Fight the Good Write

John Rodwan’s Fighters & Writers explores the relationship between the two in a somewhat unusual way ― by combining personal essays with literary analysis. “Some see boxing as free of artifice; others see it as full of it,” says Rodwan, who will read from his book and sign copies tonight…

Oscars vs. Razzies: What does better at the box office?

This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right…) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering — does the movie-going public…

Download the new Something Like Sound compilation for free

Tim Weilert has maintained the excellent local music blog Something Like Sound for two years now. The School of Mines student will graduate in May and move to Austin, making these his last few months at the blog’s helm. He isn’t leaving quietly, however: Today Weilert released his second Colorado…

Linkin Park

Linkin Park, once a cautionary tale on how rap rock could go wrong, reinvented itself with last year’s A Thousand Suns. The reinvention garnered Radiohead and Pink Floyd comparisons, and, maybe even more amazingly, that’s what the guys were going for. Whether it qualifies as daring to mine either band…

All Of The Lights video: Is Kanye West actually going small?

Either the third or fourth (depends if you count the leaked but never released “Monster” monstrosity) video from Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out over the weekend, for current single “All of the Lights.” And after all the billionaire, art house, heaven-and-hell enormity of the project to…

Phil Collins parade in Brooklyn: Five musicians more deserving

Brooklyn’s Greenpoint held a Phil Collins parade as an antidote to Valentine’s Day (and sincerity, presumably). More than 250 people showed up, and the revelry got so out of hand that the cops had to show up and explain what was acceptable behavior for these sorts of things. Dancing on…

Adam Carolla on no-attention-span stand up

Adam Carolla comes to Denver this weekend to perform some visual-aided stand-up. Carolla, who is most famous for his stints on Love Line and The Man Show, now runs a daily podcast and last year released a book, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks. We talked to him before…

Odd Future on Fallon: What the hell happened?

Tyler The Creator and Hodgy Beats from LA shock rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All made an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night. If you know anything about the group, it will come as no surprise that the performance was four minutes of sheer…

Picture This

Adam Carolla has long been one of the most prolific talkers in comedy – he co-hosted Loveline for ten years, The Man Show for five and, since 2005, his own talk show, first on the radio and now as a daily podcast. Unscripted conversation suits him. “The biggest laughs are…

Borders goes bankrupt: Five overhauls to right the ship

Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning in New York, making it one more casualty of the continuing slow death of physical media. Six Colorado stores will close in the coming weeks, though none of the Denver locations. They’ve still got some time to right this thing, but it…

Download new music from Hindershot

Denver all-stars Hindershot will be releasing its debut 7″ next weekend at the Hi-Dive. The band, fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Stuart Confer, knows when to employ complexity and when to go straight for the power chords…

Candy Claws in Dreamland: New series to premiere in March

Fort Collins’s Candy Claws has been able to achieve international attention in large part because they have been so adept at finding creative ways to reach potential listeners. The act’s latest venture, a weekly show called Candy Claws in Dreamland that the members will shoot, edit and write the soundtrack…

Total Ghost

Here’s the fake backstory: German pop duo Chön and Biktor have a few favorite things — notably, traveling to space, courting women in extremely ill-advised ways and making ’80s electro jamz. The actual story is that three dudes from Denver — Randy Washington (Chön), Adam Nix (Biktor) and Evan Nix…

Mixed Taste on Ice kicks off at MCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s wildly popular Mixed Taste series kicked off its first ever Winter series on Friday. For the uninitiated: MCA Denver invites two speakers on unrelated subjects to lecture for twenty minutes separately and then answer audience questions jointly. This week’s juxtaposition was Adrian Miller on Chicken…