Experience film and the urban environment in novel ways at Displacement: Cinema Out of Site, a collaborative project between TIE (The International Experimental Film Exposition) and the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Atop a public parking garage, filmmaker Christopher May of TIE will…
If you’re getting tired of that inescapable electro house sound, consider checking out D. Ramirez. This English DJ was an early champion of the now-ubiquitous style, but he’s since abandoned it for a deeper, more subtle approach that exists at the juncture of deep house and techno, with a splash…
You want the rock? The Outta Controllers bring the rock. All kinds — garage, metal, punk, maybe even a little bit of post-punk and hardcore. And while this omnivorous appreciation of all things loud and fast is both admirable and functional, a little bit of focus could go a long…
The Houses’ approach to music may be “more is more” (aren’t there like forty of them in the band?) but their approach to design is definitely “less is more” and it results in some striking, beautiful design work such as this flier for the group’s Summer EP release at the…
If you’re thinking of hiking the Colorado Trail, a 500-mile hiking trail that stretches from Denver to Durango and covers almost every type of terrain our fair state has to offer, the first step you take should be online. Thanks to the efforts of Jerry Brown of Bear Creek Survey…
Congratulations are due to the fine young men of the Epilogues. For the second year in a row, the band is one of the winners of the Ernie Ball battle of the bands, earning them a coveted slot on that stage for this Sunday’s Warped Tour date at Invesco. The…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @Gaiam: The Twitter feed of Boulder-based company Gaiam, which makes “products for a healthy mind, body, home and planet.” The firm’s three-person Twitter team tweets contests (win…
Japan offers us this week’s entry into the weird of the world. The song is “Hibi no Neiro” by Japanese group Sour. It’s actually quite a nice little tune, sort of like a Japanese Belle and Sebastian who stop for a psych-rock/free jazz freakout now and then — which I…
Hark, forsooth! What din from yonder tavern rings? Why, ’tis the Bard himself! And thine ears deceive thee not: This time, he bringeth the Metal and hath come to shred. At long last, someone has finally combined the Olde English power of William Shakespeare with the modern English power of…
Even if you weren’t lucky enough to score tickets for Phish at Red Rocks tonight (or you just don’t care for that brand of seafood), you can still enjoy a visual rendition of the band, along with plenty of other acts, at a rock poster exhibit and sale titled A…
If you long for the glory days of progressive house, ache for the smooth, propulsive and polished mixes of Sasha and John Digweed past, you need to listen to 16 Bit Lolitas (due at Vinyl on Friday, July 31). Amsterdam-based Peter Kriek and Ariaan Olieroock are busy re-creating that same…
The five-song debut EP from Hearts Like Lions kicks off with “Through the Cracks,” an irresistible, luminescent monster of a track. Balancing edgy, epic guitar lines with simple synths and an unforgettable vocal, the tune references a large swath of the ’80s new wave without pointing too closely in any…
Social media and tech website Mashable reports that a fifteen-year-old Colorado boy named Dustin Simantob was able to lead police to his stolen property, thanks to a nifty new feature of the iPhone. It’s called Find My iPhone, and that’s just what it did. Simantob was able to provide police…
Another week, another badass flier. This one is from a fine designer named Nix, who does a lot of work for the promoters Zombie Rock here in town. This classic and classy looking poster, advertising Three Bad Jacks and Mad Dog & the Smoking Jays at Benders this Saturday, shows…
Update: If you’re wondering what a house show in Highlands Ranch looks like — uh, like, say the one mentioned below — wonder no more. Video after the jump. This week’s top flier is advertising a show for cutting edge sounds of local acts Solar Bear, Colors, So Yeah, We’re…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @Zaibatsu — One of our local Twitter power users. Zaibatsu — aka Reg Saddler — is an IT consultant by day, social media rockstar by night (probably…
Received word that Tyler “Danger” Jacobson is ending his eight-year residency at Lipgloss on August 28. Jacobson actually made the announcement this past weekend on his Danger Radio show on Indie 101.5, but with most of the state’s music writers otherwise occupied, it took a day or two for word…
The Boulder Daily Camera reported today that Boulder County has installed rules covering the use of social media by employees (CBS4 Denver also blogged about it). The gist of the rules seems to be requiring permission from a department head to post anything to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Really? Boulder County…
For this week’s entry into the annals of WTF, I bring you you something really, really special. And by special, I mean like the kids at your school that rode their own, efficiency-sized bus and had to wear helmets even though they weren’t on any team. It’s an unbelievably weird…
Ever wondered how your doctor stacks up compared to other doctors? Thanks to the Colorado Business Group on Health, you may be able to stop wondering and find out with a few mouse clicks. The nonprofit health organization has just launched a service based on scientific surveys that tells you…
Right now, in his secret dance-music laboratory, DJ Soup is hard at work cooking up some intriguing dancefloor takes on the Ideal Fathers crazed, kinetic post-punk sound. The plan is to release a remix EP of all of the songs on the Fathers’ recent debut in at least one remix…
From its opening scene, when a homeless man commits suicide after being refused a dollar by a passing businessman, to the close, where two naked men leap from the water like dolphins, director Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99 is one odd duck. The film takes a look at the lives of the…
