From time to time, the space that we devote to a story in print just doesn’t do the subject justice. Such is the case with Drew Bixby’s piece this week focusing on Daytrotter.com, which is why we’ve opted to post the rest of his interview here in its entirety. When…
Mike Wheeler, one-half of the Pleasures Dudes, knows what women want and what men need. This week’s feature story on the late-night scuz jockeys contained enough Wheeler wisdom to fill a chap book. Not all quotes made the cut, though, so here, for your reading pleasure, are Wheeler’s reflections on…
Circusized Peanuts. What a great name for a record. And as I remembered it, Peanuts was also a pretty kick-ass album. Not quite as good as Deadly Kung Fu Action — the classic Warlock Pinchers album, which contained the immortal ditty “Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse” — but pretty kick-ass nonetheless…
Circusized Peanuts. What a great name for a record. And as I remembered it, Peanuts was also a pretty kick-ass album. Not quite as good as Deadly Kung Fu Action — the classic Warlock Pinchers album, which contained the immortal ditty “Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse” — but pretty kick-ass nonetheless…
Death Becomes You It’s death metal Tuesday at the Larimer Lounge. Okay, I made that crap up; there’s no official, on-going weekly theme at the Lounge. Nonetheless, that’s precisely what’s on tap — too much metal for one hand. Stop by tonight and have your ass handed to by Cryogen,…
Death Becomes You It’s death metal Tuesday at the Larimer Lounge. Okay, I made that crap up; there’s no official, on-going weekly theme at the Lounge. Nonetheless, that’s precisely what’s on tap — too much metal for one hand. Stop by tonight and have your ass handed to by Cryogen,…
Today, just before lunch, Bill Ritter was sworn in as the 41st Governor of the Colorful State of Colorado. As el jefe nuevo of our square state, Ritter would do well to take a cue from the behavior of his predecessor, the illustrious Bill Owens, during his last days in…
Vonnegut Thursday is the new Friday. You got the memo, right? That said, here’s some kick ass shows worth checking out tonight… Vonnegut, Epilogues, (die) Pilot and All Capitals comprise a kickass local bill at the Bluebird, while former Against Tomorrow Sky guitarist/vocalist Mike Stephens’ new band Sedalia shares the…
Vonnegut Thursday is the new Friday. You got the memo, right? That said, here’s some kick ass shows worth checking out tonight… Vonnegut, Epilogues, (die) Pilot and All Capitals comprise a kickass local bill at the Bluebird, while former Against Tomorrow Sky guitarist/vocalist Mike Stephens’ new band Sedalia shares the…
I’m listening to Billy Joel right now, and it’s all Chuck Klosterman’s fault. That prick. Prompted by a passage that I read earlier this morning in one of his books, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, I’m sorting through several of Joel’s deep cuts, among them a…
I’m listening to Billy Joel right now, and it’s all Chuck Klosterman’s fault. That prick. Prompted by a passage that I read earlier this morning in one of his books, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, I’m sorting through several of Joel’s deep cuts, among them a…
A good friend of mine — a fellow critic, someone whose work I admire — recently confided that he’s tired of seeking out new music. Just the thought exasperates him. Everything these days sounds hackneyed and derivative to his finely tuned ears. Worse, listening to music has become a job…
Thanks to MTV, which is using Denver as a backdrop for the current installment of The Real World, our town will be seared into the public consciousness for the next several months. And with two of our most celebrated homegrown acts up for Grammy awards, it’s safe to say that…
Christmas came early this year for the Fray. Unless you’ve been holed up on your couch playing Guitar Hero II for the past week, you’re undoubtedly aware that Denver’s biggest musical export — the pariah of many a vitriolic MySpace-blogging pundit and assorted message-board-posting player haters in the scene –…
Anh and Sum Nguyen When Sum Nguyen was invited to be an ambassador of the Universal Peace Federation for its global Peace Tour IV, he was nervous he might say the wrong thing. After all, the organization was sending each of its 120 ambassadors to a different city to talk…
Eric Matelski calls Flux the biggest art gallery in the world. Others might know it simply as central Denver. A local live-art painter, Matelski created 50 wooden cubes wrapped in canvas as part of the Creative Block series (www.ericmatelski.com). To ensure ultimate public access, he is placing the pieces in…
Over the past twelve months, ten very different releases have dominated my personal playlist. And although 2006 still has three weeks left, I doubt that anything coming out in that time will knock off these personal bests. 1. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope). Critical consensus suggests…
Dan Fong’s a bona fied shutterbug. Watching him saunter about last night, mingling with guests, with a camera slung over his shoulder during a sneak preview of ARTRock — an exhibition featuring his celebrated rock and roll photography over the years, which opens tonight at La Rumba before moving over…
Dan Fong’s a bona fied shutterbug. Watching him saunter about last night, mingling with guests, with a camera slung over his shoulder during a sneak preview of ARTRock — an exhibition featuring his celebrated rock and roll photography over the years, which opens tonight at La Rumba before moving over…
Touring burns me out. Drive. Load. Play. Load. Drive or sleep, depending on what’s happening. Just a month before Blackout Pact called it quits, Justin Hackl posted those lines and other excerpts from Henry Rollins’s memoir, Get in the Van, on his MySpace blog. Although Rollins wrote those words over…
Real World Denver cast: Stephen (clockwise from top left), Colie, Davis, Brooke, Tyrie, Jenn and Alex (center). On Wednesday, all of Denver waited with bated breath as MTV aired the first-ever Real World episode set in our fair city — actually, it was the first two episodes. And it wasn’t…
What could be worse than getting brained by your bassist’s headstock in the middle of a set? How about having your cheek punctured by one of the tuning pegs, getting knocked unconscious and then coming to, choking on your own blood? That’s what happened to Fear Before the March of…
