October 10, 2016
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Dinosaur Jr. Owns the Bluebird & Many Ears
By Billy ThiemeWhen the stagehand started walking across the Bluebird stage last Tuesday night carrying a plastic bag and handing out bright…
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One of Denver’s most popular New Year’s Eve parties is about to change. For the first time in about a…
At the risk of eliciting a chorus of jaded groans: Yes, Peter Hook & the Light, led by the bassist…
The band’s show at the Bluebird Theater last Sunday night turned out to be a perfect place to show off their emulative prowess, featuring a playlist of songs heavily influenced as much by old school bands like Joy Division, Bauhaus, the Cure and Soft Cell as Interpol and Nine Inch Nails, and with more than a bit of Rick James’ funk.
. . . the five-piece showed the surging Denver throng that it has reached a sort of musical plateau, one where it can perform just about any collection of new, old and really old material with aplomb and brilliance. They can whip any crowd into a throbbing fury, and then easily coax it back into placidity.
Though [Patrick] screamed often in anger about the disgust he holds for the situation we find our society in — centered around the Iraq war, but certainly not limited to it — he could have been reading off of cue cards at times.