Danny de Zayas has a One Track Mind for free (and legal) song downloads — and you should too. Photo by Nina Barry.
While some music fans have voracious, insatiable appetites for new music — and the news, MP3s, critical essays, videos and live shows that go along with that kind of an addiction — most fans can devote only so much time to their new-music fix.
And that’s where One Track Mind comes in. The Denver-based music blog presents one free, legal song download each day [...]

Brandon Flowers’ seamless melding of rock influences guided the Killers through their Red Rocks set on Wednesday night. Photos by Brian Carney.
At 9:15 p.m., an hour after the Nervous Wreckcords had finished their set, the Killers took the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The restless audience had packed themselves to the uppermost general admission rows, coming within a few hundred seats of selling out the 9,450 seat capacity venue. I was ready to see anything at that point other than the group of mid-20s revelers [...]

Ed Post, one of the most consistently discerning voices at Radio 1190 for the last four years, will host his final Under the Mattress show on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Ed’s Facebook page.
Oddly enough, Boyz II Men said it best: It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
And that’s why Ed Post hasn’t said goodbye to yesterday. Each weekend, Post’s Sunday-afternoon radio show Under the Mattress — heard on CU-Boulder’s KVCU/Radio 1190 Sundays at 4 p.m. — revels in yesterday, digging up the best and [...]

If you love live music outdoors but can’t afford the indie dance-rock party of Monolith this weekend, check out the 7th annual Sunnyside Music Festival. The free event takes over Chaffee Park on Saturday with a community carnival of live music, kid’s activities, local food, neighborhood boutique vendors and Colorado crafted beer and wine.

Is Deer Tick the best band playing this weekend’s Monolith Festival at Red Rocks? I’ll say yes.

Few records are actual epiphanies, but “Born on Flag Day” — the second release from Rhode Island five-piece Deer Tick — is a sterling, heartbreaking accomplishment that is already one of the true triumphs of 2009. The album is a throwback to 1970s-born, Americana-hijacked rock ’n’ roll, but the songs are potent blasts of desperation and depth.

Monotonix is one of the more memorable acts playing this weekend’s Monolith Festival at Red Rocks. Photo, taken at the Sasquatch Festival earlier this summer, by Joe McCabe.
A music festival has done its job when the most memorable act of a weekend turns out to be a band you’d previously never heard of.
And for those who missed the band at South by Southwest, ACL, Coachella, CMJ, Sasquatch and other festivals, here’s your introduction to Monotonix, which plays the Monolith Festival at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The Israeli [...]

Monolith Festival director Josh Baker is in high spirits for this weekend’s event, which takes over Red Rocks on Saturday and Sunday. Photo by Laurie Scavo.
Town hall-style communication is catching on. The Obama administration philosophy has made its way to music festivals as the organizers behind this weekend’s Monolith Festival (running Saturday and Sunday at Red Rocks Amphitheatre) are opening the booking process to the fans — and seeing promising results.

Rivers Cuomo and Weezer upstaged an irritating, distracting headlining set from a reunited Blink-182. Photos by Joe McCabe.
A week before the Blink-182 and Weezer show on Sunday at Fiddler’s Green, a Blink-hating friend remarked how sad it was that Weezer wasn’t headlining. I reasoned that it was Blink’s reunion tour, after all, and at their best they could go toe-to-toe with Weezer any day of the week.

Experimental Dental School: Do it for the kids. Or to the kids. Whatever you do, just do it. Photo from experimentaldental.com.
Out of reverence for the “quirky” self-possessed preteen in your life, get thee to an Experimental Dental School show.
Casually drop the acronym as you ease into that borrowed beater of yours — “Dude, gotta head to that XDS show post-haste” — and rev the engine as you peel out. You’ll elicit a knockout combo of folded arms and rolled eyes from your aforementioned young charge, [...]

Brookyln’s Woods had both sides of the freak-folk divide covered at the Hi-Dive on Tuesday. Photo of European tour from the band’s MySpace profile.
I shouldn’t have been impressed. The musical technicalities behind Brooklyn band Woods’ performance at the Hi-Dive Tuesday night were just a little off all around. Jeremy Earl’s falsetto coo was a hair out of tune the entire show. The drummer’s grooves were crooked, like he was taking stabs at the backbeat in a dimly-lit room. Guitar solos were choppy and sloppy and [...]