Paper Bird, The Autumn Film, Laura Goldhamer, Chuck Potashner, Rob DrabkinWednesday, November 26, 2008Oriental TheatreBetter than: The typical Thanksgiving birdThanksgiving Eve (that's a thing, right?) is always a good night to get out and have a little fun, unless maybe you're the one stuck cooking the next day. Cooking is outside my purview, so I was clear to catch a nice line up of Denver talent, most notably Paper Bird, and finally make it to a show at the Oriental, which I had somehow never
After completing two extensive back-to-back tours of the West Coast and Midwest over the summer and through the fall, the Autumn Film is back at home briefly through the holidays, taking a bit of time off to write before embarking on another series of dates. On the next jaunt, the act, which was whittled down to a three-piece this past summer, will be hitting the East Coast for the first time with stops in Michigan and Chicago along the way.
The past twelve months have been rather eventful for the Autumn Film. Last year, the act, formerly known as Tifah after its front woman, Tifah Al-Attas, changed its moniker, downsized its lineup, released an EP's worth of material for free download and spent the bulk of the year on the road crisscrossing the country. In addition to the Grey EP, which has been downloaded more than 6,000 times, the outfit has sold over 8,000 copies of its previous disc, Safe & Sound.
Last week, I downloaded the latest free EP from the Autumn Film, a local act that makes a habit of giving its tracks away online. I must admit that, before I got my hands on this collection, a three-track-and-a-video collection called Heart-Shaped Box, I was far from being a fan of the band formerly known as Tifah. It wasn't that I had anything against the extremely talented trio of Tifah Al-Attas, Dann Stockton and Reid Phillips. It was simply that the group's adult contemporary pop didn't
