Imagine, if you will, a thugged out, South African version of Vanilla Ice with a hard-on for drum-and-bass inspired beats. Now imagine that he has friends that all look like they escaped from a freak show and/or a David Lynch movie. Now stop imagining, because that shit is real and…
So, here’s some good news for fans of adventurous music in the Mile High City: the long-quiet post-punk/dance/experimental band Constellations have announced they’ll be returning from limbo in 2010. This has got us pretty damn excited — before disappearing a few years ago, we considered Constellations to be one of…
If aliens arrived tomorrow, would they be malevolent foes bent on conquest or enlightened beings offering wisdom and peace? What if they were simply refugees, sick, tired and powerless? That’s the concept behind Neill Blomkamp’s brilliant District 9, showing tonight as part of the University of Colorado’s International Film Series’…
The music of Congorock sounds like the bastard child of hard house and a coked-up, hard-partying Nintendo Game Boy. The Italian DJ/producer is quickly garnering a reputation for party-starting tracks and mixes that cross all boundaries and take no prisoners. Take his debut release, “Runark,” for example: It kicks off…
If M.C. Escher was into doing collage, we think he might come up with something a lot like this week’s flier of the week. The bizarre, impossible geometry and wash of colors of the main image is eye catching, as a good flier should be. But it’s the weird little…
Unless you’ve been living in a cave on an island somewhere, you’ve probably gathered that Lost is starting its sixth and final season tonight. Haven’t been watching? No problem: you can get caught up on the series in eight minutes, fifteen seconds with this helpful video. And if you’re anything…
Note: After the story, see how you would have done at Geek Bowl IV. How’s your knowledge of the sex lives of giraffes? What about homosexual subtext in popular film? And can you name the two alternate types of Froot Loops cereal? That’s what it takes to win the Geek…
It doesn’t take a lot of money and some big-name director to come up with a great video. All you really need is a good concept and a lot of creativity. Case in point: this video for the Lords of Fuzz song “C of B.” As far as we can…
Do you like horses? Sure, we all do. One might even go so far as to say horses are amazing. That’s what this song claims. And in making that claim, it generates so much awesome we had to offer you not one, but two versions of it — at no…
Video games get a bad rap. It’s all Dr. Phil telling us we’re addicts and President Obama telling us to go outside an play. Well, we call bullshit. Turns out video games may be the greatest boon to society ever. As well as alleviating Terminal Boredom Syndrome and giving us…
Examples of portraiture, from the sixteenth-century work of Bernardo Buontalenti through contemporary pieces by Bill Amundson, Richard Phillips and Chuck Close, are on display in a Denver Art Museum exhibit called Face to Face. “Following drawing through four centuries of art, these wonderful examples of the portrait in some cases…
Fabulous prizes! Ridiculous questions! Even more ridiculous tasks! Why settle for watching a game show on TV when you can watch it — and participate — live and in person? At Sexual Tension, Denver’s own weekly live game-show event, you can join hosts Princess and Fred, pick a team to…
The Finnish city of Helsinki is one of extremes, where daylight lingers for nineteen hours during the summer yet is present for a mere six at the winter solstice. It’s the kind of place that might embrace a sunny, open approach to music at one moment while delving into the…
This week’s top flier rode into that slot on a wave of nostalgia (and indigestion). That image of a classic TV dinner poked us deep int he subconscious and stirred up memories of being plunked down in front of the old boob tube in our youth, served up with Swanson’s…
Storied Denver band Vaux is no more, which means no more Vaux shows, which means the last time you saw them is literally the last time you saw them. That makes us sad, since Vaux were always one of the best, most visceral live bands going. But if we’re not…
Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like, a compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. View Larger…
Today over at XLR8R’s blog, Denver-based techno/IDM producer Scaffolding’s track “D-Tron” (we like to think that stands for “Denver Tron”), in its Michael Fakesch-remixed form, got a nice write-up, complete with free download. Fakesch (best known as part of Funkstörung) turns out a nice, loping techno number with acid synth…
Today’s video freakshow is framed as an appeal to superstar producer Timbaland. The young man who made the video is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter and a fan of Timba’s. He’s looking for a little help to become “as popular as Britney Spears,” as he explains in his halting English, and he’s…
If there’s a film equivalent to the punk rock movement, it’s got to be Troma Films. In titles such as Toxic Avenger, Redneck Zombies, Class of Nuke ’em High and many, many, many more, Troma took a punk approach to filmmakeing — forget the technical expertise, who cares if we…
If aliens and sentient vintage arcade machines got together and made hip-hop, it would sound a lot like Eprom. Since that will probably never happen, it’s lucky that we actually have Eprom to meld tortured breakbeats, mind-warping soundscapes and gut-wrenching bass in perfect measure. On tracks like “Ghost Hunter” and…
You see this kids? This flier for Ballistics, a dubstep party with Eprom and Hulk, is a near-perfect design. Every element is strong. It’s a great image. The color scheme is awesome. The carefully constructed logo is bold and memorable without being flashy or overdone. The textual elements are both…
It’s not everyday you’re struck with eternal truth while watching a sitcom, but it does happen. And while watching a rerun of 30 Rock the other day, it happened to me when one character offered to make another a mixtape and asked, “You like Phil Collins?” and was answered, “I…
