Can’t Hardly Wait: Avett Brothers return to Red Rocks for two nights in June |Check It >>

Hey, Governor John Hickenlooper, clear all appointments June 29-30. Your favorite band is coming back. The Avett Brothers will play Red Rocks Amphitheatre June 29 and 30, the band announced this morning via its Facebook page. Canadian folk-pop group City and Colour will open the first show; Denver locals DeVotchKa will provide support for the second. (more…)

Why So Serious, Loni Love? |Check It >>

Loni Love's favorite audience is any one that's alert and breathing -- and that doesn't include her mother. The late-night branding juggernaut that is “Chelsea Lately” continues to stamp stand-ups with Chelsea Handler’s coveted seal of approval, and Loni Love is among the latest enjoying the endorsement. Although Love has been doing stand-up since college, she’s...

I Might Be Wrong: 10 songs about pain and heartbreak for Valentine’s Day |Check It >>

Generally speaking, I’m pretty anti anti-Valentine’s Day deals. Angry women burning roses while crying and dudes angrily drinking off their exes and then also crying has always seemed a bit pathetic. But, Valentine’s Day, itself, might be even more annoying: a holiday created by greeting card companies, Russell Stover and manufacturers of giant teddy bears left over from traveling carnivals. And...

Typhoon, Bass Drum of Death, Com Truise headline Reverb Party @ SXSW 2012 |Check It >>

If there’s one thing we took away from our CMJ day party last fall, it was an appetite to throw even bigger and better parties. For next month’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., we’re pulling out all the stops. In partnership once again with our upstairs neighbors The UMS and Denver talent purveyors The Vinefield Agency, I’m proud to introduce the lineup for what...

The Mile High Makeout: Unknown pianist hopes the chemistry is right |Check It >>

Late in life, Evergreen resident Tim O'Shields is making the difficult transition from corporate cog to struggling artist. Photo courtesy of the artist. “People say, ‘You’re crazy. You’re too old,’ but you can’t be too old. The world has got to accept that people have to recreate themselves at various stages in their lives. After more than 30 years in the corporate...

The Reverb Interview: Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum |Check It >>

When country trio Lady Antebellum broke wide open, fans fell in love with the instantly likable booty-call ballad “Need You Now.” The song had the band’s Hillary Scott pleading: “It’s a quarter after 1, I’m a little drunk, and I need you now. Said I wouldn’t call, but I lost all control, and I need you now.” That the band’s latest single, “Just...

Why So Serious, Andy Kindler? |Check It >>

Just so you know, Andy Kindler is fine with a robot sidekick for his non-existent podcast. And one that sounds like a Moog synthesizer, preferably. Andy Kindler, in all his kvetching, breathlessly free-associative, pinball-minded glory, is a comic in the classic mold. One could easily picture him playing a range of storied stand-up environments, from early vaudeville stages to smoky ’60s nightclubs. But...

The Reverb Interview: Beats Noir |Check It >>

Beats Noir will play the Walnut Room on Feb. 10. Photo courtesy of the artist. We’ll never know what Humphrey Bogart rapping would sound like — lots of rhymes with “pal” and “gal” is my best guess. But thanks to Beats Noir, we know what it would look like. Applying the film noir concept to music, the Denver band appears to have emerged from a session of whiskeys, cigarettes and private...

Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, David Guetta, Lil Wayne to join forces in Grammy segment |Check It >>

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody Associated Press Grammy show producer Ken Ehrlich had considered putting dancing/electronica music into the ceremony in the past, but could never quite figure out how to incorporate the high-energy club feel in front of a sometimes staid audience. He thinks he’s figured it out this year. For the first time, the Grammy show will put the spotlight on the genre with a segment...

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Typhoon, Bass Drum of Death, Com Truise headline Reverb Party @ SXSW 2012

Typhoon, Bass Drum of Death and Com Truise lead the Reverb Party at SXSW 2012. See the full lineup here.

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Avett Brothers / Grace Potter @ Red Rocks Amphitheater

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Mile Marker: Carter Tanton

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The Reverb Interview: Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum with guest David Nail

Lady Antebellum -- seen here playing the Fillmore Auditorium in November 2010 -- will return to Denver in February for a much larger headlining show. Photos by John DiTirro, heyreverb.com.

When country trio Lady Antebellum broke wide open, fans fell in love with the instantly likable booty-call ballad “Need You Now.”

The song had the band’s Hillary Scott pleading: “It’s a quarter after 1, I’m a little drunk, and I need you now. Said I wouldn’t call, but I lost all control, and I need you now.”

That the band’s latest single, “Just a Kiss,” is the delicate, almost prudish antithesis to that sensual hit isn’t lost on Scott.

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I Might Be Wrong: 10 songs about pain and heartbreak for Valentine’s Day

The Black Keys @ the Fillmore Auditorium

The Black Keys at the Fillmore Auditorium in June 2010. Reverb file photos by Joe McCabe, heyreverb.com.

Generally speaking, I’m pretty anti anti-Valentine’s Day deals. Angry women burning roses while crying and dudes angrily drinking off their exes and then also crying has always seemed a bit pathetic. But, Valentine’s Day, itself, might be even more annoying: a holiday created by greeting card companies, Russell Stover and manufacturers of giant teddy bears left over from traveling carnivals.

And since gleeful love songs usually blow, I’ll jump on the bandwagon this one time. Here are 10 songs, which were all recently released (or are on records to be released in the coming weeks), that should satiate your urge for cupid hatred.

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Why So Serious, Loni Love?

Loni Love's favorite audience is any one that's alert and breathing -- and that doesn't include her mother.

Loni Love's favorite audience is any one that's alert and breathing -- and that doesn't include her mother.

The late-night branding juggernaut that is “Chelsea Lately” continues to stamp stand-ups with Chelsea Handler’s coveted seal of approval, and Loni Love is among the latest enjoying the endorsement.

Although Love has been doing stand-up since college, she’s recently gotten a bump in notoriety thanks to the popular talk show, and she’s taking advantage of it with her national “Live, Love and Laugh” tour, which brings her to the Improv at Northfield Stapleton today, Feb. 10 through Saturday, Feb. 11.

We caught with Love via e-mail last week in advance of the shows to chat about her former career, her perfect idea of an audience and why you shouldn’t eat ice cream before hopping on an airplane.

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