FAB MORVAN @ DENVER PRIDEFEST 2012 at CIVIC CENTER | 6.16.12 Denver PrideFest 2012 played host to the first solo American appearance of Fab Morvan — better known as the brown-eyed one in the pop group Milli Vanilli, a group that was scandalized with the 1990 discovery that Morvan and…
MINISTRY @ OGDEN THEATRE | 6.17.12 When the ominous chorus of “Psalm 69” rang out during the first song of Ministry’s encore, everyone cheered louder than they had the rest of the night. The chilling music, the sort of thing you’d expect to hear in a movie about a misguided…
GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 6.16.12 As if the signs plastered all over the Red Rocks weren’t enough forewarning, Ghostland Observatory drove the point home of exactly what kind of show they put on, and let’s just say it involves lights. Lots of lights. From the beginning to…
After an eight-year run at La Rumba, Lipgloss, one of the city’s longest running dance nights, just moved to to Beauty Bar. But before Lipgloss moved into La Rumba, the spot was home to Oxygen, which was awarded the Best Gay Bar for Gay Men in 2003 in Westword’s Best…
Today through Sunday, $2 from every Westword Music Showcase ticket sold will go to the Red Cross for High Park fire relief efforts. If you haven’t bought your tickets for the June 23 showcase, you can do so now through Sunday and help a good cause. You can buy tickets…
Ah, the weekend is finally here and the weather is perfect for getting out and getting down. While PrideFest is probably the biggest shindig in the city this weekend, there’s a bunch of other parties and celebrations happening, including Juneteenth Music Festival in Five Points, and of course there’s plenty…
Last week, we reported that the Rockstar Lounge had closed after a year-and-a-half run. Starting tonight, the folks behind Pristeen Events, who have been hosting dance parties over the last year, are starting temporary teen nights dubbed Club Hollywood in the space that was once home to Zen Ultra Lounge…
Greencarpetedstairs (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis) is the hip-hop/experimental electronic/IDM project of Neil Ewing. He was part of the loose cadre of students that attended Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in the first half of the last decade that were at the core of the scene around Rhinoceropolis, including…
Welcome to the weekend! Another diverse lineup of musical goodness awaits you. Tonight at Red Rocks, Ghostland Observatory and MiM0SA kick off two nights of electronic goodness that will culminate with a show featuring STS9 tomorrow night. And there’s a full slate of rock on tap as well, including Ministry…
Update (6/15/12): Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations to Laura Burns. You and a guest will be our guests at the show tonight. Send us an email for details on how to claim your prize. Tonight, Ghostland Observatory brings its mesmerizing light show to Red Rocks with…
If you were planning to head up the Mishawaka Amphitheatre to see Walkers & Pimps of Joytime, the Motet, Dubskin, Richard Thompson or Bruce Hornsby, all outfits slated to appear between tomorrow and next Friday, you might want to make some other plans. We just received word from Roger Menell…
Did you know Bob Dylan once spent a summer in Denver as a then-unknown teenager with a fake accent, sleeping on a floors and gigging at the Satire Lounge? He was nineteen at the time. It was just a year after the young Robert Zimmerman adopted his iconic stage moniker…
See Also: • Fab Morvan on performing Milli Vanilli songs solo for the first time at PrideFest • Family-friendly or adults-only, PrideFest 2012 has celebrations for all The music industry is a business of characters and personalities. In addition to selling the product at hand, the music makers are also…
It was a big week for a certain Canadian this week, as the import’s song finally overtook Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.” And no, we’re not talking about Justin Bieber, but she is his protégé. Carly Rae Jepsen’s inescapable viral and radio hit, “Call Me Maybe,” conquers the…
You can hear Breathe Carolina’s music pretty much everywhere you go these days. You’ll find it in all the expected places, of course — on alternative radio; on TV, on shows such as The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and MTV’s The City — but it’s also managed to infiltrate…
Ministry started in Denver at a time when synth-pop was just starting to get off the ground in a meaningful way. But Al Jourgensen wisely moved to Chicago when the Wax Trax label was starting up and more or less creating the influential Chicago electronic and industrial sound that would…
Lindsay Meredith drinks a lot of coffee, and last month, she decided to put that fact to good use. During one of her frequent trips to the Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, the Highlands-area singer-songwriter gathered a notebook, a pen and a large coffee together to brainstorm ways to promote…
Update (6/15/12): Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. Congratulations to our winners, Jim Bullington and Keith Curts. Send us an email for details on how to claim your prize. By now you’ve probably read our interviews with Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen and longtime guitarist Mike Scaccia, which means…
Milli Vanilli will always be a part of pop-culture history. In February 1990, the duo of Fabrice Morvan (due this Saturday at Denver PrideFest at Civic Center Park) and Rob Pilatus won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Nine months later, the pair’s lives and careers came crashing down when…
See Also: Ministry’s Al Jourgensen on his ties to Colorado: living in Breckenridge, attending Greeley High School and his ill-fated attempt at a rodeo career Ministry (due Sunday, June 17, at the Ogden Theatre) got its start when Al Jourgensen moved from Colorado to Chicago, where the Wax Trax label…
THE DANDY WARHOLS @ Gothic Theatre | 6/12/12 “I Love You” by the Dandy Warhols, which came just after midset, is already a hypnotic song with its fuzzy edges, but last night the Dandys took a four minute song and stretched it into a mind-bending journey with strobes to accent…
This week, we’ve got a ton of music for you to catch up on. With all the sunshine, parties and pretty girls on the horizon, someone’s got to be out there making the soundtrack for the summer, and those on the scene in Colorado have been very, very busy crafting…
