Synthesizers and yelping are all the rage, and while those things are present on Artificial Heart, the Sunset Curse is about more than the zeitgeist. The first thing you notice about Heart is that it’s easy on the ears. A line of lush keys, eight-bit bleets and don’t-stop drum lines…
You’re The Black Eyed Peas. You spent an eternity on top of the Billboard last summer and the label has given you carte blanche for the videos on your upcoming singles. What do you do? No need for what ifs — that is exactly what happened, and the Peas elected…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Girls, Magic Kids, Smith Westerns Wednesday, February 10 Bluebird Theater Christopher Owens has guided Girls through any number of seeming contradictions during their set at the Bluebird. Such as: taking the Beach Boys “Little Honda,” borrowing a guitar line here and a bass line there and re-appropriating them over a…
Life got you pissed off? 20XIII has the following prescription: Bang your head against the nearest brick wall until you can’t feel anything. If that sounds like your sort of remedy, this Fort Collins four-piece has just the music for you. In the tradition of Mudvayne, Korn and Coheed &…
Do no evil my ass. Last night and into today, many people using a Blogger account to host a music blog logged on to find this. The news is making its way across the web now, but DJ/record producer Tommie Sunshine tweeted about it way early. Presumably, people got the…
Lil Wayne was supposed to be sentenced and head to prison today for a 2007 gun-possesion arrest. But the man needs surgery to repair a cracked tooth, which we suppose is a common problem among people with a mouth full of diamonds. We’re sure this a completely legitimate delay, and…
In front of what may turn out to be the largest audience in Super Bowl history, Queen Latifah ripped off her earpiece, Carrie Underwood wore hooker platforms and Pete Townshend exposed his belly-button. Scandalous! There was also some (awesome) football played, but as far as Poptimystic is concerned, the only…
Still looking for a rooting interest and/or drinking game for Sunday’s national holiday? We combed through the roster and coaching staffs of the Colts and Saints to find Colorado connections. Because you should always root for Colorado, regardless of the circumstances. Including when two teams from Indiana and Louisiana play…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
What About Pluto? sounds ridiculously polished for a band one EP into its existence. Part of that is the production, from the Hook Factory. But this is also a sure-handed group, confident in each bass groove, drum kick and vowel wail. For all its technical proficiency, however, What About Pluto?…
Steve Earle, Hayes Carll Tuesday, February 2 Boulder Theater Steve Earle is going to pretend he’s playing a Tom Waits cover, but we all know he’s doing the theme from The Wire. That out-of-his mind guy in the back with the shockingly loud voice tells him he was great in…
Watchdog group Protect Our Children, in a PETA-like bid for publicity, sent the below flyer to homes in Miami Gardens, near the site of this week’s Super Bowl. Hide your children in the attic, everyone: Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend will be at large in your city, possibly accompanied by his…
The Chain Gang of 1974, The Pirate Signal, Pictureplane Friday, January 29 Bluebird Theatre By the time midnight rolled around on Friday night, the Bluebird was dark. A few stragglers stood by the doors. The marquee had already been changed for Saturday night. What had happened here was one of…
The Poptimystic returns to preview the least relevant award in all of pop culture-dom: The Grammys. This Sunday, watch as outdated nominees in outdated categories vie for a slight amendment to their Wikipedia entries and a collective shrug from America. But, you know, contests are fun, and we’re suckers for…
J.D. Salinger died quietly at 91. He was a rare author whose one novel provoked many of its millions of readers to claim that it had changed their lives. Maybe it makes sense to fall so hard for Holden Caulfield and maybe it doesn’t. It is likely that one reason…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Skeptics in Love follows a young couple into, and then back out of, love. It is not based on a single experience of any member of kosmøs, which is probably why lyricist Ben Tonak was able to step back far enough to view the thing from all sides. So the…
The Knife has made some ridiculously incredible music in the past ten years. In fact, the act has won quite a few awards for it, mostly in their native Sweden. Last year, one half of the sibling duo recorded an album using the moniker Fever Ray, and she just won…
Jersey Shore is over. The fact that a 10-episode reality TV show needs no introduction and that its conclusion is an event is shocking. Whether the show was so successful because it was Freud’s wet dream or because we secretly love stereotypes or because of some unrepeatable Gladwellian cultural cocktail…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
Patti Smith provided an interesting definition of punk rock in the current issue of New York magazine: “Punk rock is just another word for freedom.” That got us thinking about what punk is and was, and how, as with all abstractions, you get to make up your own definition. As…
