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Michael Gira

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    April 20, 2012

    Weekend's best live music bets, 4/20 edition: Levitate, Cypress Hill, Das Racist and more

    See Also: A 4/20 playlist from Westword's marijuana critic William Breathes Happy 4/20! Welcome to the end of another work week. As always, there are plenty of music options to consider this weekend -- and that's whether you're living the Mile High life or not. The second edition of the annual Levi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Audio: Michael Gira tells chatty audience members to get off his lawn

    Michael Gira's show on Saturday night at the Oriental Theater with Wovenhand included a few chatter-boxes with which the 58-year-old Swans mastermind just couldn't abide. Page down to hear Gira tell the more vocal members of the crowd to "go read Pitchfork," after demanding that they kindly "shut th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Review: Wovenhand and Michael Gira at the Oriental Theater, 3/24/12

    WOVENHAND @ ORIENTAL THEATER | 3/24/12 One song into Saturday night's set at the Oriental Theater and Michael Gira told the crowd, "Okay, shut up. Shut the fuck up. Time to shut up." He'd opened with brooding and droning "Jim" from Swans' latest effort, 2010's My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Weekend's Best Live Music Bets: The Autumn Film, Wovenhand, the Hive Dwellers and more

    Welcome to the weekend! Spring has officially sprung, and just as you can count on a another delightful couple of days weather wise, there's some great music awaiting you in the Mile High City. Locals rule this weekend. Tonight at the Walnut Room, the Autumn Film celebrates the release of its new al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Wovenhand with Michael Gira at the Oriental Theater March 24

    Tom MurphyDavid Eugene Edwards of Wovenhand last year at the Marquis Theater.​Well, this should be nothing short of amazing: If you haven't heard, on Saturday, March 24, Wovenhand, led by the masterful David Eugene Edwards, is sharing a bill with Michael Gira at the Oriental Theater. Every tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Network Awesome is here to remind us what television was like before it sucked

    ​This week, Nickelodeon has been running some of its favorite shows of the '90s, finally tapping into what the Internet has been saying all along: People like old television programming. And, as Netflix continues to make its customers increasingly irate with price increases (information releas ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2011

    Akron/Family

    Tuesday, March 29, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Swans at Summit Music Hall, 2/22/11

    Tom MurphySwans​ SWANS With Wooden Wand 02.22.11 | Summit Music Hall Last night, James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, was joined by two other guitar players -- Brian Lowery and William Tyler. And although there were three guitars and the guys were playing through Orange amps, they did not pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Michael Gira of Swans on the new album and his time as a bassist

    Owen SwensonSWANS​ Emerging in the milieu of the No Wave scene in the New York underground in 1982, Swans became known for the kind of music that was forbidding, terrifyingly intense in its execution and lyrically uncompromising in its depiction of the darker side of human existence. Although ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Win tickets to see Swans tonight at the Summit

    Owen Swenson​Have plans tonight? You do now, perhaps. We've got three pairs of tickets to the Swans show tonight at the Summit Music Hall with Wooden Wand. Would you and a guest like to be our guests? To see the show on us, let us know which directors Michael Gira mentions that he'd like to wo ... More >>

  • Music

    February 17, 2011

    Reunited Swans play on February 22 at Summit Music Hall

    Owen Swenson​Have plans tonight? You do now, perhaps. We've got three pairs of tickets to the Swans show tonight at the Summit Music Hall with Wooden Wand. Would you and a guest like to be our guests? To see the show on us, let us know which directors Michael Gira mentions that he'd like to wo ... More >>

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Sound Bites

    Capsule record reviews

  • Music

    December 7, 2006

    Lisa Germano

    Wednesday, December 13, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  • Music

    February 9, 2006

    Stand by Mi

    Mi and L'au's quiet songs speak volumes.

  • Music

    December 1, 2005

    Akron/Family & Angels of Light

    Angels of Light & Akron/Family (Young God)

  • Music

    October 27, 2005

    Whirled Music

    Devendra Banhart has plenty to Crow about.

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    Stephen Malkmus/Smog

    Face the Truth (Matador)/A River Ain't Too Much to Love (Drag City)

  • Music

    November 11, 2004

    Bad Luck City

    Bad Luck City (Self-released)

  • Music

    June 24, 2004

    Neurosis

    The Eye of Every Storm (Neurot Recordings)

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    Faun Fables

    Friday, June 18, hi-dive, 720-570-4500

  • Music

    July 18, 2002

    To the Rescue

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

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Ulan Bator

    Ego: Echo (Young God Records)

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