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Paul Michel will unleash The Fanciest Tiger at Fancy Tiger's Civilized Living tomorrow

With his subtly satirical humor and deeply intricate ink drawings, Paul Michel creates stop-and-think images of layered, comedic art. He'll debut new work in The Fanciest Tiger, a show opening tomorrow at Civilized Living, the monthly First Friday event at Fancy Tiger Clothing. In advance of that ... More >>

Exclusive first look: Moontower Tacos opens in Capitol Hill

Y'all know how I roll: Tacos rule my universe, and now, there's a new spot -- Moontower Tacos -- giving me (and the rest of you who agree that tacos are the equivalent to enlightenment) another reason to ballyhoo their virtue. See also: - Moontower Tacos will soon be serving tacos morning, noon and ... More >>

Video: Geek Bowl gets celebrity help in Austin, returns to Denver in 2016

It's not like Geeks Who Drink, the Denver-based, bar-style trivia juggernaut that got its start here in 2005, needs much celebrity power: Over the past eight years, it's stretched to more than twenty states, and thousands of people turn out to test their nerdy knowledge each week at hundreds of wate ... More >>

J.D. Cronise of the Sword on being a regular dude that listens to R. Kelly and Michael Jackson

Formed nearly a decade ago in Austin, Texas, the Sword, with its sludgy guitar work and the fantastical themes of its lyrics, is often assigned the stoner rock designation, and understandably so. But while the band certainly bears the clear influence of bands like Black Sabbath, Sleep and Led Zeppel ... More >>

New Morrissey Denver date: Moz now due at the Temple Buell Theatre on Thursday, February 21

Here's some news that ought to brighten your day -- assuming of course that you're suffering from a case of the Mondays like the rest of us and it needs brightening: A new date has been announced for Morrissey, whose previous date at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the beginning of November was po ... More >>

Oscar Ross of Lords of Fuzz on the importance of his lyrics saying something significant

Lords of Fuzz thundered into being from a tough time in Oscar Ross' life. He'd recently gotten divorced and moved to Denver from Texas and decided to pursue music as an outlet. After numerous line-up changes, and three albums, Lords of Fuzz are releasing their most fully-realized record to date, Bro ... More >>

Dave Gonzalez of Paladins rockabilly fame on the Stone River Boys and playing country soul

See Also: - Stone River Boys at Central City Roots Ruckus, 8/11/12 - Stone River Boys at El Diablo's Rockabilly and Ribs, 8/12/12 Starting in the '80s, guitarist Dave Gonzalez released a number of albums with the Southern California-based roots rockabilly trio the Paladins before later founding the ... More >>

Black Joe Lewis: "I always just figured I'd play the type of music I enjoy listening to."

Black Joe Lewis (due tomorrow at the Westword Music Showcase on the mainstage) isn't one to make fancy comparisons to the musical legacies of blues giants and soul progenitors. Lewis and his band, formerly known as the Honeybears, have earned comparisons to everyone from Howlin' Wolf to Muddy Waters ... More >>

Chris Hrasky of Explosions in the Sky: "We still basically feel like we're amateurs who are still kind of figuring out what we're doing"

Explosions in the Sky (due tonight at the Boulder Theater) is an instrumental rock band based out of Austin, Texas. For the last thirteen years, the quartet has been creating a kind of anthemic, instrumental guitar rock that sparkles with impressionistic melodies building to a cathartic apex, not un ... More >>

Tenacious D at Red Rocks July 26. Tickets on sale this Friday, March 30 at 10 a.m.

Tenacious D at Red Rocks on Thursday, July 26. This is not opinion. This is fact. The dudes are back and touring in support of Rize of the Fenix, their new album and purportedly the greatest album of all time. This, apparently, is not opinion either, but rather fact. The tour kicks off on May 23 in ... More >>

SXSW travelogue: Wheelchair Sports Camp march for peace and makes dough busking

Farewell, Austin: Kalyn here checking in for Wheelchair Sports Camp and Company's last night at SXSW! Grab a cup of coffee -- you missed a lot since our last check-in: We took our precious time getting out of our RV park home yesterday and loaded in our gear to The Jr (Emo's) at 6 p.m. On the way, I ... More >>

SXSW travelogue: Morning Clouds do laundry and play college flophouse

Thursday, March 15: Thousands of bands were packed into stages around town, fans were going nuts on every street corner. How'd the Morning Clouds spend their off day? Doing laundry. We're pretty rock like that. With piles of clean undies and non-smelly socks back in our room, we managed to catch a g ... More >>

SXSW travelogue: Take to the Oars checks in from the streets of Austin

There is a place somewhere in the pacific ocean that is essentially a cesspool for plastic waste and various other bits of debris and man-made trash. The rudimentary physics and science behind this collection is that all ocean currents from all over the world eventually whirlpool and cycle through t ... More >>

SXSW travelogues: A. Tom Collins checks in from Austin

Tarantulas, Fireballs, and Doppelgängers - SWSX Day One: I had heard a story from a friend of mine about driving through west Texas in the pre-dawn hours. He recounted that after about nine hours on the road heading south from Denver, just before sunrise, he and his co-pilot encountered hundreds, m ... More >>

William Breathes's South by Southwest (mis)adventures

A few months back, we here at Mile Highs and Lows begged and pleaded for you to help convince the folks at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas to let us talk about marijuana journalism at what is arguably the most important media conference in America. Thanks to you, we go ... More >>

Gene Davis is beerly breathing in Austin without his favorite Colorado beer from Great Divide

There are plenty of songs about beer, but there aren't many songs about good beer. So when Gene Davis of Weird Turn Prose and the Que Pastas moved to Texas, he decided to pen one about one of his favorite Colorado beers -- one that he has trouble finding in the Austin area and one that he equates to ... More >>

Andrew W.K. in Denver at Bluebird on 3/20

Grab your party shoes, kids. Andrew W.K. is coming back to Denver. In honor of the ten year anniversary of I Get Wet (hands up if you can believe it's already been a decade since dude first hit the scene), Mr. Party Hard is bringing his party to the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, March 20. Brace yours ... More >>

From Red Rocks to Emos, recreate the exact acoustics of the country's hottest venues

Are you ready to rock?When Matt Finn was able to finally quit his job as an e-mail server technician thanks to the success of his ClearTune guitar tuning application for smart phones, his world changed forever. From a humble office located on Denver's 16th Street Mall, Finn and his fellow innovators ... More >>

Tonight: The Black Angels at the Fox

​One listen to The Black Angels (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre with Sleepy Sun) and it is almost unfathomable that the band was concieved in 2004. The Austin quartet isn't a tribute to the psychedelic rock -- it defines the decades-old genre with dark organ echoes, heavy percussion and th ... More >>

Round two with Pizza Republica's Eric Chiappetta

Lori Midson​ Eric Chiappetta Pizza Republica 5375 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village 720-489-2030 www.pizzarepublica.com This is part two of my interview with Eric Chiappetta, executive chef of Pizza Republica. In part one of this interview, Chiappetta weighs in on why he believes the cook a ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Take to the Oars and the Denver crew bring the ruckus to Peckerheads

Hi! How are you? The spirit of Daniel Johnston looms large in Austin​ Friday, March 18 Another one for the books... honestly, the worst part about today was that it had to end... After an ample five hours of sleep, the household hesitantly woke up, made coffee, and loaded the trailer in anti ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: A. Tom Collins makes a snakeskin necktie and wakes up with driveway-inflicted swellbows

​ Saturday, March 19 Update From a Post-Show Hangover: Since our last post no one has died, though some attempts at inter-band murder have been made along with a few bouts of minor larceny. Shortly after our romp in the river, Andy befriended a good-natured water moccasin who shortly therea ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Wheelchair Sports Camp named among Top 25 essential hip-hop acts to catch by Boston Phoenix

Photo Roadies​ Saturday, March 19 Good morning -- or should I say afternoon? -- from the beautiful city of Austin! SXSW has gotten crazier by the day, and the day has come for Wheelchair Sports Camp to tear the roof off of Austin at the legendary Red 7 venue! We were cited as one of the top ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Danielle Ate the Sandwich checks from the road in route to Austin

​ Thursday, March 18 Uh, hey. It's Danielle Ate the Sandwich. I've been on the road and away from home a couple of days now, and am officially one hour from Austin and ready to go. Today, I play at Bar 512 for the Spokesbuzz Showcase. I'm excited to play with a lot of great bands from Fort C ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: The Photo Atlas checks in

Brian Frederick​ Thursday, March 17 And it begins ... 4 a.m. we arrive in Austin, Texas, at Casa de Epilogues greeted by hugs and cases of Upslope, after an amazing day of riding rollercoasters and playing three sets at Six Flags-Dallas and an awesome run of shows with the Epilogues, which i ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: The Epilogues house all of Denver, hang with the Bravery and do shots with Danny Pudi of Community

The Epilogues with Sam Endicott of the Bravery Friday, March 18 Here we are again in Austin for the least "Texas" thing that the state has to offer... thousands of liberal, godless musicians showcasing themselves to the world. We did a small tour on our way to SXSW this year with our dear friends ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp checks in from Austin

Photo Roadies​ Wednesday March 16, 8 p.m. Kalyn here from Wheelchair Sports Camp writing about our very first trip to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas! Sitting here in the back of my van while the girlfriend drives us to Austin from the town of Denton, where we played two nights ago. The ... More >>

SXSW travelogue: Take to the Oars checks in from Austin

Take to the Oars at the Blind Pig on Sixth Street​ Wednesday March 16 We left Denver on Tuesday at 6 p.m. and drove through the night, taking the most obscure didn't-they-film-children-of-the-corn-here route possible to get to Austin. We made the trek in just over sixteen hours and pulled int ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: Air Dubai checks in

​ Thursday, March 17 We left for Texas early Sunday morning from the band house about 6 a.m (we planned for five, but we're never on time to shit) packed in tight in our two vehicles, Julian's black Jeep, which we deemed the "Pedro Negro" and Taylor's red Jeep, aka "The Red Fajita," which we ... More >>

Help feed Illegal Pete's Starving Artist on their way to South By Southwest this week

​We're big fans of Illegal Pete's Starving Artist series. It's a great service for hungry bands in town or on tour, and it happens to be one of the more innovative marketing ideas we've seen in a while. That said, it's not always easy to dig up the ambition to head downtown to catch the series ... More >>

Edward and Linda Bryant: What happened to alleged scammers' kids, missing for years?

Big pics below.​Edward and Linda Bryant have been accused of theft, forgery and several other related offenses. But are they also guilty of murdering two adoptive children, then continuing to collect aid checks in their names? That's what El Paso County authorities are trying to figure out -- ... More >>

Junior Brown on Brian Wilson and the phenomenon that is the Internet

​Junior Brown is synonymous with good old-fashioned country music. As the inventor of the "guit-steel" guitar, the Austin-based singer-songwriter can play the hell out of any stringed instrument he touches. Brown launched his career in 1990 during a SXSW showcase where he met his current manag ... More >>

Woodsman release digital single on Beko

​ Local ambient rockers Woodsman are having a heck of a month. Starting with landing a pair of songs as the a and b sides of the weekly single on Beko Digital Single Label, which has the simplest web site in existence.

Aloft in the Sundry SXSW tour diary

Saturday, March 20: So we're here in Austin, Texas. We've been getting "Austonian," if you know what I mean. Heh. The drive down was pretty fresh ...well, for at least the first few hours. By the eighteenth hour, we were rockin the B.O. Sport for sure. It was nice riding down in the bus, though,&nbs ... More >>

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Music and Lyrics

Milonga overtakes the Mercury Cafe dance floor.

Q&A With Daniel Johnston

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Friday, December 15, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Best Slogan for Boulder Shoppers

"Keep Boulder Weird"

The Beatdown

Scenes from SXSW

Songs of the South

Caroline Herring comes into her own light as a solo artist.

Critic's Choice

To the Rescue

Though still somber, Windsor for the Derby moves toward pop and away from convention.

Out of the Blue

The Blue Noise Band's brilliant amalgam of sounds may make jazz purists see red.

Backwash

We remember the Alamo, but South by Southwest is now a blissful blur.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 6

South By So What

Unknown bands can't expect much from SXSW, just ask the Czars' Chris Pearson.

Let It Ride

Silver Scooter glides down a familiar path but sounds good doing it.

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