Like so many rock kids curious about “this techno thing,” one of my first introductions to the world of electronic music came via Warp’s incredible Artificial Intelligence compilation. Along with the early Orb and Orbital releases, it was my first taste of what became a lifelong love affair, and two…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: One man’s quest to make it okay to love Rod Stewart again is awash in booze, bouffant hair-dos and lots of gaudy, tacky-ass clothes in this man-crush love letter/concert preview…
If you’re not afraid to go a little out of the way for the chance to hear something truly unique, plan a trip tonight to the Syzygy Community House, 51 Paula Avenue in Rollinsville, for the Imbolc/Candlemas Celebration. The highlight of the evening will be the first Colorado performance in…
Under the “sounds like” heading on DJ Forest Green’s MySpace page, it reads, “Electronic Dance Music Identity Crisis!!!” This seemingly humorous line says worlds about what Green brings to the decks. Her mixes and bio reveal a woman with an insatiable, voracious appetite for anything and everything danceable or electronic…
Yeasayer isn’t worried about the apocalypse. In fact, it has a song about it called “Final Pass.” Its advice is simple: When the end comes, dance. “There’s some article,” reports Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilder, “about how some ridiculous number of congressmen believe it’s their duty to bring about the end…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Before there was rock opera, there was real opera and this review of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is a fine reminder that there was some pretty kick ass music around in the days…
One of my favorite music-geek thought experiments has always been building fantasy supergroups. What would a David Bowie-fronted version of New Order sound like? How cool would it be if Neil Young joined Sonic Youth for a set or two? Tonight, fans of Denver’s killer music scene are going to…
When the machines finally take over and wipe humanity off the face of the Earth, they won’t have much use for our music, but the work of Falko Brock-sieper will live on. His clean, efficient, minimal techno creations might be one of the few things that make our cold robot…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Glorification of violence, misogyny and lots of angry white kids all figure prominently in this Necro review…
Prepare yourself for the return of the dinosaurs, the most awesome creatures ever to have walked the Earth. Thanks to the tireless efforts of some of the world’s best engineers, designers and scientists, these prehistoric beasts have returned to life. Okay, it’s only animatronic “life,” but it’s still impressive —…
Whether he’s painting a world leader such as Gandhi or a fantastic character such as General Grievous, Delton Demarest’s iconoclastic work is always eye-catching, thought-provoking and full of subconscious emotional resonance. His unique style recalls elements of pop art, surrealism and those lurid black-velvet paintings found at flea markets. Demarest…
Over the past few years, DJ Lee Coombs has emerged as one of the innovators and champions of tech-funk, a sound that fuses elements of techno and acid house to the snappy dance-floor kick of breakbeat. An ever-evolving sound, tech-funk is an accessible blend that takes the funky, earthy sensibilities…
House-heads of Denver, prepare yourself for a treat. Belgian-born house maestro Olivier Desmet makes his first Colorado appearance to promote San Francisco Sessions Vol. 6, his latest mix for the fabled Om Records label. Desmet is a champion of the signature Om sound: melodic, sophisticated deep and funky house studded…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: There are good ways to promote your band, and then there are very bad ways, like this sticker, and many more like it…
Guys are jerks — and all too often, the jerkiest guys are the ones girls find irresistible. Every girl knows it, but what to do about it? For the heroine of Fool’s Gold, by up-and-coming Colorado manga artist Amy Reeder Hadley, the traditional “eat ice cream, have a good cry,…
From ancient myths of sun gods to the Cheeto-orange tans of today, humans have constantly shown appreciation for the life-giving globe of super-heated plasma we call Sol. That love affair with the source of all life and energy is celebrated in SunWorks, an exhibit of art aimed at showing the…
The productions and remixes of John Graham, who’s best known as Quivver, have been a staple of the world’s top DJs for more than a decade. His work has been featured in the sets and mixed albums of some of the world’s top progressive DJs, including Sasha, Paul Oakenfold and…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: One girl’s love of Ghostland Observatory overcomes a solid, wailing wall of douchebags, drunks and general idiocy…
Prefuse 73 — the production alias of Guillermo Scott Herren — pushes the outer boundaries of hip-hop into the terrain occupied by Aphex Twin and Autechre. Slippery snippets of micro-edited samples dance elegantly for a few measures, then stop and chatter away in alien tongues. Elsewhere, jittery beats unkink and…
Despite their completely impractical nature, RVs hold a special place in my heart. Part of it is nostalgia for childhood adventures, but part of it is the sheer, ridiculous audacity of driving a house around. I love the big, stupid things, and I dream of owning one before the oil…
Light is insubstantial and infinitely dynamic, rich with emotional associations and relatively easy to manipulate under the right conditions. such properties make it a fascinating artistic medium, one that Sliding Door Gallery, 554 Santa Fe Drive, explores in an offering titled In the Light of Thought: a Winter Celebration. The…
Prefuse 73 — the production alias of Guillermo Scott Herren — pushes the outer boundaries of hip-hop into the terrain occupied by Aphex Twin and Autechre. Slippery snippets of micro-edited samples dance elegantly for a few measures, then stop and chatter away in alien tongues. Elsewhere, jittery beats unkink and…
