While remedies may vary, there’s no better antidote for a post-NYE hangover than a few days of bed rest followed by an all-night dance session. Something about all that sweating when you should be sleeping seems to really purge the toxins and provide a sweet jump start for the new…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: To count down the end of the year, how about lists counting down the best things of the year? Yay! This list is by Grant Snider, and so is this accompanying cartoon…
Take a trip to the dark side of the moon tonight with Wish We Were Floyd, a local Pink Floyd tribute act featuring members of Savage Henry and several other Denver bands. The show will cover a wide variety of Floyd material, from familiar favorites to obscure early material, focusing…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Enjoy this interview with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, where he recounts playing ambiguously pro-drug songs at a rehab center and getting into a pissing match with his label head…
Embrace the ephemeral nature of beauty over the next three days during the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Ice Sculpting in Skyline Park. Meet in front of the holiday tree in Skyline Park, 1825 Arapahoe Street, at 10:30 a.m. today through Saturday to watch one of the most fleeting of all art…
Tonight is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year and a traditional time of celebration for almost every culture on the planet. Denverites can mark the imminent return of seeing the sun for more than a couple hours a day at the Dark Night Mysteries Solstice Celebration, tonight…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: In case you didn’t hear, Ike Turner died last week. Here are some lurid remembrances of the hard-partying, wife-beating icon…
The always awesome Onion AV Club has released their annual list of the worst band names of the year, and sweet nougaty center of fuck are there some unspeakable atrocities of names on it. Now, I could spend a few hundred words heaping my own dose of mockery on such…
Grab a boombox or some speakers for your MP3 player and join in the performance of Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night tonight in Boulder. Here’s how it works: Participants will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the corner of 15th and Pearl Streets in Boulder with a portable sound system in tow…
Take a break from the onslaught of sickly sweet and sentimental Christmas music with Babushka’s Naughty XXXmas Carols tonight at Cricket on the Hill, 1209 East 13th Avenue. Sing along with twisted tunes such as “Hark, Satanic Santas Sing” and “Oh, Drive All Ye Drunkards” while Babushka’s partner in crime,…
DJ Garth is one of the most distinctive and exciting dance-music artists in the U.S. As a pioneer in the San Francisco house scene, Garth has been a driving force behind the famous Wicked parties and the stellar Grayhound label. His work ranges from shimmering, spaced-out excursions into druggy tribal…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: The magic of a Melt Banana set is put into these words: “reminded me of the sound FX on that old Atari game Asteroids, hopped up on speed” and “knows how to assault…
Denver Open Media, the non-profit organization that allows anyone to produce his own TV show and air it on public access, is celebrating its one-year anniversary — and you’re invited. It all starts with a telethon on Channel 57 from 2 to 6 p.m. Afterward, head to the studios, at…
Explore the weirder side of the city today when the Bizarre Denver collective presents its Bizarre Bazaar, a showcase for local artists, musicians and community organizations. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Brooks Center Arts, at 1400 Williams Street, will play host to nearly two dozen artists displaying their work…
Limber up your voice, brush up on your favorite Beatles tunes and head to the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, today at 2 p.m. for the tenth annual John Lennon and Beatles Memorial Singalong. Join other Beatles fans in rousing renditions of favorite selections from the Beatles catalogue, along with…
Head to Sutra on Thursday, December 6, to catch the kickoff of Step Up, a monthly night celebrating the edgy sounds of dubstep, glitch and experimental breaks. The highlight of this inaugural edition is Denver’s own CacheFlowe, aka Justin Gitlin. Tackling his compositions and mixes with a sense of abandon…
If you’ve even skimmed a music blog over the past year, chances are you’re already familiar with Vampire Weekend. Together for less than two years, the band has generated a substantial blogosphere buzz that has spread to more traditional outlets — NPR, Spin and even the New York Times —…
“Music is My Hot, Hot Sex” by Cansei de Ser Sexy, better known as the song in the iPod Touch commercial, is the worst song in the world. This grating, repetitive burst of vapid noise is guaranteed to get stuck in your head for days after a single exposure. While…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: This show review promises that Monotonix comes off like Mudhoney playing krautrock, which is high praise, indeed…
If you need to jump-start your Christmas spirit this season, a visit to WinterWorld may be in order. On a five-acre spread in Greenwood Village, a group of “imagineers” have realized a vision of Christmas that blends the familiar and traditional with some unusual additions to create an over-the-top winter…
Forget stamp collecting: Amateur film scholarship is where it’s at these days. Get in on the action today with DPL’s Fresh City Life Cinema Club screening of Hanging Up, starting at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway. To aid in your studies, the presentation includes…
The music of Brett Johnson is wholly and joyously electronic. There’s never a question of whether the player is live on his records or mixes; the tonalities are purely electronic. While this might seem like a limitation, Johnson manages to find plenty of variety without ever leaving the circuit boards…
