite my article for the Post’s Travel section on the city’s interesting activities, there isn’t really that much more to see after 29 years of visits.) Nevertheless, the HoF’s current exhibit, “Women Who Rock,” is unique and, as I wrote, “tracks the fairer sex’s contributions to rock, from Billie Holiday to Lady Gaga.” It also, quite presciently, served as a harbinger of the women who were about to kick the men’s asses in 2011.
In case you’ve been too busy Occupying Wall Street, Adele’s “21” has been perched in the Top 20 longer than, well, the tent-dwellers camped out in Zuccotti Park. She’s been the all-around breadwinner of the year, a pants-wearer if there ever has been one: worldwide sales for the album are at 10 million when albums simply don’t sell 10 million copies anymore, let alone one million. And despite its ubiquity — a too-often encounter of “Rolling in the Deep” at an Urban Outfitters here or a Starbucks there — and pop charm, there’s artistic merit to “21.” Adele’s got serious pipes with range, subtlety and finesse. Here’s hoping for a full recovery from her recent throat surgery; songs like “Turning Tables” and “Someone Like You” can make a grown man cry. We need more pop virtuosos like Adele.
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