As you’ve probably heard by now, Andrew’s On Lincoln, one of our Westword Music Showcase venues, unexpectedly and inexplicably went dark last week. Bummer deal, but the Showcase must go on. As such, we’re moving the lineup that we had originally slated for Andrew’s down the block to HUNKS at…
This week’s flier proves that a great flier can be fashioned from very few elements. Just have a look at this Air Dubai flier. What do we have? a stark, stenciled image. Some type. A textured background. That’s it. And it totally works. It all starts with the wise, if…
Although the National has been at for a decade, the Brookyn-based indie rock group started gaining some serious traction with the release of 2007’s Boxer. The act’s latest effort, High Violet , debuted in the top five slots around the world, so it’s no surprise that the band, who has…
Just received word that Mighty 4 Denver, the B-boy gathering put together by the Lordz of Finesse crew, Paulskeee and Master Culture, is set to go down on Saturday, July 10. Launched in 2008, Mighty 4 Denver — celebrating the four-elements of hip-hop culture its named after — is now…
Paper Bird have been hinting at big news in the last few days and big news they delivered today: The group’s second full-length album When the River Took Flight — recorded by Bob Ferbache and mixed by John McVey at Coupe Studios — is slated to be released on July…
It was yet another glorious and glamorous weekend in the Mile High City, and we’ve got pictures to prove it. Lots of ’em. We sent our boy Aaron Thackeray out armed with his fancy, schmancy soul-stealing machinery to capture the various nightlife scenery, and he sent back flix of Insane…
Update: This morning, the Denver Film Society announced the full lineup for this year’s Film on the Rocks. See which acts are slated to perform after the jump. The Film on the Rocks 2010 schedule has been announced. Looks like the Denver Film Society is kicking things off with a…
It’s finally official: This past January, we spoke with Gamits mastermind Chris Fogal about getting the old band — which checked out entirely too early, if you ask us — back together again, dude (cue incredibly shoddy Cockney accent). We just received word from our pal Virgil over at Suburban…
Most attempts by the media and authorities to blame music for violence are patently ridiculous. Take those early attempts to pin the Columbine massacre on Marilyn Manson, a performer the shooters didn’t even like. But the mayhem-happy subculture that’s developed around the Insane Clown Posse can’t be so easily dismissed…
Ideal Fathers • Vicious Women • Fugitive Kind 05.28.10 | The Wasteland Although the Fugitive Kind from San Francisco may be the same band that former Blatz guitarist Robert Eggplant helped start, the female-fronted five-piece sounded like a more brutal Dead Kennedys fronted by a lead singer with the unfettered…
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…
If you’ve been meaning to catch Debajo Del Agua and haven’t done so yet — man! You better get on it. Tomorrow night may be your last chance for a long time. The outstanding ensemble is playing its final show at the Mercury Cafe before embarking on what they’re referring…
A moment of silence is in order for Gary Coleman. This afternoon, the diminutive star of the ’70s-era sitcom Diff’rent Strokes reportedly passed away at the age of 42 from the effects of a brain hemorrhage he suffered earlier this week. Not only did Coleman provide endless laughs as Arnold…
Somehow, when we spoke with 50 Cent on the phone recently for this week’s Rough Mixes entry, he neglected to mention anything about losing more than fifty pounds recently for an upcoming movie he’s starring in called Things Fall Apart. Weird, you’d think that he’d mention something like that. It’s…
Click play to witness the awe-inspiring trailer for the 1978 Ozploitation obscurity Stunt Rock. The band Sorcery (owners of one of the worst Wikipedia entries ever) delivers its wizard-filled brand of prog rock. Australian director Brian Trenchard-Smith delivers a buttload of stunts and a meager plot, about an Australian stuntman…
Wherever he is right now, Nick Madson has got to be breathing a huge sigh of relief. Thanks to Brian Corman, who lifted part of his valedictorian speech at Columbia University last week directly from Patton Oswalt’s “Physics for Poets” bit (38:38 above), when the random doucher category comes up…
Once upon a time not all that long ago, there was a group of badasses from Boulder who played rock and roll like the past three decades had never happened. Those boys, still in high school, rocked the socks right off their fans. Literally. Every time Rose Hill Drive played…
Just a month ago, Chez Cirque Dueling Pianos opened in the Landmark project in Greenwood Village. Now Wild Ivories, another dueling piano bar, is slated to open Friday, June 4, in the former Buca di Beppo space at 1400 Market Street. Caz Bzdek, who’s performed at Sing Sing and the…
The Horace Van Vaughn’s atmospheric sketches sound like someone in the band spent some time listening to Pink Floyd’s more obscure soundtrack work while taking a break from life and from writing more conventionally accessible music. The band’s latest opus, “The Flame” (in D Major, no less), is proof that…
Appearances to the contrary, “Colleen,” from the Heavy’s debut album, 2007’s Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, doesn’t feature the late Curtis Mayfield circa 1972 or his band at the time. That’s Kelvin Swaby singing, and along with the rest of the band, he’s managed to make soulful rock and roll…
Hip-hop producer and Gnarls Barkley member Danger Mouse may be known for dabbling with everyone from Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn to the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. But his partner in Broken Bells, James Mercer of the Shins, isn’t as notoriously adventurous. Danger Mouse outs Mercer’s latent experimentalism in Broken Bells’…
There was nothing simple about Days Away, the epic, progressive rock band that was a fixture on the post-hardcore circuit throughout the naughts. But when the group broke up in 2008, singer/guitarist Keith Goodwin and drummer Tim Arnold announced a total about-face: Good Old War. Influenced by far more basic…
