John Common is a regular fount of cool ideas. He did that whole Kazoo Orchestra thing a while back, he was a hilarious blogger for this very blog at one point and now, he’s doing this: The Common Box Project. The idea here is that 65 artists are creating unique…
Psst: Want to know a secret? Shenae Von Liebt did, so she asked a few friends via Twitter to tell her theirs. “I was reading one of my Post Secret books while waiting in church’s parking lot,” she recalls. “I was bored with it and tweeted for everyone to text…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of Denver’s finest hip-hop acts paying tribute to the finest in that genre’s storied history, The Denver Art Rock Collective is paying tribute to the musical mastery of the one and only Britney Spears. Come again, now? Yes, that is right. Saturday, June…
If exuberant, classic pop is your thing, tonight’s CD-release show from Super Seed should scratch your itch nicely. The band, which comprises several former Lazyface and 5 Complaints members, has gotten some radio play on 93.3, broke into the top ten in the 2007 Hometown for the Holidays competition and…
If you miss the halcyon days of blues-based rock with just a hint of psychedelic haze, then tonight’s CD-release party for the Hawks of Paradise album Skeleton Key will make you very happy. We’ve compared this outfit to Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground, but what you really need to…
Tonight at Bender’s Tavern, the men of Fell (profiled this week in Jason Heller’s excellent feature story) are unleashing the band’s second disc, A Farewell to Echoes, on the world. To mark the occasion, here’s a free download of the title track from that disc, a slow-burning minimalist slice of…
Christian Finnegan is part of the current wave of indie comedy, a trend that sees comics offering somewhat unconventional comedy in non-traditional comedy venues, such as the “rock clubs, shithole bars, empty conference rooms, real estate seminars, Turkish whorehouses, bat mitzvahs, doggy fashion shows, crackhouses and nursing home key parties”…
You don’t have the career longevity of DJ Micro in a style of music as fickle as electronic without being willing to change it up. During his thirteen years in the business, Micro has progressed from yesterday’s acid-flavored breakbeats to today’s bouncy, techno-tinged trance. He’s a tireless performer, playing at…
Okay you rock snobs, listen up. It’s time to stop hating on electronic music. For years now, electronic in all its incarnations has been the go-to format for haters to dump on safely (remember eight to ten years ago when it was country and/or rap?) and frankly, it’s bullshit. These…
DJs Boyhollow and Max Klaw are kicking off a monthly all-disco party tonight at the Walnut Room, but before you break out that white jumpsuit and faux-Saturday Night Fever shuffle, you need to know this is not about the irony. “We think this music deserves a real forum for expression…
The shoegaze narcopop of Fell will be appearing on the soundtrack for The Deepest Blue, an upcoming movie from first-time writer/director Dustin Lane, slated to release in 2010. Fell member Bryan Romero reports that Lane found the band on MySpace, looking for some appropriately “sad music for a sad movie”…
If you’re in a high-risk profession that requires you to meet with lots of clients one on one (say, prostitute or pizza-delivery guy), or perhaps just sure you’ll be abducted or murdered at any moment, Face File has just the thing to help you feel a little safer — or…
Editor’s note: Starting today, Westword contributor Cory Casciato will be blogging regularly for The Latest Word about the local tech and social-media scene. Feel free to e-mail him with links, story ideas, hate mail, and slices of congratulatory pizza. If you’re not on Twitter yet, you’re one of about seven…
Spinal Tap fans, rejoice! At long last, the fabled “Saucy Jack” — the centerpiece to the Tap’s unfinished rock musical about the notorious London serial murderer Jack the Ripper — has been released. And it won’t set you back nearly as much as those long-rumored, impossible to find Japanese bootlegs…
The Dualisitcs have been on something of a hot streak for the past six months. They kicked off the year with a brand-new EP that drew great buzz, a solid review and warranted a feature from us. They followed that up a few months later with a Nirvana cover show…
This Freaky Friday is a slow burn. You will start off wondering what the fuck is wrong with me for posting this (well, I expect a lot of you always wonder exactly that). Then you will begin to be transfixed by Ms. Terri’s troll-like countenance and her sad, sad tale…
Oh, sweet monster-movie goodness! I’m beginning to think you all are designing just for me (not that I mind). This week’s fancy-pants flier (click on it for a bigger version) pays homage to the movie-monster icons of yesteryear with a sweet mashup on the classic Bride of Frankenstein to promote…
Cinema Q, the Denver Film Society’s series focusing on GLBT movies, got its start after Keith Garcia, DFS programming manager, kept getting comments about a lack of good gay films. “I was like, ‘Actually, no, there’s lots of it, it’s just that it’s not being programmed,’” he remembers. “I got…
If you love classic cars and the culture that surrounds them, it’s time to slick back your pompadour, gas up the dinosaur (leaded gas only, of course) and head out for the tenth annual Cruisin’ the Lanes Night. This is your chance to hang with other lovers of classic cars,…
It’s got to be tough being a teen in Nederland. Sure, the quirky little town is a cool place to visit for Frozen Dead Guy Days or the July 4th fireworks display, but what does a fifteen-year-old living there do for fun? Well, thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers,…
Maybe it’s bitterness, or creeping cynicism, or simply the fact that every new thing I hear has to measure up to the ever-larger pile of stuff I already know and love, but the older I get, the harder it is for anything to simply blow me away. Bottom of the…
The most compelling thing about trance duo Kyau & Albert is the bizarre vibe of their podcast voiceovers: it’s very Dieter-from-Sprockets meets Hans & Franz, and it is hilarious (unintentionally, we presume). Those awkward interludes really liven up the mixes and make the whole thing more fun. The act is…
