The Puddle Jumpers Children’s Theatre Company has always been about the kids — but this year’s Holiday Fantasment production goes beyond performance and puts the pen into small hands. Traditional holiday songs and Irrelephant Christmas, a short play by local playwright Leroy Leonard (who does happen to be an adult)…
Singer-songwriter Julia Bryan’s first full-length release, Still Burning, burns brightest when the powerful simplicity of her voice is isolated from the rest of her band. Songs like “Let You Go” and “Crave” bring these strong solo reverberations to the surface, fluctuating between Bryan’s soft whisper and her wavering howl. No…
Visual artist and Modern Witch member Mario Zoots inadvertently explained the meaning behind Witch House a few weeks ago, and now Pictureplane, who coined the term, has given us The 13 essential rules of Witch House, which he created at the request of Znaki. We’ve attempted to decipher this edict…
In conjunction with the band’s Second Spring EP-release show, which took place this past Saturday at the hi-dive, the Centennial posted the platter for free download. We spoke with Patrick Meese last week about the new project — which also includes his wife, Tiffany, and brother Nathan — and the…
Colorado Springs’ slide guitar-playing bluesman Grant Sabin is truly a throwback. The multi-instrumentalist’s baby face contradicts both his gruff voice and his repertoire, which includes not only his own modern work, but tributes to Son House and Jimi Hendrix, as well…
How Santa can be in so many places at once is something we will never know, but one thing is for sure: Right around Thanksgiving (and all the way until Christmas), you can find him anywhere people are buying stuff. We decided to stake out each incarnation of Santa in…
Tonight’s hi-dive show headliner Freelance Whales are great and all, but we think tour mates Miniature Tigers are equally worth a mention. Part Ben Gibbard, part Kevin Barnes, bandleader and backbone Charlie Brand creates the kind of intelligent pop music that can only get better with time…
KTCL’s Not So Silent Night with 3OH!3 Innerparty System | Oh My Stars | The Epilogues 11.26.10 | 1STBANK Center View 3OH!3 at 1STBANK slideshow Watching 3OH!3’s rise over the last few years has been an interesting one, and the best gauge of the duo’s hometown success has been the…
The once-nomadic-now-settled Nederland folk quintet Elephant Revival is celebrating the release of its second album, Break In The Clouds, tonight at the Walnut Room, but this isn’t just a regular old release show. The band is also offering up a “meet and greet” session as part of the evening engagement,…
When three-man comedy troupe Fried Nothing came together in 2006, its members went straight for the built-in audience YouTube could provide. Jordan Wieleba, C.T. Polson and Tom Van Meel, friends from college, put their standup-comedy heads together to create dirty Doritos commercials, political ad campaign spoofs and a theme song…
If you’re looking for a handy way to snap out of your tryptophan-induced coma tomorrow evening, Tim Alexander, aka DJ Tower, will be holding down his regular slot at Milk Bar for ZOMG Thursday. Tower has been running the weekly electro-heavy event for the better part of a year, bringing…
Pardon our inappropriate use of a preposition, but the Bluebird is where it’s at — tonight Tennis, Gauntlet Hair and Gangcharger come together for an all-local line-up, continuing a week of great shows happening at the theater. Tennis has been up to all kinds of good stuff lately — preparing…
Back in June when Beauty Bar opened its doors, The Swayback’s Eric Halborg and Bill Murphy were brought in to throw down some jams and get the party started on 13th Avenue once again, following the Snake Pit’s closing the year before. The night was a hit, and has since…
Los Angeles’ supreme weirdo Ariel Pink brings his band/concept Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti through Denver tonight, in support of his latest release, Before Today. With a discography that challenges Frank Zappa’s sheer strangeness and prolific nature, Pink and company build unique sets from the dozens of recordings he’s made –…
Unless you just arrived on this planet, you know there is no Margot in Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s — but the moniker of Richard Edwards’ charming chamber pop band sure does have a nice cadence to it, as does the music the outfit creates. On tour in…
Pictureplane’s track “Real is a Feeling” came to life in video form last night at Redline Gallery studios, complete with a girl in head-to-toe lyrca and a pinata filled with rubber organs of the human variety. Filmed by Neil Ewing and visual artist Sterling Crispin and with the direction of…
NOSAJ THING With Jogger • Toro Y Moi 11.20.10 | Bluebird Theater This is not a diatribe dedicated to hating on electronic music, music made via laptop, patchy synths or anything else that involves playing instrumentation off of a card table. This is simply a timeline of Saturday night’s Nosaj…
Finally, Tjutjuna will be giving its debut LP a proper celebratory release tonight, with a show at the Larimer Lounge. The self-titled, ten-song LP — which became available for a a listening preview in September and was physically released in October — is finally getting its own psychedelic party, with…
Brandon Flowers has grown up quite a bit in the past eight or so years — vocally speaking. The Killers’ run across the mainstream radar was a mere three-album jaunt (the band is currently on hiatus), but in that short time, Flowers’ has gone from an overstated, showy rock singer…
It’s been a long, strange trip for Chicago native Amelia Deleon and her Stranded Jewelry collection, which lands at Illiterate Gallery to-day for its first trunk show. The line got its start when Deleon began re-stringing necklaces to fit her petite frame. Compliments from friends convinced her to market the…
Earlier this month, we told you about two enterprising local acts — Lonely & the Bear and Katey Laurel — who have chosen to go their own way in mustering up funding for upcoming albums. Now, Denver’s Churchill has set similar sights for the completion of of the band’s first…
If you haven’t heard the work of Vincent Gallo’s rotating music collective, RRIICCEE, tonight is your night. The band — or should we say the musicians of Gallo’s choosing — has never released any music, doesn’t make videos or records of any kind, and only performs material original to the…
