with David Banner & Little Brother backed by the Rhythm Roots Allstars
Doors/Show: 8 PM/9 PM Ages: All Tickets: $35.00
Talib Kweli and David Banner will hit the road together this fall to co-headline the sophomore outing of the Hip Hop Live! Tour. The 19 city run features 10 piece outfit Rhythm Roots All Stars as backing band for all artists and will make a stop at the legendary Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado. Support for the first two thirds of the trek comes from Little Brother, with B.O.B. stepping in for the last week.
SONY will be giving away one pair of professional EX-series headphones to every person who purchases a ticket to Hip Hop Live at The Fox! Headphones will be distributed the night of the show.
Ever since emerging as a member of Black Star in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli is one of the few artists making commercially viable music that matters. The Brooklyn bred rapper's hard-hitting music has been able to educate and entertain simultaneously. So it is no wonder that at the peak of their fame, both Jay-Z and 50 Cent named Talib Kweli as one of their favorite rappers.With Ear Drum, his first album released on his own Blacksmith Music and his sixth album overall, Kweli has delivered his career-defining work, a polished collection showcasing his advanced lyricism and his penchant for picking music that resonates long after the song ends. "The image of the ear and of the drum are powerful enough by themselves, but when you put them together, it's an instrument that's in your body that helps you hear," he explains. "They're also two very simple, yet powerful words. I wanted to focus on finding a sound that makes you move, and that's where the word 'Ear Drum' popped in my head."
The Onion presents YAEL NAIM w/ guests "New Soul" singer Yael Naim gained international popularity when the song was featured in an Apple commercial and became one of the most downloaded tracks of this year.
Blessed with an unsettlingly pure voice and an incredible agility at composition, the Israeli singer with her jet-black hair fumbled a long time before succeeding with this collection of ballads that meander through folk and pop, with an elegiac frugality and multi-coloured fantasy. If the creation of this record was long and painful, the birth of its author as an artistic personality seems even more miraculous today, in a domain where everything seems to have been already sung or played. To the point where with Yael Naim music that was once simply beautiful has now magically found a lost grace.
Date/Time: October 20, 2008, 8:00 pm Door Time: 7:00 pm Audience: All Ages Seating: All Seated Reserved/GA Ticket Availability: Yes On Sale Date/Time: August 23, 2008 Internet On Sale Time: 10:00 am Box Office On Sale Time: 12:00 pm General Admission: $19.50 Reserved Tickets: $24.50
Saturday, November 1- with Paper Bird & Dust on the Breakers
doors 8:00pm, show 9:00pm
The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place.
They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music.
Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debutA Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening.
On Sale Friday, September 19
October 31: GA / 21+ / $32.50
November 1: GA / All Ages / $32.50
For more information please contact Sarah Coffield @ (303) 998-9412.
Tickets are on sale now at The Boulder Theater Box Office. Call (303) 786-7030 for tickets by phone.
Ever since emerging as a member of Black Star in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli is one of the few artists making commercially viable music that matters. The Brooklyn bred rapper's hard-hitting music has been able to educate and entertain simultaneously. So it is no wonder that at the peak of their fame, both Jay-Z and 50 Cent named Talib Kweli as one of their favorite rappers.
The Onion presents 
The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place.