Contrary to how it might seem, chiptunes, the music created by hacking old Game Boys, is kind of a pain in the ass to create. If you want to do things the classic way, you’ll need to track down an old Game Boy and find a flash cartridge. Once there,…
Internet users beware: you’ve now got six strikes against copyright infringement before your account can enter a “mitigation phase.” Major Internet providers, including Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others, have agreed to saddle up with the music and movie businesses to finally start cracking down on media piracy by issuing a…
Wizards are the best and easiest way to our heart — there’s just something special about a man in a hat with stars on it. Toss in the idea that this wizard is overweight and we’re pretty much drooling in our admiration for this thing. It doesn’t matter what it…
Ross Etherton and the Chariots of Judah are in the midst of recording a brand-new record at Trevor Morris’s studio, the Furnace Room (which is also working on new records by the Skeleton Show, Snake Mountain and Hooper, among others), and we got our hands on an unmixed demo of…
All of these rain-soaked evenings have been keeping us locked indoors lately, and while we’ve got stockpiles of media to keep us entertained, that doesn’t mean we don’t want more. Of course, being that it’s summertime, the media conglomerates have all teamed up to narrow the spectrum of new releases…
For many of us, media consumption is basically a religion. We don’t leave the house without a book, a game or a video — we have all of these things on our phones and our laptops and we attempt to make sure we don’t go a single second of the…
There is no way to stretch the word “poet” to fit into something I am even remotely interested in, but when you find yourself in the position to take a poetry/writing workshop from Thurston Moore, you’re willing to break out of your cage a little. When Moore took on the…
Traditional science and science fiction don’t always play well together. More often than not, science-fiction films break the rules of reality in service of the narrative. Regardless, the two are intertwined, and over the next five weeks, the Denver FilmCenter and the Museum of Nature & Science will bring them…
With the classic noir flick The Maltese Falcon screening at the Esquire this weekend for Midnight Madness, we’ve been thinking a lot about our favorite noir films, from the classic era to the modern. While there are a few archetypes in the genre, many think it always stars a detective,…
Simultaneously preparing for two different art shows can’t be easy, but that’s what artist Joseph Findeiss did to get ready for the openings of Repetitious and Repro Redux, both of which feature different art in entirely different mediums. Repetitious will include Findeiss’s three-dimensional assemblage woodwork and art. These handcrafted works…
Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon has not only been cited as one of the greatest films of all time, but it’s also considered one of the first major works of film noir and the movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star. With its dark shadows,…
When we talked to Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens in May, he gave us the lowdown on his two upcoming albums, but we didn’t get more than a passing glimpse of two of the tracks. While we don’t generally talk about cover art reveals or preorder deals, this one is simply too…
We’ve passed the Summer Solstice already, which means the season is in full swing with the blazing hot sun, outdoor parties and a nice, easily maneuverable city to cruise around in. That’s a good thing for this weekend, because there is a ton of stuff going down in a variety…
We’ve already taken a look at the big three cloud services from Apple, Amazon and Google, but what does any of this mean to local bands and labels? With talk of Apple paying $100 million to the major labels for the rights to store content in the cloud and the…
We’ve made no secret about our beef with One Book, One Denver — specifically, that the program doesn’t try very hard to find unknown novels by great authors, or even books by Colorado authors — but so far this year we’ve neglected to put our money where our mouth is…
In an interview with CNN yesterday, La Toya Jackson stated rather bluntly that she believed her brother was murdered. “I would never, ever think differently,” she said. “Michael told me that they were going to murder him.” It’s not that outrageous of a claim, but it’s also one of those…
Steampunk has been carving out its niche a bit more broadly than it used to, and the once unknown subgenre of science fiction has been rising in popularity over the past few years. That’s sure to work to the advantage of the Penny Dread Tales, a new anthology from Runewright…
Realm of the Mad God has been in beta for the past year, but it finally saw its real release this week and holy smokes, it’s a time-sink if we’ve ever seen one. On the surface it’s simply a fantasy-themed MMO shooter, but underneath that it’s so much more, drenched…
Because of the old piece of folded-paper designer Tony Farfalla’s used as a background, this sucker looks like something you’d dig up out of some crazed Renaissance doctors hand if Maurice Sendack travelled back in time to create handbills for exorcisms, and the double-headed demon certainly helps add to the…
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean we can’t all sit indoors and consume entertainment. After all, the hotter and nicer it gets outside, the more you need to just relax and unwind in front of the TV or a good book. Unfortunately, there are apparently no books being released this…
Outsider musician Larry “Wild Man” Fischer passed away last week at the age of 66 due to heart failure. He wasn’t exactly the most well-known musician in the world, but his blend of crazed outsider songwriting and a knack for attracting some popular friends — including Rosemary Clooney, Frank Zappa…
Over the weekend, we caught news of a reservoir in Portland being drained after a man was caught pissing in it, which sounds like something of a joke headline, but the whole thing is in fact very serious — so serious that it’s costing taxpayers $36,000. In light of this…
