Before Beauty Bar, there was the Snake Pit, a club best known for its dance nights. From Drum and Bass to ’80s throwbacks, each weekly event brought a slightly different but enthusiastic crowd to the cozy, two-room club. Beauty Bar is paying homage to the nights with some reunion-style dance…
The Aspen Grove Santa is a wandering one. Luckily, he’s trailed by gaggle of carolers — dressed like real-life, Disney-like Dickens characters, no less — so he’s easy to track down along the sidewalks of the outdoor shopping and “LifeStyle Center.” I found him taking a break on a bench…
A “guilty pleasure” can mean a lot of things: to a music listener, it is usually in reference to an artist you wouldn’t be caught dead listening to in public. But tonight, DJ Tonyo and crew bring their version of the guilty pleasure to Lost Lake Lounge, and we must…
Since Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast closed its Belmar retail doors last fall, store owners Andrew Novick and his wife Janene have been selling their collected Japanese kitsch online. Now, in a partnership with Mod Livin’, the couple has brought Gimme Gimme’s stock back to the tangible world, setting up shop…
The Chipmunks singing holiday tunes is funny — one time, once a year. Other than that, Christmas music has the tendency to suck, grating on our ears as we converge on shopping malls and Starbucks, waiting for the snow that never seems to be coming. Luckily, local musicians Dan Craig…
The concept behind The Hood Internet’s work is pretty simple: Create unlikely combinations of current tracks by a variety of artists, and let the newly birthed song ride out. Less ADD-like than a lot of mash-up creationists, The Hood Internet DJ duo simply builds a sonic space where R. Kelly…
KS-107.5 MORNING SHOW CHRISTMAS PARTY With Jeremih • Bow Wow 12.08.10 | Comedy Works South When a show begins with an open-to-all karaoke session, things could go one of two ways: A bunch of bad singers (or in this case, rappers) could burn up the atmosphere and take the show…
ArgusFest will hold its 7th annual Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar today at the Mercury Cafe, bringing Fair Trade Organization-certified vendors together to showcase their wares. “We create stable partnerships with the artisans and think of the cultural significance of the product created,” says Christina Redwine, program director for People of…
Although the flier touts Eddie Money’s appearance tonight at the Grizzly Rose as a chance to see a live performance of “Everybody Loves Christmas” from the Santa Claus 2 soundtrack, we know why you really want to go. It’s the same reason we would go — to see Money sing…
THE BLACK ANGELS With Overcasters 12.07.10 | Bluebird Theater For some shows, the vibe is everything — a mix of the crowd’s attention (or a lack there of) the lighting and other air-changing provisions, the quality of the sound and a band’s presence, all factor into the success or total…
This past summer, Candy Claws lost all of its gear in a car fire, mid-way through an East coast tour. Fortunately, the band escaped physically unharmed and forged ahead with the remaining dates, and a late summer full-length sophomore release, Hidden Lands, followed. This week, the octet debuted a visual…
Sister-band Meg & Dia started out as just that — two sisters sharing singer-songwriter duties, with the Meg Frampton half on guitar. But after the duo’s 2005 debut, Our home is Gone, Meg & Dia expanded into a full-fledged five-piece, adding some electric weight to a formerly soft, acoustic sound…
Bob Ferbrache’s Absinthe Studios has been buzzing along for the better part of three decades, recording the likes of Ian Cooke, the Fluid, the Swayback, Frantix and many others. Now, friend and fellow sound engineer James McElwee wants to tell Bob’s story in a new documentary — but he needs…
This is not what we had planned. By all accounts, the Santa representative at the Aurora Mall — ahem, the “Town Center at Aurora” –positioned in front of Macy’s in a red suit and plopped down in a mildly sad, purple button-back chair was our guy. But after an elf…
JonBenét Ramsey is the one who brought them together. Well, it wasn’t so much JonBenét as it was Jeffree Star’s desire for a tattoo of her. And it actually wasn’t even the tattoo itself. It was the pop star and his soon-to-be tattooist Kat Von D’s shared fascination with beauty…
This is not a token “throwback to the early days of Lipgloss party.” We repeat, this is not a throwback. Creep, which kicks off December 15 at Beauty Bar, is a totally new night brought to you by one of the DJs who birthed Lipgloss, but Michael Trundle, aka Boyhollow,…
At this point in his career, Tech N9ne needs no introduction to Colorado. The independent and highly successful Kansas City rapper — who makes his fourth and final stop in the state tonight for this round of his tour — found a niche for his bizarre hip-hop style in and…
By now, its no secret: Tennis was born out of months at sea, after which newlyweds Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley came home and made and record. A whirlwind of interest in the band and a deal with Fat Possum Records followed, and now the duo is readying the release…
There are plenty of U2 tribute bands, Beatles impersonators and more Sublime cover bands than there are Sublime albums. But perched on top of the replication heap is definitely Hell’s Belles, a riotous AD/DC tribute that has been doing serious justice to “Highway to Hell” since 2000…
A festival that began in Los Angeles a decade ago, the International Pop Overthrow now goes down throughout the year in over a dozen cities in North America, highlighting acts from each local music community…
Though David Guetta is all the rage these days in terms of house DJs gone mainstream, Mark Knight isn’t too far behind. The U.K. house producer shares production credit with Guetta for “Rock That Body,” one of the bigger tracks this year by the seemingly unstoppable Black Eyed Peas. With…
In the soul-sucking spirit of this pointedly consumer holiday season, The Fabric Lab and Beauty Bar have come up with a better way to shop without bringing the mall into the equation. Starting tonight, the local fashion facilitators take over the bar from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. for the…
