Subject: Matt Fecher

• The Rockies Make a Grand Entrance

  October 24, 2007

• Showcase LiveSemi-Live Blog

  June 14, 2008

• DNC Cheat Sheet

  August 25, 2008

• Evolution of the Rock Concert... a panel discussion

  October 2, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: These ARE the good old days

  Photo: Cory Casciato Remember the good old days? If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably caught yourself on more than one occasion muttering that rhetorical question while you waxed nostalgic about something or other that you could just swear was far superior ten or twenty years ago or more. Remember kerosene lamps? Those were so much better than compact fluorescent bulbs. And do you recall how great eight-track tapes were? Man, you just can’t get that kind of warmth and resonance

  November 13, 2008

• Matt Fecher launches New Music Mondays tonight at the Larimer Lounge

  Monolith Festival co-founder Matt Fecher kicks off the first of his New Music Mondays tonight at the Larimer Lounge (2721 Larimer St.). Fecher, who hosts the night as DJ Hot to Death, will be bringing in local artists, media, tastemakers, DJs and friends every Monday. In addition to having two guest DJs per week, music fans also can bring down vinyl or iPods a share a few of their favorite cuts. There's no cover and it runs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

  December 1, 2008

• Reverend Peyton spins at Larimer Lounge tonight

  Reverend Peyton will be a guest DJ tonight at Larimer Lounge as part of Matt Fecher's New Music Mondays. We're guessing that the Rev might be spinning some of his favorite bluesmen who inspired the singer/guitarist like Charley Patton, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House and Big Bill Broonzy. But if you can't make it down tonight, he'll be raising some hell with his Big Damn Band, which includes his wife Washboard Breezy and his brother Jayme, tomorrow night and New Year's Eve when th

  December 29, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: My head is spinning

  Photo: Lucia De Giovanni Last night, I had the honor and privilege of guest deejaying at Matt Fecher's New Music Mondays at the Larimer Lounge, playing music from my collection next to the incandescent DJ Ginger and firestarter DJ Hot to Death. Ginger played a couple of body-rocking sets, including some frightening mash-ups, and Fecher, aka Hot to Death, unveiled some new remixes that blew the roof off. While I only rocked the iTunes (and a few pre-mixed sets that I put together ahead of time),

  January 6, 2009

• From Blonde to Black: When DJs Attack

  On Monday night, while I was enjoying the turntable stylings of DJ Hot to Death (aka the Monolith Music Festival's Matt Fecher) and those of his co-horts for the evening, Heather Powell Browne (writer of the "I Am Fuel, You Are Friends" music blog), and Nathan and Patrick Meese at the Larimer Lounge, I had the pleasure of meeting DJ Rex Buchanan, a talented DJ and producer who has been spinning around Boulder and Denver for years. He was with Jacob Bond, another producer who creates wicked remix

  January 23, 2009

• Lion Sized have hearts like, well, lions

  It's been said that the mark of a truly great band is the ability to deliver the same caliber performance in front of virtually nobody as you would for a crowd of thousands. Gared O'Donnell from Planes Mistaken for Stars didn't just subscribe to this notion, he lived it. Emily Francis, who managed Planes for years, once told me that even if there was only a handful of kids in the audience, O'Donnell would give it his all regardless to keep from letting those kids down. Last night at the Marquis

  February 20, 2009

• Airborne Toxic Event show postponed

  Due to illness, tonight's Airborne Toxic Event show at the Bluebird Theater will be postponed until Wednesday, April 15 at the Ogden Theatre. All tickets to the Bluebird show will be honored and refunds are available at point of purchase. Henry Clay People, who were supposed to open the show tonight, will perform a free show tonight at 9 p.m. at the Larimer Lounge as part of Matt Fecher's New Music Mondays. Sarah Levin, Julie Davis of Bela Karoli and Esme Patterson of Paper Bird will be spinnin

  February 23, 2009

• Fertility in fallow fields, part two

  Last night, hundreds of invited guests drank for free at a private party at the Larimer Lounge. Good thing, too. Lots of those folks were as broke as you are, and though Miller High Life might not be your preferred lager, it tastes mighty good pro bono. The night before, I ran into a bunch of other folks at the Larimer, each struggling in his or her own way, but all bursting with creative energy. And these folks weren't even getting free drinks!I met Boulder-based singer-songwriter Kristina In

  March 4, 2009

• Manic Monday

  January 1, 2009

• When Cafe Cero closed, Open Tap took over

  December 11, 2008

• A Long, Strange Trip

  A panel discussion looks at how rock

  November 6, 2008

• If you're a music fan, you'll be at Monolith this weekend — and this is what should be on your must-see list

  September 11, 2008

• Sight Seeing

  SXSW was a real eyeful -- and earful.

  March 22, 2007

• The Hills Are Alive

  Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

  September 7, 2006

• Grazing

  There was something for every musical appetite at the Westword Music Showcase.

  June 22, 2006

• The Beatdown

  The mountains win again at the South Park Music Fest.

  September 15, 2005

• Meet the Pirate Signal, one of Denver's most compelling hip-hop acts

  June 11, 2009

• Monolith adds more than a dozen local DJs

  DJ Vajra​Just received word from Monolith curator Matt Fecher that the annual fall festival, headlined this year by the Mars Volta and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, has just added more than a dozen local DJs to its lineup. Nationally renown turntablist DJ Vajra heads the roster, which also includes Mu$a, who just performed over the weekend with Pretty Lights at City Hall, Cysko Rokwell of 3 the Hardway, Satan's Eighties Lovechild, Boyhollow of Lipgloss, Klaw, Mike Deez, Metat, Scotty Matelic, Option 4,

  August 24, 2009

• Animals At Risk remixes the Swayback

  Matt Fecher isn't letting the grass grow under his feet. Although his hands are clearly already full with helping curate the Monolith Festival, Fecher, who DJs under the name Hot to Death, is constantly moving in a number of different creative directions at once it seems, from launching and hosting the sporadic yet increasingly popular New Music Mondays at the Larimer Lounge, to embarking on various collaborations, such as Animals At Risk, the name finally given to the electro-clash project fe

  November 3, 2009

• Q&A with Monolith Festival Director Josh Baker

  Matt Fecher (left) and Josh Baker with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, whose band headlined the inaugural editon of Monolith ​Yesterday's news that the Monolith Festival is in financial straits and in need of a rather large infusion of cash just to continue wasn't completely shocking, especially given the modest turnouts and the fact that AEG Live opted out of helping produce and promote this year's fest, which seemed to underscore the notion that the fest -- in its current form, at least --

  November 19, 2009