You see this kids? This flier for Ballistics, a dubstep party with Eprom and Hulk, is a near-perfect design. Every element is strong. It’s a great image. The color scheme is awesome. The carefully constructed logo is bold and memorable without being flashy or overdone. The textual elements are both…
Fucking A. Ask and ye shall receive, eh? (Well, it’s not Denver, but close enough.) Just glimpsed the lineup for this year’s Coachella. As far as headliners go, you’ve got your Jay-Z and your LCD Soundsystem and, uh, let’s see here, Thom Yorke and … yada, yada, yada. Whatever, dude…
Today, AEG kicked off its Early Bird Ticket program where folks can save some bucks by buying the concert tickets the weekend they go on sale. The deals are being offered for select shows at the Bluebird Theater and Ogden Theatre, and there are no service fees for cash purchases…
This week we had lots of fine material to choose from, but this flier stood out even among the wonderfully crowded field of great images and cool design. We’re not too sure what, if anything, the image is supposed to represent — is it a circuit diagram? cell mitosis? what…
Band of Horses recently finished recording a new album, Night Rainbow, which the act has been playing songs from at shows since. While there’s still no word on when the disc will be issued, chances are better than good that the band will be playing new material when it hits…
For those who’ve always wanted to party like an NBA star (sans the guns and indecipherable card games) but couldn’t dunk anything but a doughnut, tomorrow night is your chance to live the dream: Suite 200, the swanky LoDo hot spot, will host Lebron James after his Cavs play the…
They came from the deep … to rock. Our top flier of the week gets extra cool points for appropriating the lobby poster art for the incredibly odd, unbelievably obscure 1980 movie Humanoids from the Deep, which is also as Monster. It just so happens that some of us have…
Although New York-based indie act Vampire Weekend isn’t releasing its highly anticipated sophomore effort, Contra, for another week, NPR is streaming the entire album until it hits the stores on Tuesday, January 12. Touring in support of the album, the band will trek across the UK and Europe in February…
New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and we have to say, the slew of excellent posters we saw advertising equally excellent events for the evening (and the next day) bode well for the new year. After some careful consideration we chose this lovely poster for the Motet’s NYE…
While last week was relatively slow in terms of show announcements, the folks at Soda Jerk Presents recently unveiled quite a few shows at the the Marquis Theater and the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs. Rapper P.O.S. hits the Black Sheep on Thursday, February 4, followed by a date at…
This week’s top flier comes to us from the far-off, exotic land of Fort Collins. While we don’t get up that way as often as we should, there’s no shortage of talented acts coming out of there and, as this flier shows, no shortage of talented designers helping them get…
After Boulder’s Rose Hill Drive played Led Zeppelin II in its entirety at the Boulder Theater last New Year’s Eve, the band took a year-long hiatus. The band members made quite a few announcements saying they needed some time off to re-focus. Even so, there was some speculation that the…
We found a whale of a poster for you this week. Yeah, yeah, we know that was a pretty stupid joke, but we couldn’t resist. Just like we couldn’t resist the simple charms of this illustration. From its curlicue framing effect to its central whale-eats-boat motif, there’s nothing not to…
England-based alt-rock band Muse, who’s touring in support of its latest effort, The Resistance, is slated to visit Odeum Colorado (formerly the Broomfield Event Center) with Silversun Pickups on Tuesday, April 6. Tickets, which are $39.50 to $49.50, go on sale Saturday, December 19, at 10 a.m. Yeasayer, who’s sophomore…
Just received word from the folks at Live Nation that the Weezer gig originally slated for Saturday, January 17 at the Fillmore has been postponed with no new date announced. While no official reason was given, we’re guessing frontman Rivers Cuomo is going to need more time to recover from…
Wow, do we love the crazy mind-melt of this image. We’re not sure if its an original image or was appropriated from some anthropology textbook article about one of those tribes with a tendency toward chewing up the flora to reach the depths of inner space. Either way, it’s a…
While recording songs for Jim Sampas’ documentary about Jack Kerouac, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard realized they both shared an affinity for the famed Beat writer. After recording songs for the film, the pair continued to work on songs using words from Kerouac’s novel…
The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything — although “that’s not true until they buy one of the guitars!,” points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that…
Sometimes, a little minimalism can go a long, long way. And that’s the case here on Moonspeed’s CD release poster. Underneath some opaque text (nice, simple and effective typography choice, by the way) we have a groovy abstract painting that simultaneously recalls the oil projections of the ’60s psychedelic movement…
Alice in Chains hits the road in February in support of Black Gives Way to Blue, its first studio album in fourteen years, and with new singer William DuVall, who took over vocal duties for the band after original singer Layne Staley passed away in 2002. The band hits the…
We’re all familiar with the phrase “so wrong it’s right” but it’s rare that we come across an image that exemplifies that familiar idea as perfectly as this week’s top flier. We feel a little dirty just looking at it — liking it as much as we do surely indicates…
This just in: Judy Collins and Neko Case will be headlining Swallow Hill’s fourth annual RootsFest on Saturday, March 6 at Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Local favorites Paper Bird and Trace Bundy are also slated to perform at the fest. Tickets, which are $35 to $140, go on sale Thursday,…
