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Thursday, September 02
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Boulder
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Mr Anonymous w/ Ivy, Bobby C Sound TV & Drop Logik
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Fox Theatre
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 w/Bobby C Sound TV, Ivy & Drop Logik. Mr. Anonymous a.k.a. Jeep Macnichol started his music career as founding member and drummer of the Colorado based pop/jam band The Samples. For a decade, his musical journey included 6 national album releases, national touring for 9 months a year in every venue imaginable in every state, sharing the stage with Sting, Dave Mathews, Steel pulse, Flaming Lips, The Wailers, Sonic Youth, Blues traveler, the Horde tour, and a performance on the Jay Leno show. After 10 years, Macnichol decided it was time to follow new creative endeavors and dive into his love of Jamaican dancehall and reggae music. All Ages 9pm
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Tuesday, September 07
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Denver
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Jamie Lidell
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Bluebird Theatre
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 On the title track from his new album Compass (listen here), soul singer Jamie Lidell sounds worn. His voice is noticeably scratchier than on anything from his two previous solo albums, 2005's future-funk expo Multiply or 2008's polished throwback Jim. The rough and raw vibe runs straight through Compass, which is out May 18 via Warp. It's still a R&B record at heart, but it has Lidell stretching himself like never before, going from desert balladry to oddball Tom Waits-ian mouth-box funk to baby-making slow jams. "This is my most full-frontal work lyrically and sonically," he told me, sitting in the Standard Hotel in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. "It's all in there."
Lidell also worked with several luminaries on the album, including Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, and legendary studio drummer James Gadson, whose work with Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, and other soul legends has made him one of R&B's unsung heroes. Lidell talked of all his collaborators in awed tones, and he's got a lot to thank them for. But Lidell himself is an in-demand, in-studio phenom; he helped out with Feist's The Reminder, credited as "energy arranger." The title makes a lot more sense once you see his spontaneous, fearless presence pop out in the recording session videos for Beck's recent Skip Spence Record Club project. http://www.jamielidell.com
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Saturday, September 11
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Denver
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
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Hi-Dive
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 Owen Ashworth was born on April 22, 1977 in San Francisco, CA. Since 1997, he has written & recorded pop albums under the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Most typically, Ashworth accompanies his vocal performances with the sounds of keyboards, drum machines, & other electronic devices, although recent releases have included more live instrumentation.
The music of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has also included guest performances from
Jenny Herbinson, Jason Quever, Jherek Bischoff, Nick Tamburro, Sam Mickens, Katy Davidson,
Gordon Ashworth, Tyson Thurston, Anthony Lukens, Tim DeNardo, Sam Sprague, Jessie Gulati,
Alex deLanda, Nick Krgovich, Julie Lispector, Stan Tangeman, Jamie Stewart, Caralee McElroy,
Maurina Lioce, Karen Mitchell, Cass McCombs & Amanda Hughes.
http://www.cftpa.org
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Monday, September 13
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Denver
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Efterklang
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Hi-Dive
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 Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the small Danish island of Als. The three friends moved to Copenhagen with the innocent hope of becoming full-time musicians, and soon met drummer Thomas Husmer to form Efterklang late in 2000. Pianist Rune Mlgaard was also in the original line-up.
Magic Chairs, Efterklangs third full-length album (and their first on their new home 4AD), is the most band-like to date. Where bands like the Beatles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Talk Talk and Soft Machine started with short pop songs before moving into more extended forms. Efterklangs trajectory has been in the opposite direction: their early material employed the longer forms, shapes and sounds of classical music. Magic Chairs is the closest theyve got to a straightforward album of songs, with quirky rockers such as Scandinavian Love and the cinematic Modern Drift. http://www.myspace.com/efterklang
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Sunday, September 19
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Boulder
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2nd Annual Mouse's Pie R Squared
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Altona Grange Nelson Rd & 39th St
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Come on out for pies, ice cream, music, square dancing, horseshoes and Indian summer fun to Mouses Pie R Square Dance, Sunday September 19th from 2-6 PM at the Altona Grange. The historic Grange is located at the corner of 39th Street and Nelson Road, between Boulder and Lyons. KC Groves and her band will provide the music. Altona Grange Nelson Rd. & 39th (one mile east of Hwy 36) starting at 2:00 PM
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Wednesday, September 29
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Boulder
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Prefuse 73
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Fox Theatre
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 Its hard to think of a name that carries as much weight in both hip-hop and avant-rock circles as Prefuse 73, who in the past year alone has been asked to remix TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS and Cornelius, not to mention his early collaborations with School of Seven Bells and Battles. These interactions have clearly helped to shape the evolving Prefuse 73 sonic aesthetic, which has expanded to include Herrens twisted visions of prog-rock, machine funk and global psychedelia.
For Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian, Herren rejected the idea of straight digital recording and instead went the much more intensive route of recording to analog Ampex tape, giving the album the sound of a lost tape of exploratory studio musicians from the not-too-distant past. In addition to the recording process, Ampexian also differs in its composition, existing as a tapestry of tracks of varying lengths and moods, albeit with a remarkable linear flow and, of course, unmatched rhythmic bump. 9pm all ages
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Tuesday, October 12
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Boulder
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Caribou w/Emeralds
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Fox Theatre
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 Caribou is Canadian Dan Snaith , who formerly recorded under the name Manitoba. Known for altering his sound with each subsequent release, he incorporates electronic psychedelia, krautrock rhythms, and breakbeat drums and creates a swirling, lush, musical panorama.
Snaith grew up in Dundas, Ontario, Canada, which gave its name to a song from his debut album Start Breaking My Heart. He studied at the University of Toronto as an undergrad, but was based in the UK for several years until he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Imperial College, London in 2005.
Snaith surprises audiences with the array of instruments he brings to the stage. Caribous sound is more electronic, and you may expect the normal keyboard, synthesizer, computer set up, but Snaiths skillfully plays an assortment of instruments and is often accompanied by friends on the stage. 9pm all ages
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Monday, October 18
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Boulder
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Blitzentrapper
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Fox Theatre
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 w/Fruit Bats & Pearly Gates Music. Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental folk rock band signed to Sub Pop Records. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a sextet, with Eric Earley (guitar/vocals), Erik Menteer (guitar/keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums/vocals), Michael VanPelt, (bass), Drew Laughery (keyboards), and Marty Marquis (guitar, keyboards, vocals). Blitzen Trapper self-released its first three albums. "Wild Mountain Nation" was #98 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.
Blitzen Trapper released its third album, Wild Mountain Nation, in 2007 to much critical acclaim from critics such as Pitchfork Media, The Nerve, and Spin Magazine. The group signed to Sub Pop Records in the summer of 2007.
The release of Furr in 2008 was a high-water mark for the group as their eclectic new songs received a two-page feature in Rolling Stone. The album was ranked #13 on Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2008 while the title track was ranked #4 on the magazine's Best Singles of 2008. The title track was also featured on an episode of Chuck on December 8, 2008 in the episode titled "Chuck vs. the Delorean." A second song from Furr, "God & Suicide", was featured in the opening of the March 9, 2009 episode of Chuck titled "Chuck vs. The Lethal Weapon".
Blitzen Trappers newest album Destroyers of the Void was released this past June. Its title track rambles over decades of canonical popular music, and as a Pitchfork review of the album said, squishes it into an epic suite that gathers Beatles harmonies, sci-fi synths, classic rock guitars, country-rock twang, and AOR sentimentality into one big, ballsy package. The rest of the album is more of what you would expect, and what weve grown to love about them-haunting songs and lilting folk ballads reminiscent of old western ghost towns and wild frontier America. 9pm All Ages
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Sunday, October 31
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Boulder
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Hot Rize
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Boulder Theater
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 w/ special guests Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. Hot Rize has marked 32 years in bluegrass, keeping its legend growing by delivering first-class music and entertainment as only it can. The band rose to prominence in the early 80's, appearing frequently on such national broadcasts as "A Prairie Home Companion", Austin City Limits, and on The Nashville Network. Their stage show gained renown, featuring their soulful and distinctive bluegrass combined with their wacky but musically deft "alter-ego" country swing band, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
The traditional-yet-progressive foursome started in January, 1978, based in Colorado and naming itself after the secret ingredient of Martha White self-rising flour. Following the untimely passing of original member Charles Sawtelle in 1999, the group reorganized in 2002 with Nashville studio ace/multiple Grammy-winner Bryan Sutton on guitar and has continued to play selected shows each year, delivering its signature sound to a new generation of followers. 8pm
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Tuesday, November 02
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Denver
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Sufjan Stevens
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Paramount Theatre
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 Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of grand proportions. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), a five-disc Christmas box set (Songs for Christmas), and, more recently, a programmatic tone poem with film accompaniment for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a large-scale ensemble piece commissioned by BAM in 2007.
Born in Detroit and raised in the upper reaches of Northern Michigan, Sufjan attended Hope College, in Holland, Michigan, and the masters program for writers at the New School for Social Research. Sufjan currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.8pm http://asthmatickitty.com/sufjan-stevens
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