Murders, forgers, tax evaders. They’re all scumbags to varying degrees, but none is as scummy as the sex offender. And while you’d never know if you had a multiple murderer living next to you, sex offenders have to register. A lot of them don’t, which has a lot to do…
The latest and greatest from today’s Denver Blogs. The Denver Egotist sets the wayback machine to 1990, when Walkmans (Walkmen?) were the rage for portable music, and people wore six neon watches for style. Note the Westword shout-out. Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams was pulling for Sue Lowden to win…
Alan Palomo made a name for himself trying to sound like someone else. His breakout, however, didn’t come until he settled for just sounding like himself. It was an unlikely break for Palomo, but then his entire career is full of such unlikely things, like Ghosthustler, his previous project, for…
If you haven’t yet voted for your choice for the next round of One Book, One Denver, then start panicking. Today is the last day to help choose the book that Mayor John Hickenlooper will command everybody to read this fall, in order that we may be “stimulated to read”…
The latest from the blogs of Denver ColoradoPols theorizes Scott McInnis tried to best Josh Penry on Pinon Canyon. But now Penry’s out of the race, and the locals are liking Hickenlooper’s views on the matter. Back in the day, kids used to ride bikes to school. Now, they mostly…
When Saturday’s World Cup match between the U.S. and England ended in a tie, a lot of casual American soccer fans — who wanted to see America kick some foreign ass — were baffled. A tie? What kind of real sport ends games in a tie? In America, there’s hardly…
It’s been about a year and half since the Fray’s last release, the self-titled follow-up to its double platinum debut, How to Save a Life. In between touring and writing songs for its next album, Denver’s favorite power-ballad purveyors have been working on a cover album. We caught up with…
Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration’s various “job offers” (some would say “bribes”) to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there’s another job opportunity waiting in the wings: The Honorable Mary…
Charlie Sheen was supposed to sign off on a sweet plea bargain last week. Rumor has it that the Pitkin County Sheriff is recommending a work-release program for the actor in exchange for his pleading no contest to felony menacing and 3rd-degree assault and criminal mischief in connection with his…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. Trouble is, you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing riches when it comes to music, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are worth checking out? Glad you asked. After…
Maybe it’s something about the time of year — it is technically still spring, the time of new beginnings — but it seems like a lot of musicians around town are brushing up their songwriting skills and gearing up to release solo efforts. Add two more to that list: Andy…
Laura Brehm is eighteen — and she sounds like it. Start with her voice: With the high, girlish timbre and inflection of Miley Cyrus, she’d rate similarly on the Disney Pop Machine register of innocent to raunchy. Of course, unlike most of those Disney starlets, Brehm writes her own songs,…
It’s not unusual for musicians to try out acting or vice-versa, but sometimes those roles take unusual turns. Now, with “I Kissed a Girl” songstress Katy Perry (who, interestingly, recently called Lady Gaga’s new “Alejandro” video “blasphemous”) gearing up to play Smurfette in the upcoming adaptation of The Smurfs, it…
There’s a certain political group that pays a lot of lip service to individual property rights — raise your hand if this sounds familiar: Lower taxes, gun ownership, capitalism! As it turns out, there seems to be one aspect of individual property that certain group does not seem to respect:…
Hot Congress / Long Spoon Block Party 06.05.10 | Meadowlark • Larimer Lounge The upside to a big, multiple-venue show like the Hot Congress/Long Spoon Block Party this past Saturday is that there’s always something awesome to see. The downside: There’s always more than one awesome thing to see at…
There’s nothing like experiencing the sweat, thump and catharsis of a great show. Trouble is, you live in Denver, the land of embarrassing riches when it comes to music, the land of too many shows and too little time. So which ones are worth checking out? Glad you asked. After…
Much like Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Natural Selection songwriter Samuel Glover works with professional musicians to craft pristine funk grooves that sparkle with musicianship. The catch? He and his bandmembers all live in different states. In time for a somewhat rare live show, where Natural Selection will release its…
Otis Taylor calls his music “trance blues,” and that sounds about right. On his new record, Clovis People Vol. 3 (there is no volume one or two, by the way), Taylor sounds a lot like the next link in a chain that started with John Lee Hooker, who employed similar…
The Flock of Seagulls hair, the David Bowie androgyny, the Depeche Mode synths — you’ve heard (and seen) it all before. But there’s still something compelling and genuine about the flashy and fashionable throwback electro-pop of La Roux. Where highly sexualized fetish imagery is central to the music of modern…
Cole Rudy is something of a guitar auteur. He’s played jazz in big bands and ensembles, pretty indie pop with Lilly Scott’s band Varlet, psychedelic prog with Wetlands and plenty of thrash metal, first with his former project Elucidarius, and now Barnacle, an effort that pits Rudy’s shredding against that…
With close to six months of postponed release dates under its belt, two official videos already out in advance of its supposed release on June 15, and almost every one of its tracks leaked all over the internet, Drake’s much anticipated first full-length, Thank Me Later, has generated a ton…
As we all prepare to take time out from our hurried lives to remember the brave men and women of the armed forces who fought (and continue to fight) to keep us all free to live our lives as we please, we came up with a list of ten tunes…
