Subject: Monolith Festival

• This Weekend: Monolith Festival @ Red Rocks, Saturday, September 15

  September 17, 2007

• Last Night: The Blood Arm, Art Brut, the Hold Steady @ The Fox Theater

  November 12, 2007

• Over the Weekend...Cloud Cult @ Larimer Lounge

  May 19, 2008

• Monolith Festival Live Blog, Day 1

  September 14, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 15 edition

  September 15, 2008

• The hipsters of Monolith

  September 14, 2008

• Rearview: The Week in Review (9/13/08-9/19/08)

  September 19, 2008

• Printer's objections -- about the F-word? -- delay issue of FM magazine

  October 7, 2008

• Q&A with Tammy Ealom of Dressy Bessy

  October 15, 2008

• Live Review: Dressy Bessy, the Fire Drills & the Pseudo Dates

  October 20, 2008

• Memorialize Monolith on the cheap

  Did you miss out on the Monolith festival, but want people to believe you were there? Or maybe you blew all your cash on a ticket and a few $7 beers, leaving you no funds to purchase the appropriate shwag to remember the event by? Or maybe you're like me, and you just couldn't face the prospect of carrying any more shit up and down the interminable stairs all day? Or maybe you just want to do some cheap-ass Xmas shopping? In any case, satisfy your Monolith needs with this big half-off sale. For

  December 12, 2008

• 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

• Manic Monday

  January 1, 2009

• Westword's favorite national albums of the year

  December 25, 2008

• 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

• The Kills

  Wednesday, April 22, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

  April 16, 2009

• Westword's Freeloader tips you off to the best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

  September 4, 2008

• Wino Diaries

  Make room on the Amy Winehouse bandwagon.

  September 13, 2007

• Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Frank Black shows annouced

  The Flaming Lips know all about putting on a hell of a show, and the Monolith Festival gig at Red Rocks in 2007 was one most phenomenal things to happen to that venue in the last few years. Lets hope for a repeat performance when the Lips return to Red Rocks Sunday, August 23 with Explosions in the Sky and Star Death & the White Dwarfs, which features Wayne Coyne's nephew Dennis. Tickets, which run from $36.75 to $46.50, go on sale Saturday, June 20 at 10 a.m. And as an added bonus, all tick

  June 16, 2009

• Speakeasy Tiger earned its current buzz the old-fashioned way - by working hard and writing great music

  July 9, 2009

• A Shoreline Dream offers free download of Ulrich Schnauss collaboration

  ​On its blog last night, Denver's oneiric, majestic A Shoreline Dream began offering a free download of its song "Departure." Co-written with Berlin-based electronica producer Ulrich Schnauss, the song is a lush wash of shoegazing gorgeousness that first appeared on the band's full-length Recollections of Memory, released earlier this year. ASD's next show is Aug. 22 at Bender's, and it's also slated to appear at Red Rocks on Sept. 13 as part of the Monolith Festival.

  July 31, 2009

• Over the weekend: The Avett Brothers at the Ogden Theatre

  ​The Avett Brothers, Sally Ford and the Sound Outside Saturday, Aug. 22 Ogden Theatre Better than: Most of the shows I've seen this summer. I never thought I'd see a full-fledged hootenanny on the stage of the Ogden Theatre. But during choice moments of the Avett Brothers' Saturday set, an appearance that wrapped up a series of four Colorado appearances in as many days, I felt swept up by a communal fervor and zeal that seemed straight out of an old-timey camp meeting. Indeed, the two-hour s

  August 24, 2009

• $99 two-day Monolith Festival passes released

  ​If you haven't yet scored tickets for the Monolith Festival, which is just over a week off, now might be the ideal time to get them and save a few bucks. Esurance, one of the festivals sponsors, just released a block of 400 $99 two-day passes (no service fees) that are only available for the next 48 hours. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Of Montreal, Girl Talk, Dandy Warhols and Phoenix are just a few of the stellar acts that will be at Red Rocks Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13.

  September 3, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

  ​Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros are definitely one of the more buzzed about underground bands to come to Colorado this summer and deservedly so. With a briskly selling headliner show at the Planet Bluegrass Wildflower Pavillions in Lyons on Friday September 11 and a hotly anticipated appearance at Red Rocks for the Monolith Festival the following day, Saturday September 12, this band is unquestionably on an upward trajectory. Like Arcade Fire mated with the Mamas & the Papas on a b

  September 9, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: The Glitch Mob

  ​The Glitch Mob started out as a Los Angeles-based DJ collective that pooled its collective talent to make a more collaborative music with expanded sonic possibilities. As individual artists, Ooah, edIT and Boreta have released solo albums of cutting edge electronic music but it is as a team that they have put out some of the most interesting remixes being done today. Those familiar with improvisational band Sound Tribe Sector 9 will hear an entirely new band through the ears of the Glitch

  September 10, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: Red Wire Black Wire

  ​Often compared to New Wave bands of the early '80s -- especially the Human League --Brooklyn, New York's Red Wire Black Wire, uses synthesizers as a primary compositional instrument. Described by the New Music Express as having an icy sound, the immediacy and sincerity of Doug Walters's vocals helps the music avoid any ironic distancing common to a good deal of synth pop. If anything, Red Wire Black Wire is an indie rock band built on a hip-hop foundation that is heard more in the structu

  September 10, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: Thao with the Get Down Stay Down

  ​Thao with the Get Down Stay Down's latest record, Know Better Learn Faster, carries a wide menu of influences. Like the ensemble's previous work, the album draws from traditional American folk precedents, as well as snippets of other sounds that range from old Motown to '60s pop. The blend comes largely from the tastes of the band's lead singer and guitarist, Thao Nguyen. Originally from Virginia, Nguyen blends the traditional and the contemporary in her high-energy guitar lines and plai

  September 11, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: Depreciation Guild

  Photo by Drew Reynolds​Brooklyn's the Depreciation Guild has spent the last few years fusing elements of synth pop, dream pop and experimental electronic music into an indistinguishable amalgamation of the band's wide-ranging sonic influences. In reviews and profiles of the band, much has been made of the group's use of an old piece of digital sound equipment (discussed below) but the Guild are not 8-bit composers nor are they neo-shoegazers trying to recreate a sound of times past. Instea

  September 11, 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

• Breaking: Monolith Festival on the ropes

  ​Just received word from Josh Baker, co-curator of Monolith, that the future of the indie-centric festival is uncertain. (Read Baker's full statement after the jump.) Although the turnout for this year's festival seemed to increase slightly from year's past and the lineup itself seemed more solid than ever, with headliners like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Mars Volta, the picturesque annual two-day outing at Red Rocks is now finding itself in the precarious position of having to seek new invest

  November 18, 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