Julie Davis of Bela Karoli (A.H. Goldstein)Last night, the four-day UMS festival wrapped, and most of our crew made it out for at least part of the fest. And while we rarely agree on anything, we're all pretty much in agreement that Danielle Ate the Sandwich absolutely stole the show with one of the breakout performances of the fest. Other highlights included Boba Fett and the Americans guerilla style marching band performances outside the Skylark and hi-dive on a drizzly Saturday night, whic
Aaron ThackerayPhish's last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre was made complete with one
very special guest, Bill Kruetzman. The former drummer of the Grateful
Dead was not expected and to bring him out for six songs to close out
the second set was quite a treat. In typical Phish fashion, the band
employed a little trickery to keep everyone guessing. Instead of
honoring Jerry Garcia on his birthday, Saturday August 1, they choose
to bring Bill Kreutzman out on the day after his birthday, becaus
Photo by Aaron Thackeray
You said goodbye to summer with gusto, Denver, with a very ink-y tattoo convention, parties galore, and shows by Blink-182, Ween and Fell. See photos of the festivities at westword.com/slideshow, and reviews of the concerts on the Backbeat blog. And say a little prayer of thanks: It's a four-day week.
If you need a set of playful yet sexy techno, you could do a lot worse than calling upon the services of Les Freres Courvioiser, a faux-French duo with a penchant for spicing up their sets with ridiculous costumes and general hijinx. In the course of putting together this week's Scratching the Surface on Les Freres, the twosome (Jonathan Canupp and Joshua Smith) gave us more bon mots and insight into their performance and influence than we could cram into the tiny profile -- and now we're
Eric GruneisenIt seemed like there was a special significance to Ween's show at Red Rocks in September. In addition to the fact that the show marked one of the final spots on the band's fall tour, we noticed a number of cameras during the performance and mused that the show could wind up being released as a DVD or a supplement to an upcoming album. Turns out we weren't far off. The Ween crew have announced on their website that the Red Rocks show is available for download on iClips for about
