It’s not easy being a one-man show, especially when it comes to a music video. If you’re daring enough to brave it alone in front of the camera, it’s a good idea to enhance the image with some kind of visual concept, like Dylan’s flash cards in “Subterranean Homesick Blues”…
No matter how hard he tried, David Bowie just couldn’t fit into the ’60s. From having to abandon his birth-name (Davy Jones) to the pop-darling Monkees singer, to staring in Ice Cream commercials in order to finance his tanking music career, fame continually eluded young Bowie. “I must have had…
TINY TITWRENCH DANCE PARTY at HI-DIVE | 11/19/11On Saturday night, the fine folks at Titwrench threw their Tiny Titwrench Dance Party at the hi-dive. Piper Rose hosted the party which featured Wheelchair Sports Camp, Biggawatt, the Haircut, DJ Pam, DJ Pyramid and DJ Time Lord. Josiah Hesse was on hand…
DENVER DOES CBGB at HI-DIVE | 10/29/11While the rest of the world celebrated Halloween weekend 2011, down at the hi-dive this past Saturday night it was 1976. Less a Halloween show and more akin to a Civil War reenactment or a Renaissance Festival, the night offered romanticized time travel for…
If you’re looking to get your fix of cinematic terror but are facing a frightening shortage of cash, the current Fresh City Life film series at the Central Denver Public Library, “The Kids Are Not Alright,” is a real treat. The Tuesday night films, all scary movies featuring evil children,…
Amelia Nicol is not afraid to go back to jail. “I’m standing up in solidarity with the people of Occupy Denver,” she says. “But I’m using different tastics than before. There’s no need for me to return to jail — not for Occupy Denver.”…
Tonight at City O’ City, beloved local songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff will be playing a handful of songs as part of KGNU’s annual fall fund drive. The event begins at 10 p.m. and will be broadcast live on KGNU (88.5 FM & 1390 AM). Rateliff will be performing a handful of…
Wearing a denim dress and an ankle bracelet, her Mohawk combed down and decorated with a blue bandanna, Amelia Nicol looked very different yesterday morning than she had three weeks earlier, when she appeared in Denver County Court on June 9 in shackles and an orange jumpsuit, disheveled and facing…
Josiah M. Hesse interviewed Amelia Nicol by phone on June 6, when she was still in solitary confinement, being held for — among other things — the attempted murder of two police officers during the May 6 March Against Police Terror. Since then, most of the felony charges have ben…
Amelia Nicol grew up in the relative isolation of Grand County, but “I’ve always had an interest in where the world is heading,” she says. When the then-twenty-year-old moved to Denver a few months ago, she got the chance to put that interest in action, shaving her hair into a…
While most of the other stops on the First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe were showing more commercial, high-end art to the wealthy snow-bros in town from Aspen for the weekend, bohemian coffeehouse Yellow Feather was showcasing the music and art of artists geared a little more toward the…
An overflow of bodies was spilling out onto the street of 609 East 13th Avenue on Saturday, toasting the night in celebration of the opening of the long awaited Landmark: Electric Ghost Tattooing. The co-op is a venture put together by four colleagues of the Denver tattoo scene, whose combined…
In the course of writing this week’s feature (“O Scum All Ye Faithful”), I spoke with Five Iron Frenzy singer and Scum co-founder Reese Roper. Roper was an icon for ’90s Christian punk rock, writing songs with a lyrical sophistication that referenced literature and world history. His songs were, at…
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become…
