Behold the awesome majesty of the Lego Sequencer MR II. This brilliant instrument is the work of Yoshi Akai, an avant garde artist/musician/audio mad scientist from Japan currently blowing the minds of folks the world over from his base in Sweden. Akai has turned a background in textile art and…
See photos from Babes Around Denver’s anniversary party, plus an Oscar party at MCA, on the slideshow page…
Over the weekend, singer-songwriter Mark Linkous, the mastermind of Sparklehorse (whom we profiled more than a decade ago), reportedly took his own life. He was most famous for his success with his own band, but he most recently worked with Danger Mouse and filmmaker David Lynch on Dark Night of…
200 Million Years • Achille Lauro • The Sunset Curse • Spouses 03.5.10 | Meadowlark It has been a long time since 200 Million Years played a show. The band’s been busy cutting a new EP and folding a hundred copies into little pyramids. Those were in the back of…
Dead Voices On Air • cEvin Key • Orbit Service 03.06.10 | Larimer Lounge A dark ambience enhanced by a nearly subsonic bass drone signaled the start of the first Orbit Service show in over four years. When the foursome began playing, there were no real breaks, just interconnecting pieces…
Matt LaBarge, co-owner of the popular South Broadway spots hi-dive and Sputnik, says he’s all set to open his third spot, The Lost Lake Lounge, at 5 p.m. tonight. He’s turned the former Bulldog Bar space, and Mr. Von’s Almo before that, into something of a cabin-styled lounge since that’s…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Regret Night has been stretching to nipping at the coat tails of Denver’s pop scene for a little over a few years now. On stage, the act consistently delivers energetic performances. Living the Night Life, the band’s newest, dropping tonight at the Marquis Theater, represents a humbling progression in Regret…
If the world of hip-hop is big enough to encompass any imaginable subject, then the world of novelty rap is even bigger, for it can encompass any number of unimaginable subjects (like how spry your granny is, or maybe how Christians aren’t supposed to hug from the front before marriage)…
Looking over the Oscar nominations for best scores this year is a bit underwhelming, but with the event just of couple days away we figured now was the best time to really break down the nominations and take a close look. Listening through the nominations we see a pretty good…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Ever notice that the word “music” doesn’t appear anywhere in there? And yet the Academy takes it upon itself each year to choose the best original song from movie soundtracks. Beside the occasional dark-horse fluke in the form of Elliott Smith or…
As music critics — and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music — the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to right now?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats (and kittens) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up…
Update: And then there was one. The results are in, and as expected, Haeley Vaughn was just voted off American Idol, which leaves Lilly Scott as the only remaining contestant from Colorado. Wow! We just got a chance to see Lilly Scott’s American Idol performance from last night. Ballsy! That’s…
Remember the heady days of season three, when Michael was tossing watermelons off the roof of Dunder-Mifflin and The Office was the funniest thing on TV? Unfortunately, the franchise pretty much ran out of awesome more than a year ago. Tonight, NBC will air their second hour long Jim-Pam sap-fest…
The video above is the latest viral sensation on the Internet, garnering 120,000 views in the three days since it was posted (today is day four). It’s a brilliant, touching and hilarious story of one man’s efforts to win back the girl who left him — and who can’t relate…
As we get more and more trailers for the upcoming Tron movie I’m getting more and more excited for no apparent reason. I didn’t even like Tron to begin with. In fact, I thought it was boring with the exception of Syd Mead’s awesome Light cycles. In my effort to…
It’s hard to excited about an arena. Any arena. I mean, we’re talking about a place whose sole purpose for existing is to host large scale events that are impersonal by nature, and often times marked by shoddy sound and over priced drinks. And while I can’t rightly speak to…
The sign posted by the door at 3602 East Colfax Avenue reads: “Bar Closed. Remember the Alamo!” But few dive-bar lovers would remember this Alamo, the first piano bar on Colfax that opened back in the early ’40s. After that, the space became Mr. Von’s Alamo, then the Monroe Tavern…
Like most atmospheric bands of the last decade and a half, 200 Million Years (due at the Meadowlark on Friday, March 5) definitely learned a thing or two from Radiohead’s penchant for mixing ambitious pop music with a deep experimental streak. The act also probably gleaned a bit from Sigur…
Years ago in Denver, there was a band that probably should have been lumped in with the goth scene but wasn’t really having it. Radio Scarlet definitely looked the part of death-rock fashion victims, and it’s entirely possible that these guys may have borrowed more than a bit from Rozz…
Despite the Anglocentricity of its name, Philadelphia’s A Sunny Day in Glasgow is far from some Belle and Sebastian clone. Instead, the coed ensemble reaches toward the heavens with a wispy, wintry shoegaze sound that’s as abstract as it is dizzying. Like a shitstorm in a teacup, A Sunny Day’s…
