Welcome to the final Freaky Friday of 2009. And yes, we know it isn’t even close to Friday, but like all of you, we will be far too busy nursing a wicked hangover Friday to come anywhere near a computer. That being the case, we couldn’t resist bringing you this…
As much as we enjoy a good pop tune, rock song, dance track and/or hip-hop joint, occasionally we feel the need for something … weirder — something that puts the “mental” in experimental and helps us scrape our ears clean of all those predetermined expectations about what music is supposed…
Have you seen that new MTV reality show Jersey Shore, or at least the clips on The Soup? Richard Vission is the perfect musical complement to that show. And it’s not just that he looks like a cast member (though he does); his party-time take on house is the perfect…
This week’s top flier comes to us from the far-off, exotic land of Fort Collins. While we don’t get up that way as often as we should, there’s no shortage of talented acts coming out of there and, as this flier shows, no shortage of talented designers helping them get…
Today’s featured Twit is Elisabeth Rappe, a local film blogger who writes for Cinematical. Rappe caught our eye on Twitter (where she can be found as @ElisabethRappe) because she is one of the rare members of that fabled species, the Geek Girl. In other words, she blogs (and tweets) about…
Looks like Christmas has come early, in the form of a brand-new, free single from the Ideal Fathers. These two new songs — “Tokyo Gore Police” and Guitari 2600,” available for free download on the band’s site — continue not only the Fathers’ tradition of saddling their tunes with killer…
We love Paper Bird. We love them here, we love them there, we love them live on the radio in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We didn’t know we loved them live on the radio in Jackson Hole until this morning, when we caught the video embedded above. But let’s face it…
The end of the year — and the decade — is just around the corner. So it seemed like a good time to pull out the old crystal ball and look ahead to the year and decade to come. Predicting technology is a fool’s errand, but you’re in luck: I’m…
You can learn the craziest things on the Internet. Like that the Russian Navy has a crack squad of old guys that cover Beatles tunes. Or half-learn, I guess, because I am not at all sure that any of that is true. But I am sure that today’s video is…
It was just a few days ago I was writing about how much I hate Christmas music, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that I’ve been seeking out alternative musical fare this season. And just this morning, what should alight on my inbox like the trip-tapping of tiny reindeer? A new…
The mysteries of space have always held the power to inspire art. With that in mind, NASA created an art program in 1962, calling upon the talents of everyone from Norman Rockwell to Andy Warhol to explore and illustrate the beauty, majesty and wonder of exploring the last, greatest frontier…
It’s the season for giving, but also for receiving. That’s why the Printed Page Bookshop’s Food for Thought drive for the East Denver FISH food bank is perfect: You give food and receive great new reading material in exchange. Everything from cookbooks to bestsellers are included, and you can bring…
New Orleans-born, L.A.-based DJ/producer Trent Cantrelle is a bit of a chameleon. His work generally leans toward the big, peak-hour style of progressive, as heard on tracks such as his recent release “Siren Says,” but he’s also fully capable of going deep and dirty for a late-night set as well…
If you’ve logged into Facebook recently, you probably remember seeing a message (it was inescapable, you got it the moment you logged in) with a big song and dance about how Facebook was taking great new steps to protect your privacy and had implemented all these new tools to keep…
We found a whale of a poster for you this week. Yeah, yeah, we know that was a pretty stupid joke, but we couldn’t resist. Just like we couldn’t resist the simple charms of this illustration. From its curlicue framing effect to its central whale-eats-boat motif, there’s nothing not to…
Another Tuesday, another Twit we’d like to bring to your attention. Today, the Twitter limelight falls on Tim Davids, a writer and filmmaker from Boulder. When we opened nominations a few weeks back to figure out who we should be featuring, Davids tweeted this: “i wanna be a featured twit…
Susan Boyle is the top seller at not one, but two independent record stores this week. Let that sink in for a moment. Susan fucking Boyle. No offense to Ms. Boyle; I’m sure she’s a lovely person. But she’s a middle-aged woman who got famous singing fucking show tunes on…
If you’re looking for something to listen to as you slog your way through yet another day of soul-crushing cubicle slavery — or even more soul-crushing unemployment — the Denver Art Rock Collective has got a treat for you. The group has released a nice collection of live sets from…
Infotainment. That chestnut of a neologism was originally coined, if I recall correctly, to describe cheesy CD-ROM products designed to entertain and educate. Later, it was used as a pejorative description of A Current Affair-style journalism. But for my money, there’s no better word to characterize the experience of Ignite…
Awkward, fumbling celebrity rap is a very special category of Freaky Friday, and it’s been a while since we featured one (Mr. T’s “Treat Your Mother Right,” August 28). That’s why we’re extra excited to bring you today’s offering, which has the added bonus of being seasonal. How awesome is…
Every season, once Thanksgiving is in the books (and sometimes earlier, god forbid) and the shopping frenzy begins in earnest, my most-hated time of the year comes around: Christmas music season. See, I don’t hate Christmas, per se — I’m no Scrooge. I just despise Christmas music with a passion…
Sometimes the best way to stimulate creativity is to saddle yourself with limitations. “Once you put a seeming constraint on something, it seems to make people freer in how they think about it,” says Dea Webb, co-owner of Plastic Chapel. That’s the idea behind Square Footage, one of the gallery/store’s…
