Subject: Jim McTurnan

• Review: Westword Music Showcase @ the Acoma Center - 6/16/07

  June 18, 2007

• Mile High Makeout: Doing It Together

  January 31, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Opening My Eyes

  March 13, 2008

• MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: Cat-A-Tac

  June 12, 2008

• Cat-A-Tac parts ways

  Photo: Laurie Scavo This next news comes with more than a hint of sadness. With a notable amount of rueful displeasure we bring you word of another stellar Denver band reaching the end of its road. After some deliberation, the members of Cat-A-Tac have decided to part ways. That's the bad news. Now for the good news: Fortunately, the split is amicable and will result in at least two new projects, one from Jim McTurnan and another from Andy Tennant.

  November 17, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Frontmen on the front lines

  I just received an email from Cowboy Curse's Benjamin Bergstrand, hipping me to an exciting showcase of frontmen-turned-singer-songwriters, coming up at the Meadowlark. Jonathan Bitz and the gang at the 'Lark have always gone out of their way to spotlight the talent of local sad bastards, but this one is kind of unique because all of the performers also front (or used to front) their own bands.

  January 12, 2009

• Josh Wambeke Fell into one of Denver's most compelling bands

  June 4, 2009

• Thank God It's Friday!

  Punk not your thing? A little too loud for you, you say? No worries. There's tons of other great music for you to catch tonight. Across from 3 Kings, over at the hi-dive, Curious Yellow makes its valiant return to the scene after a four- year hiatus, with the Still City (members of which are moonlighting in Curious Yellow) and the Rouge. At the Meadowlark, it's gonna be a solo set extravaganza, as five well-known area frontmen -- Ted Thacker (Baldo Rex), Jason Cain (Astrophagus), Jim McTurnan (C

  February 6, 2009

• Week in Review: 2/16/09 - 2/20/09

  All right, so we've reached the end of another work week in the Mile High City. While we can no longer brag about having the best selling band in the country, from what we can tell, Denver music is still on the minds and in the ears of at least a few prominent folks in what's left of the industry. The highlights of the week: AP Magazine listed 3OH!3 as one of the one hundred bands you need to know in 2009, Jessica Sonner landed a song on an episode of HBO's Big Love, which is slated to air this

  February 20, 2009

• Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists

  Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We're currently tracking the playlists for five different shows: Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country, and the Mountain Home Grown show. See the full playlists posted after the jump.

  April 14, 2009

• Moovers and Shakers 2007

  Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

  December 20, 2007

• Plan of A-Tac

  Out of the bag.

  June 14, 2007

• Moovers and Shakers 2007

  Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

  December 27, 2007

• Westword Music Showcase 2007

  Saturday, June 16

  June 14, 2007

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 5 edition

  Potential is flowering. Today in Cafe Society: • Something's cooking in Summit County. • Cinco or swim today. • Drinking Goat at the Goat. • Frasca finally opens for lunch -- for two days only. • Denver's best female chefs wowed at Women Cook! Today in Backbeat Online: • Black Market Empire comes alive. • Moving Pictures: Jim McTurnan, Mike Marchant, Hawks of Paradise, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Angie Stevens and more. Today in The Latest Word: • Death-penalty bill: Politico

  May 5, 2009

• Moving Pictures: Jim McTurnan, Mike Marchant, Hawks of Paradise, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Angie Stevens and more

  From the soggy, cold weather to being under, uh, well, the weather until today -- which, incidentally, also accounts for why this week's episode of Moving Pictures wasn't posted until today -- it was a pretty miserable weekend. Fortunately, the music was delightful, as always, which more than made up for things. See what we saw after the jump.

  May 5, 2009

• Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists

  Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country, the Mountain Home Grown show and our most recent addition, KCSU's Loco Locals. See the full playlists posted af

  May 5, 2009

• Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 05.20.09

  For those of you that managed to catch the show last night, apologies for the train wreck that was the segue (ahem, read dead-air) between the first and second song and the second and third song. Evidently, there was some button on the board that wasn't engaged, which caused us to inexplicably receive a "board failure" error each time we fired up CD2. With the help of our ace engineer Lee, we recovered nicely and quickly for the rest of the show. Ah, the travails of live radio. Anyhow, we had a

  May 21, 2009

• The Mars Volta and Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline Monolith

  Update: Just in case you haven't been keeping tabs, this year's Monolith line-up has been shaping up rather nicely. On May 18, the masterminds of Monolith began revealing the line-up for the third annual two-day indie-centric music festival every two hours on Twitter and Facebook. Some folks found this approach tedious, while others enjoyed the surprise. Either way, we're pretty impressed with the acts that have been announced -- including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Mars Volta, which was just a

  July 15, 2009

• Westword Music Showcase Awards Wrap Up

  David BarberJohn Baxter and Matty Clark in the fleshThe picture above pretty much tells the tale of last night's Westword Music Showcase Awards -- drunk and debaucherous. Everyone (well, we think everyone -- we didn't exactly take a formal poll or anything) had a pretty swell time. Hugs were smiles were plentiful, as was the booze that flowed freely before the ceremony kicked off. There were a few miscues, but all in all everything went off without a hitch. Special thanks to all the folks who gr

  July 14, 2009

• The Photo Atlas, the Knew and Jim McTurnan to play at CMJ

  The Photo Atlas​For almost three decades, the CMJ Music Marathon has grown into a monster of a music outing, right up there with South By Southwest. Started in 1980 as a way for industry folks to discover bands on the college radio charts, the CMJ Music Marathon went from just a few venues in New York City to fifty venues and more than 1,000 bands playing over four days. So it's kind of big deal when Denver-based acts get tapped to play. Although there's always a number of outfits that make t

  September 3, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 3 edition

  It's the frozen slider of royalty.​Betcha Harold and Kumar are gonna be pissed. Today in Cafe Society: • The ten worst burger ideas ever. • Jason Sheehan keeps the home fires burning in Best Food Writing. • Part two: Chef and Tell with Tyler Wiard of Elway's. • El Toro a must-stop on Colorado Boulevard. • Tonight: a sea of Italian wines at Black Pearl. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Photo Atlas, the Knew and Jim McTurnan to play at CMJ. • Moi Yo Yoi Boiz getting a bit "Pop

  September 3, 2009

• Monolith 2009, Day Two: The Mars Volta, Chromeo, MSTRKRFT, Phoenix and more

  Monotonix set off the SoCo stage.​ Elsewhere: See reviews and photos from Day One. We're back on the Rocks for what, so far anyway, is looking to be a much more pleasant day than Saturday. In case you missed yesterday's festivities, it was viciously cold and wet, and not at all conducive to enjoying music. Today: Sunny and warm, at least so far. We'll be here all day, posting reviews and photos as they come in. It starts right now:

  September 13, 2009

• Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

  ​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country. See the full playlists posted after the jump.

  September 14, 2009

• Checking in with Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man at CMJ

  From the sounds of it, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel isn't the only Denver outfit wowing folks in New York. We just received the link to this clip of Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man's performance last night at the Alphabet Lounge. Evidently, McTurnan really digs Gotham, likens it to the time he spent in London as a kid. Don't get any big ideas, Mr. McTurnan. You're a Denver kid now, buddy. Don't go moving! Catch the band this Saturday night at the Bluebird as it warms of the st

  October 21, 2009

• Over the weekend: Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) at the Bluebird

  Doug Beam​Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), The Knew, Jim McTurnan and the Kids That Killed the Man October 24, 2009 Bluebird Theater Just Like: Heaven This was the final moment of Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story), the last song in a too-short set that was just long enough for the band to play every song they know. And we were down to something like one guitar and one keyboard and eight voices singing their souls ragged, and if you closed your eyes you could feel it.

  October 26, 2009

• Got plans after The Denver Film Festival? You do now.

  ​It's that time again. Next Thursday night, the Denver Film Festival kicks off. Although the various films are clearly the main draw, by no means are they the only attraction. As in years past, the real excitement takes place after the screenings. For those who are unable to get their hands on an invite to the nightly VIP afterhours parties in LoDo, where the liquor flows freely and the tunes rage until dawn, here's the word on the other shindigs in town next week. On Thursday, November 19, th

  November 4, 2009