Update 08/10/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to our winners, Collin Catuccio and Daniel Kim. You and a guest will be our guests at this weekend’s Bass Invasion. Thanks to everybody else for all the, ahem, submissions. Sub.Mission returns this Friday and Saturday with a gigantic local bass music celebration at…
Sonny Moore started out as lead vocalist in the California-based hardcore band From First to Last in 2004. But you probably know him better as Skrillex (a handle he adopted a few years back), the masses’ highest-profile ambassador of EDM and essentially the mainstream pioneer of American dubstep. Prior to…
DIE ANTWOORD @ OGDEN THEATRE | 8.6.12 See Also: – Slide show: Die Antwoord in Denver – Freaky Friday: “Enter the Ninja” – Die Antwoord – Go shopping with Die Antwoord – Die Antwoord take us deeper down the zef rabbithole Die Antwoord’s draw is a bit beyond the realm…
See Also: – The ten best green rooms in Denver and Boulder – Photos: Whomp Truck on Santa Fe – Denver’s ten biggest hipster bars Denver offers a lot when it comes to dance clubs, but lately we’ve seen an influx in boutique-sized places popping up all over town. Club-goers…
KASKADE @ RED ROCKS | 8.1.12 See Also: – Global Dancers animated GIFs – Global Dance Festival’s ten best drops – Global Dance Festival’s ten most overplayed songs – People of Global Dance Festival 2012 Downpouring rains and heavy lightning may have deterred some fans from heading up to Red…
See also: – Colorado’s ten best camping festivals – Photos: 2012 Westword Music Showcase awards party – The ten best green rooms in Denver and Boulder Last night, Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom kicked off the weekend early with a preview of the River Beats at State Bridge Festival, which starts today…
See Also: – Denver’s ten biggest hipster bars – Boulder’s five biggest hipster bars – Five best midsize venues in LoDo and Ballpark – Denver’s ten best karaoke bars The green room is a mythical place to a lot of people, and rightly so: It’s a closely guarded inner sanctum…
See Also: – Global Dance Festival’s ten best drops – People of Global Dance Festival 2012 – People of Global Dance Festival 2011 – Colorado’s dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival It’s inevitable: When you cram over fifty of…
As dance music fans, it seems like nowadays we’re all just waiting for the inevitable drop, the part of the song that the entire track builds up to, the climax of the tune that sends all of us into overdrive. There was no shortage of these climactic moments to be…
See Also: – Global Dance Festival 2012 Survival Guide – Colorado’s dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream – Show us your best rage face and win a pair of tickets to GDF – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival – People of Global Dance Festival 2011…
See Also: – Global Dance Festival 2012 tip sheet: The twenty must-see acts – Colorado’s dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream – Show us your best rage face and win a pair of tickets to GDF – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival – People of…
Colorado will see more camping music festivals this year than ever before, and we’ve compiled a comprehensive and organized list so you know which ones to attend, if you can’t make them all. We’ve even rated them based on several very important factors from location, to price, to music. Take…
There is so much art in this great city of ours! From the public art you see as you pedal around downtown to the graffiti that is painted on random brick walls. Here, we passed by this great sketch of old Denver which includes scenes from downtown, and all the…
It’s a Tuesday afternoon in early spring, and Ha Hau is sitting in his office at the Triad Dragons headquarters at 1235 Elati Street. He and his crew are in the planning stages of this year’s Global Dance Festival. As dance music plays in the background on satellite radio, he…
When we interviewed hometown-boy-gone-big T.J. Miller last week, he’d just gotten back to Beverly Hills and was preparing for a quick trip to Denver to debut his new Nix Bros. collaboration: the “Denver” video that premiered at Film on the Rocks Tuesday. After that, Miller headed straight to London –…
Denver is full of creative people doing creative things. We have the best graphic designers, the best videographers, the best photographers, the best decorators, the best lighting people, the best architects, and most importantly, the best public art. All over Denver, we are exposed to different styles of art influenced…
Editor’s note: Cruiser bikes have become a fixture in Denver, especially on Wednesday nights when weekly Cruiser Rides take over the streets. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when there wasn’t one on every corner. But the culture that comes with cruisers can be polarizing, and Westword contributors…
T.J. Miller loves Denver. He was educated by the rough blocks of Colfax, by the teachers at East High School, and by the comedians who came before him. After working odd jobs here and there to support his comedic obsession, Miller has finally established himself internationally on the comedy circuit…
PORTER ROBINSON @ OGDEN THEATRE | 7/7/12 See Also: Porter Robinson Q&A Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Porter Robinson slowly drew his hands up as the strobes began to flicker and the crowd yelped in anticipation. The track? Robinson chose a remix of Janet Jackson’s “Go Deep,” which…
In early May, we ranked this park in the top tier of Denver’s best parks for bicycling. With the option of bike rental, bike-car rentals, and even boat rentals, this park offers a lot more than just some great cycling. If you can guess where I’m biking near this pond…
UPDATE (7/6/12): We got our hands on a sample cut of “Slow and Low” off of Ishe and DirtMonkey’s new album Turn Up the Ride. Page through and give it a listen. By night, Beta is Denver’s best dance club and North America’s number one dance club. By day, though,…
Last night, Tycho headlined a packed Summit Music Hall along with Onuinu and Flashlights. Following a fireworks display at Coors Field, Summit Music Hall filled up just as Flashlights was getting primed into their set. We brought back some photos from the evening, page down to check em out…
