The Black Keys, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons Friday, July 17 The Fox Better Than:Engine oil under your fingernails, sweat running down your back and your car in good working order once again. Zero frills. A white drum kit with two toms and three cymbals, a bag of extra sticks…
Sometimes we have to dig a little to find a shmuck worthy of our weekly dishonor. And sometimes, a dude lets his girlfriend’s terrier die a slow death out in the car while he watches her audition for American Idol. Oh, Quincy Vanderbilt from North Dakota. You could have done…
Incubus was three-fifths of the way formed back in high school in California twenty years ago. Safe to say the band had no idea how popular its music would be – the group has three platinum albums in the US, and two of those went platinum twice. Born in the…
The National Cattlemen’s Summer Convention is in town right now, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals responded in a way that only PETA could: by spray-painting a naked employee red and black and having her lie on a grill outside the downtown Sheraton, where the conference is being…
A few things we learned at yesterday’s Film on the Rocks screening of Office Space: 1. Office machines are no match for blunt instruments. Not the printer in the parking lot and not the fax machine on stage, and that was all before the movie even started. 2. People hate…
Dana Hill and bunch of his college buddies run a crepe stand out of wooden box they call the Cowboy Cart. But this box has a serious culinary pedigree. For Hill and his friends, college was Johnson & Wales’s College of Culinary Arts. And the Cart is a custom kitchen…
You could purloin a copy of Boulder Acoustic Society’s new album, Punchline, using whatever methods you kids use to rip music off the internet, but then how would you see the band in 3D? When you purchase a hard copy of Punchline, out August 18th on Nine Mile Records, not…
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will host a traveling exhibit on Genghis Khan starting on October 16. “We’re bringing the world’s greatest badass to Denver,” says exhibit curator Marc Levine. This morning at the west entrance to the museum, members of Denver’s surprisingly large Mongolian population helped preview…
Pitchfork’s Mark Richardson can’t get enough of Travis Egedy’s Pictureplane, slapping the most coveted three words in modern music criticism on “Goth Star,” the first offering from his upcoming full length, Dark Rift. The album’s out on August 4th on Lovepump United. Richardson starts by marveling at 2007’s “Flashion (You…
The Flash Mob is a band that had no problem finding its groove. Formed from the remnants of Boondok Saints and Ultrachronic, the outfit got off to an auspicious start providing main support for the Flobots and hasn’t looked back. A song the players wrote the first time they practiced…
Imagine that you are a member of the Rouge. You’ve just completed your first tour. One of the stops was at L.A.’s Knitting Factory, where you played for six labels and a couple of them showed interest. Less than a week later, you come home and play Red Rocks, which…
The Lancer Lounge is crowded, but you can sidle up to the bar easily. Which is sort of surprising, given that it’s “panic hour,” where well drinks and draft beer are free. I guess it helps that it’s 10 p.m. on a Monday — no time for an upstanding citizen…
Tom Eschino used to work as a medical marketer. He would send his homemade cookies to doctors as a thank-you for their business, but things turned sour when he was laid off last year. Eschino says the cookies were partly to blame — the company claimed he put in too…
Who do you think can eat more hot dogs in a short period of time: the chefs and volunteers from Project Angel Heart, which feeds over 800 meals to sick and housebound patients every day, or the Glendale Raptors rugby team? Project Angel Heart Executive Chef Jon Emanuel wasn’t too…
After stopping by the Tabor Center to stare at what had been the third-floor food court, I headed down the 16th Street Mall to visit the last surviving food court: Republic Plaza. “At last,” I thought, when I saw the neon and smelled the grease as I neared Court Pl…
Turns out Denver has a much smaller role in Imagine That than we originally thought. As you may recall, three weeks worth of filming for the Eddie Murphy flick took place right here in our Mile High home. And although you can still see a helicopter shot of the city…
There’s no shortage of places to get food along the 16th Street Mall. But if you’re after a grab bag of mediocre grub served from metal basins behind glass barriers — a food court, in other words — things are grim and getting grimmer. Last Friday’s closing of Panda Express…
The Next Denver Band To Make It, Meese, anointed by Atlantic Records way back in October of 2007, yesterday delivered their debut LP Broadcast. They celebrated by playing a free show for maybe a couple hundred of their closest friends at Twist & Shout. The brothers Meese and Co. played…
White Rabbits, Crocodiles, The Subjects Friday, June 26, 2009 The Bluebird Better Than: Speeding down a deserted highway on a summer night. You get my bias up front for White Rabbits. These are hometown boys to me, formed in Columbia, Missouri, where I learned to love music. They’d already left…
This week’s Westword cover story about Operation Fortune Cookie has it all: dirty cops, thousands of pot plants, Chinese food, big-ticket politicians, sacks of money and more. Writers for TV police dramas wish they could come up with stories this good. But man, it was, like, 7,000 words and that’s…
Phoenix, Amazing Baby Thursday, June 25, 2009 The Bluebird Better Than: Every show I’ve seen in the past year. Something happened last night at the Bluebird. I’m not sure exactly what the chemistry was, whether it was the world’s trendiest band or the fact that we are all feeling gooey…
Although there might have been more bikers than normal on the roads for yesterday’s Bike To Work Day, it definitely wasn’t some sort of two-wheeled takeover. But there were absolutely more bikers than normal in the parking lot of ad agency Cactus. You’ll always attract a crowd with the formula…
