Disco Nouveau calls with a striking, minimal design

If you’re going to advertise a disco night, what better image to choose than the all-powerful disco ball? None better. Even as disco’s influence across the land waned, the glittery allure of the disco ball never faltered. Everyone loves a disco ball. And we love this flier. Not just for…

Rhythms opens in former Trail Dust location this weekend

After a thirty-year run, Denver’s last Trail Dust Steak House closed on Christmas Eve of 2009. (The Trail Dust in Westminster had closed several years earlier, and the building it occupied just literally bit the dust.) Vicky Wagner, whose husband’s family owns the space at 7101 South Clinton Street in…

Suite Two Hundred celebrates Playboy Club’s 50th Anniversary

As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Playboy Club and the Playboy Bunny, Suite Two Hundred (1427 Larimer Street) will be one of fifty clubs in fifty different cities around the world throwing parties. On Friday, June 11, Christina Santiago, Playboy’s 2003 Playmate of the year, will host the…

Eels coming to the Ogden Theatre

Mark Oliver Everett, the man sometimes known as E and the guy behind Eels, and his band will hit the Ogden Tuesday, October 5. On the Eels website, Everett says End Times, the band’s most recent album (released in January on Vagrant Records), is a “divorce album” with a modern…

Go shopping with Die Antwoord

It’s been a while since we checked in with everyone’s favorite South African rap-rave act Die Antwoord (since Ralphie brought us a micro-review of the act’s first-ever US set at Coachella), but this should make up for it. The act is starring in the latest “What’s in my Bag?” entry…

Watch some pretty lines with interactive pocket-art Thicket

Yesterday’s news might have been a bit too iPhone-centric for normal, non-tech-dork human beings, but for those of us enthralled with shiny, touchable objects, it’s a format and medium we’ve come to love. While the iPhone and iPad are often lauded as great media consumption devices they’re rarely noted for…

Battle Talk gets dubstep in your hip-hop

On the just-released Battle Talk Volume 1, four Denver DJs have joined forces to create one big mix that blends dubstep’s whomp, atmosphere and production style with hip-hop, turntablism and funk. The mix is a showcase for the talent of Ale Fillman, Odeed, Chewie and Zeno, not to mention an…

Dweezil Zappa keeps his father’s music alive at the Paramount

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 06.07.10 | The Paramount Theatre Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday’s two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had dissected the original stereo mixes of Frank Zappa songs…

Further, Band of Horses, Uproar Festival shows announced

Phil Lesh & Bob Weir’s group Further, who helped kick off things at the 1stBank Center in March, return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25. The two Grateful Dead members will be joined by RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti,…

Top ten political thefts of music

There’s a certain political group that pays a lot of lip service to individual property rights — raise your hand if this sounds familiar: Lower taxes, gun ownership, capitalism! As it turns out, there seems to be one aspect of individual property that certain group does not seem to respect:…

Cephalic Carnage gets nod on the silver screen

Have you seen Mike Judge’s latest flick, Extract? No? Allow us to save you the trouble: The movie, which came out last year, is occasionally amusing; it’s no where near as funny as Office Space or as incisive as Idiocracy. If anything, it leans far closer to the former in…

Melvins, Jack Johnson top sellers at local record stores

The thick and sludgy new album from the Melvins, The Bride Screamed Murder, released last week on Ipecac, grabbed the top spot at Albums on the Hill and came in fourth at Twist & Shout for the week ending June 6. Jack Johnson’s new platter, To the Sea, meanwhile, released…

The MTV Movie Awards were last night, but who cares?

While you were out enjoying the lovely weather last night, MTV aired its 19th annual Movie Award show. The broadcast featured such thought provoking awards as “Most WTF Moment” and “Best Villain.” We’re pretty certain the MTV Movie Awards haven’t actually mattered to anyone for the better part of the…

La Roux set the wayback machine to 1986 at the Ogden

La Roux • boyhollow 06.05.10 | Ogden Theater Boyhollow opened this show, and his DJ set was a nice weaving together of modern, house music and tastefully chosen pop and rock songs to match the pace being set at that given moment. Kind of a more original take on Big…

Hot Congress and Long Spoon’s party rocked our block off as expected

Hot Congress / Long Spoon Block Party 06.05.10 | Meadowlark • Larimer Lounge The upside to a big, multiple-venue show like the Hot Congress/Long Spoon Block Party this past Saturday is that there’s always something awesome to see. The downside: There’s always more than one awesome thing to see at…