Taking a page from the playbook of bands like the Czar’s and Cracker, the Heyday is appealing to the fans to finance its next record. Rather than relying on a corporate sugar daddy, they group has launched a fund raising campaign calledAlong for the Ride. So far, says bassist Peter…
On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock — or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band’s best album to…
In the U.S., we’ve got Barney, a big, purple weenie of a dinosaur who sings saccharine platitudes about loving everybody. In Finland, they get Hevisaurus, a band of dinosaurs that perform heavy metal for kids. Finland 1, USA 0…
It’s a been a while since we’ve heard any new material from Zachary Tipton’s I Am the Dot project. The last release was January’s Winter EP, and although it wasn’t that long ago, it seems a long time after we got used to his once-a-month schedule of releases. In any…
Watch Captain Swift fight for humanity! Witness the devious alien plot to assassinate the Galactic President! Marvel as he escapes malevolent computers, crash landings, fetid dungeons! Thrill to the unparalleled sense of adventure and wonder! Tune in for all twelve thrilling episodes of Captain Swift and the Invasion From Dimension…
The International Film Series ends its six-film Aliens Attack program tonight with a showing of Cloverfield, one of the best giant-monster movies ever to grace the screen. The entirety of the story is shown in a first-person, cinema-verité style via a camcorder wielded by one of the characters (Denver East…
It’s a well-established fact that chicks dig robots. And when it comes to chicks like the micro-skirted, go-go-booted stunner here, we can see how robots — even hot robots — would feel the same way. Heck, we’d put her on our flier, too. Apart from the universal appeal of attractive…
March is almost over, which means March Madness is almost over (though, curiously, it becomes April madness for a week or so, but whatever). But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to enjoy Audius’s March Madness Mixset, an hour-long mix of high-energy, wobbly-bass house madness. If anything, it might help…
Our world is full of inexplicable things. Things like the appeal of Michael Bublé. Seriously, can anyone explain his appeal to us? But once you simply stop questioning and accept that yes, somehow Michael Bublé is stupidly famous and getting rich off recording crap adult contemporary pop tunes and nauseating…
Remember the ’80s, when it was totally acceptable to direct your amorous intentions toward homicidal robots, as long as you were an eight-year-old girl? Neither do we! Yet that’s what today’s video seems to document. More to the disturbingly creepy point, it argues that an eight-year-old girl dancing and singing…
Will you be ready for the inevitable zombie apocalypse? If you need a little more practice taking down the undead, this weekend’s Zombie Madness 4 is your chance to brush up. Grab an Airsoft gun (it’s like a BB gun that shoots plastic pellets), join a team and prepare for…
Future historians will no doubt fish in the vast, endless sea of audio-visual media we leave behind. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett of the Found Footage Festival have already netted quite a catch from the early ’80s VHS era, collecting and curating the weirdest, most off-the-wall detritus ever committed to…
A little taste of the New York underground will come to Denver this Saturday, March 27, when Stadenco appears at the Funky Buddha. The DJ has been honing his craft ever since he was a toddler lugging around a portable record player and playing his favorite tunes for anyone who…
In the nearly fifteen years since the release of its debut album, Telephono, Spoon has grown to become one of the biggest and most respected bands in the indie-rock pantheon. This year’s Transference is arguably the band’s best record yet, a challenging, surprising and thoroughly excellent rock album that incorporates…
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Looking at the image on this week’s top flier, we can’t help but agree. There’s a story there, it’s worth at least a thousand words and three of them have to be WTF? The Buddha-bellied, dog-eared, blank-eyed demon is…
Just in time to welcome spring, Wentworth Kersey is releasing a brand-new single called “Sun and Moon.” That’s the good news. The great news is it heralds the upcoming arrival of a new Wentworth Kersey EP to be titled ((O)). The less-great news is that EP isn’t coming until summer…
So, you’re starting a band, huh? Well, good for you. We hope you’re enjoying our “Making the Band” series and finding the tips on the practical aspects of bandmanship useful. As a companion, let us offer some advice on something far, far more important that practicing, recording a demo, or…
In honor of the snow we’re getting today, we thought we’d offer a video suited for the season we expect snow (yeah, we know it snows in March all the time in Colorado, it still feels wrong when we were wearing shorts just three days ago). That, and there was…
Denver electronic artist Ten and Tracer has released his latest album Cold Finishes the Monk for free download and we can’t suggest too strongly that you hurry over and grab it. Previous releases for the well-reagrded producer have ranged from super-intricate IDM to chilled-out ambient (plus a fair bit of…
The last time the Chinese historical epic Red Cliff was at the Starz FilmCenter, it was the mangled, cut-to-the-bone version aimed at soothing the sensibilities of attention span-challenged Americans. Not this time. “What has been missing is about two and a half hours of film, so there’s got to be…
Vampire detective Felix Gomez has faced plenty of supernatural adversaries, from aliens to a Red Bull-swilling zombie master, and still managed to come out on top. Now he’s facing one of the all-time classic vampire enemies in Werewolf Smackdown, the fifth book in the entertaining urban fantasy series by local…
What do you get when you mix together a balloon sculptor, a magician, an aerial dancer/stiltwalker and a juggler who calls himself a “visionary circus artist”? If all goes right tonight, you get an intriguing, open-ended conversation at the Atomic Circus Salon Series: The Tao of Oddball Arts. “I have…
