If Bad Weather California’s Sunkissed is the summer jam of 2012, then bassist Joe Sampson’s solo debut, Kill Our Friends, will be the model soundtrack for this fall, when your summer fling ends and you stay in while all your friends have fun without you. Not that you should wait…
In her 1996 novel Push, Sapphire ventured into the profoundly dark territory of a young black girl’s experience growing up in late-’80s Harlem. The book dealt with the difficult topics of incest, rape, AIDS, illiteracy, poverty and violence toward infants, yet none of this prevented the 2009 film adaptation, Precious…
Forty five years ago, the western world was forever changed by an overwhelming groundswell of youth rebellion known to history as the Summer of Love. There are countless factors that caused this tsunami of bohemia to sweep the globe — everything from economics and the end of World War II…
“It started as a total joke,” says Sarah Anderson of Harpoontang (due tomorrow night at the Larimer Lounge), the outfit which also includes the trio of Paper Bird vocalists, Laura Goldhamer and M & the Gems singer Maria Kohler (also known as Kitty Crimes). “But every time we practiced, something…
FAB MORVAN @ DENVER PRIDEFEST 2012 at CIVIC CENTER | 6.16.12 Denver PrideFest 2012 played host to the first solo American appearance of Fab Morvan — better known as the brown-eyed one in the pop group Milli Vanilli, a group that was scandalized with the 1990 discovery that Morvan and…
Like everything going green on St. Paddy’s Day or ghoulish on Halloween, over the next three days our fair city will be going gay for PrideFest. And Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe is no exception to this rule: For the third year running, this stretch will be transformed into…
See Also: • Fab Morvan on performing Milli Vanilli songs solo for the first time at PrideFest • Family-friendly or adults-only, PrideFest 2012 has celebrations for all The music industry is a business of characters and personalities. In addition to selling the product at hand, the music makers are also…
While many comedians themselves may prefer a stiff drink, marijuana has, for some time, been the drug of choice for comedy audiences. From Lenny Bruce’s satirical pamphlet on the dangers of the herb, to sketch comedians like Cheech & Chong and Dave Chappelle building whole careers around it, entertainers have…
One of the most soulful voices in reggae, Jimmy Cliff has had an influence on the course of popular music that cannot be overestimated. From his handiwork on gems like “Vietnam,” “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and “Many Rivers to Cross,” you could almost say that he’s…
Some things — such as the growing trend of fried butter on a stick — are surreal in a terrible way, while others can be surreal in a fantastic way. Watching movies outdoors definitely qualifies in the latter category, but most drive-in movie theaters have gone the way of the…
There are endless lists to be made about Wes Anderson films: best music moments, best drug references, best Bill Murray scenes…. Fans of Anderson treasure every second of his films, often committing whole passages to memory; many can mimic the characters on screen, and they’re always up for a repeat…
Broadway has become a major contender on First Friday, and the crowds turned out to welcome the arrival of the Ladies Fancywork Society’s new brainchild, Lowbrow, a gallery that celebrated its grand opening Friday night. “It was great to see so many people come out to support us — many…
By the summer of 1966, the Beatles sucked. Or at least that’s the way they felt for the band. “Performance, for us, it’s gone downhill,” Paul McCartney said of his band at the time. “Because we can’t develop if no one can hear us; so for us to perform…it gets…
Derailer, the neighborhood bicycle collective that our city has maintained a love/hate relationship with, will celebrate its tenth anniversary this Saturday — despite the fact that the group has actually been around for longer than that. “The shop itself was actually opened almost twelve years ago in a garage on…
Even if you haven’t read about the Ladies Fancywork Society, you’ve likely seen their fancywork — known as “yarn bombs” — around town. LFS often works in the dead of night, wrapping random, urban objects in a comforting knit sweater, giving the pedestrian telephone pole or bike rack an intimate,…
The members of Fingers of the Sun love to push themselves. “The fun is in the challenge of utilizing everybody’s instrument without making it excessive,” says Suzi Allegra, one half of the songwriting team for the band. “It takes thinking more like an orchestrator,” agrees Nathan Brasil, the other half…
Like gay marriage, marijuana use and tattoos, public perception of female sex toys is not what it used to be. While male sex toys still weigh heavy on the shame scale, a female pleasure device is mostly seen as a cute novelty. Encountering one while snooping is comparable to finding…
In the nearly eleven years that Lipgloss has been adding spice to Denver’s Friday nights, it has played host to some of the finest guest DJs in the music industry, from Mani of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream fame to the Go-Go’s adorable guitarist Jane Wiedlin to members of…
Surviving intense drug addiction, poor fashion choices, several breakups and a revolving door of celebrity bassists (Flea, Duff McKagan and TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek), Jane’s Addiction continues on. Like musical cockroaches, the band is immune to the bug spray of age and a changing music industry. As a…
While it often gets overshadowed by the music scene, Denver actually has a rich history of underground literature. From the Kerouac-inspired bohemian coffee and bookshops of 1960s Colfax to the Yellow Rake readings at Old Curtis Street Tavern, our city has been spawning independent works of fiction and poetry for…
It’s difficult to say exactly what “mod” means in 2012. Even when the movement reached its zenith in London in the early ’60s, the definition wasn’t clear: not quite hippie, not quite punk, not quite English, yet not quite American, either. Inventing a sort of bohemian dandy aesthetic, the mods…
By the spring of 1971, the heroes of the ’60s were dropping like flies. The Beatles had broken up, Angela Davis and Timothy Leary were on the run, and everyone in California was becoming a born-again Christian. The previous autumn, Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated on half-digested sleeping pills and red wine,…
