Is White Leather for you? Find out by answering “true” or “false” to the following three statements: 1) My record collection is full of ’90s pop punk and ’80s glam metal, and I always wished someone would combine the most egregious clichés from both. 2) As far as vocalists go,…
Ah, Claude VonStroke. The name screams Eurodouche, and for good reason: It’s the nom de beats of Barclay Crenshaw, who came up with it while making up ridiculous European DJ names with friends. But it’s a name that’s come to mean incredible dance music, whether he’s producing, remixing or deejaying…
Good news for at least some job seekers: The Denver Business Journal reported today that a recent survey by ConsultNet, an IT and engineering staffing agency, shows that 25 percent of surveyed companies expect to hire more IT and engineering staff in the next six months. That’s up from 10…
Our flier of the week is a doozy this time around. It’s for the Get Down party, which is moving to Beta this Friday, July 3, bringing a whole slew of talent including Whygee & Brikabrak, Input, 1984 and a bunch more. But most importantly, for FotW purposes, it gives…
If you weren’t lucky enough to catch CacheFlowe’s performance of his awesome, dubsteppy cover of Kraftwerk’s “Computer World,” today’s your lucky day because he has released a video of the performance, and we’ve got it for you. Actually, even if you did catch it, you’re still lucky, because along with…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @TCGO1974: The Twitter feed of Kamtin Mohager, aka The Chain Gang of 1974, one of Denver’s up-and-coming musical exports and an active Twit. Currently, Mr. Mohager is…
As someone who’s been blogging since before that was a word — I created and maintained a personal journal-type site back in 1998, using HTML hand-coded in Notepad and uploaded to my server via FTP — I’ve been there for most every change the medium has seen. But one thing…
Just got word that local grindcore band Zombie Hate Brigade have signed with Crash Music, a national label out of Phoenix that focuses on heavy metal and rock. The band’s debut release on Crash will be an expanded, multimedia-enhanced CD of their recent self-released self-titled album. Fans will get the…
As noted in a blog earlier today, new media, and social media in particular, played a huge part in disseminating the news of Michael Jackson’s death yesterday. Chances are most of us heard about it directly or indirectly through Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. It’s also worth pointing out that it…
This week’s adventure in freakiness comes from the very early days of MTV, and the very latest days of former Monkees member Mike Nesmith’s solo career (wait, he had a solo career?). And I have to say that it is an amazing exercise in sheer WTF from the first frame…
Just got word of another free, limited-time download from local dubstep producer Alert. This EP is cleverly titled Glass House on the Left and it’s made up of three dark, atmospheric tracks of spacious, shifty dubstep goodness. It kicks off with “Badvibe,” the most energetic of the three, before shifting…
I mentioned this last week in my Twitter Tuesday post, but in case you missed it, there’s a tweetup tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing Company. In other words, a bunch of people who kinda-sorta know each other from Twitter will be hanging out, drinking beer and…
You’re looking at the first image of Wall Street — the ref-bribing, match-fixing, gabacho jerkoff alter ego of former Machine Gun Blues frontman Aaron Collins. As reported here not so long ago (see the original blog here), Collins has turned his years of of experience abusing his body to a…
While searching for a program on self-portraiture to complement the Mizel Museum’s current exhibit My Self: Original Self Portraits, curator Georgina Kolber turned to that ubiquitous online medium: the blog. “Blogging certainly seems to be the new thing, especially microblogging with Facebook status updates and Twitter. How are blogs changing…
As the father of a musically inclined young woman, I can say there just aren’t enough role models and opportunities to help encourage her to seize the day, rock-and-roll style. But now Girls Rock Denver is out to change that. “Girls Rock Denver is basically the first non-profit rock-and-roll day…
The music industry may be ailing, but concert posters remain a healthy art form, with exciting, diverse artists working to create beautiful and eye-catching promotional illustration. Ink Lounge Gallery is bringing two of the best to town to talk about a new exhibit titled Made in the Midwest: Prints by…
Funny, sexy and slightly insane, Princess Superstar is unquestionably a distinctive talent. As a recording artist, she takes a clever and far-out approach that mashes hip-hop, pop and electro into funky, overtly sexual and hilarious anthems such as “Bad Babysitter,” with its lyrics about sending the kids to bed so…
Tonight, Denver-area web designers and developers — and anyone else interested in doing business online, including marketers, writers and mobile/wireless developers — are meeting up at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, for Refresh Denver’s monthly meeting. Refresh Denver is the local chapter of Refresh, an organization dedicated to promoting good design,…
In this week’s Pole Position, we’ve chosen to spotlight this intriguing design for Lipgloss’s eight-year anniversary this Friday, June 26 at La Rumba. This typography heavy design is a little different from the usual flier, but that’s what caught our eye. It’s bold, stark, distinctive and packs a lot of…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @TheDatingDr: If you’re plagued by questions like, “Why can’t I find that special someone?” and “Why do my dates always make excuses for having to go…
I got an e-mail bulletin this morning from Denver DA Mitch Morrissey, warning me to be aware of a Craigslist scam involving unreal deals on rental properties. I’ve moved twice in the past eighteen months and both times I have seen a number of these — the first time, I…
The latest trend on the Internet is local, and new media juggernaut The Huffington Post is wasting no time leading the charge into desirable local markets. Not too long ago, the site launched its first local foray with the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post (around the same time that…
