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  • Music

    May 10, 2012

    Cookie Monsta

    Saturday, May 12, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Chartbreaker: Taylor Swift and The Hunger Games top Adele and One Direction this week

    Lots of noise on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the past two weeks, and it hasn't been from Adele...for once. Last week, newcomers One Direction made history as the first British import with a number-one album debut -- neither the Spice Girls nor the Beatles had albums ever debut at number one in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    VNV Nation: "We wanted to offer people an alternative of substance over pure style"

    VNV Nation (due tomorrow night at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs) started as a kind of bedroom project for the band's singer and co-programmer, Ronan Harris. By 1995, he had developed his music to the point that it was becoming part of the next wave of underground electronic pop. Some may dismi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    "Penis Tattoo Causes Permanent Erection" our fave headline of 2012 so far: Thanks, 7News!

    In today's get-pageviews-or-die web world, even network TV affiliates, among the last bastions of family-friendly media, understand that grabby topics are the best way to get clicks. Which explains why the top national headline in 7News's "Staying Healthy" section currently reads: "Penis Tattoo Cau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Wines in the Pines: From Keystone With Love

    ​Everyone knows Britain's best spy took his martinis shaken, not stirred -- but his wine preferences weren't as well known. Turns out that he liked vintage Taittinger champagne, Mouton Rothschild '53 when someone else was buying the red, and Loire Valley Vouvray, according to wineportfolio. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Bring Me the Horizon show this Sunday night moved from the Fillmore to Summit Music Hall

    Bring Me the Horizon's show this weekend, originally scheduled for the Fillmore Auditorium on Sunday, October 2, has been moved to the Summit Music Hall. Tickets for the all-ages show, which also features Parkway Drive, Architects (UK), Deez Nuts and On Broken Wings, are still available ($25) and ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    WHY? cancels U.S. tour, including Denver date

    ​Just a week after starting its seated tour, WHY? canceled most of its remaining U.S. tour dates, including its show at Gothic Theatre slated for Wednesday, October 12. The band's Facebook page states, "Dear fans, due to an unfortunate injury, we are going to have to cancel the rest of our Nor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Gay immigrants: Washington Post says to halt deportations of immigrants in same-sex unions

    ​ A Washington Post editorial reprinted today in the Denver Post calls for a moratorium on the deportation of gay immigrants who are legally married or in civil unions until after federal courts decide the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    BrewDog unveils beer laced with Viagra

    BrewDog.com​Alcohol bombs, beer bottled in dead animals... if you've been wondering what those crafty brewers over at United Kingdom-based BrewDog will think of next, wait no longer. In a stunt inspired by the upcoming Royal Wedding, the brewer is unleashing Royal Virility Performance, a beer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Weekend Dance Card: Someone Else, Headhunter, Dubstep Function, Tigers on a Leash Label Launch, Boys Noize and Housemeister

    Drawing inspiration from eccentric 1950s bandleader Spike Jones, as well as from found sounds and field recordings, Sean O'Neal (aka Someone Else) is an experimental minimal techno and house producer who is really doing his own thing. Having performed at the world's greatest nightclubs, including ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Kaboom is this week's most ridiculous movie trailer

    ​Take a random assortment of cult classics involving teenagers -- let's say, oh, Brick, My So-Called Life and anything by Joss Whedon -- roll them all together into the space of a little over two minutes and you might have something like the trailer for Kaboom -- which is not to say that that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    American Skins Versus U.K. Skins: Looks like MTV forgot that the boobs were the best part

    Hey MTV: Give Tony his naked bedspread back!​There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good gra ... More >>

  • Music

    September 16, 2010

    Dubstep DJ Caspa appearing September 17 at Mile High Bass Invasion 2

    Hey MTV: Give Tony his naked bedspread back!​There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    DJ Mu$a on living in Brixton, playing in Paris with Saul Williams and being an envelope-pusher

    Paul Winner​ Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats (and kittens) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumbl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Tiger Woods "Unfaithful" art project goes global

    It wasn't quite pop art, but close -- and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word "Unfaithful" -- an art project pulled off by Longmont's Jason ... More >>

  • Music

    September 24, 2009

    Skream at Bass Invasion, Cervantes'

    It wasn't quite pop art, but close -- and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word "Unfaithful" -- an art project pulled off by Longmont's Jason ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Get sloshed at the Wynkoop's single malt scotch tasting dinner

    It's not too late to make reservations for the single malt scotch tasting at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, slated for Thursday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. But if you want to sample the slew of Britain's best single malts -- MaCallan, Famous Grouse and Highland Park Scotch, plus a very rar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura

    Early on in its career, Camera Obscura endured endless comparisons to revered fellow Glaswegians Belle & Sebastian. At this point, however, any comparison threatens to make the latter look bad: Among scholars of the heartache and growing pains of bookish, precocious youth, Stuart Murdoch's got n ... More >>

  • Music

    November 27, 2008

    The Ghost Inside

    Sunday, November 30, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    DIA conspiracy promoted to one of history’s greatest!

    The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of "History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories" – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Q&A with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos

    The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of "History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories" – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how th ... More >>

  • Film

    July 10, 2008

    Zombie

    Starz FilmCenter

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    The Kooks

    Thursday, May 29, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Shapeshifters

    Vinyl

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Early Start

    Get a jump on Monolith six months in advance.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Nick Williams, R.I.P.

    Get a jump on Monolith six months in advance.

  • Music

    December 27, 2007

    Year's to You

    The Fray's Isaac Slade and Joe King sound off on their favorite albums of 2007.

  • Music

    August 30, 2007

    Andy C.

    Vinyl

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Barneys New York Purchased by Dubai. Yes, the Country.

    Vinyl

  • Music

    April 5, 2007

    Kings of Leon

    Because of the Times
    RCA

  • Music

    January 18, 2007

    Andy Partridge

    XTC's fuzzy warbler is a pop genius.

  • Music

    December 29, 2005

    Diaspora Jammin'

    The best underground music from the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., the Caribbean and Africa.

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    DJ Surgeon

    Club Moto

  • Music

    September 29, 2005

    M.I.A.

    Saturday, October 1, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984.

  • Film

    June 23, 2005

    Flick Pick

    Dead of Night

  • Music

    December 30, 2004

    Marrying the Mainstream

    White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

  • Music

    November 18, 2004

    Scratching the Surface

    Marco V

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2004

    Beam Me Up

    World flicks light up the Moondance Film Festival.

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    The Bite Stuff

    The hunt continues to outfox opponents.

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Off Limits

    Wet cleanup on aisle eight

  • Music

    April 24, 2003

    Robbie Williams/Richard Ashcroft

    Escapology (Virgin)/Human Conditions (Virgin)

  • Music

    April 24, 2003

    Club Scout

    Amon Tobin

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Double Cross Words

    Diplomacy addicts smile and lie as they gamely try to conquer the world.

  • Music

    March 8, 2001

    Llama Farmers

    El Toppo (Beggars Banquet)

  • Dining

    February 15, 2001

    The Bite

    Still game to try venison despite disease scares.

  • Dining

    December 21, 2000

    Tea Time

    Finding a good cuppa gets colder in Boulder.

  • Music

    May 29, 1997

    Life With Fluffy

    Fluffy's Amanda Rootes officiates at the wedding of glamour and punk.

  • Music

    February 29, 1996

    Feedback

    Fluffy's Amanda Rootes officiates at the wedding of glamour and punk.

  • Culture

    September 27, 1995

    STIFF UPPER BRITS

    Fluffy's Amanda Rootes officiates at the wedding of glamour and punk.

  • Music

    June 14, 1995

    STRETCHING OUT

    ELASTICA TAKES A RIDE ON THE NEW WAVE OF NEW WAVE.

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