The Film Dailies clearly love the heyday of synth pop. Early New Order, Human League, maybe a bit of Tears for Fears or Pet Shop Boys — you can hear all that and more in Staring up at Giants Again. That’s not to say it’s completely retro. There are nods…
This weekend, INK, a movie shot locally for $250,000 and self-distributed by Double Edge Films, was uploaded to various torrent servers such as the Pirate Bay. In just a few days, the movie has been downloaded nearly half a million times. By Hollywood’s calculations, this is a massive loss of…
You might get a little sense of deja vu from this week’s top flier — we’ve featured the previous two Houses EP release fliers, both of which sport similar designs, in past flier of the week slots. But what can we say? These fliers are just beautiful examples of design…
Update 11/11/09: The full Brim Liski EP was released yesterday on Latenight Weeknight Records and is now available for download on iTunes for $5.99. We’ve just learned of a promising new group based here in Denver (with a connection to the Netherlands too, apparently). It’s something of a local eclectic…
Our featured Twit this time out was one of the few who drew several nominations from people other than himself — he’s really quite popular. (Granted, he did nominate himself, because, like everyone on Twitter, he likes to self promote). You can find him on Twitter as artbyNemo, and, it…
How are you set up for raw, fuzzed-out, classic-sounding garage rock? Could you use a few more songs to top off the collection? Sure you could! The Getdown! is giving away ten or so, in the form of two free EPs for you to download and (hopefully) enjoy. Rats &…
Every instrument, no matter how lowly, shall have its day. And the ukulele’s day has arrived, at least locally. From Danielle Ate the Sandwich using the tiny instrument to accompany her big voice, to the Inactivists’ distorting it and putting it front and center in their humor-riddled, weirdo rock, Denver…
It would take some sort of rocket scientist to create a model of advertising that doesn’t suck. No coincidence, then, that Roger Toennis used to work on projects such as the autonomous lunar rover, Titan 4 rockets and air-to-air missiles before creating Loyal2.me, a product that promises to actually make…
Supposedly, this tender love ballad from Luke Sywalker to Leia, is a rejected song from the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack. Sure, it is. And if you believe that, I have some prime real estate on Dagoba to sell you. In any case, authentic or not, the dude managed to nail…
Facebook, we need to talk about our relationship. But don’t freak out — I’m not dumping you. Yet. Look, I like you. I really do. I mean, when we first met, I was really into you. You were so much less gaudy and stupid than MySpace. You helped me get…
If you love the Talking Heads, enjoy cover versions of favorite tunes and don’t think “jam” is a four letter word, you’re going to dig this. Local jazz/afrobeat/electronic artist has long been known for their dress-up sets where they dedicate an evening to a favorite band’s music. They tackled Sly…
The comedy duo of Frank Caeti and Matthew Craig have big plans for FrankenMatt, their live, sketch-based show — specifically, “domination of the entertainment industry,” says Caeti. “If we could, we’d like to have Raven Simone-type success. Not only television shows, but sell backpacks and lunchboxes to little girls, all…
Dubstep producer/DJ NumberNin6 (aka Nishant Parikh) came to the style by way of trance. That’s an unusual progression — dubstep’s roots in drum and bass are about as far from trance as can be imagined — but he manages to make it work to his advantage. Occasionally, wisps of trancey…
It’s a shame that Six Months to Live’s time is up (their final show, a CD release for this album, is Saturday, November 14), since this disc shows them reaching a new level of polish. The group’s sound has evolved to something like Beulah laced with a more cynical They…
This week’s flier breaks most of the rules of good design — there are too many fonts, it’s busy and, arguably, cluttered, the color palette is all over the map — but that just goes to show that sometimes, the rules are meant to be broken. Because even though this…
This week we decided to go a little meta with our Twitter poll. See, we know what Twitter has done for us (shameless self-promotion, convinced us that we needn’t put on pants to “socialize” with strangers, taught us to think in 140-character bursts). But we decided to use it to…
A few weeks ago, the longtime Colorado dance music community unnet.net fractured and came apart under the stress of some considerable internal drama. This was a sad thing, but no surprise. Online communities frequently do that after a decade or so of existence. Very shortly after unnet.net ceased to exist,…
If you like your metal complex, melodic and focused on weighty matters such as mysterious murder and supernatural occurrences, have we found something you’re going to love. Local prog-metal outfit Envinity has released their new, epic concept album Moira’s Lake free for your consideration. Comprised of Niko Van Steenhoven (vocals/keyboards),…
Ah, Bollywood. Is there anything you can’t make a cheap, poorly misunderstood copy of, add some synchronized dancing to and make infinitely better and stranger? Not if this video is to be believed. Here we have Indian Superman, who is clearly courting Indian Spider Woman. They fly around, via some…
When we heard recently that Walmart has begun selling coffins online, our first reaction was stupefied disbelief. Really, Walmart? Coffins? Online? Aren’t there some things that just shouldn’t be sold online? Well, of course there are. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t sold online anyway. We put our crack research…
Ah, snow. I hate it. I am not a skier, not a ‘boarder and I sure as fuck don’t snowshoe. And it’s not because I am some pansy-ass, warm-weather transplant from SoCal or something. I grew up in Wyoming and I’ve been in Colorado for almost thirteen years, so I…
Halloween weekend starts tonight with the one and only Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at the Buffy Sing-Along at City Chicks Food & Flicks, 138 Main Street in Lyons. Obviously, the classic musical episode “Once More, With Feeling,” which chronicles the gang’s struggle with the demon Sweet in a musical duel…
