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10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (5 free!), March 8-10

Snow returns this weekend, but that's no reason to hole up in your house. Get a jump on spring by picking up some new seeds and gardening tips at Growhaus's annual seed swap, check out Denver's Month of Photography exhibitions, attend a zombie fashion show or drunkenly watch kung fu movies -- and ne ... More >>

John Famiglietti of HEALTH on being flipped off on tour with NIN, plus Rhino and Pictureplane

HEALTH came out of the circuit of underground bands that played DIY spaces in southern California like Ché Café, Il Corral and the Smell. It was that last place with which the band has become most closely associated. Combining avant-garde electronic music with noise and a frantic post-punk fury, H ... More >>

Neil Ewing of Greencarpetedstairs: "It's not what you use, it's how you use it."

Greencarpetedstairs (due tonight at Rhinoceropolis) is the hip-hop/experimental electronic/IDM project of Neil Ewing. He was part of the loose cadre students that attended Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in the first half of the last decade that were at the core of the scene around Rhinocer ... More >>

Levitate Festival at 1STBANK Center, 4/20/12

LEVITATE FESTIVAL @ 1STBANK CENTER | 4.20.12 See Also: • (Q&A) Rusko: "I, of course, support medical marijuana, and I am clearly a patient." • (Profile) OMG! Rusko's stepping into mainstream territory with his new album • (Review) Rusko, M80 Dubstation at the Ogden Theatre, 09.21.10 • (Revi ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, April 6-8, 2012

Spending money is such a bummer. Luckily, you don't have to drop that much cash to have fun this weekend. Whether you fancy a mystical art show, Hunger Games costume contest or a 3-D dance party, we've got them (and more!), all for under $10. Get out there and enjoy the spring. For a full listing ... More >>

Alphabets' Colin Ward: "It began when I was born. Or before. Or scratch that it just began five minutes ago."

Interviewing Alphabets (Colin Ward) is similar to listening to his music: you're put through the ringer of an obnoxious charm, simultaneously witty and grating, aggressive and inviting. Combining both the underground music scene with demanding academic ambitions, the hyper and endlessly talented Col ... More >>

Pictureplane bidding farewell to Denver

It was bound to happen. Travis Egedy is leaving Denver. When Egedy moved here in 2003 to go to art school, his one-man experimental music project, Pictureplane, was just getting off the ground. For a handful of years, he mostly played to his immediate group of friends, often at DIY space Rhinoceropo ... More >>

SnowBall Music Festival 2012: Day 2 travelogue

SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL @ VAIL VALLEY | 3/3/12 (DAY 2) Having survived the frigid first night, the sunshine and above-freezing temps of the second day are a treat. Feeling a little wear and tear from the night before, I was hoping to make it back to the festival grounds in time to catch Sauna play ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, February 24-26, 2012

It's so easy to get the blues in dreary, cruddy February. But there's no excuse this weekend -- the city is full of things to do. From Oscar parties to art openings, dance performances to absurd theater, we've got everything you could possibly want. And it all costs $10 or less. For a full list of ... More >>

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Review: Check Yo Ponytail 2 at Summit, with Spank Rock, Franki Chan and more, 10/25/11

A Pictureplane associate last night at the Summit​CHECK YO PONYTAIL 2 at THE SUMMIT | 10/25/11The highlight of the evening last night came in Big Freedia's set when she showed the audience that she wasn't one to just tell people how to bump, but that she knew how to do it herself, and as she p ... More >>

New Pictureplane video for "Negative Slave" is bonkers for UFOs, pyramids and crystals

​We've grown to expect offbeat videos from Pictureplane over the years, but the just released video for "Negative Slave" officially takes the cake as one of the subtlest, but oddly unsettling videos in his repertoire. While it's full of insidious and easy to miss oddness, if you pay close atte ... More >>

Pictureplane's Travis Egedy gives a personal guided tour of Rhinoceropolis, his humble abode

Focus4Design​So today's the day when Pictureplane's eagerly awaited new album, Thee Physical, drops nationwide on the Lovepump United imprint. In honor of this momentous occasion, we headed over to Rhinoceropolis, the renown DIY institution where Travis Egedy hangs his hat -- no, literally, du ... More >>

Pictureplane's Top 5 moments and feats

​You can't help but love Travis Egedy. The Pictureplane maestro is always up to something. He's always got a smile on his face and doesn't seem to care what anyone thinks. His latest hijinks involve him going door to door at a hotel inviting unsuspecting guests to a concert. In his hotel room. ... More >>

Pictureplane featured on Noisey

​"Homemade club music." That's about the most fitting description we've ever heard for the music Travis Egedy makes as Pictureplane. Forget "Witch House." Okay, so that descriptor wasn't applied directly to Pictureplane. It's how the dudes in Teengirl Fantasy (an act Egedy considers kindred) ... More >>

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Rhinoceropolis gets a new lease on life

Tom MurphyPictureplane at Rhino.​ Rhinoceropolis founder Warren Bedell recently revealed that he's ready to move on from his position behind the decks at the famed venue after six long years of faithful service. The news might make for an odd front page headline, but the implications had DIY- ... More >>

Pictureplane's trip to Alaska in tweets: Drugs, a flaming couch and a 12 gauge

​Travis Egedy, who performs as Pictureplane and lives in Rhinoceropolis, has maintained a relatively high national profile in no small part due to his incessant, ridiculous tweeting. He just got back from a week-long stint in Alaska, and his social media work from the the 49th state reached un ... More >>

Pictureplane's new video for "Real is a Feeling"

Bree Davies​ Pictureplane's track "Real is a Feeling" came to life in video form last night at Redline Gallery studios, complete with a girl in head-to-toe lyrca and a pinata filled with rubber organs of the human variety. Filmed by Neil Ewing and visual artist Sterling Crispin and with the d ... More >>

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Small Black at Rhinoceropolis, 11/13/10

Tom MurphySmall Black​ SMALL BLACK With Class Actress • Pictureplane • Vitamins 11.13.10 | Rhinoceropolis This was a grittier than ever version of Vitamins. On the first song, it was obvious that someone had triggered a sample or a loop or something generating electronic sounds behind th ... More >>

Josh Kolenik of Small Black talks about the band's evolution, influences and videos.

​Small Black's debut EP definitely harks back to those great synth-pop songs of the early '80s with its vintage sound, but with a kind of lo-fi production more in line with a later era in music. The strong songwriting and a keen sense of pacing and melody continued into the next phase of the ... More >>

Tonight: Real is a Feeling at Meadowlark

DJ Narky Stares, one-half of the Screensavers duo.​Even though Travis Egedy (aka Pictureplane), the dude behind the heady party Real is a Feeling is currently on tour with Sleigh Bells (who came through last Saturday), the show -- or dance party, rather -- must go on. So, as a "pre-pre" event ... More >>

Sleigh Bells at the Larimer Lounge, 10/23/10

Kyle SmithSleigh Bells: Derek Miller (from left) and Alexis Krauss​ SLEIGH BELLS Pictureplane • Sundelles 10.23.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO Read interview with Derek Miller of Sleigh Bells Brooklyn newcomers Sundelles opened the show with a sort of surfy garage rock, sounding kind of l ... More >>

Pictureplane gets Lovepump love from HEALTH with a live version of "Goth Star"

Just in time for his tour with Sleigh Bells -- which kicks off tomorrow at the Clubhouse in Tempe, Arizona -- Travis Egedy, aka Pictureplane, gets a little love and viral video exposure from Lovepump United labelmates HEALTH. The Los Angeles dudes did a clean, flattering version of "Goth Star" at ... More >>

Safe Boating Is No Accident's Leighton Peterson and Neil McCormack discuss their penchant for dark humor and absurdity

Lindsay PeckSafe Boating Is No Accident celebrates the release of its new album, Isn't It Fun?, this Friday, September 3, at the hi-dive.​Safe Boating is No Accident is the musical/performance art project of Leighton Peterson and Neil McCormick, who both came to Colorado within the last severa ... More >>

Denver Does Denver, but does it do requests? If so, here's ours.

​ Denver Does Denver, happening this Saturday at Meadowlark and The Flobots Community Space, is a festival promising to cut the local music community apart and glue it back together in ways we've never heard before. Folk songs will be auto-tuned, guitars and pedals will stomp out lyrics, and ... More >>

Monotonix at Rhinoceropolis

Noah Van Sciver​ Monotonix July 4th, 2010 Glob Glob was at partial capacity by the time Expiation opened the show with a set of fairly straight-ahead hardcore. You couldn't fault the musicianship, and the frontman at least seemed as genuinely menacing as he was confrontational: At the end of ... More >>

Pitchfork loves Pictureplane, George&Caplin album art/info, I am the Dot cassette release

​Pictureplane (aka Travis Egedy) got some more love from indie bible Pitchfork last week. The new media titan called Egedy a "Denver house music mastermind" while pimping his latest free mix, a 41-minute mix which includes selections from Crystal Castles and Rihanna and serves as an intro of ... More >>

Wizard Prom sets out to make your night, ahem, magical

​ If we were to tell you of an event with wizards and music involved, what would your gut reaction be? Pleasure? Glee? Anger? Well, prepare yourself accordingly: Wizard Prom -- it's going down next week. Get your wands in a twist this Monday, May 17 at 7 p.m. at Other Side Arts on 16th and Pl ... More >>

Freeloader: Pictureplane's Fast to Black Latex Mix

​ My goodness Pictureplane's Travis Egedy is getting hard to keep track of these days. It seems like he's dropping new mixes as quickly as we can talk about them. This weekend another one appeared in the mystical Internet cloud courtesy of a magazine called Dis.

Over the Weekend: The Chain Gang of 1974 at The Bluebird

The Chain Gang of 1974, The Pirate Signal, Pictureplane Friday, January 29 Bluebird Theatre The Chain Gang of 1974​ By the time midnight rolled around on Friday night, the Bluebird was dark. A few stragglers stood by the doors. The marquee had already been changed for Saturday night. What had ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Bad Weather California at the Hi-Dive

Pink Hawks, Bad Weather California, Pictureplane Saturday, January 9, 2010 Hi-Dive Ideology unites these three bands. Specifically, a belief in the importance of right now. Which makes for a set of live shows that is rough around the edges but breathing and dynamic, with the bands responding to the ... More >>

Q&A with the Don'ts and Be Carefuls

​In 2008, the whole dance punk phenomenon, with few exceptions, seemed worn out and irrelevant to anything genuinely exciting. But it was in the spring of that year that The Don'ts and Be Carefuls started putting together its songs and playing its first show shortly after solidifying its line-up. ... More >>

Travis Egedy's Pictureplane is taking off

Over the Weekend: Pictureplane at Rhinoceropolis

Kiernan Maletsky​ Pictureplane, Josephine and the Mousepeople, Hideous Men Rhinoceropolis August 28, 2009 Better Than: Getting high at a planetarium. Not that I would know. This sort of feels like Travis Egedy's shot. As Pictureplane, he's got the national press (from Fader and Pitchfork) ... More >>

Q&A with Travis Egedy of Pictureplane

Warren Bedell​A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Travis Egedy, who performs under the name Pictureplane, has been rapidly gaining the attention of popular underground bands from around the country for the last few years, most notably HEALTH who took Pictureplane on a national tour in March 2009. HE ... More >>

A first look at Pictureplane's new video

Sarah Cass​In case you haven't noticed, Pitchfork is in the midst of a heated love affair with Pictureplane. We couldn't be more stoked to see Mr. Pictureplane himself, Travis Egedy, getting his due. With the new album, Dark Rift, dropping yesterday on the Lovepump United imprint, it looks like ... More >>

It appears Pitchfork has discovered Pictureplane

​ Tough to say for sure, but after reviewing a couple of Travis Egedy's tracks and interviewing him today for its Rising feature, it seems safe to say that Pitchfork has taken note of Pictureplane. Tom Breihan, formerly of our sister paper in New York and one of the finest rock writers around, ... More >>

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Pictureplane gets love on Pitchfork

photo by Sarah CassAnd the hits just keep coming for Pictureplane, the musical vehicle of Travis Egedy. On Wednesday, Pitchfork reviewed "Trance Doll," the A side of Pictureplane's new Lovepump United 7-inch and gave it a six rating, which in the Pitchfork Universe is pretty decent praise. The best ... More >>

Pictureplane picked up by Lovepump United, hits road with HEALTH

Photo: Sarah CassThis news will probably come as no surprise to those who were paying attention last summer when HEALTH sang the praises of Pictureplane in Pitchfork: Travis Egedy, who makes music under the Pictureplane moniker, has been picked up by Lovepump United. The New York-based imprint, whi ... More >>

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