Denver’s delightfully unclassifiable Achille Lauro played the Hi-Dive on Thursday with Mike Marchant, Fissure Mystic and Action Friend. Photos by Marla Keown.
I always look forward to shows at the Hi-Dive, a mainstay in the center of Denver’s hip Baker neighborhood. Combine the venue’s commitment to weekly local shows with with the alchemical prowess of Ben DeSoto’s booking and you’ve got a venue that does a stellar job of putting together lineups of highly complementary bands, sometimes stylistically, sometimes thematically and very often truly extraordinary.
Thursday night’s [...]

Tauntaun flattened a willing Bluebird Theater crowd on Friday at their CD release show. Photos by Doug Beam.
Denver’s Tauntaun officially released its first CD on Friday at the Bluebird Theater, with help from locals Kingdom of Magic (who were added to the lineup when Stereotyperider’s van broke down) and Wetlands. The latter act opened to a fairly empty venue but the crowd eventually showed up and packed the front half of the theater.
As usual, Tauntaun’s set was a non-stop, no-talk, no-breaks metal. A veritable supergroup, [...]

Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins channeled his former self — from about 10 years ago — at the “Clarity” anniversary tour at the Ogden on Monday. Photos by Joe McCabe.
By Jarrod Duncan
Jimmy Eat World chose to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their “Clarity” by rocking a ten-show tour around the country, playing their seminal album from front to back. I jumped at the chance to witness the band’s Monday night show at the Ogden Theatre. “Can you still feel the butterflies?” is a question [...]

Slipknot played a punishing set of music at the Denver Coliseum on Tuesday. Too bad you couldn’t make out much of it. Photos by Tina Hagerling.
I’m all for enriching your child’s life by exposing them to live music, but when your 5-year-old is sitting at the Denver Coliseum wearing a cut-off Slipknot T-shirt and more make-up than Miley Cyrus, I have to draw a line. Especially when you’re a smoker who chooses to puff away while your preschooler sits in your lap, throwing metal finger [...]

Meese, fronted by brothers Patrick (above) and Nathan, will release its debut, “Broadcast,” on Atlantic Records this summer. Their show at the tiny Larimer Lounge on Tuesday was a special one. Photos by Heather Browne.
When we asked Reverb contributor Heather Browne to tell us about the Meese show at the Larimer Lounge on Tuesday, two words came up immediately: “Energetic” and “packed.”
That’s hardly surprising. The relatively impromptu show followed the private listening party of “Broadcast,” Meese’s Atlantic Records debut. The record will be released this [...]

Emily Saliers, in the foreground, and Amy Ray played a lush, if short, set at the Soiled Dove Underground on Wednesday to promo the new Indigo Girls record, due at the end of the month. Photos by Candace Horgan.
Watching the Indigo Girls play a short, radio-sponsored set at the Soiled Dove Underground on Wednesday was liberating – both for the small crowd packed into the intimate Lowry club and the duo, who seemed pleased to play a loose set focusing on new material.
As Emily Saliers [...]

An Horse drummer Damon Cox had the indie kids dancing at the Walnut Room on Sunday. Photos by Denise Chambers.
According to An Horse’s Twitter page — @anhorse — the rock duo is “Police Academy 1-4.”
They are quite a funny duo with a great sense of humor. But outside of their between-song banter, An Horse is nothing to laugh at. They turned out a great set at the Walnut Room on Sunday — a set that had Reverb contributor Denise Chambers dancing as she shot the [...]

The ladies love the G. Love — and why shouldn’t they? I mean, look at him! Photos by Nathan Rist.
The ever-lovely Garrett Dutton and his saucy entourage flooded Boulder’s Fox with their funky hip-hopped blues Monday night, targeting nothing but a house full of whirling ladies.
Speed crooner Dutton, aka G. Love, spun through 25 songs in a tornado of a show that pulled from nearly every parcel of his 16-year career. There was doo-wop, beat-box, straight blues and hip-hop, all topped with G. Love’s densely [...]

If you’re wondering when the Legendary River Drifters are finally going to release a full-length record, read on. Photos by Brian Carney.
Not many people showed up to see the Legendary River Drifters play the Oriental Theatre with Laura Goldhamer, but those who did turn up were treated to a special night of music.
Reverb contributor Brian Carney caught up with the River Drifters after the show, and he found out a few things about the exciting Denver band. They’re recording their debut record — for the [...]

“What is that he’s playing?” you might ask? To find out, catch Toubab Krewe next time they swing through Colorado. Photo: myspace.com/toubabkrewe.
Toubab Krewe swooped into Colorado last week, blanketing sparse crowds at Boulder?’s Fox and Denver’s Cervantes with their tightly woven tapestry of Westernized African rock.
Toubab is a young band. They travel endlessly on the hope their sound will catch. They play long sets, dripping sweat on weathered carpets, hoping the awkwardly gyrating listeners will tell a friend or seven the next time the Asheville, [...]