Subject: Mike Marchant

• This Weekend: The Goddamn Gallows, The Wheel, Widowers and Paleo @ 3 Kings Tavern

  September 10, 2007

• Mile High Makeout: Sharpening the Saw

  February 14, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Moving Units

  April 24, 2008

• Last Night...Widowers CD release party with Achille Lauro, Mothership and Hawks of Paradise @ Larimer Lounge

  April 25, 2008

• Living Room Series Starts Tonight and Rock the Mike: The Freeman Benefit on Saturday

  August 21, 2008

• MP3 Freeloader: Widowers

  November 11, 2008

• Wetlands, Widowers, the Dendrites, Monofog and Fissure Mystic at Larimer Lounge

  Wetlands, Widowers, the Dendrites, Monofog and Fissure MysticFriday, November 28, 2008Larimer LoungeBetter than: Stuffing down turkey sandwiches while watching David Lynch films and weepingOn the day after Thanksgiving, the good hipsters of Denver shook off the tryptophan hangover and braved the snow to catch the Wetlands' CD release party at the Larimer Lounge. And it's safe to say no one was sorry they did. It turned out to be a great show. Which it would have to be to justify the ridiculous a

  December 1, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Campfire songs

  December 3, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, December 3 edition

  As you like it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Sebastien Tellier (pictured) talks about Sexuality in a naughy Q&A. • Oasis' Noel Gallagher gets the Q&A treatment, too. • Eric Eyl's Mile High Makeout gives a listen to Mike Marchant's campfire songs. • A look at photographer Peter Beste's black-metal valentines. Today in Cafe Society: • Savoring Fat Sully's grand opening. • Is Ha Noi friend or pho? • The latest from Larimer Street, part one and part two. • Argonaut toasts its new

  December 3, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Dreaming of Me

  As Matthew Wilder once said, "Last night, I had the strangest dream." I was at some sort of educational and/or military compound, and in the main dining hall there was a musical performance. My friend, a local photographer, was with me, and we were excited about the show. In some ways, it could have been any Friday night at one of my favorite Denver venues, but this space was large, and it was not unlike the mess hall in MASH. When it came time for the show, it turned out it was the Killers, except, as dream logic would have it, this band looked nothing like the Killers.

  December 10, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Binge and purge

  On the third day of an alcohol, caffeine, fat and sugar binge in the name of the winter solstice and some folks' savior, I'm feeling lethargic, unhealthy, dirty and startlingly unattractive. This is the stuff New Year's resolutions are made of. All I want to do is eat raw foods, spend four hours in the gym and try to save my internal organs from becoming completely enrobed in a protective layer of sweet, fatty tissue. In spite of all that, I'm going tonight. And you probably should too.

  December 26, 2008

• Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 01.07.09

  It was world premier week on Mile Hi-Fidelity. Last night, we had the pleasure of debuting songs from A Shoreline Dream, Jon Snodgrass, Littles Paia, Park Pourbaix and the Widowers' Mike Marchant, who stopped by the studio long enough to give us insight on his new batch of tunes, which will be unveiled to the world at large this Friday night at the Meadowlark, to regale us with an unbelievable tale about getting arrested and shook down in Mexico, and to get stuck in the elevator. That's right.

  January 8, 2009

• Mile High Makeout: New EP from Dualistics

  Thanks to the ever-gracious Charley Hine, I've had the opportunity to listen to the new six-track disc from Dualistics a handful of times this week, and I have to say it's really freaken good. I have publicly expressed my dissatisfaction with the band's live performances in the past, but if Hine and his bandmates - Scott Russell, Tyler Despres and the ubiquitous Jimmy Stofer - can reproduce the energy and complexity of this record when they release it at the Larimer Lounge on January 31st (with

  January 15, 2009

• Widowers live on the (Internet) radio

  Just received word that psych-pop magicians Widowers are making an appearance on KVDU, the University of Denver's college radio station (wait, DU has a college radio station? Who knew?). Tune in to your Internet -- it appears that KVDU is an Internet-only radio station (sorry commuters!) from 4 to 6 p.m. today to catch a live acoustic set in the studio from frontman Mike Marchant and a few of his cohorts. Click here to find info about KDVU and tune in to the show.

  February 12, 2009

• Houses busking on the 16th Street Mall tonight

  Just received word that the five members of Houses will be roaming around on the 16th Street Mall tonight, playing guitars, singing and entertaining the mall-walking troops. While we're not entirely sure which five members of Houses will be on hand -- the act is comprised of Andrew James Hamilton, Kinsey Hamilton, Stephen Brooks, Matthew Till, Johnny Lundock, Maria Kohler, Eric Peterson and Mike Marchant -- you can bet the music will be sweet. The roving musical marauders plan to meet in front o

  March 18, 2009

• Mike Marchant gives away unreleased music

  Towering rocker and singer-songwriter Mike Marchant has a well-documented penchant for giving away music. When his band, Widowers, released its debut album, Marchant couldn't give away copies of the painstakingly recorded beauty fast enough. Little has changed since then, as evidenced by a recent e-mail the psych-pop tunesmith sent. The message contained links to download a handful of Widowers and Marchant solo tracks, as well as an exhortation to share liberally. One of those tracks is a concis

  March 25, 2009

• Here we are. Now entertain us: Dualistics channel Nirvana. Sheryl Renee pays tribute to Marvin Gaye.

  Got plans this weekend? If not, you do now. There's a couple of shows totally worth checking out featuring local musicians paying homage to a pair of past icons, groundbreaking, paradigm shifting artists who left this world violently and prematurely. This Friday night at the hi-dive, the Dualistics -- and a slew of guests, including members of Hello Kavita, Achille Lauro, the Wheel, Ghost Buffalo, and John Common, Dan Craig, Jen Korte, Mike Marchant, Angie Stevens -- will be playing In Utero, Ni

  March 31, 2009

• MP3 Freeloader: tonight, Tim Pourbaix CD release at Larimer Lounge

  As you've undoubtedly gathered by now if you've read this week's items on Tim Pourbaix, in Rough Mixes and the extended companion piece on the blog, tonight will mark one of the singer-songwriter's last local performances as a resident of Denver. Pourbaix has made quite a mark on this town as an artist, and suffice it to say, we're sad to see him go. In honor of his CD release party tonight at the Larimer Lounge -- which will feature a solo performance from Pourbaix, as well as a set from Park P

  May 29, 2009

• Creative Memories of Widowers

  These psychedelic Denver pop rockers find beauty in brain damage.

  January 3, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 14 edition

  Things are looking a little Sketch-y. Thirsty? Today in Cafe Society: • Sketch introduces Wino Wednesdays. • Common Grounds left its liquor license behind in move. • The suit is slingin' Spud Bros. spuds! • Snarf's finally arrives in Denver. • Fear not, sleeved-blanketed drunks: The Denver Snuggie Pub Crawl is very much on. Today in Backbeat Online: • Record Store Day preview: Give the gift of Slayer. • Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 6, 2009. • Dialed

  April 14, 2009

• So what's with all the talk during shows?

  January 29, 2009

• Wetlands

  Babies Teeth
  Self-released

  January 22, 2009

• The Class of 2009

  Highlighting the most captivating music of the coming year

  January 15, 2009

• Mike Marchant

  Outer Space and the Sea
  Self-released

  January 8, 2009

• Wetlands is awfully grown up, Babies Teeth and all

  November 27, 2008

• Untitled Energy

  The Denver Art Museum will jump again on Friday night.

  April 23, 2009

• Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 04.15.09

  Another fun show last night. Andy was back from tour and as things worked out, we didn't have any guests, which meant less talk and more rock. In homage to Hot IQs, who recently announced their impending split, we kicked off the show with three back-to-back songs from the group, followed by our well wishes for a speedy recovery to Mike Marchant and a track from his latest record, and twenty-two more hand-picked local tracks -- including the broadcast debut of tunes by Vonnegut, Tyler Ward, Forth

  April 16, 2009

• Widowers

  Widowers
  Self-released

  April 24, 2008

• Widowers

  3 Kings Tavern

  September 6, 2007

• 'Space Case

  MySpace can be soul-sucking, but it has its upsides.

  April 26, 2007

• Widowers' Mike Marchant recovering after being hit by car

  Andrew SegretiTo say Mike Marchant has an angel resting on his shoulder is an understatement on par with saying our economy is sort of a bad way right now. Yesterday, Marchant, one of Denver's most talented songwriters, was hit by a car and managed to walk away from the incident having only suffered a concussion -- his second within a year and a half -- a sore arm and some minor scrapes and bruises. The first head injury was more severe and happened at the beginning of last year. When we profile

  April 14, 2009

• Moving Pictures: Iuengliss, Tauntaun, Paper Bird, Hot Congress, John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light

  Behold our latest weekly feature: Moving Pictures. Like a slideshow, only with sound and motion, Moving Pictures is basically just a quick highlight reel of the things we saw during the week or, in this case, over the weekend. This first edition features clips from yet another extraordinary weekend for music in the Mile High City. While we didn't make it to all the gigs we had hoped for, we did manage to catch a number of stellar sets all over town, including Iuengliss on Friday night at the h

  April 19, 2009

• Andy and Kinsey Hamilton built Houses together with some friends

  April 30, 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

  April 30, 2009

• 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

• Over the Weekend: Houses at the Hi-Dive

  Houses' Mike Marchant at the Hi-Dive. Photos by Jef Otte. Houses, Elin Palmer, Ian Cooke Friday, May 1, 2009 Hi-Dive Better than: Going to bed at eight because you're mildly narcoleptic, which is what my date ended up doing (and man, she missed out) At the Hi-Dive on Friday night, someone mentioned that the lineup should have gone in reverse order. It was true. As it was, the order was Houses, Ian Cooke, and lastly Elin Palmer. And in terms of content, the night couldn't have been much better.

  May 4, 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

• A band-by-band guide to the 2009 Westword Music Showcase

  June 11, 2009

• Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Fidel's Cantina

  Brian Landis FolkinsYerkish led off at Fidel's. See more photos from Fidel's at westword.com/slideshow. Yerkish, 12 p.m. The crowd inside the cramped cantina is building slowly as Yerkish takes the stage, and the band wastes no time in laying out its frenetic, frantic rhythms. It's a dynamic complimented by lead singer Tim Kaminski's impassioned, insistent vocals and the clean, driving guitar lines of Nate Huisgen and Tony Brown. The group's sound draws from multiple sources at once, easily in

  June 15, 2009

• Over the weekend: UMS Festival

  Julie Davis of Bela Karoli (A.H. Goldstein)​Last night, the four-day UMS festival wrapped, and most of our crew made it out for at least part of the fest. And while we rarely agree on anything, we're all pretty much in agreement that Danielle Ate the Sandwich absolutely stole the show with one of the breakout performances of the fest. Other highlights included Boba Fett and the Americans guerilla style marching band performances outside the Skylark and hi-dive on a drizzly Saturday night, whic

  July 27, 2009

• Over the weekend: Houses at the Meadowlark

  ​Houses, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Joseph Pope III Friday, Aug. 7 Meadowlark Better than: The other performances I've seen from the same three acts. Houses' schedule has been demanding lately. The group's ambitious goal for the year -- to release four separate EPs, each bearing the name of a separate season and each touting a unique sound and structure - has translated into a seemingly nonstop schedule of writing, recording and performing. Happily, any toll from the group's ambitious project

  August 10, 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

• Mike Marchant to host a songwriter's workshop at the Meadowlark

  ​Ah, now here's an idea we can co-sign. Just received word from Mike Marchant (Widowers, Houses) alerting us to a rad new idea he's about to execute, a songwriter's workshop at the Meadowlark. Dubbed as "Dissecting and Perfecting the Pop Song - A Songwriter's Workshop," the sessions are slated to take place on the first and third Mondays of the month, beginning Monday, October 19, and will be moderated by the Widowers frontman, a guy who, without question, knows his way around a tune. (Don't j

  October 1, 2009

• Freeloader: Win tickets to see Liam Finn tonight at the Larimer Lounge

  ​Update: Charles Hughes and Cherie C will be our guests at the show tonight. Thanks to them and to everyone else who responded with the correct answer ("Don't Dream It's Over" and The Stand). We'll have more tix up for grabs later this week.Yes, we know it's a Monday. And yes, we know the Broncos are playing tonight. And yes, we know that suggesting that you do anything else on a night where those two things converge is appalling, like asking you to lend us $20 after you've just been laid off.

  October 19, 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

• Join the hipster gypsy folk for live music and more at the Boulder Draft House

  November 5, 2009

• Introducing the Show and Tell project

  ​The vast and seemingly boundless creativity of the artists in this town never ceases to impress nor inspire us, from the Stand By Your Band series to Mike Marchant's new songwriter workshops over at the Meadowlark. Recently, we came across another thing that folks are doing that we thought was pretty neat, the Denver Show and Tell Project. With a new set of guidelines posted every month, Show and Tell is basically a project in which various artists -- the project is open to anyone interested

  November 12, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Houses at Larimer Lounge

  Houses​ Houses, The Knew, Action Packed Thrill Ride Saturday, November 14, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than: The fireside. It was seriously snowing out on Saturday, hard enough to cover the signs and turn the city into a giant hushed bobsled track. You would not have known this if you were taken and plopped in front of the stage at the Larimer Lounge around 10 p.m. The room was in high spirits, yelling, getting drunk and shoulder-to-shoulder like no one was concerned about getting home.

  November 16, 2009