Archive Search Results
-
Off Limits
A miniature "National Velvet" gets a rise out of its owners
Published: April 16, 2009
Yes, there's a miniature version of one of Denver's most controversial sculptures, but it's not Denver International Airport's fearsome blue "Mustang" — the subject of a...
-
Calhoun
The city should clean up with this plan for EZE Mop
By Patricia Calhoun
Published: April 16, 2009
Standing outside the EZE Mop building on an overcast Saturday, watching the cars roll past on 17th Avenue, Stephanie Shearer tries to figure out where her story really...
-
Letters
Letters from the week of April 16
Published: April 16, 2009
"Ahead of the Needle," Melanie Asmar, April 9 Missing the Point Yeah, and we should also teach people how to drive drunk. People are going to do it anyway, regardless if...
-
Ask A Mexican
Who says Mexicans have to eat Mexican food?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 16, 2009
Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can't have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture....
-
Backbeat
Welcome to the magnificent (and unpronounceable) world of Iuengliss
By Cory Casciato
Published: April 16, 2009
Iuengliss. The name is damn near impossible to pronounce. Tom Metz, the up-and-coming electronic wunderkind who performs under the moniker, knows his handle causes fits. So...
-
Rough Mixes
Immortal Dominion rounds off its edges on a new album
By Dave Herrera
Published: April 16, 2009
Over the past few years, the members of Immortal Dominion have undoubtedly experienced a gamut of emotions, from paralyzing grief spurred by a harrowing personal tragedy...
-
Rough Mixes
Behold the hard rock and hijinks of Forth Yeer Freshman
By Dave Herrera
Published: April 16, 2009
If you heard Forth Yeer Freshman's 2001 debut, Drunkinomicon, and then listened to Regulators, the band's new album, and thought you were hearing two completely different...
-
Bar Back
You can leave your (cowboy) hat on at Stampede
By Jon Solomon
Published: April 16, 2009
I've been into Western shirts for a few years and wear one pretty much every day of the week — usually solid black or some sort of plaid, untucked, with snaps. But that's...
-
Playlist
Magic Cyclops
Live Via Satellite From Davenport, Iowa
BrodeoBy Tom Murphy
Published: April 16, 2009
From the guy who did Kiss covers at a Devo convention a few years ago comes this latest offering of absurdist humor blended with bare-bones synth-pop. Putatively filmed live...
-
Playlist
Neil Haverstick
Spider
Self-releasedBy Jon Solomon
Published: April 16, 2009
For two decades, Neil Haverstick has explored microtonal guitar, using a nineteen-tone system of tuning rather than the standard twelve-tone one. Having performed previously...
-
Playlist
Taarka
Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden
Self-releasedBy Cory Casciato
Published: April 16, 2009
Listening to the mad Gypsy sounds of Taarka's Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden is like a temporary escape from the mundane modern world into an exotic caravan traveling a...
-
Playlist
Synthetic Elements
Trashed Out Paradise
Filthy Beast RecordsBy Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
The April 2007 review of Standing Still, a previous release by these ska-punkers, declared, "There's nothing new in the band's sound, but the players channel old styles so well...
-
Now Hear This
Felix da Housecat
Thursday, April 16, Beta, 303-383-1909.
By Amber Taufen
Published: April 16, 2009
You can't talk about house music without bringing up Chicago, and you'd be remiss to discuss Chicago house without dropping Felix da Housecat's name. A central figure in...
-
Now Hear This
Cameron McGill & What Army
Saturday, April 18, Walnut Room, 303-293-1700.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 16, 2009
McGill's "autobiography" claims that he was born in 1877 and lived in seclusion in Illinois until his death in 2056 — a joke that, intentionally or not, gets to the heart...
-
Now Hear This
Black Lips
Tuesday, April 21, Bluebird Theater, 303-377-1666.
By Jon Solomon
Published: April 16, 2009
The dudes in the Black Lips get naked on stage sometimes. But a few months ago, some folks in India weren't too stoked when guitarist Cole Alexander stripped and jumped into...
-
Now Hear This
Sole
Wednesday, April 22, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.
By Tom Murphy
Published: April 16, 2009
As a core member of the Anticon collective, Sole is arguably one of the most influential hip-hop artists alive today. Anticon artists aren't generally on Top 40 radio. Instead,...
-
Now Hear This
The Kills
Wednesday, April 22, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.
By A.H. Goldstein
Published: April 16, 2009
The Kills haven't let artistic progression compromise their minimalism. For nearly ten years, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have offered a defiant, stripped-down brand of...
-
Critic's Choice
Eight Bucks Experiment at the Gothic
By Tom Murphy
Published: April 16, 2009
Evan and Paige O'Meara have been at the punk-rock thing with the Eight Bucks Experiment since the mid-'90s. To say this project has changed its sound over the years is a bit of...
-
Scratching the Surface
Thomas Fehlmann at the Fox Theatre
By Cory Casciato
Published: April 16, 2009
The resumé of Thomas Fehlmann is truly awesome. It stretches all the way back to the late '70s, when he began experimenting with synthesizers in the company of people...
-
Cafe
Tocabe does Chipotle one better -- with fry bread
By Jason Sheehan
Published: April 16, 2009
See more photos of Tocabe at westword.com/slideshow. Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and...
Now Click This
