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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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Travis Egedy's Pictureplane is taking off

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 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Weekend Showdown: King Rat Reigns

​ We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we've decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us -- and the rest of the world -- what we missed in the comments. On Friday night, ... 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.

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 >>

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 >>

The Weekend Showdown: Candy Claws in Arvada and Disco Biscuits everywhere

Photos by Matthew Sage, Background and layout by Ryan Hover.​ We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we've decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us -- and the rest of the ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase 2010: Backbeat scribes' travelogue

​ Here's our massive, multi-page report/travelogue of the Westword Music Showcase from (in order) Tom Murphy, Cory Casciato, A.H. Goldstein, Jef Otte, Jon Solomon and Brain Frederick. Let us know in the comments what you saw and loved, saw and hated, or missed and hated yourself for missing. ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Foursquare mayors reveal their territorial ambitions

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 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 >>

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'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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Gauntlet Hair has found a new home in laid-back Colorado

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 >>

Denver's best music releases of 2011

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 >>