It’s been three years since Radiohead released In Rainbows, and fans are getting kind of itchy to hear some new material. This past weekend at England’s Big Chill festival, Thom Yorke scratched that itch — maybe. He played a newish song called “Give Up the Ghost” (debuted in February, apparently,…
Tomorrow, in Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium, around two dozen of Colorado’s best minds are getting together to talk about big ideas at TEDxBoulder, the local, independently organized version of the renowned TED conference (read more about the TEDxBoulder event here). With so many options on the brainiac buffet, choosing who to…
In honor of our recent discovery of the “baby wrestling rap” of ICP progeny Violent JJ, we decided to fish around the fetid sewers of YouTube to see what other “baby rap” genres are out there, and sweet lord, did we find the mother lode. Meet Mini Daddy, baby reggaeton…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
A week from tomorrow, the new St. Elias disc Altered Beast will be released at the hi-dive, in the company of other fine bands such as Accordion Crimes, Ideal Fathers and Alan Alda. Said new disc is sporting a sweet cover, seen here, by local artist Adam Reker and a…
The second Wednesday of each month, there will be blood (and guts and gruesome mutilations and murder) at See You Next Wednesday: Slasher, Splatter and Horror Flicks at Bindery | Space. Hosted by Josh Hartwell, a local theater geek and horror fanatic, the once-a-month series will feature classic films, free…
Catch a glimpse of the future at TEDxBoulder, the local version of the renowned TED conference. The acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, the three core areas of focus, but what it’s really about is ideas. “For geeks, TED is something almost mythical. It’s a collection of startling minds, many…
You can hear the influence of growing up in a musical family (drummer father, singer mother) in pretty much every one of Swedish electro/progressive house producer/DJ John Dahlbäck’s tracks. Presumably, his dad’s penchant for pounding the skins led him to dance music, where he could keep insistent rhythms pumping constantly…
George and Caplin’s latest release is one of a dying breed — an album that demands to be listened to as an album. Yes, there are some fine songs on it that can stand alone (particularly “Wilderness Eyes” and “Wanderin'”), but when taken as a whole, the disc really shows…
There you are, caught in some sort of zombie outbreak, from a localized incident with a few ghouls shuffling around to a full-blown zombie apocalypse. Your buddy’s sporting an ugly gash on his arm and you’re a little worried. Sure, he says it’s just a cut that occurred when he…
If we weren’t already completely stoked for this weekend’s Warlock Pinchers reunion (and admittedly, we are), this week’s flier would entice us to check it out. The mirrored symmetry and the long, elfin faces of the ladies central to the image are intriguing. The flowers (and the clever way the…
Behold nine-year-old Ezra Lux, possibly the world’s first (and greatest) pre-teen metal blogger. Over at his barely a month old metal blog Crud Wizard (which is also the best name for a metal blog we’ve heard in a long, long time), Ezra is dropping some serious wisdom, such as this…
Need a robot to harmonize on your latest opus, but Autotune got you down and vocoder too kitschy and retro? Well, local electronic music mastermind CacheFlowe (aka Justin Gitlin) has got a treat for you! As of today, his custom vocal processing software Rob.Vox is available for the low, low…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. We’ll be rounding up your options every Friday for the weekend and the following week, and making…
The ending to Lost left many mysteries unexplained, such as where did those damn polar bears come from? after you watch today’s video, you’re going to have even more mysteries to ponder, mysteries like how did this polar bear find a Dharma jumpsuit, get off the island, learn to play…
LADY GAGA Monster Ball Tour, with Semi-Precious Weapons 7.28.10 | Pepsi Center, Denver, CO Before last night’s show, I wasn’t a fan of Lady Gaga. I liked her, mind you. I enjoyed her bizarro-world take on pop, her outlandish videos, the way she she combined all of that and her…
Book clubs don’t have to include stuffed shirts discussing “literature” or soccer moms fawning over Oprah’s latest selection. Just take the Koelbel Library’s Adult Graphic Novel Book Club as an example (by the way, that’s adult as in “for grownups,” not adult as in porn). Every 28 days, fans of…
Female DJs and producers are always accused of getting ahead on their looks. For a lot of them, there’s a grain of truth to that. But let’s get something straight: You’d like Miami-based Sydney Blu even if she were a 350-pound man with skin problems and a bad comb-over. It…
Computers are chock full of fancy tools to make the task of designing a flier easy. That earns you extra style points when you take the time to sit down with the scissors, a pile of old magazines and some Elmer’s glue to bang up the old-school collage flier (or…
In the beginning, Donnybrook Manor was just an imaginary place jokingly referred to by the members of the Donnybrook Writing Academy. But then on a trip through France, Donnybrook founder Erin Barnes (aka Angora Holly Polo) took inspiration from a tiny, cramped apartment over a Paris bookstore that housed young…
Today’s Song of the Day pushes every nerd button in our nerdy little hearts — and that’s a lot of nerd. The song is 8-bit infused hip-hop with a clever MC who drops lines about classic gaming, smoking weed and even name checks Colorado. His style is a little bit…
UMS Travelogue, Night Thee 7.24.10 | Baker District/South Broadway It’s said that love and hate are two sides of the same coin. I can’t say if that’s true in all cases, but it certainly sums up my feelings about music festivals. All the things I love about them are also…
