Gwen Stefani of No Doubt owns the massive stage at Fiddler’s Green on Wednesday. Photos by Soren McCarty.
Gwen Stefani is a living statue of anatomical perfection.
The realistically-proportioned Barbie seems impervious to aging, stress and the fleeting changes in popular music, an icon of enviable style and good manners. Sure, her run as mega-pop star over the last five years has been fun to watch, but nothing compares to seeing Cali home girl go legit with No Doubt once again and take ownership of her skanking [...]

The Pseudo Dates aren’t letting their spot in the garage keep them from touring the country next month. Photos courtesy of Emile Hallez Williams.
The Pseudo Dates may have a name that implies wavering committment and lonely nights waiting for that blind date that’s never going to come, but make no mistake: the Denver indie pop band is here for you. Since forming in the fall of 2007, the Pseudo Dates have zoomed along Denver’s music scene with a regular live schedule that has honed its [...]

Peaches will chop you into bite-sized bits, gobble you up and leave you begging for more. Photos by Tina Hagerling.
Peaches knows the strongest force in the world lies beneath a woman’s panties. At her Monday night show at the Gothic Theatre, the queen of drum machine foreplay harnessed her infamous sexual deviancy and dangled it in front of our faces for a pulverizing set that left the crowd shaking. And we liked it.

How do the Disco Biscuits fit into the amorphous culture of jam rock? Find out below.
As a casual observer of jam bands and the culture that supports them, one finds it easy to lump them all into the same subgenre of rock ‘n’ roll.
“Oh, Widespread Panic? They’re a jam band . . . And Sound Tribe Sector 9? They’re a jam band, too.”
Of course no two bands sound exactly alike, and sometimes bands take it upon themselves to separate their work from that of their [...]

Jane’s Addiction, featuring Dave Navarro (left) and Perry Farrell, wiped the floor with a sulky, boring Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler’s Green on Tuesday. Photos by Tina Hagerling.
A black sea of NIN’ers flooded Fiddlers Green on Tuesday, surging for a final farewell to their dark lord Trent Reznor. What the amply pierced and scowling got was a largely flat, uninspired display from Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails. With the smoke machine cranked to 11, Reznor led his tight company through a setlist that, on paper, delivered. [...]

The Decemberists, led by singer-guitarist Colin Meloy, spun more of their complex narratives and melodies at the Fillmore on Tuesday. Photos by Lucia De Giovanni.
There is a scene in many a classic Hollywood musical in which the entire cast comes together for a dramatic, apropos-of-nothing explosion of musical narrative, replete with outlandish costumes, grand effects and electrifying vocals. Tuesday’s Decemberists show at the Fillmore Auditorium felt much like such an act — so stunningly emotional, so grandiose in style and so theatrical in effect that [...]

The Pack A.D. almost didn’t stop through Denver on Memorial Day, but we’re glad they did. Photos and text by Jason Claypool.
Monday night’s the Pack A.D. show at the Hi-Dive was a bright spot in a day filled with torrents of rain. Even a leak in the roof and a puddle on the floor weren’t enough to permanently dampen any spirits, especially once the Vancouver duo (drummer Maya Miller and vocalist/guitarist Becky Black) sunk their claws into the crowd.

John Mazzucco, the one-man-band and known as the Limbs, again proved his musical versatility at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday. Photos by Jason Claypool.
Saturday was my second Limbs show, and it mirrored the first in energy and talent. To call it a one-man-band, or a solo act, or blues or rock or funk or metal, is not enough. John Mazzucco — and his extremely talented appendages and voice — can rip through a few styles with ease.

VAST, which stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater, covered the breadth of its catalog at the Bluebird on Friday. Photos by Jason Claypool.
Austin, Texas electro-rock act VAST ripped through a long set of crowd favorites to a packed, sweaty house at the Bluebird Theater on Friday night. Old and new songs had the audience singing along, reminding me just how varied their catalog is — not to mention how pervasive their music was in my soundtrack of the ’90s. L.A.-based openers Endless Hallway played a [...]

“Fiddle” and “deadly” don’t usually appear in the same sentence together — unless you’re talking about Carrie Rodriguez. Photos and text by Jason Claypool.
From Belfast, by way of Minneapolis? From Austin, by way of New York City? The mix of influences was simply stunning at Thursday’s show at the Soiled Dove Underground.