Los Angeles based Andy Caldwell claims his ambitions were small when he started out a decade and a half ago: He just wanted to hear his tunes on gigantic speakers in front of a huge crowd. It’s safe to say that he’s exceeded those expectations many times over by now…
As we learn to integrate each new technological marvel into our lives, one of the inevitable steps along the way is embarrassing yourself in a horrifying new way with it. Shortly after the phone was invented, the drunk dial was invented. It was probably the first person who took naked…
We heard some rumblings a month ago that this might happen, but we were hoping against hope it wouldn’t. Well, hope got played, because today Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) officially announced that they are calling it quits. The poetic and obscure post names “built-in contradiction” as the…
I like Denver-based, danceable post-punk outfit the Ideal Fathers a lot. I like the bleepy, chirping 8-bit soundscapes of chiptunes a lot. So you can imagine my excitement today when I stumbled upon a completely kickass chiptunes remix/reimagining of one of my very favorite Ideal Fathers tracks whilst wasting time…
If you like free music — and I know you like free music — point your web-browsing machine over to One Track Mind, a newish blog offering a daily song review and download of said reviewed song. It’s a Denver-based operation and, according to its About page, it’s staffed by…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @ColoradoFilm: What better place to start off the movie edition of Twitter Tuesday than the official Twitter feed of Colorado’s Office of Film, Television and Media? Follow this…
Update: So you don’t have to scour the YouTubes, we’ve helpfully embedded the video, direct from KDVR into this post. After the jump, enjoy a brief interview with Danielle (she explains that whole “Ate the Sandwich” bit if you’re curious and haven’t heard the story yet) before she plays her…
Venerable Colorado dance music resource Unnet has been going through some changes lately, revamping the site to make it even more of a hub for Colorado’s dance music scene. One key addition was the introduction of a mobile-friendly site for all you folks that like to read the ‘Nets from…
If you’re a Denver-area podcaster — or someone looking to start a podcast or even just interested in the medium — head down to the Wynkoop tomorrow night and meet some of your fellow ‘casters. There’s no real agenda beyond the group’s general purpose of “lively discussion, hands on practice…
The Beastie Boys have just announced, via YouTube video, that Adam Yauch (aka MCA) has cancer in one of his parotid glands. As a result, they are canceling all tour dates for this summer and pushing back the scheduled September 17 release of their album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1…
If you missed the Mile High Music Fest — and I did too, thanks to a wedding that was occurring simultaneously — or if you were there, but were just so trashed your memories are hazy, you can relive it in glorious lo-fi, shaky-cam glory on YouTube. A quick search…
The Denver Public Library is embracing this whole new media/social media thing wholeheartedly. They’re active Twits: @DenverLibrary is the basic account, plus there’s the account for the library’s Fresh City Life program @FreshCityLife and others as well. You an find both of those on Facebook, too: DPL here and Fresh…
Our weekly voyage into the sheer WTFuckery of the web delivers us to the insufferable presence of Folerio. This pencil-mustached, bewigged hipster paragon apparently has a real, honest-to-god record deal, a fact that makes me want to hit myself in the face with a shovel. And you’ll want to hit…
D1g1tal Mayh3m, a new site for showcasing the work of Colorado DJs and electronic music artists launched recently. The site aims to offer a forum for some of the less commercial strains of electronic music to be heard. Specifically, the site offers free, streaming mixes in the genres of ambient,…
Boulder-based jazz/afrobeat/electronic (and it’s no coincidence that those initials almost spell “jam”) outfit the Motet are releasing their new album Dig Deep for free. The impetus behind this altruistic act is simple, according to drummer/bandleader Dave Watts: no one is buying records anymore, so you may as well give them…
Mashable, probably the Internet’s premier website covering social media in all of its forms, is coming to Denver Thursday, August 6 as part of a six-city road trip to promote the Summer of Social Good campaign. The idea is to leverage the power of social media for the benefit of…
In a unique arrangement, Suburban Home Records has come to an agreement to do distribution and, through the Vinyl Collective sublabel, a vinyl release of Gregory Alan Isakov’s self-released record This Empty Northern Hemisphere. Under terms of the deal, Suburban Home will handle distribution of the record and help make…
When you do it yourself, you get to showcase your talents — but also your faults. Here we have the good and the bad of Stu Basham. He wrote the songs, played most of the instruments, sings and presumably produced. And while he is a talented piano and keyboard player…
To see some really innovative DJs, sometimes you have to go to non-traditional venues — like a bowling alley on a Tuesday night. That’s where you’ll find DJ Soup, last year’s Showcase winner for best non-traditional DJ and one of Denver’s most exciting talents behind the decks. Soup got his…
Renaissance fairs are pretty much old hat: Dress up in tights, speak in faux olde English, eat a roast turkey leg, watch the Society for Creative Anachronism knock the hell out of each other with padded swords, yadda yadda. So to spice up the local medieval festival, Pagosa Springs added…
Today, video-game competitions are serious business, with tens of thousands of dollars in prize money at stake, sponsorship deals and all the other trappings of a big-league sport. But there was a time when video game competitions were much simpler – and probably a lot more fun, too. If you…
Our favorite flier of the week this time out goes to this gem informing us of a lovely show featuring Dead Confederate, The Overcasters and Hawks of Paradise this Friday, July 17 at the Bluebird. It received top honors this week for its vaguely steampunk vibe, reminding us of futures…
