Mike Ness, looking mildly worse for the wear, rocked a packed Gothic Theatre last weekend. Photos by Brian Carney.
“I love writing records as much as I love performing onstage,” Social Distortion leader Mike Ness told The Denver Post a few months ago, which must be true, becuase he does an awful lot of both.
Reverb contributing photographer Brian Carney caught Ness on Saturday at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, one of two Denver shows at that venue. Check out his photo essay below.

Roving Reverb contributor Brian Carney caught Denver’s own Jen Korte and the Loss at the Walnut Room — one of the Mile High City’s best-sounding venues — on May 16.
Check his brief photo essay of the soulful acoustic rock act below, and don’t forget to see Korte at the Hi-Dive on June 14 for the (Die) Pilot CD release show with Action Packed Thrill Ride and Hello Kavita, or at the Denver Post Underground Music Showcase Aug. 1-2 on South Broadway. (It’s gonna be big [...]

“Sing-a-longs? We got ‘em. In droves!” Photos by John Moore.
The Kooks are this year’s Spoon — a new band that explodes onto the scene with an infectious ditty that gets such incessant radio play that you feel you ought hate them, but just can’t. Even if they do have the incorrigible audacity to list the legendary Jeff Buckley alongside Jack “Pabulum” Johnson as among their primary influences on MySpace.
The song is, of course, “She Moves in Her Own Way,” but the boys from Brighton (as [...]

The Presets proved that electro is far from dead at the Larimer Lounge on Tuesday. Photos by Laurie Scavo and Julio Enriquez.
Modular has been experiencing a heavy brush with popularity as a result of the best Aussie exports in Cut Copy and the Presets. The show packed the Larimer Lounge (on a school night, no less) last Tuesday, and the duo from Down Under delivered a powerful punch with what felt like a never ending supply of synth-tronic beats, throbbing like the hangover lingering around [...]