National skate and BMX champs will converge on the Brian Aragon Skate Park in Brighton today for Guilty by Association, which celebrates the positive impact of action sports on younger riders. The free event will showcase the talents of skate and BMX legends Christian Hosoi and Vic Murphy and current…
An exhibit featuring the work of John J. Audubon makes its debut at the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center today. As the first solo exhibition of the naturalist’s famed bird illustrations in the state, the Longmont display will be the collection’s only stop in Colorado on its cross-country trek. Among…
Our bad. We haven’t checked our fave celeb website toofab.com in like, forever (that’s the more chill, fashion-oriented baby of TMZ.com, the best website for non-information since Perez got skinny and boring). Late last week, this photo surfaced of Ryan Gosling holding a baby. No explanation as to who the…
Bowling for Soup (due at the Bluebird tonight, with the Dollyrots and Sunderland) tapped into the perfect formula for pop-punk success in 1994 and hasn’t changed much since. But the quartet’s songs about wieners, booze and girls suit fans just fine, and this year the band celebrated the release of…
We’re going to go ahead and believe the hype — Katt Williams is officially back. After a self-imposed seclusion from the spotlight for more than three years (save for that time he allegedly abducted a teenager and was also later arrested for intimidating a man on a tractor), Williams appeared…
Celebrating the release of its first full-length offering, Sineater, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake throws down at Twist & Shout today during an early-evening in-store performance. Though the band has only been around since 2009, it’s made up of some established local-music veterans, with members hailing from past groups like Monofog…
In a turn of events I cannot describe, I ended up at the Magic Laundry on South Monaco Parkway and Iliff Avenue last night at 10 p.m. Positioned in the back, shabby corner of a dead strip mall left label-scarred by its now-vacant anchor store, King Soopers, the 24-hour laundromat…
On Saturday, September 3, Growler Record Store celebrates its opening at Yellow Feather Coffee, beginning at 5 p.m. sharp. Growing out of the established Growler Distro — a small collection of records that owner and proprietor Molly Zackary began selling at shows in 2005 — the shop serves as both…
Kottonmouth Kings (playing Summit Music Hall tonight with Kingspade) has been ruling its own corner of the musical stoner universe since 1994, carrying with it a fan base equally obsessed with weed culture. Coming up in the post-Sublime mid ’90s, the Cali dudes easily found a niche market for their…
Encapsulating everything that is creepy about talking inanimate objects created in the name of children’s television programming, this new video from the London-based This Is It Collective is just that: creepy. The short begins innocently enough, with a small cast of sort-of identifiable characters sitting around a table and sing-talking…
Tyler Jacobson can’t stay away from the turntables for too long. The local DJ and tastemaker has been keeping busy since his 2009 departure from Lipgloss (a night he co-created) with his semi-regular throwback night, Mile High Soul Club. But on Saturday, August 20, at the Meadowlark, he’s unleashing Casual,…
Bobby Long takes over the Walnut Room with Ian Cooke for a night of swooning, heartthrobbing goodness. The English singer-songwriter had his first big break thanks to the Twilight soundtrack, but his rough and beautiful voice has shown Long to be more than just a pretty face. (7 p.m. doors,…
Adrian & The Sickness (playing the Rockaway Tavern tonight with No Good Reason) is much more than just the front for guitar great Adrian Connor’s original material. Connor — also known also as the “Angus Young” of the wildly successful AC/DC tribute, Hell’s Belles — has been writing and playing…
I’ve always said that if I could have any super power in the world, it would be moderation. Being born with an addictive personality has been an interesting journey — from alcoholic to diet pill-popper to relentless gym worshipper, I have seen every ugly side of not being able to…
Vitamins (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge Gauntlet Hair, Woodsman and Hearts In Space) is seemingly unstoppable — The Denver-by-way-of Fort Collins band has been on a roll with new releases and stunning accompanying videos (like the just-released “Vimanas” below), plus, the quartet had the opportunity to the stage with…
Remember, back in the day, when you could get a degree from a school on TV? You could become a certified VCR repairman, a home daycare instructor or even learn how to clean guns. It was a wide open world of education. Those in-home lessons on useless shit have all…
It looks like Mr. Big (playing at Summit Music Hall tonight with Romero and Quitter’s Anonymous) is brand-new again. The Los Angeles-born band started in the late ’80s, found noteworthy success with its pleasantly listenable hard-rock style in the years following, and, despite a break from 2002 to 2009, have…
In time-and-money-wasting news, The New York Times recently ran a story on the Boston Public Heath Commission’s organization of a one-day conference on “healthy break-ups,” wherein area teenagers discussed dating and subsequent break-up etiquette on Facebook. Really? Of all entities, a state’s public health commission decided this kind of out-of-touch…
Ellie Goulding (performing tonight at the Ogden Theatre with Bag Raiders) may have only been on the international radar since 2009, but the English singer-songwriter has all the trappings of a star with some serious longevity. In a world of copies of pop star copies, Goulding shines brightly as both…
Stepping into August, it looks like the summer concert season is far from slowing down. Tonight, Houses kicks off the first in a two-evening stint at the hi-dive to celebrate the release of Winter, the forth and final installment in its seasonally themed EP series. Over the course of this…
I have the attention span of a four-year-old. I can’t sit still for very long and I don’t like to watch things –particularly television shows and movies — without having something else going on at the same time. (Like a massive laundry folding undertaking or an organization project involving the…
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