HARTFORD, Conn.—Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
View Now >>Fleetwood Mac has announced a 2013 reunion tour, which includes a Denver stop in June. The band has a long history of breakups and hiatuses and last toured together in 2009 for the “Unleashed” world tour.
View Now >>The Lumineers stop by Uneven Studio to record a four-song session, including an exclusive version of the platinum-selling "Ho Hey"
View Now >>The Sword performed October 6, 2010 at the Ogden Theatre in Denver Co. The Sword consists of guitarist and vocalist John D. "J. D." Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo. (Photo by Mateo Leyba)
Like fans of science fiction and fantasy literature, metalheads tend to enjoy a lack of buyer’s remorse. If you pick up a hardcover of fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin’s latest, you should have a good idea of what you’re in for. The same goes for those who plunk down $12 for a copy of the Sword’s new LP, “Apocryphon.”
Paul Banks of Interpol has shed his Julian Plenti moniker in favor of a more straightforward solo career. Photo by Helena Christensen.
Paul Banks projects an inscrutable cool, steely and measured but with just enough heart and humor to be relatable.
And that persona extends to his band, Interpol, which helped define a certain dark, post-9/11 ambivalence from its perch atop New York’s indie music scene.
So it may surprise some fans that for his first solo album under his own name, Banks is actually having fun. Or at least as much fun as the writer of songs like “Evil” and “Always Malaise (The Man I Am)” can have.
“With the solo thing I’m not thinking about what I’m doing, I’m just making songs, and I’m really gratified in that sort of director’s role,” said the 34-year-old English-born baritone, who plays the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday. “It’s so much different than when I participate in a collaboration with Interpol. I’m not the director, so someone else, like (ex-bassist) Carlos (Dengler) would do the string arrangements, or Daniel (Kessler) writes the guitar progressions that become Interpol songs.”
Fortune Feimster knows comedy gold when she hears it — especially if it’s coming from the mouths of her family members. Photo provided by Comedy Works.
Like most of the regular comics on Chelsea Handler’s late-night “Chelsea Lately” roundtable, Fortune Feimster is quick on her feet and ruthlessly funny.
Unlike most of them, she’s got a down-to-Earth charm and relatable act that translates far and wide when she headlines across the country — as she’ll do this weekend at Comedy Works South.
Feimster didn’t expect to return so soon having bowed there only this summer. But the North Carolina native and “Last Comic Standing” veteran was surprised to find “her audience” hiding out at the Greenwood Village venue.
See her at 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday (Nov. 30-Dec. 1) and check out our exclusive Q&A with her below.
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