Spatula (due this Friday, February 10, at the Climax Lounge) was a band you often heard about between 2004 and 2005, if you did not actually see it. The band was musical, but more to the point, it was always a ridiculous spectacle with simple but effective props, elaborate homemade costumes,... More >>

Originally formed as a side project of Ceremonial Oath, In Flames quickly became a full-time endeavor. While retaining some of the sharp edges of its founders' death-metal leanings, the band successfully joined melodic hooks, vocal and otherwise, with nervy aggressiveness and sharp dynamic... More >>

Things are bound to get haute tonight at the Denver Art Museum's annual Design After Dark bash. "Bespoke" will be the theme of the stylish party, which is put on by the DAM's Design Council; the word describes a men's fashion counterpart to haute couture. The concept of tailored, custom-made... More >>

Although singer Dallas Taylor is no heathen, his band Maylene & the Sons of Disaster represents a rather unholy enterprise, and thank God for that. Taylor once pledged allegiance to Underoath, a Christian metal-core act with a sizable following. But he split during the 2003 Warped Tour under... More >>

As a pop band, you could do a lot worse than to having your first-ever show be opening for Amy Winehouse and then getting tapped to serve as the opening act for her European summer tour. But that's essentially what happened to the Asteroids Galaxy Tour after Winehouse heard the band's demo in... More >>

If you need to get a party started, you could do a lot worse than DJ Dan. Since the early years of the L.A. rave scene, almost two decades ago, Dan has been a force behind the decks and in the studio. He's remixed everyone from crossover acts like Depeche Mode to dance-music royalty such as... More >>

Of all of the holidays to be alone, Valentine's Day can be the suckiest. But the heartbroken, the bitter and the angry are all welcome to celebrate in anti-V-Day fashion at tonight's Scorned Lover's Art and Show and Event at the Art Salon. The art space -- which will be showing pieces curated... More >>

Female bartenders deserve just as much credit as their male counterparts, insists Ivy Mix, who along with her partner, Lynnette Marrero, founded Speed Rack, a national women-only mixology battle that pits eight to sixteen maiden bar bosses from each city against one another for an opportunity... More >>

Cursive was one of the bands that helped put Omaha, Nebraska, and Saddle Creek Records on the map. Starting in 1995, in the post-hardcore milieu that would serve as the roots of modern emo, Cursive always seemed to make music that never really fit in a specific genre outside of rock. Tim... More >>

​In the new documentary Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements, you'll find a wildly diverse array of witnesses, all in thrall to the ragged glory that was The Mats in their prime. Included among these friends, admirers, whack jobs, rackjobbers, rock critics and record execs,... More >>

In just three years, the Italian-Belgian producer has established himself as party-starting DJ and remixer with his spacious cosmic-disco re-rerubs of Grace Jones, Friendly Fires and Sebastien Tellier, and his own piano-sprinkled melancholic beauties like "Caramellas." More >>

In the music video for the Darkness's greatest hit, 2003's "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," the band's alternately naked and jumpsuited lead singer, Justin Hawkins, is repeatedly groped by a motley crew of space aliens. He appears, for all intents and purposes, to be into it. His band's... More >>

Believe it or not, Denver has long been a center for the appreciation of art from China, and that has a lot to do with the Asian Art Coordinating Committee, headed up by Julie Segraves. Two decades ago, when no one was looking at contemporary art in China -- not even the Chinese -- Segraves... More >>

Out with the dinosaurs, in with tornadoes: It's time for the periodic changing of the guard at the IMAX 3-D theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Replacing DinoMax, Born to Be Wild and Under the Sea are the 3-D, large-screen mindbenders Tornado Alley and Flying Monsters (okay,... More >>

There is plenty of street skating in Denver, but if you’re looking for a one-stop shop for terrain, check out the Denver Skatepark. Open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, this concrete oasis includes a handful of bowls, ranging from a three-leaf clover type with bowl depths of three feet to... More >>

"I'm from back in the day, as the expression goes," explains Skip Reeves, host of KUVO-FM's Saturday-night show "A Funk Above the Rest." That's why Reeves doesn't consider '70s R&B to be "old-school"; according to him, it's the first school. "Many upbeat people from back in the time actually... More >>

The idea that all significant art in America is made on the East Coast held sway for a long time. But over the last twenty years -- and increasingly in the past few years -- people in the know have promoted the concept that the West, including Colorado, is an alternative capital of American... More >>

The sad-eyed ladies of tattoo artist and painter Sandi Calistro have a compelling way of staring you down, whether they're inked into the skin or slapped on a wall. Calistro says they're born from the "heartbreaking experiences" we've all been through -- which explains why they stay with you... More >>

There isn't really a prize, at least in the traditional sense, for winning the Comedy Works Funny Final Four, a competition that pits four teams of Denver comedians against one another in a series of one-night shows. "The prize is you get another show," explains Jodee Champion, captain of Team... More >>

Nathaniel Adams Coles, better known as Nat "King" Cole, was born in Alabama, the son of a Baptist minister. He learned to play the organ from his mother, who accompanied his father in church. Originally a keyboard phenom, he later studied classical piano, but it was jazz -- and the influence of... More >>

During the slave trade, a ship's route typically consisted of three legs: from Europe to Africa to trade goods for kidnapped Africans, from Africa to the Americas to trade the slaves for raw materials, and back to Europe to repeat the process. The most atrocious of these journeys, the one... More >>

The idea is so intuitive, it's hard to believe nobody's ever thought of it before: Take improv, that most interactive of theatrical arts, and add the interactivity of social media. That's the idea behind Bovine Metropolis Theater's Like This Show, and it just may be the wave of the future. "For... More >>

Welcome to Hogwarts, post-Voldemort: The mythical school has been rebuilt, and the children of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy are now learning about wizardry and witchcraft themselves. This is the setting for Bovine Metropolis Theater's latest series, a futuristic fan-fiction parody... More >>

Journey to the Stars is the first new planetarium show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in almost two years. Developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Journey takes the audience on a tour from a sunset in Central Park to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.... More >>

Let's face it: When most people think of lizards and snakes, they think of scales, slithering and potential poison. "A lot of people are creeped out by lizards and snakes," says Brian Hostetler, educator for Lizards & Snakes, a new exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. "But it... More >>