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Hindsight: LCD Soundsystem @ The Fillmore
It’s hard not to use superlatives when describing LCD Soundsystem. Most influential New York band since the mid-2000s.…
Fingerin’ the ivories
I love playing piano. Yes, I begged my mother to let me quit lessons when my first teacher…
Hindsight: deadmau5 @ The Fillmore
Joel Zimmerman went from zero to DJ Hero in record time. Live Nation doesn’t even know how to…
You Tubin’: Danielle Ate the Sandwich
Danielle Anderson is a cyberspace star. Without YouTube, Anderson would be drinking coffee. In a coffee shop.…
NocturnOwl: deadmau5
Deadmau5’s career is alive and well. D.C.-area heads must’ve wondered if his alias was a self-fulfilling prophecy,…
Oral vs. Aural: Flosstradamus
Dance music has long been a scapegoat for drug use. After all, why would anyone in their right…
Hindsight: Mago-Gogo @ Wazee Union
The sun dipped over the rusting warehouses on the wrong side of the tracks. The symbiotic business/art space,…
Hindsight: Mile High Music Festival
Colorado deserves its own Coachella. Commerce City's Mile High Music Festival isn't quite there yet, but we had to start somewhere. The third installment of Denver's biggest aural smorgasbord definitely featured its most diverse lineup to date. Case and point? Day two Bison Tent headliners Bassnectar and Z-Trip--not to mention the mostly local Beta Beach stage—ramped up the event's electronica edge in a major way. Mootown—as Westword's Dave Herrera would say—ate it up.
Artist to Watch: Tokyo Police Club
O, Canada. It’s a huge place filled with beautiful scenery and majestic wildlife and a couple buzzing underground…
Beat Diet: Pretty Lights
Although a few established acts have dabbled in the free download game—Radiohead and NIN are obvious examples—Pretty Lights' Derek Vincent Smith built his entire career that way--from the ground up. The Fort Collins-based producer is practically in a league of his own. Name one other artist who hasn't made a single penny on recorded music and is now capable of packing Red Rocks--a feat Smith is reprising this Saturday. It is a trajectory that many will inevitably imitate. Girl Talk might his only near-peer--business model-wise--but unless Crickets Chirping is the alias of a band not yet on my radar, the answer is clear.
Hindsight: Underground Music Showcase
If the festival's attendance figures are correct, The Post's Underground Music Showcase is indeed on pace to become Denver's version of South by Southwest--an event it eagerly compares itself to. SXSW, gearing up for its twenty-fifth year, pulls approximately 15,000 heads to Austin, Texas. The UMS, which just closed the books on its first full decade, is already approaching 5,000. No small feat at all. The scene on South Broadway yesterday—especially last night--definitely reminded me a little of SXSW's main artery in Austin--Sixth Street.
Festival Window: Savoy
Aurally, Boulder-based Savoy could pass for an adept electro DJ deftly blending others' cuts together. The truth? Savoy is erecting all their bangers from scratch—barring a few borrowed samples—and discharging them live via three-piece PA. It's a savvy formula that's caught on like the brush fire that destroyed a portion of my southeast plains hometown. Destruction is definitely an ingredient in Savoy's live recipe, where decimating decibels keep attendees in a perpetually perspiring frenzy.