Vancouver

The Postal Service at Red Rocks on May 30, presale tickets on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Brace yourself, my aging hipster friend: If you haven't heard, your favorite band from nearly a decade ago is back together and playing shows again. While the Coachella date is the one that got everybody hyperventilating, the Postal Service's tour actually kicks off a few days earlier in Reno. After ... More >>

Konrad Black

Friday, August 17, NORAD, 303-297-7884.

Konrad Black

Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on how to masturbate videos and the death of VHS

There's a lot of weird shit captured for posterity on videotape. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting it for 21 years, and touring the world sharing it under the name Found Footage Festival for the past eight. During that time, they've become de facto VHS historians, amassing an incredi ... More >>

Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on how-to-masturbate videos and the death of VHS

Emily Owens, M.D., set at fictional Denver Memorial Hospital, actually filmed in Canada

There is no Denver Memorial Hospital. But if there were, we'd bet it wouldn't be in Vancouver. Sadly, that's where the upcoming CW television series Emily Owens, M.D., set at the fictional Denver Memorial Hospital, is being filmed. The show, which stars actress Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep's daughter ... More >>

From Iraq to opera: Veteran Christian Ellis's journey to Fallujah

Retired Marine sergeant Christian Ellis has turned his tour of duty in Iraq and the aftermath of returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder into an opera titled Fallujah. This is the first opera based on the war, and offers startling, musical insight into the mind of a vet struggling with PT ... More >>

Brian King of Japandroids on Husker Du, the Gun Club and the lost art of album art

Japandroids (due tonight at Larimer Lounge) started out with its own reinterpretation of angular, splintery punk and post-punk. But instead of sounding like another band that just discovered the Stooges or Joy Division, Japandroids plays its songs with a certain conviction you normally hear in blue- ... More >>

Japandroids

Tuesday, June 19, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

The main virtual hall​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>

Black Keys at 1STBANK Center on April 30

Danny Clinch​We've just received word that the Black Keys, on the heels of its highly enjoyable new record, El Camino (we seriously can't pry it from our playlist), are coming to the 1STBANK Center on Monday, April 30, with the Arctic Monkeys. Tickets ($55.00 - $59.50, plus service fees) for t ... More >>

Eric Rivera, exec chef of Cafe|Bar, on pretty legs, butt cracks and the exploding salmon eyeball

Lori Midson​ Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com It's been just three weeks since Cafe|Bar opened its doors, but executive chef Eric Rivera already feels very much at home. The 26-year-old, who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado, had ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West's upcoming Watch the Throne tour apparently being rerouted

So Pitchfork is reporting this morning that Jay-Z and Kanye West's highly anticipated Watch the Throne tour, which we told you was coming to Denver on Monday, October 10, is no longer coming to town on that date. The tour's apparently being rerouted due to "overwhelming demand," says Billboard, citi ... More >>

Kings of Leon cancel tour, including two dates at Red Rocks on August 31 and September 1

​After Kings of Leon's trainwreck of a show in Dallas over the weekend, it's not all that surprising to hear that the band has canceled the rest of its current tour, including a two night stand at Red Rocks on August 31 and September 1. "We are so sorry to say Kings of Leon are canceling thei ... More >>

Cowboys, aliens and the five worst "vs." movies of all time

​Cowboys and Aliens, out today, tells the charming and classic story of what happens when cowboys meet aliens: They all shoot each other. It stars Daniel Craig, who's British, which makes sense because while Wyatt Earp was shooting dudes in Tombstone, the Brits were drinking crumpets or whatev ... More >>

System of a Down at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre: A likely setlist and live videos

​ System of Down (due tonight at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre with Gogol Bordello) played its first show in five years last week at Rexall Place in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Early reports suggest the band is back in fine form -- at least from the reviews and the fan-shot clips that appeared on the ... More >>

Weekend Dance Card: Claude Von Stroke, Crystal Method, Afterhours Anonymous, Sub.mission and more

​Bring on the dirty for Friday night! And by dirty, we mean dirtybird label's own Claude Von Stroke and J. Philip getting down at the Gothic tonight night. Get your minimal house & techno fix -- also warming up is Denver's own Bones. ($25 at the door, presales on Ticketmaster, 18 , 8 p.m.- 3 a ... More >>

Deadmau5

Wednesday, October 6, and Thursday, October 7, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

EDGE Restaurant & Bar to open in the Four Seasons this Fall

​When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a "contemporary steakhouse," the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as well as a long, by-t ... More >>

Hey Denver, We're the Third-Most Sustainable Metro Area

​That's the news from Site Selection, a magazine with the corporatey mission of providing "corporate real estate strategy and area economic development."The Denver-Aurora area ranked third behind San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (1) and and Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro areas as best locatio ... More >>

Avalanche catastrophe in Denver Blogs: Do losses get any more painful than last night's against Vancouver?

At least Matt Duchene put the biscuit in the basket.​Read some Denver blogs, why don't you? Mike at Mile High Hockey is in rare form commenting about the Avs agonizing collapse against Vancouver last night. "Why are they playing this way in big games?" he asks. "It's like my right hand on a S ... More >>

Throw in the Snow

Japandroids

Sunday, November 22, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Modern Creatures

Monday, May 18, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

Totally Ripped

Wednesday, May 6, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

Curling Iron

The Olympic sport that’s sweeping the nation comes to town.

Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 02.11.09

Despite getting a later start because of the hockey game, which, for whatever reason, threw our rhythm of a bit, we had a decent show last night. Great guests: The guys from U.S. Pipe stopped by and gave us some insight into the making of their new record, from recording with Bill Thomas and Chris C ... More >>

Bon Appétit Culinary and Wine Focus begins

http://www.bonappetitfocus.com/Today is the first full day of the gold-laced foodie function that is the Bon Appétit Culinary and Wine Focus. Hosted again by Beaver Creek, the event draws throngs of celebrities, chefs and celebrity chefs. Although you missed last night's 'Wine Dinner benefitin ... More >>

Wolf Eyes

Revealing the softer side of thrash and dirge.

Forbidden Fruit

This Guardian Angel Bleeds Red

Sebastian Metz's heart is in the right place. If only his brain and body could follow.

Over the Weekend... Destroyer and Josh Queen @ the Walnut Room

DeVotchKa on NPR's All Songs Considered and Conan

3 Inches of Blood

Friday, July 27, Boulder Theater, 303-786-7030.

On the Download

The best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

Fray to Go

Jolie Holland

Friday, June 23, Boulder Theater, Boulder, 303-786-7030; Saturday, June 24, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

Jay Tripwire

Shelter

You Say Party! We Say Die!

Saturday, April 29, Marquis Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

Scratching the Surface

Tyler Stadius

Fluffers

Strip and tell at Bender's Tavern.

Black Mountain

Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)

The Black Halos

Monday, November 29, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-0959.

Made to Be Broken

From four-track pluck to orchestral ambition, Destroyer keeps busting the mold.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Critic's Choice

I Am Spoonbender

The Salteens

Short-Term Memories (Endearing Records)

Savage Love

Go Tell It on the Mountain

For accused con man Christian Lawless Harper, a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

Thrills for the week